The Electronic British Library Journal

Authors

David F. Allen
Dr David Frank Allen taught modern history at Birmingham University before retiring to Malta. He is Honorary Associate Member of the Centre for Mediterranean Studies at Leeds University.

Jamie Andrews
Jamie Andrews is Head of Modern Literary Manuscripts at the British Library, and has published on British Drama and the History of Collecting. His most recent publications include '"The Bourgeoisie is Puking up Pinter": Digesting Pinter in Paris', in Talking Drama, ed. Judith Roof (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009) and an edition of two previously unknown plays by John Osborne, Before Anger (Oberon, 2009).

Peter Anstey
Peter Anstey is Professor of Early Modern Philosophy at the University of Otago. He is currently editing (with Lawrence Principe) John Locke's writings on natural philosophy and medicine for the Clarendon edition of Locke's Works.

Janet Ashton
Janet Ashton is West European Languages team manager in Collection, Acquisition and Description, British Library and has a research interest in pre-revolutionary Russia, writing on the topic for a number of history magazines.

Chris Beckett
Chris Beckett is an archivist who has catalogued and written about a number of significant collections in the sciences and the arts: at the Wellcome Library, the papers of Francis Crick and the papers of Sir Richard Doll; and at the Royal Academy of Music, Otto Goldschmidt's Jenny Lind papers, and the papers of Priaulx Rainier and of David Munrow. He is currently cataloguing modern literary manuscripts at the British Library.

A. V. Beedell
Author of The Decline of the English Musician, 1788-1888: a family of English musicians in Ireland, England, Mauritius and Australia (Oxford, 1992). She was formerly education officer in the Library Services Division, New South Wales Education Department, and more recently has taught at the Universities of Leipzig and Newcastle, New South Wales.

Donald Burrows
Donald Burrows is Professor of Music at The Open University, Milton Keynes (U.K.), a Vice-President of the Händelgesellschaft, and Chairman of The Handel Institute; he is currently director of the ‘Handel Documents' research project based at The Open University. In 2000 he was awarded the Handel Prize of the City of Halle-an-der-Saale. His books include the ‘Master Musicians' biography of the composer, and most recently Handel and the English Chapel Royal, which has been recognized as the first full-scale study of Handel's English church music. His published editions of Handel's music include the oratorios Messiah, Samson and Belshazzar, the operas Imeneo and Ariodante, the complete violin sonatas and the Suite for two harpsichords.

John Burrows
John Burrows is the Emeritus Professor of English in the University of Newcastle, Australia. He has worked for many years in the emerging field of computational stylistics and has received the Roberto Busa Award for computing in the humanities. He continues to develop and test new analytical procedures, some of which are employed here.

Bernard Capp
Bernard Capp, Professor of History, University of Warwick, is the author of Astrology and the Popular Press: English Almanacs 1500-1800 (1979).

Richard Charteris
Professor in Historical Musicology at the University of Sydney. He has published many studies on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century topics and edited the complete works of Giovanni Gabrieli, Alfonso Ferrabosco, Domenico Maria Ferrabosco, Giovanni Bassano, all in the Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae series, and music by John Coprario, John Hingeston, and Thomas Lupo. His most recent monographs consist of An Annotated Catalogue of the Music Manuscripts in the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C. (Pendragon Press, 2005) and Johann Georg von Werdenstein (1542-1608): A Major Collector of Early Music Prints (Harmonie Park Press, 2006).

Judith Collard
Dr Judith Collard is senior lecturer in the Department of Art History and Theory, University of Otago. Her research interests include gender issues in contemporary and twentieth-century art, medieval English art, medieval manuscripts, and gay and lesbian art.

John N. Crossley
Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Australia (previously Professor of Pure Mathematics and then of Logic), John Crossley has published extensively on logic, theoretical computer science and the history of mathematics before 1700. His main intellectual interest is the development of concepts. He is currently working on Hernando de los Ríos Coronel who went to the Philippines in 1588.

Morna Daniels
Morna Daniels is a Curator, French Section, European and American Collections, British Library, and Chair of the Children's Books History Society. She is the author of Victorian Book Illustration (1988), 'The Tale of Charles Perrault and Puss in Boots', Electronic British Library Journal (2002), art 5, and 'The Search for Mrs Walton and her World', in From the Dairyman's daughter to Worrals of WAAF. The R.T.S., Lutterworth Press and Children's Literature (Lutterworth Press, 2006).

Brett Dolman
Brett Dolman is a Curator (collections) at Historic Royal Palaces.

Adrian S. Edwards
Adrian S. Edwards is Head of Collection Coordination and Interpretation, British and Early Printed Collections, The British Library.

