Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships Scheme 2014: Information for Prospective Applicants

This notice gives information for those wishing to apply for a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the Faculty of English or in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic.  Match funding for the Scheme at Cambridge is provided by the Isaac Newton Trust, and there is a pre-selection competition for candidates intending to apply for […]

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Dr Richard Dance to deliver The Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture – 26th November 2013

The Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture 2013 to be delivered by Dr Richard Dance (ASNC) ‘Getting A Word In: Contact, Etymology and English Vocabulary in the Twelfth Century’ Tuesday, 26th November 2013 at 6.00pm The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH ***  For further details see the British Academy’s website at <http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/2013/Getting_A_Word_In.cfm>

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Sixty Years of Kenneth Jackson’s Language and History in Early Britain – Workshop – Bookings now being taken

Sixty Years of Language and History in Early Britain Friday, 6 December 2013, Cambridge  Bookings are now being taken for a day-workshop to celebrate 60 years of Kenneth Jackson’s Language and History in Early Britain (Edinburgh, 1953). The aim is to bring people together to assess the impact of this important work sixty years after its original publication. To […]

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