Talks
British Library
Old News, New Perspectives: 400 years of Newspapers, 21 September 2021
The origins of newspapers and the transformative growth of the world of news
This event takes place in the British Library Theatre.
Journalist Matthew Parris gives an incisive account of the world of news and his life in it and Matt Shaw shares from his new book An Inky Business, which explores how news became central to public life, and the long dark history of ‘fake news’. Introduced by British Library Chief Librarian Liz Jolly.
The event begins with an up-close view of Britain’s first newspaper, Corante, published on September 24, 1621.
Second Home
A Talk on the Exhibition Animal Tales (British Library)
From Aesop’s Fables to Ted Hughes’s Crow, the stories we tell about animals are often stories about us. This exhibition goes on the trail of animals on the page, asking why they have come to play such an important role in literature for adults and children alike.
Animal Tales explores what wild – and tamed – creatures say about us when they take on literary or artistic form and displays richly illustrated editions of traditional tales, from Anansi to Little Red Riding Hood. And be closer to nature with a soundscape based on the Library’s collection of sound recordings, with illustrations and poems by Mark Doty and Darren Waterston.
Camden Art Centre
A Talk on the French Republican Calendar for Ruth Ewan's exhibition, 15 February 2015
History of Science Museum, Oxford
Decimalising Time: Calendar and Clocks in the French Revolution
2 June 2012
Dr Matthew Shaw, British Library, talks about the extraordinary revisions of time measurement adopted in the French Revolution.
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