Yesterday I gave a talk in possibly the most interesting venue of my career. The Brunel Museum in the east end of London got in touch because they had some buckles in their collection, which belonged to Marc Isambard Brunel (father of Isambard Kingdom Brunel). Northampton Museum had helped to identify the buckles, and the […]
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Northampton hosts national society
This weekend, the University of Northampton hosted the spring Council meeting of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS). Delegates from across the UK gathered at Sunley Hotel for two days of discussion and planning. This is the first time that the meeting has been held in the midlands, with meetings in recent years having […]