Klaus-Dietrich Fischer
Klaus-Dietrich Fischer is Professor of Medical History at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. His research focuses on Latin medical and veterinary texts and their transmission between 300 and 1100 A.D. He has edited the veterinary manual of Pelagonius (4th cent.) and a number of shorter texts and compiled a supplement to the Bibliographie des Textes Médicaux Latins. Antiquité et haut moyen âge.

Celina Fox
Dr Celina Fox is an art and cultural historian. She came across Dummer during the course of research for her most recent work, The Arts of Industry in the Age of Enlightenment (forthcoming).

Humphrey Gawthrop
The late Humphrey Gawthrop was a contributor to the journal Brontë Studies. He died on 26 January 2004.

Tom Harper
Tom Harper is curator of antiquarian mapping at the British Library.

Julian Harrison
Currently researching the Cotton Manuscripts.

Jaap Harskamp
For the past fifteen years Dr Jaap Harskamp has been the Curator of the Dutch and Flemish collections in the British Library. He has just retired and will continue his work with early Dutch imprints at Cambridge University Library. With a background in Comparative (European) Literature, his work has been widely published. A substantial study entitled The Anatomy of Despondency: European Socio-Cultural Criticism 1789-1939 will be published by Brill later this year.

A.D. Harvey
Former editor of The Salisbury Review. His books include Collision of Empires: Britain in Three World Wars 1793-1945 (London, 1992), Sex in Georgian England: Attitudes and Prejudices from the 1720s to the 1820s (London, 1994) and Arnhem (London, 2001).

Dorian Hayes
Dorian Hayes is Curator of Canadian Collections and North American Literature, British Library, and has research interests in various areas, including American literature and radical culture of the 1960s, Canadian poetry, and the musical traditions of Central Africa. His PhD thesis is entitled 'The Politics of the Witness: Lee Harvey Oswald, Life-Writing and the American Left' (Norwich: University of East Anglia, 2001; BL Shelfmark: DXN047327 DSC). Recent publications include: 'Bouncing Down the Red Road: In Search of the Ballet in Central Africa' (http://www.afropop.org/multi/feature/ID/293/Ballet+Inganzo and 'Rwanda and Burundi', Rough Guide to World Music (London: 2007)

Bob Henderson
Formerly a curator in the Russian Department, Slavonic & East European Collections and latterly Reader Systems Manager at the British Library. He is currently reading for a Ph.D. in History at Queen Mary College, University of London.

Felicity Henderson
Dr Felicity Henderson is Events and Exhibitions Manager at the Royal Society of London. Her academic interests include manuscript culture, bibliography, satire, seventeenth-century institutions, and the social history of science in seventeenth-century England.

Frances Henderson
Dr Frances Henderson is a consultant in early modern shorthands. She has written a number of articles on the subject and is the editor of Clarke Papers V: Further Selections from the Papers of William Clarke (Cambridge, 2005). She was the shorthand transcriber for The Entring Book of Roger Morrice, edited by Mark Goldie, 6 vols (Woodbridge, 2007).

H. J. Jackson
Professor of English, University of Toronto. She edits Coleridge and is the author of Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books (Yale, 2001).

Catherine Jeffreys
Dr Catherine Jeffreys, a musicologist by training, is an honorary research associate in the School of Historical Studies, Monash University, Australia, working on medieval music theory with Professor Mews, focusing in particular on Guy of Saint-Denis.

Miles Johnson and A.D. Harvey
Miles Johnson was born in London in 1985 and was educated at City of London Boys' School. He is currently reading History and Linguistics at Edinburgh University. A. D. Harvey was born in 1947. His books include Britain in the Early Nineteenth Century (1978) and Collision of Empires: Britain in Three World Wars 1793-1945 (1992).

Clyve Jones
On 23 December 1696 the House of Lords passed the bill of attainder for treason on the jacobite Sir John Fenwick. Many of the lords on the minority side of the division entered a written protest against the vote into the journals of the House. Because the vote had been taken on the day the House recessed for the Christmas holidays, the rule whereby all protests had to be signed by the end of the day of the next sitting of the House was dispensed with and lords were allowed to sign at their next appearance in the House, even if it was not the next sitting (which turned out to be 7 January 1697). One peer signed as late as 26 February 1697. Robert Harley noted down a list of the protestors which is incomplete (very probably only those that signed the protest on 23 December). The timing of this protest immediately before Christmas, together with the help of Harley's list, enables a detailed study of this protest to reveal some of the mechanisms by which protests were organized. Also the list is probably the first piece of written evidence the historian has of the interest Harley (a figure of importance in the House of Commons) took in the workings of the House of Lords, which he was to enter himself as earl of Oxford in 1711.

