We’re pleased to announce a free event to explore directions for future research on Nicholas Crouch’s seventeenth-century library:
Friday 7 September 2018
Faculty of English Language and Literature, St Cross Building, Manor Road, Oxford, OX1 3UL
Delegates are invited to hear speakers from across academic disciplines discussing research directions for a newly accessible early printed and manuscript collection in Oxford. The Library of Nicholas Crouch (ca. 1618 – ca.1690) at Balliol College was catalogued and conserved thanks to a generous grant from The Wellcome Trust. Read more about the project on the Balliol’s Historic Collections blog.
Free event. Sign-up on Eventbrite
Lunch and refreshments included
10.00-10.30
Registration
10.30-11.40
Session 1: Networks and Connections
(Chaired by Professor Seamus Perry)
- Professor Adam Smyth: Crouch’s diary and almanacs
- Dr Will Poole: Crouch and pamphlet collection
- Dr Jason Scott-Warren: Pricing and splicing with Crouch
- Dr John-Paul Ghobrial: Beyond Balliol: Crouch’s links to the wider world
- Nikki Tomkins: The binders behind the books
Questions and discussion
11.40-12.00
Refreshments
12.00-13.10
Session 2: From Natural Philosophy to Poetry
(Chaired by Dr Peter Elmer)
- Dr Olivia Smith: Science and experimentation in Nicholas Crouch’s collection
- Professor Elizabeth Hageman: Nicholas Crouch, Francis Finch, John Freeman, and Katherine Philips at Balliol College: 1653-1664.
- Dr Benjamin Wardhaugh: ‘Six hundred thousand different Latine Verses’: Nicholas Crouch’s mathematics
- Dr Kathleen Walker-Meikle: Nicholas Crouch: Pharmacological receipts and medical book collecting
Questions and discussion
13.10-14.00
Lunch
14.00-15.00
Reconstructing Nicholas Crouch exhibition opening
A chance to see items from Crouch’s Library at Balliol Historic Collections Centre, St Cross Church
For more information email library@balliol.ox.ac.uk or phone 01865 277709
