Recent News
in approximate reverse date order:

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Conference call for papers (Huddersfield): 
The Isle of Man TT Races: Heritage, Place and Spirit
May 28th - 30th, 2007, Villa Marina, Douglas

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Research update on Volume 4 of 
A New History of the Isle of Man
The Derby and Atholl Periods 1405-1830
from Roger Dickinson 

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The Ned Maddrell Memorial Lecture was given in November this year by Dr Wilson McLeod, Senior Lecturer in Celtic, University of Edinburgh:  'Targets, Destinations and Aspirations in Language Planning' as part of Yn Cheshaght Ghailckagh's Cooish festival. Dr McLeod's research interests involve language policy and planning issues in Scotland and internationally; language legislation and language rights; and the cultural politics of Scottish and Irish Gaelic literature from the late medieval period to the present day. He organises an annual seminar series on language policy and planning.

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The University's Continuing Education programme on the Island is available here and features courses on Archibald Knox, Manx archaeology and more general aspects of Manx Studies

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Saturday 2 September 2006 - a church crawl across 3 parishes!
A feast of singing led by Dr Francis Roads across Rushen, Arbory and Malew. 

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'Centred on Mann' - successful CMS colloquium on Liverpool campus:
click here for a report

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Congratulations to Amanda Griffin, who has been awarded 
her PhD at the University of Durham
'The Amateur Competition Movement: Shaping Identity
through Participation in the Manx Music Festival 1892 - 2005'

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The Centre is delighted to welcome Charles MacQuarrie of California State University who is on the Island with 15 high school teachers to study medieval languages, literature and culture throughout June and July 2006 Details here

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~RESEARCH SEMINAR DAY~
Saturday 24 June, Elmwood House
MA in Manx Studies seminar day (10.30-17.15)
The students from the part-time MA in Manx Studies will give public presentations on their research work. Topics range from excavations at Port y Candas to the poetry of Mona Douglas.
FULL PROGRAMME NOW ONLINE!

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Published on 13th May:
YE BOUNDLESS REALMS OF JOY
by Francis Roads
Forty West Gallery psalms, hymns and anthems from
the Colby Manuscripts, collected and used by
William Shepherd in the Isle of Man
in the early decades of the 19th Century,
with 32 added Manx texts. CMS Research Report 11.
116 pages, ISBN 1899338-10-1. £12.50
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Fenella Bazin's The Everlasting Hills
~ the new Manx hymn book ~
Now published!
Details click here

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The programme of our recent Colloquium, 
held in Liverpool on 5th May can be viewed here

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Just launched:
Manx Heritage Foundation
Music Database
www.manxheritagemusic.org

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Archibald Knox Society

Inaugural Meeting Thursday 30th March
Details Here

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Congratulations to:
Claire Corkill, Helen Skillan and Marinda Fargher
for obtaining their MA Manx Studies degrees
and to Kit Gawne for passing his PhD viva!

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Just published:
'Celtic Culture: an Historical Encyclopedia'
in 5 volumes, edited by John T. Koch, published by ABC-CLIO, with 2,128 pages including an extensive bibliography and index. Includes several contributions by members of CMS. The full version is also available as an e-book. For details see www.abc-clio.com

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Web site of the YEAR!: 
Manx Heritage Foundation
www.manxheritage.com

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Useful web sites: 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/isleofman/

The University of Liverpool Library provides an excellent page with many useful links to web databases for the Art Faculty:

http://dbweb.liv.ac.uk/library_resources/arts/archaeol.asp

One of these is a collection of historical maps at a site called Digimap

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Please read our Annual Report for 2004

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List of books added to CMSBOOKS April 2005, GO HERE

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Two new Research Reports, numbers 11 and 12, are ready for publication later this year: click here for details

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Congratulations to the Isle of Man Natural History and Antiquarian Society on its 125th Anniversary year!

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'The Neolithic of the Irish Sea: materiality and traditions of practice', just published by Oxbow books, contains five articles about the Isle of Man and much else of relevance .... please read dust jacket text here.

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'Autonomy wrongly denied: the British Government and the Isle of Man'

 A copy of this article by Sybil Sharp has recently been deposited in our collection of offprints and added to our bibliography. For a brief summary, please click here. The full article is available for readers at 6 Kingswood Grove.

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Dr Jennifer Kewley Draskau, our newest Research Fellow, presented a seminar on linguistics at the Department of Linguistics and Languages, York University, Toronto, Canada on Thursday 7th October, 2004.

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Thanks to David Radcliffe, the Manx Links page has been updated. Please let us know of any other web sites we should include. 

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The MA and Diploma in Manx Studies started again in October 2004. This is its fourth session. The MA course runs for two years, the second year concentrating on a dissertation. Further details can be found by clicking here.

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Roger Sims has been made an 
Honorary Research Fellow of the University.

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J.B. Innes, R.C. Chiverrell, J.J. Blackford,
P.J. Davey, S. Gonzalez, M.M. Rutherford
and P.R. Tomlinson 2004
'Earliest Holocene vegetation history and island biogeography of the Isle of Man, British Isles'
Journal of Biogeography 31, 1-12.

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Congratulations to two doctoral students who have
recently passed their viva voce examinations:

Sue Lewis
Dept of Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews
‘Roots of / Routes to: Practice and Performance of Identity
in the Isle of Man’

Chloë Woolley
School of Scottish Studies, University of Edinburgh
‘The Revival of Manx Folk Music, 1974 to the Present’

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Congratulations to Kristin Bornholdt, University of Cambridge, on obtaining her PhD. A copy of her thesis 'Viking-Age Coin Finds from the Isle of Man: a study of coin circulation, production and concepts of wealth' has been added to our book collection.

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SHAPING THE INSTITUTIONS OF MANX GOVERNMENT: CONSTITUTIONAL POLICY MAKING 1903-2003
by David Kermode
Studeyrys Manninagh 2004 No. 1.5
www.manxstudies.ac.im

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New project: Oral History of Jurby and Ballaugh

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Published in 2003:

'Neolithic Settlement in Ireland and Western Britain' three papers just published in new monograph ...
click here for details

'Tynwald: a Manx cult-site and institution of pre-Scandinavian origin?' by George Broderick
Studeyrys Manninagh 2003 No. 1.4
www.manxstudies.ac.im

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'Billown and the Neolithic of the Isle of Man' Darvill, Tim (2003) 112-119 in I Armit, E Murphy, E Nelis and S Simpson Neolithic Settlement in Ireland and Western Britain, Oxford: Oxbow Books 

'The Early Neolithic and the Manx environment' Davey Peter and Innes Jim (2003) 120-127 in I Armit, E Murphy, E Nelis and S Simpson Neolithic Settlement in Ireland and Western Britain, Oxford: Oxbow Books 

'Rheast Buigh, Patrick: Middle Neolithic exploitation of the Manx uplands' Davey, Peter and Woodcock, Jennifer (2003) 128-135 in I Armit, E Murphy, E Nelis and S Simpson Neolithic Settlement in Ireland and Western Britain, Oxford: Oxbow Books 

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NEWSLETTER 2003 published
click here

Published online in September 2003: