Making Progress
The 300th birthday of the longitude act isn’t the only important anniversary this year. As well as significant commemorations for both the first and second world wars, 2014 marks 250 years since the...
View ArticleThe other Georgian story
One of the stories we hope to tell in the upcoming Ships, Clocks & Stars exhibition is the sheer importance to Georgian society of finding a solution to the Longitude problem . This story not only...
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The last time I wrote on here was after a visit to Georgians Revealed at the British Library. I lauded the wonderful array of objects that they had on show, but also bemoaned the lack of any real...
View ArticleRevealing the Georgians
As I have already commented elsewhere, the eighteenth century seems to be all the rage right now from exhibitions to books to TV shows. Just yesterday, the BBC announced a major new season across both...
View ArticleExperimental exhibitions
When John Harrison and the Board of Longitude were wrangling over the disclosure of H4 in the mid-1760s, one phrase proved particularly tricky. The Harrisons constantly returned to the phrase...
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International perspectives on longitude at ICHSTM – Part One
On 27 July, our symposium ‘Empires of longitude: international perspectives on navigation, mapping and science’ seemed to go down a storm at the 24th International Congress of History of Science,...
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International perspectives on longitude at ICHSTM – Part Two
(Return to Part One for an introduction to our longitude symposium at ICHSTM and a summary of the first session.) The second session, ‘Knowledge in circulation’, was ably chaired by our Sophie Waring....
View ArticleWhat time do you make it?
We spend a lot of time on the longitude project thinking about timekeepers. Both of the major methods for finding longitude at sea involve time, whether it be in the form of John Harrison’s marine...
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The Game of Life
One of the most exciting finds of my PhD so far has been a broadside map that I found in the Bodleian Library in Oxford, after spotting it in the list of publications at the back of a contemporary...
View ArticleWhen Hogarth met Grayson
One of the sideline interests of my PhD is ways in which Hogarth’s A Rake’s Progress has been picked up by contemporary artists. I blogged last year about a production of Stravinsky’s opera of the...
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