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The panel featured contributions from Jonathon Green and Ramesh Krishnamurthy, and Jay Stiefel. Their presentations represented the different fields of Linguistics and Material Culture respectively, each about thirty minutes in length.

In alphabetical order:

Jonathon Green

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Historical dictionaries and the trials and tribulations that may beset their compilers

Jonathon Green is the author of numerous dictionaries of slang and currently preparing what at the moment is entitled the Cassell Historical Dictionary of Slang, a fully cited and expanded version (already some 25,000 headwords larger) of the Cassell Dictionary of Slang (1998). It is scheduled for publication in early 2006. He is also publishing a Concise Dictionary of Modern (20th century) Slang with Penguin. Also in preparation is the fully revised second edition of the original Cassell Dictionary of Slang.

Ramesh Krishnamurthy

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The 'corpus approach' used by present-day lexicography in dictionary-writing, applied to the material used for the Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities 

Ramesh Krishnamurthy was born in Madras (India) and has degrees in French and German (from Cambridge University), and Sanskrit and Indian Religions (from London University). He has worked for the Cobuild project (jointly owned by HarperCollins Publishers and the University of Birmingham) in Birmingham since 1984, and has compiled and edited dictionaries, grammars, and other publications, and contributed to the development of corpora, software, and electronic products. He is an Honorary Research Fellow at Birmingham University and Wolverhampton University, and has taught on undergraduate and postgraduate courses, and supervised postgraduate research. He has contributed to several major European linguistics projects, and has conducted workshops and courses on corpus linguistics and lexicography in many countries. Homepage:

Jay Stiefel

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"Craft & Commerce in Colonial Philadelphia"

Jay Stiefel, collector and scholar of American furniture, summarised his recent research into the unknown account book of London-trained Philadelphia cabinetmaker John Head. The folio-sized volume covering the years 1718 to 1753 contains "more information about Philadelphia furniture in the first half of the century than all the other sources combined." Jay’s talk used the book to explain the barter economy at work, connect Head with other Philadelphia craftsmen, and show him gradually becoming a merchant.

Other accolades include praise for a series of lectures given as part of the Winterthur Series of research seminars. 

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