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Pioneers of Local Thinking, 1740-1820
Read more about our new project and seminar series for 2023-24
“To the Lakes!”: Local artistic perspectives
Pioneers of Local Thinking Seminar: Monday 20 May 2024, with guest speaker Jeff Cowton MBE
‘Seeds, to our eye invisible’:
Pioneers of Local Thinking Seminar: Monday 22 January 2024 with Dr James Bainbridge
Cotman, Aubrey, and the Neglected Places
Pioneers of Local Thinking Seminar: 27 November 2023 with Prof. Peter Davidson
Arts of Place/OCLW Annual Lecture 2023: Alexandra Walsham
Watch the recording and read highlights here
Land and Labour in Literary History
Monday Conversation in Birmingham: 6 March 5-6pm. With Paddy Bullard
Between the Kingdoms of Sleep and Waking
Blog Post: Hannah Christopher reflects on the WomenTalkPlace Symposium
Table Talks
Wine and dining with Heber Rodrigues and Will Bowers: watch the recordings here
Profiles
Meet our collaborators
Alexandra Harris
Professorial Fellow in English at the University of Birmingham.
Jessica Fay
Teaching Fellow in Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-Century Literature, University of Birmingham
Sean Ketteringham
Arts of Place Research Associate & Postdoctoral Researcher at the Henry Moore Institute
Will May
Associate Professor in English, University of Southampton
What’s on your bookshelf?
Arts of Place members and friends offer a trove of short reflections on items from their bookshelves that have shaped their thinking about place. From classic pieces of nature writing, to contemporary works of criticism and theory, via local history, poetry and novels, we are creating an archive of book recommendations that will help enrich our perspectives.
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Featured image: David Cox, The Cross Roads, oil on panel, 1850, Birmingham Museums and Art Galleries.
Find out more in our Bookshelf entry on Common Land in English Painting, 1700-1850