Trinity College, Cambridge, 27-28 July 2007
John Mitchell Kemble was born on 2 April 1807, and thus celebrated his 200th birthday in 2007. A two-day conference was held in his honour, at Trinity College, Cambridge, on 27-8 July 2007.
There was a small exhibition of related books and manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, and a 'performance' of Kemble's declamation in the college chapel on 13 December 1827, which won the Hooper Declamation Prize for that year.
The conference programme (.pdf file) included papers on the following subjects, among others: Kemble as an undergraduate at Trinity College; Kemble and the 'Cambridge Apostles'; Kemble and the 'Spanish Expedition'; Kemble and Grimm; Kemble's early work on Layamon (1832); Kemble's Beowulf (1833); Kemble on Anglo-Saxon runes; Kemble on Anglo-Saxon personal names; Kemble's Codex Diplomaticus Aevi Saxonici (1839-48); Kemble's archaeology.
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