GO TO THE EVENTS SECTION OF THIS SITE TO SEE INFORMATION ABOUT
WHAT'S GOING ON IN LICHFIELD DURING THIS IMPORTANT YEAR
The Society is directly responsible for the Annual Birthday Supper (September 19th), a walking tour of City Sites associated with Johnson during the morning of Sunday 20th, arranging for the Service in the Cathedral during the afternoon and also for helping those who wish to go to Uttoxeter on Monday 21st for the commemoration of Johnson' Penance.
Naturally, all the Civic events both in the Market Square and the Birthplace Museum during the Friday evening and all day on Saturday will be open to as many people --- visitors and locals as possible.
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The Society will be arranging for the familiar and successful programme of
lectures to be held on four Sunday afternoons in Boley Park Community
Centre on October 25th, November 27th and then January17th and February
14th. As usual an interesting series of topics, of interest to all readers of
books is planned. WATCH THIS SPACE for details and meanwhile, mark your
diaries.
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2009, the Tercentenary of the birth of Samuel Johnson, in Lichfield, seemed an appropriate time to launch this re-designed web site (replacing 'the rambler')
The Johnson Society based in Lichfield is the oldest in the world. It has nearly 600 members scattered UK-wide and worldwide. This is a special year for Johnsonians -- we want to make it easy for all those who want to know more about the most quoted figure in the English Literary world of the 18th Century to use this site.
Comments and suggestions for improvement of the page will be welcomed.
PLEASE NOTE: The site is still under construction and the archive of material from past issues of our annual journal "Transactions" is not yet complete.
ALSO we are not yet able to process subscriptions online.
The aims and activities of the Society are as follows:
- The main objective of the Lichfield Johnson Society is to further interest in the life, works and times of Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), the famous author and lexicographer, often known as Doctor Johnson or even 'Dictionary Johnson', who was born in Lichfield in 1709. His Dictionary of the English Language was published in 1755. He was one of the most influential figures in English letters from 1755 to his death in 1784. He is also often referred to as Doctor Johnson. For more details of the society see 'About Us' below or click here.
- The activities of the Johnson Society focus around the Johnson Birthday Celebrations in mid September. The society also organises lectures, visits and other activities. These are all recorded in our journal " Transactions" which is published each January. All the papers, produced from 2001 onwards, are listed in 'Transactions and Papers'. See below or click here.
- Society activities and items of interest are listed in 'News and Events'. Either see below or click here.
- Most members of the society live in the UK but we have members worldwide, in Australia, Japan, Germany, USA and Canada. See 'Membership'.