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The Collation

Research and Exploration at the Folger

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Interview and excerpt: Simon P. Newman, Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London
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Interview and excerpt: Simon P. Newman, Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London

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At the Folger, we are proud to sponsor research inquiry within a vibrant and intellectually generous community. Periodically, as that research is published, we circle back to talk with recent authors to showcase the role of collections-based inquiry on their…

A Blessing to Booksellers
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A Blessing to Booksellers

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Rachel B. Dankert

In her 1616 mother’s advice book, The Mothers Blessing, Puritan author Dorothy Leigh exhorts her readers: “Teach a childe in his youth the trade of his life, and he will not forget it, not depart from it when he is…

Visualizing Shakespeare’s Birds
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Visualizing Shakespeare’s Birds

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Missy Dunaway

a guest post by Missy Dunaway Greetings! I was the Folger Shakespeare Library’s artist-in-residence in November of 2021. I dedicated my Folger Institute Fellowship to a painting project entitled Birds of the Bard. This growing collection of paintings will catalog…

18th-century watchpapers
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18th-century watchpapers

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Erin Blake

Thanks for the great guesses about the March 2022 Crocodile Mystery! All were different, all were plausible, and all were incorrect. It would have been easier if I’d included other examples of the same type of print,  because they’re always…

“What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: March 2022
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“What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: March 2022

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As you’re waiting for the interminable month of February to finally expire, distract yourself with the following thought: Prints like this one were useful as well as decorative. What use did they serve? Leave your thoughts and guesses in the…

A Folger Original: Edwin Eliott Willoughby
Front and back of a postcard depicting the Folger with writing
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A Folger Original: Edwin Eliott Willoughby

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Stephen H. Grant

a guest post by Stephen Grant “Until he finally reached retirement age, Willoughby was a problem,” penned Louis B. Wright in Of Books and Men (University of South Carolina Press, 1976, p.135), looking back on two decades as Folger Director,…

Interview and excerpt: Paul Dover, The Information Revolution in Early Modern Europe
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Interview and excerpt: Paul Dover, The Information Revolution in Early Modern Europe

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At the Folger, we are proud to sponsor research inquiry within a vibrant and intellectually generous community. Periodically, as that research is published, we circle back to talk with recent authors to showcase the role of collections-based inquiry on their…

Alcohol, Armies, and Contested Sovereignty in Early Modern Ireland
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Alcohol, Armies, and Contested Sovereignty in Early Modern Ireland

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Lila Chambers

a guest post by Lila Chambers The association between Ireland and excessive drinking is a pervasive one, from fifteenth century texts detailing treacherous feasts held by Irish opponents to Henry II, to Edmund Spender’s A View of the Present State…

Slurrop! An ode to soup
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Slurrop! An ode to soup

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Elizabeth DeBold

In 1595, English writer William Fiston (or Phiston) produced a translation of a French book of manners for children. Topics included proper behavior that was important for Church and school, but also a section on table manners. Here, Fiston admonishes…

“What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: February 2022
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“What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: February 2022

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For this month’s crocodile mystery, please examine these words from different manuscript recipe books from our collections, and tell us what they have in common. We’ll be back next week with the answer.      

Q & A: Ashley Buchanan, Associate Director for Fellowships, Folger Institute
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Q & A: Ashley Buchanan, Associate Director for Fellowships, Folger Institute

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The Folger Institute is pleased to introduce Dr. Ashley Buchanan, our new Associate Director for Fellowships. Dr. Buchanan received her Ph.D. in early modern history in 2018 from the University of South Florida and comes to the Folger with experience…

George Goodwin, neo-Latin poet, identified as George Goodwin, rector of Moreton, Essex
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George Goodwin, neo-Latin poet, identified as George Goodwin, rector of Moreton, Essex

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Erin Blake

Today’s Collation post is short and sweet, and courtesy of Heather Wolfe, the Folger’s Curator of Manuscripts. Heather is currently on sabbatical in the UK, having been awarded the 2021–22 Munby Fellowship at Cambridge University Library, but she still occasionally…

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