Peter Murray Jones
Peter Jones is Fellow and Librarian of King's College, Cambridge. A former curator in the Department of Manuscripts, he is the author of Medieval Medicine in Illuminated Manuscripts (British Library, 1998).

Eileen A. Joy
Eileen A. Joy is an Assistant Professor of English at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, and is currently at work on a book on Beowulf and cultural studies, Beowulf in the Palm at the End of the Mind, as well as a casebook of contemporary critical approaches to Beowulf, The Postmodern 'Beowulf'.

Peter Kidd
Peter Kidd was formerly a curator of medieval and renaissance manuscripts at the Bodleian and British Libraries. Recent and current research centres on illuminated manuscripts spanning the 11th to 15th centuries, particularly what they reveal about the working methods of medieval scribes and artists.

Sally-Ann Kitts
Senior Lecturer in Hispanic and Catalan Studies at the University of Bristol. She has published a number of studies in the field of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Spanish literature and intellectual history, the most recent of which include 'El Diario español de Lady Elizabeth Holland: observaciones y experiencias de la cultura española de la primera década del siglo diecinueve', in María del Val González de la Peña (ed.), Mujer y cultura escrita: Del mito al siglo XXI (Gijón, 2005), and 'Power, Opposition and Enlightenment in Moratín's El sí de las niñas', Bulletin of Spanish Studies (forthcoming).

Ewa Letkiewicz
Ph. D. in history and history of art. Lecturer in the Institute of Art History in the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin. Her research interests focus on the functions of art and its position in society. Her principal publications are devoted to these aspects in craft, painting and graphic art. In recent years the leading subject of her interest has become the Polish and foreign jewellery, considered in its social, artistic and aesthetic functions, but also as an object of material culture of its time, perceived from the point of view of the techniques and performance technologies of that time.

Andrea Lloyd
Andrea Lloyd is a Rare Books Reference Specialist for the British Library. She was formerly responsible for cataloguing the printed portion of the Lady Eccles Oscar Wilde bequest.

Laura Nuvoloni
Laura Nuvoloni is one of the curators and cataloguers in the Department of Manuscripts of the British Library. She has been the Project Officer of the Guilford Project and of the Medieval Medical Harley Manuscripts Project. Her specialist field of research is the production of manuscripts in Renaissance Italy with particular regard for their palaeographical, codicological and decorative aspects

Noel Malcolm
Noel Malcolm is a Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is the author of Aspects of Hobbes (Oxford, 2002) and, with Jacqueline Stedall, of John Pell (1611-1685) and his Correspondence with Sir Charles Cavendish (Oxford, 2005).

P. J. M. Marks
P. J. M. Marks is Curator, Historic Bookbindings, British and Early Printed Collections, The British Library.

Leigh McKinnon
Leigh McKinnon is a graduate student in the School of Historical Studies, Monash University, Australia, working with Prof. Mews on the Pythagorean tradition in the Latin West.

Constant J. Mews
Professor in the School of Historical Studies and Director of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Theology, Monash University, Australia, Constant J. Mews has published widely on European intellectual and religious history in the twelfth century, but is increasingly working on the development of educational ideas in the thirteenth century. He directs a research group concerned with the relationship between music theory and the sciences in the medieval period, with particular reference to Grocheio and Guy of St-Denis.

Femke Molekamp
Femke Molekamp is currently undertaking an Arts and Humanities Research Council collaborative doctoral project at the University of Sussex and the British Library. The subject of her thesis is early modern women and the Geneva Bible.

Margaret Mulvihill
Margaret Mulvihill is an historian, editor and novelist. She has written on Charlotte Despard (1989), Mussolini (1990), and The French Revolution (1989). Her novels include Saint Patrick's Daughter (1993).

Felicity Myrone
Felicity Myrone is Curator of Topography at the British Library. She has published: 'Introductions to Constable's English Landscape', Print Quarterly, vol. XXIV, no.3, September 2007, pp. 273-77; 'A Print by Francis Hayman Rediscovered'. Print Quarterly, 24 (4) December 2007, pp. 426-428; and 'The Monarch of the Plain': Paul Sandby and Topography, in John Bonehill and Stephen Daniels (eds), Paul Sandby (1731-1809): Picturing Britain (London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2009), pp. 56-64.

John O'Brien
John O'Brien is an archivist in the India Office Records (post-1858 section), Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections, The British Library.

David Paisey
David Paisey retired from the British Library in 1993, and compiled its catalogue of German books of the seventeenth century (1994). He has written extensively on the history of the book in Germany.

Graham Pont
Graham Pont is a philosopher specializing in the history and aesthetics of music and architecture. For thirty years he taught in the General Education programme at the University of New South Wales. His publications on Handel extend over a similar period.

