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The exhibition ‘Shrewsbury and the Severn: An Evolution of Trade’ is a beginners introduction to the history of Shrewsbury and its relationship with the River Severn.

The exhibition takes you from Ninth to Nineteenth Century, briefly exploring important themes and periods relating to the development of the trade in the town. From its inception in the early Middle Ages to its effective end at the peak of the Victorian Era, Shrewsbury’s connection with the River Severn was a crucial part in the growth of the town and the consolidation of its position as a Shire capital.

However, it is also important to look back to its Saxon and Norman roots as a fortified mint town and to its more recent late Victorian past as a county market town after the disappearance of the river trade as it was. The river trade has tied Shrewsbury to national historical processes like the Reformation and Industrial Revolution and has produced an incredible heritage which still stands today.

The exhibition is being displayed upstairs in the Link Room at Bear Steps Art Gallery between 9th and 22nd September. It is open from 10-4 daily and admission is free.

20 and 21st September 2012

Convened by

This conference asks where contemporary understandings of 'post-feminism' leave the historical analysis of postwar, second-wave feminisms. What are the methodological, political, and narrative challenges of historicising feminism in this period?

20 and 21st September 2012

Convened by

This conference asks where contemporary understandings of 'post-feminism' leave the historical analysis of postwar, second-wave feminisms. What are the methodological, political, and narrative challenges of historicising feminism in this period?

The surviving correspondence of the formidable renaissance polymath Joseph Scaliger (1540-1609) amounts to some 1700 letters, written between 1561 and 1609. The Scaliger Project was established at the Warburg Institute in 2004 by Professor Anthony Grafton (Princeton) to produce a critical edition of this important correspondence. Two editors, Dr Paul Botley (ÌÇÐÄTV) and Dr Dirk van Miert (Huygens Institute), were appointed to undertake the task. After more than seven years' work, the edition has now been published in eight volumes in Geneva by Droz. To mark this major landmark in Renaissance scholarship, the publishers Droz and the Cultures of Knowledge Project at Oxford are generously supporting the launch of the edition in the Divinity School at the Bodleian Library on Friday 21 September.

All those who would like to attend the launch are invited to visit the project website by Monday 17 September: