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Fiona Hobden (Open University) will offer a talk on Growing old in ancient Greece: Care, connections and community. Throughout October there are range of resources and events in celebration of Black History Month Venue: CB009 and Online.  Contact s.newington@abdn.ac.uk for the link. 

Text selection: Part IV, Preface-P37

In light of the significance of the work of Professor Bill Naphy, retiring in 2024 after nearly three decades at Aberdeen, Convictions and Suspicions in Early Modernity: A Symposium in Honour of Professor William G. Naphy, will be held in Aberdeen in the Sir Duncan Rice Library (Craig Suite) on...

'Resourcing Christian Communities'

Marcel Garbos, representing the Centre for Polish-Lithuanian Studies

'Moral Management and the Silencing of the Feminine in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Asylums and The Woman in White (1860)'

'Rewriting the early modern women's conduct book: Hannah Wolley's A Guide to Ladies (1668)’ In 1668 Hannah Wolley published her first (and, it turns out, only) non-recipe book: A Guide to Ladies and Gentlewomen.  This book survives in but one physical copy (in the Folger Shakespeare Library), and its rediscovery in...

Radio 4's Sunday Worship - Professor Grant Macaskill

Text selection: III, P43-General Definition of the Affects

"Ukraine's Heritage in Times of War"