‘My dear Dr. Johnson’.
Jane Austen and Samuel Johnson are both literary giants who were born in the Georgian era – although they never … Read More
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A Lesson in Book History & Eighteenth-Century Bookmaking
The museum recently welcomed sixth-form students from King Edward VI School in Lichfield to an Eighteenth-Century Textual Studies workshop, run … Read More
The Admirable Alphabet of Dr. Johnson’s Definitive Dictionary
You may have seen our Facebook post about the introduction of Scottish artist Joe Waterfield’s work into the Samuel Johnson … Read More
Behind the Scenes: Samuel Johnson at the Lichfield Literature Festival
The weekend of 09 and 10 March 2019 saw a flurry of activity in Lichfield as the Samuel Johnson Birthplace … Read More
Behind The Scenes: How Research at the Samuel Johnson Helped Launch the First Book on Reverend Petit
The story of an important and overlooked Lichfield Victorian, the Reverend John Louis Petit, is to be told in a … Read More
Featured Object: Johnson’s Copy of ‘Travels Through Portugal and Spain, in 1772 and 1773’
David Garbutt, an undergraduate student at Birmingham University, conducted his placement with us in 2018. Here he shares his research … Read More
How Johnson Created His Dictionary: The Important Role of His Amanuenses
Emma Bown, a student at the University of Birmingham, recently completed a placement at the Birthplace Museum. Here she shares … Read More