Sussex Centre for Early Modern Studies is currently in partnership with the National Trust at Petworth House, West Sussex, and the West Sussex Record Office at Chichester in an investigation into the libraries and intellectual culture of the British country house during the early modern period.
The project involves two AHRC collaborative doctoral awards which will investigate a unique collection of early play quartos purchased by the 9th and 10th Earls of Northumberland during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and housed in Petworth.
The conference will involve a visit to Petworth House, where our second plenary will be held.
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