Johnson Society of London

Programme October 2020 – April 2021

3 October, 4:00 pm (over Zoom)

Johnson: accounting for the self

Dr Philip Jones (Chairman, Johnson Society (Lichfield))

Samuel Johnson on the value of commerce: economics and morality in the context of empire and the slave trade.

Professor Frans De Bruyn (University of Ottawa)

12 noon. The Annual Commemoration at Westminster Abbey, by courtesy of the Dean and Chapter. Details to be advised.

We hope to return to Wesley's Chapel for meetings in 2021.  

Topham Beauclerk (1739-1780), Dr Johnson’s aristocratic friend

Dr David Noy

Chair: Dr Catherine Dille

12.30 pm. Committee Meeting

2.30 pm. “A fine, lively, rattling fellow”. Dr Johnson's friend John Gwynn, an eighteenth-century town planner and bridge builder

Dr Stefka Ritchie

Chair: Miriam Al Jamil

1.30 pm. Annual General Meeting

2.30 pm. ‘Spectating and rambling, uncommercially and idly, all the year round’: Johnson, Dickens and periodical journalism

Dr Tony Williams (Past President, Dickens Fellowship)

Chair: Zandra O’Donnell

The legacy of James Boswell’s travel writing

Dr Julian Griffin (Head of English, Leicester Grammar School)

Chair: Lois Potter