Research Day: Reconstructing Nicholas Crouch: the library of a seventeenth-century medic
Delegates are invited to hear speakers from across academic disciplines discussing research directions for a newly accessible early printed and manuscript collection in Oxford. The Library of Nicholas Crouch (ca. 1618 - ca.1690) at Balliol College was catalogued and conserved thanks to a generous grant from The Wellcome Trust. Read more about the project on the Balliol's Historic Collections blog: https://balliollibrary.wordpress.com/category/reconstructing-nicholas-crouch/
Free event. Numbers limited. Sign-up: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nicholas-crouch-research-day-tickets-47214028430
Lunch and refreshments included
10.00-10.30: Registration
10.30-11.40: Session 1: Networks and Connections
(Chaired by Professor Seamus Perry)
• Professor Adam Smyth: Crouch’s diary and almanacs
• Dr Will Poole: Crouch and pamphlet collection
• Dr Jason Scott-Warren: Pricing and splicing with Crouch
• Dr John-Paul Ghobrial: Beyond Balliol: Crouch’s links to the wider world
• Nikki Tomkins: The binders behind the books
Questions and discussion
11.40-12.00: Refreshments
12.00-13.10 : Session 2: From Natural Philosophy to Poetry
(Chaired by Dr Peter Elmer)
• Dr Olivia Smith: Science and experimentation in Nicholas Crouch’s collection
• Professor Elizabeth Hageman: Nicholas Crouch, Francis Finch, John Freeman, and Katherine Philips at Balliol College: 1653-1664.
• Dr Benjamin Wardhaugh: ‘Six hundred thousand different Latine Verses’: Nicholas Crouch's mathematics
• Dr Kathleen Walker-Meikle: Nicholas Crouch: Pharmacological receipts and medical book collecting
Questions and discussion
13.10-14.00: Lunch
14.00-15.00: Reconstructing Nicholas Crouch exhibition opening
A chance to see items from Crouch’s Library at Balliol Historic Collections Centre, St Cross Church
For more information email library@balliol.ox.ac.uk or phone 01865 277709
