Registration Open: Remarkable Reynolds: Dickens's Radical Rival (7/26/2014)

Westminster City Archives and

The University of Roehampton Present:

Remarkable Reynolds: Dickens's Radical Rival

University of Roehampton

London, UK

July 26, 2014

“a name with which no lady’s, and no gentleman’s, should be associated…”- Charles Dickens

A FREE bicentenary event exploring the life & work of George W M Reynolds

Saturday 26 July 2014
11.00am – 4.00 pm
City of Westminster Archives Centre
Tea and coffee available from 10.30
Exhibition of Reynolds-related material

Keynote Speakers:
Anne Humpherys
Louis James
Readings by Michael Slater from Bleak House and The Mysteries of London

Places are FREE but limited.
To reserve your place, REGISTER at:
Westminster City Archives, 10 St Ann’s St, London SW1P 2DE
tel.: 020 7641 5180
archives@westminster.gov.uk

Email Mary L. Shannon at the University of Roehampton with any questions: Mary.Shannon@Roehampton.ac.uk

For more information: http://remarkablereynolds.wordpress.com/2014/03/28/westminster-archives-centre-and-the-university-of-roehampton-presents/

http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/english-and-creative-writing/

http://www.westminster.gov.uk/archives

Special Event: Romantic Heirs "An Evening of Romantic Music" (1/17/2014)

An Evening of Romantic Music

Presented by Romantic Heirs: Receptions, Legacies, and Dialogues

Original settings inspired by Romantic poetry

Sheffield Cathedral, doors open 7pm

January 17, 2014

The Darkling Thrush

Thomas Hardy

Mark McCombs

The Tyger

William Blake 

John Tavener

He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

WB Yeats

Fraser Wilson

He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

To a Child Dancing in the Wind

The Stolen Child

WB Yeats

John Tavener

I am malicious because I am miserable

Shelley, from Frankenstein (attached)

Ben Gaunt

Porphyria

Robert Browning

Mark McCombs

Song, on a faded Violet

PB Shelley

Jak Laight

The Lamb

William Blake

John Tavener

Special Event: Monsters and Detectives: Re-Writing the Victorians for Television and Radio (11/23/2013)

Monsters and Detectives: Re-Writing the Victorians for Television & Radio
Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PD
Saturday November 23, 2013, 2:00-5:00pm

Adaptations of nineteenth-century narratives are a staple of prime-time drama, but the costume classics have now been joined by a new kind of Neo-Victorian tale. Popular shows like Ripper Street and Sherlock reinvent the past as a fictive playground of ideas, where contemporary fears and fantasies can be played out. But why do writers return to the past in order to scrutinise modernity? And what happens in the intersection between history, literature and mass media?

Speakers:
Dr Marie-Luise Kohlke (Swansea): 'Reciprocal Haunting in Ripper Street: Spectres of Twenty-First-Century Sexual Abuse in Neo-Victorian Media'
Michael Eaton (television and radio writer): 'Victorians such as Us'
Dr Benjamin Poore (York): “The Strange Casebooks of Dr Jekyll and Mr Holmes: Adaptations and the limits of Neo-Victorianism”

Admission is free, but registration is essential: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/events-calendar/monsters-and-detectives-re-writing-the-victorians-for-television-and-radio