Munby Fellowship in bibliograpy
My dear mother, in an act that appears to me suspiciously close to stalking, tells me that the Cambridge University Reporter is, well, reporting that I have been elected Munby Fellow in Bibliography...
View ArticleFrench History Article Prize
Ah, like busses on a wet Monday morning on the Otley road, good news takes an age to arrive and comes in twos or threes… My article ‘Mettons toujours Londres…’ has won the article prize for 2010 for...
View ArticleLibrary of Congress Press Release
So, we’re giving a talk, the 13th July, at the Library of Congress – just before the SHARP conference in Washington D.C. Thanks to Carol Armbruster for such a kindly blurb, can’t wait… Database on...
View ArticleBook trade database trial and comments
Mark has let me hijack our administrator account while he is off on his travels, so this is a perfect opportunity to announce that delegates at the SHARP conference will next week be given the chance,...
View ArticleIntellectual Geography – 1550-1700
So, Washington down (report card to come), Oxford is next up – for the Intellectual Geography: Comparative Studies, 1550-1700 conference the 5-7 September 2011 at St Anne’s College. Ok, so we are about...
View ArticleCh-ch-ch-changes
Things look just a little bit different around here? Well, since I’ve started as Munby Fellow in Bibliography at the University of Cambridge a lot has happened. I’m no longer concentrating solely on...
View ArticleChristian Enlightenment
So, what to make of this… Religion (holding the cross, right) and Truth (she with the flaming torch and summer clothing) enter a cavern. The philosophes cower in the darkness, hiding their identities...
View ArticleCultures of Knowledge Paper
Mark Curran – The Geography and Structure of the Late Eighteenth-Century Book Trade from Cultures of Knowledge on Vimeo. Paper delivered by Mark Curran at ‘Intellectual Geography: Comparative...
View ArticleCambridge Bibliographical Society
Dr Mark Curran, Munby Fellow, ‘Beyond the forbidden best-sellers of pre-Revolutionary France’ Wednesday, 16 May, Morison Room, Cambridge University Library, 5:00 pm. Tea from 4:30 pm before the...
View ArticleFBTEE database available!!
Simon Burrows and Mark Curran are pleased to announce the on-line publication of the French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe database at: http://chop.leeds.ac.uk/stn/ A major resource for...
View ArticleBeyond the Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France
I am pleased to be able to announce that the first major peer-reviewed article output of the French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe (FBTEE) database project – Mark Curran, ‘Beyond The Forbidden...
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