LATEST NEWS

2020 Burney Society UK AGM was held online via Zoom on 3rd October 2020 at 14:00 UK time. AGM Draft Minutes and the Amended Constitution are available on the Annual General Meeting page.

Sian Ejiwunmi-Le Berre gave an excellent talk after the AGM. Sian has kindly allowed us to upload the text of her talk, in addition to the Studio script of her play ‘When Fanny met Germaine’  on our AGM  page. 

2021- 2022 Burney Society UK Research Bursary

 We are pleased to announce our 2021 – 2022 Research Bursary of £300 plus Burney Society UK Membership 2021-2022. The application deadline is 30th April 2021. The winner will be announced in June 2021 and the successful candidate will be expected to complete their research by mid-September and present their research paper at the AGM in late September 2022. For further details and downloadable application form please see Bursary page of this website. 

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 Burney Society UK Proposed Events 2021

Weymouth Trip planned for June 2021 – more information soon 

2020 Postponed Visit to St Paul’s Church, Deptford – hopefully late summer 2021.

Further information and dates will be provided here as soon as available.

Background to proposed trips:

Weymouth – Frances Burney visited Weymouth with the court of George III. 

St. Paul’s Church, Deptford where Charles Burney Jn. (1757 – 1817) was rector and is buried. This will be a free event and all members and guests are welcome. The proposed itinerary for this postponed event will include a talk on Charles Burney Jn. by Sophie Coulombeau, an organ recital featuring music composed by Dr Charles Burney and a tour of this Grade I listed Church by the pastor, Fr. Paul Butler. This will be followed by a light tea in the crypt.  There is no charge but donations to the church are welcome.

We are planning a conference in London for June 2022 to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the unveiling of the Frances Burney window in Westminster Abbey. Further details will be provided here nearer to the event. 

Montreal Conference (originally July 2020) has been Postponed

Extract from email received from Elaine Bander, North American Burney Society President

Dear Burney Society Members,

I hope that you are all safely and comfortably settled at home for the duration of the present pandemic, however long that may be. These are difficult and anxious times.

So it will come as little surprise to learn that we are postponing our Burney Society Conference planned for July 3-4, 2020 in Montreal. Later in the year, as things become clearer, we will announce a new a date, probably the same time in 2021, and we will likely have to reopen the Call for Papers, since some of our presenters will have published their talks before next year. (The Burney Journal as always will gratefully consider your submissions.)