MemsLIB: DECEMBER UPDATES

We're reaching the end of 2021 - a year of ups and downs, and the now-familiar hybrid approach to academia which looks set to continue. We hope that MEMSLib will be able to offer some reassurance as we look ahead to the New Year, as we continue to curate the latest digital resources which are being made available to researchers, and offer a place for an active scholarly community to converse, advise, and support each other.

 

Let's end this year, then, by rounding up our latest additions to MEMSLib. A highlight of this, of course, is our latest blog post, which this month features the advice of MEMS alumna Kate McCaffrey - a name undoubtedly familiar to scholars of Anne Boleyn. Kate shares her experience of negotiating the media and gaining a public audience for her research. We also bring you a fresh-off-the-press article from one of MEMSLib's founders, Anna Hegland, some key new resources to save in your Bookmarks, and a look ahead to the New Year.

 

Take a sip of coffee and let's get into our December updates...

Kate McCaffrey: How to gain a public audience for your research

For this much-anticipated blog post, the MEMSLib team caught up with the wonderful Kate McCaffrey. Having completed her MEMS MA with distinction in 2019/20, Kate now works as an Assistant Curator at Hever Castle. If her name sounds familiar, it's because Kate took the international press by storm earlier this year, releasing discoveries which formed part of her MEMS MA dissertation. Kate's research focused on a little-studied printed Book of Hours which belonged to Anne Bo...

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Just published...

The latest issue of the British Shakespeare Association's magazine, Teaching Shakespeare, is published online today, and features an article written by Anna Hegland, one of the original founders of MEMSLib. Anna reflects on the circumstances which led to the creation of MEMSLib, and how being part of this process shaped, and was shaped by, her own experience of teaching early modern drama online.

 

"Such a resource undoubtedly served the immediate need of university students and staff to access research material from home but might also be built to support creative and collaborative work during and beyond lockdown."

 
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Latest resources...

 

Church History lovers! The Corpus Synodalium is a searchable full-text database of extant local ecclesiastical legislation (on marriage to money-landing) and papal law issued across Latin Europe from ca. 1215 - ca. 1400. This project is lead by PI Rowan Dorin and should soon offer the option of large-scale comparative analysis for the sources it hosts. 

 
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Book historians! The Women’s Print History Project is a bibliographical database of women’s contributions to print during the long eighteenth century. The database is fully searchable, and forms part of a wider project aiming to recover women’s activity in the book trades, tracking their involvement in the making and circulation of books. The WPHP is directed by Professor Michelle Levy, Simon Fraser University.

 
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New Year's Resolutions

2022 will bring some very exciting things for MEMSLib. Our intention was always to help researchers and students of Medieval and Early Modern Studies during an uncertain time, and we would like this to be an ongoing conversation. In the New Year, we'll be trialling some improvements to the MEMSLib site, and will actively welcome your feedback and suggestions throughout this process.

 

For now, though, we would welcome your feedback on MEMSLib:

 

How does MEMSLib currently assist your research?

What would you look for in an 'online community' of researchers?

What would you like to see MEMSLib offer in the future?

 

If you'd like to let us know your thoughts on any of these questions, we would love to hear from you!

 

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