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Programme 2015-16
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JOHNSON SOCIETY PROGRAMME
October 2015 – April 2016
10 October
1.00 pm Committee Meeting
2.30 pm Alexander Pope – The Little Nightingale
Colin Pinney
Chair: Celine Luppo McDaid
21 November
Of Monkeys and Men: Monboddo and Johnson
Philip Jones (Chairman, Johnson Society of Lichfield)
Chair: Christopher Ogden
12 December
12 noon. The Annual Commemoration at Westminster Abbey, by
courtesy of the Dean and Chapter. A wreath will be laid on
Johnson’s grave by Revd Canon Peter Holliday.12.45 for 1.00 pm at St Ermin’s Hotel: the Society’s annual
luncheon (see separate booking form).3.00 pm The Richard Thrale Memorial Lecture:
Johnson's Lichfield and Shakespeare's Stratford
Revd Canon Peter Holliday (Lichfield Cathedral)
Chair: Dr Ilse Vickers
9 January
Samuel Johnson and Religion
Professor William Gibson (Oxford Brookes University)
Chair: Michael Bundock
13 February
12.30 pm: Committee Meeting
2.30 pm: The Debtor's World in Johnson's London
Professor Jerry White (Birkbeck, University of London)
Chair: Christine Rees
12 March
1.30 pm Annual General Meeting
2.30 pm: Black People in London in the mid Eighteenth
Century
Dr Kathleen Chater
Chair: Miriam Al Jamil
9 April
‘Pleased to Renew Our Old Acquaintance’: James Boswell
and Francis Barber
Michael Bundock
Chair: Dr Ilse Vickers
VENUE. All meetings (except in December) will be held at Wesley’s
Chapel, 49 City Road, London, EC1, and commence at 2.30 pm. Nearest
underground stations are Moorgate and Old Street (Exit 4). There is car
parking in side streets.
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