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Originally built as a Roman fortification for the provincial city of Londinium in the second century C.E., the London Wall remained a material and spatial boundary for the city throughout the early modern period. Described by high and great
(Stow 1: 8), the London Wall dominated the cityscape and spatial imaginations of Londoners for centuries. Increasingly, the eighteen-foot high wall created a pressurized constraint on the growing city; the various gates functioned as relief valves where development spilled out to occupy spaces
The Julian calendar, in use in the British Empire until September 1752. This calendar is used for dates where the date of the beginning of the year is ambigious.
The Julian calendar with the calendar year regularized to beginning on 1 January.
The Julian calendar with the calendar year beginning on 25 March. This was the calendar used in the British Empire until September 1752.
The Gregorian calendar, used in the British Empire from September 1752. Sometimes
referred to as
The Anno Mundi (year of the world
) calendar is based on the supposed date of the
creation of the world, which is calculated from Biblical sources. At least two different
creation dates are in common use. See Anno Mundi (Wikipedia).
Regnal dates are given as the number of years into the reign of a particular monarch.
Our practice is to tag such dates with
Research Assistant, 2018-present. Lucas Simpson is a student at the University of Victoria.
Research Assistant, 2018-present. Chris Horne was an honours student in the Department of English at the University of Victoria. His primary research interests included American modernism, affect studies, cultural studies, and digital humanities.
Assistant Project Manager, 2019-present. Research Assistant, 2018-present. Kate LeBere completed an honours degree in History with a minor in English at the University of Victoria in 2020. While her primary research focus was sixteenth and seventeenth century England, she also developed a keen interest in Old English and Early Middle English translation.
Junior Programmer, 2018-present. Tracey is a PhD candidate in the English Department at the University of Victoria. Her research focuses on Critical Technical Practice, more specifically Algorhythmics. She is interested in how technologies communicate without humans, affecting social and cultural environments in complex ways.
Research Assistant, 2018. Carly was a graduate student in the Department of English at the University of Victoria. Her primary research interests included early modern literature, specifically drama and performance. She had a special interest in contemporary adaptations of early modern drama, especially the portrayal of onstage violence.
Programmer, 2018-present. Junior Programmer, 2015-2017. Research Assistant, 2014-2017. Joey Takeda was a graduate student at the University of British Columbia in the Department of English (Science and Technology research stream). He completed his BA honours in English (with a minor in Women’s Studies) at the University of Victoria in 2016. His primary research interests included diasporic and indigenous Canadian and American literature, critical theory, cultural studies, and the digital humanities.
Research Assistant, 2017-2019. Chase Templet was a graduate student at the University
of Victoria in the Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) stream. He was specifically
focused on early modern repertory studies and non-Shakespearean early modern drama,
particularly the works of
Project Manager, 2015-2019. Katie Tanigawa was a doctoral candidate at the University of Victoria. Her dissertation focused on representations of poverty in Irish modernist literature. Her additional research interests included geospatial analyses of modernist texts and digital humanities approaches to teaching and analyzing literature.
Research Assistant, 2016-2018. Brooke Isherwood was a graduate student in the Department of English at the University of Victoria, concentrating on medieval and early modern Literature. She had a special interest in Shakespeare as well as lesser-known works from the Renaissance.
Research Assistant, 2016, 2018. Student contributor enrolled in
Data Manager, 2015-2016. Research Assistant, 2013-2015. Tye completed his undergraduate honours degree in English at the University of Victoria in 2015.
Director of Pedagogy and Outreach, 2015–present. Associate Project Director, 2015–present. Assistant Project Director, 2013-2014. MoEML Research Fellow, 2013. Kim McLean-Fiander comes to
Mark Kaethler, full-time instructor at Medicine Hat College (Medicine Hat, Alberta), is the assistant project director of mayoral shows for the
Janelle Jenstad is Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of
Shamma Boyarin is a professor in the English Department at the University of Victoria,
with a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (Hebrew and Arabic) from UC Berkeley. He explores the
relationship between Hebrew and Arabic in the Middle Ages-particularly in a literary
context-and the interplay between discourses that we identify as a
Ian W. Archer has, since 1991, been associate professor of history at Keble College, Oxford. He is the author of numerous books and articles on early modern London, including
Ian Gadd is professor in English literature at Bath Spa University.
Alexandra Gillespie is professor in English at the University of Toronto.
Julia Merritt is associate professor of early modern British history at the University of Nottingham and co-convenes the Medieval and Tudor London seminar, held at London’s Institute of Historical Research. She has published extensively on the social, religious and political history of early modern London and her books include
David Bergeron is Professor Emeritus of The University of Kansas. His landmark study
Anne Lancashire is the author of
Dominic was born and brought up in London. He studied architecture at Cambridge before returning to London for postgraduate study at UCL. He practiced as an architect on a variety of public and private buildings including the award-winning Queen’s Stand at Epsom Racecourse and the Sherlock Holmes Museum in Meiringen, Switzerland.
He became Pageantmaster of the Lord Mayor’s Show in 1992 and has held the post longer than anyone since it was first described in 1531. For the 800th Anniversary of the Show in 2015 he edited
He has held the leading roles of London Film Commissioner and Executive Director of the
Oxford & Cambridge Boat Race. He has worked on the London Marathon and a series of
significant commemorative events beginning with the VJ Day fiftieth anniversary
commemorations. He was the Director of the Royal Society’s 350th Anniversary Programme where
he worked closely with many London museums and galleries. Following the programme, the Royal
Society received the 2011 Prince of Asturias award, the jury highlighting the
multidisciplinary nature of the institution, in which the links between science, humanities
and politics are made evident
.
Dominic was appointed OBE in the 2003 New Year’s Honours List for services to the City of London and The Queen’s Golden Jubilee. He is one of Her Majesty’s Commissioners of Lieutenancy for the City of London, Sergeant-at-Mace of the Royal Society, and Honorary Colonel of City of London and NE Sector, Army Cadet Force.
Courtney Erin Thomas is an Edmonton-based historian of early modern Britain and Europe.
She received her PhD in history and renaissance studies from Yale University (
If I Lose Mine Honour I Lose Myself: Honour Among the Early Modern English Elite
Programmer at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC). Martin ported the MOL project from its original PHP incarnation to a pure eXist database implementation in the fall of 2011. Since then, he has been lead programmer on the project and has also been responsible for maintaining the project schemas. He was a co-applicant on MoEML’s 2012 SSHRC Insight Grant.
Meg Roland is a
Pageantry student at the University of Windsor in Winter 2000.
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