The Digital Miscellanies Index is a three-year Leverhulme-funded project that will create a freely available online database of the 1,000 poetic miscellanies published over the course of the eighteenth century.
About the project
Poetic miscellanies are vital to understanding the diversity of eighteenth-century literary culture. In mapping the contents of these popular collections, the Digital Miscellanies Index will enable researchers to know, with greater precision and scope than ever before, who was reading what, when and how.
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Over a thousand!
We have now passed the thousand miscellany mark and are hurtling through the mid eighteenth century. We plan to complete the data entry by early autumn and to release the beta version of the site early in 2013. We will shortly be putting up on this website our new library of miscellanies, taken from Google Books.
Events in 2012:
4-6 January 2012 British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, St Hugh's College, Oxford. Session and presentation on findings from the DMI.7-29 January 2012 'Ragtime to Riches: A Musical Legacy', display in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
18 January 2012 'Ragtime to riches': a celebration of popular music and literature in the Bodleian library. Concert and talks
30 January 2012 'Bringing Books Home', Restoration to Reform seminar, Cambridge University
22 February 2012 'Home Improvements', Graduate Research seminar, Manchester University
5 March 2012 'Before TV - what on earth did we do?' Beauchamp College, Leicester
5 March 2012 'Home Improvements: miscellanies and their users' Early Modern Research Seminar, University of Leicester
6 March 2012 'Before TV', Peter Symonds College, and Winchester College, Winchester.
22-24 March 2012 American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies, San Antonio, Texas
19 April 2012 'The Georgian Parlour', Dr Johnson's House, Gough Square, London www.drjohnsonshouse.org/
19 May 2012 'A Very British Exercise' - concert and preconcert talk about sporting music from miscellanies, Lufthansa Baroque Festival, http://www.lufthansafestival.org.uk/ St Matthew's Church, Westminster
26 May 2012 'The Yorkshire Garland', Beverley Music Festival, Yorks http://www.ncem.co.uk/?idno=151
17 June 2012 'A Richmond Miscellany', Richmond Georgian Theatre, Richmond, Yorks. http://www.georgiantheatreroyal.co.uk/
12-14 July, 2012 Reading Conference in Early Modern Studies, University of Reading
17 November 2012, Study day on miscellanies and miscellany culture, Chawton House Library, www.chawton.org/.
15 November 2012, 'At home in 1745' - the Geffrye Museum of the Home, Hoxton, www.geffrye-museum.org.uk/.