William Poole
William Poole is Fellow and Tutor in English at New College, Oxford. He is interested in early modern literary, intellectual, and scientific history, as well as the study of book and manuscript provenance in the period. He is currently investigating provenance connections between the British Library and the Bodleian Library, especially those arising from the thousands of Sir Hans Sloane's duplicates dispatched to the Bodleian Library in the first four decades of the eighteenth century.

Pamela Porter
Pamela Porter was Curator of German and Scandinavian Manuscripts in the British Library until her retirement in 2003.

Barbara Raw
Emeritus Professor of Anglo-Saxon, University of Keele. Author of The Art and Background of Old English Poetry (1978), Anglo-Saxon Crucifixion Iconography and the Art of the Monastic Revival (1990) and Trinity and Incarnation in Anglo-Saxon Art and Thought (1997).

Susan Reed
Susan Reed is Curator of Early German Printed Collections at the British Library.

Denis V. Reidy
Denis Reidy is Head of the Italian Section at the British Library.

Arthur Searle
Arthur Searle is a former Curator of Music Manuscripts in the British Library and is Honorary Librarian of the Royal Philharmonic Society.

Michael St John-McAlister
Michael St John-McAlister is a Curator in the Department of Manuscripts.

Matthew J. Shaw
Matthew J. Shaw is a curator in the Department of Manuscripts.

Keith Vincent Smith
Australian historian Keith Vincent Smith is the author of King Bungaree: A Sydney Aborigine meets the Great South Pacific Explorers, 1799-1830 (Kenthurst, 1992) and Bennelong: The Coming in of the Eora, Sydney Cove 1788-1792 (East Roseville, 2001). He was senior researcher of the first episode of the SBS television documentary ‘First Australians’ (2008). His Ph.D. thesis in Indigenous Studies (Macquarie University, Sydney, 2008) was titled ’Mari Nawi (“Big Canoes”): Aboriginal voyagers in Australia’s maritime history, 1788-1855’. He will curate an exhibition on the same theme at the Mitchell Galleries, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, in November 2009.

John Spence
John Spence completed his Ph. D, 'Re-imagining History in Anglo-Norman Prose Chronicles', at Pembroke College and the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, in 2006. He has published several articles on historical literature from late medieval England, including in English Manuscript Studies and Reading Medieval Studies. He works as a civil servant for the Welsh Assembly Government.

Ilse Sternberg
Formerly Head of the Overseas English Section, English Language Collections, British Library.

Barry Taylor
Barry Taylor is Curator of Hispanic Collections 1501-1850, Early Printed Collections, British Library.

Simone Testa
Simone Testa has completed a Ph.D. in the Italian Department at Royal Holloway, on the editio princeps of the Thesoro Politico (1589). He is currently full-time post-doctoral research assistant on the Royal Holloway-British Library collaborative project 'Italian Academies 1530-1700. A Themed Collection Database'.

Linda Ehrsam Voigts
Linda Ehrsam Voigts, Curators' Professor of English Emerita at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, publishes on late medieval scientific and medical writing, both in Middle English and in Latin. She is responsible with Patricia Deery Kurtz for Scientific and Medical Writings in Old and Middle English: An Electronic Reference, CD (Ann Arbor, 2000). A second edition will be hosted online by the US National Library of Medicine, as will an electronic version of Thorndike and Kibre's Catalogue of Incipits of Mediaeval Scientific Writings in Latin, for which she is chief editor.

Colin White
Dr Colin White is the Director of the Royal Naval Museum in Portsmouth. From 1999 to 2005, he directed The Nelson Letters Poject, based at the National Maritime Museum, in the course of which some 1,500 unpublished Nelson letters were located. He published the results of his research in Nelson: The new letters in 2005, which was awarded the Distinguished Book Prize by the Society of Military Historians in 2006. Dr White is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and of the Royal Historical Society and a Vice President of the Navy Records Society and The 1805 Club. He has recently been appointed Visiting Professor of Maritime History at the University of Portsmouth.

Carol Williams
Dr Carol Williams, trained as a musicologist, is Senior Lecturer in the School of Historical Studies, Monash University, Australia. Her particular research interests are in medieval music theory and performance practice. She works on medieval music theory with Professor Mews, focusing in particular on Guy of Saint-Denis.

H.R. Woudhuysen
H. R. Woudhuysen is Professor of English and Head of Department, Department of English Language and Literature, University College London.

C. J. Wright
C. J. Wright was Head of Manuscripts, British Library, until his retirement in 2005. He is currently working on a catalogue of the Holland House Papers.

Stephen Wright
Dr Stephen Wright, contributor of 297 articles to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, has taught at the Universities of North London and of Hertfordshire.