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The first Philological Society, based in London's Fitzroy Square, was founded in 1792 under the patronage of Thomas Collingwood of St Edmund Hall, Oxford. [5] Its publication was titled The European Magazine, and London Review. [6]
The Philological Society is the oldest learned society in Great Britain devoted to the scholarly study of language and languages. It is also a registered charity. It was established in its present form in 1842, consisting partly of members of a society of the same name established at the University of London in 1830 'to investigate and promote ...
Formed in response to the new comparative philology practised by a handful of scholars on the Continent in the 1820s, the original Philological Society held the first in a series of informal meetings at London University in the early 1830s.
The Philological Society, founded in 1842, established an “Unregistered Words Committee,” but, upon hearing two papers by Richard Chenevix Trench in 1857—“On Some Deficiencies in Our English Dictionaries”—the society changed its plan to the making of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles.
PhilSoc's book series, the Publications of the Philological Society, is also published for the Society by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Since 2000, PhilSoc has organised a biennial student essay competition in honour of the memory of the late RH Robins, former PhilSoc President and Secretary.
The first Philological Society, based in London's Fitzroy Square, was founded in 1792 under the patronage of Thomas Collingwood of St Edmund Hall, Oxford. [5] Its publication was titled The European Magazine, and London Review. [6] The Philological Society is a member organisation of the University Council of General and Applied Linguistics. [7]
The Philological Society is the oldest learned society in Great Britain devoted to the scholarly study of language and languages. It is also a registered charity. It was established in its present form in 1842, consisting partly of members of a society of the same name established at the University of London in 1830 ‘to investigate and ...
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