Congratulations to Cambridge History's Annabel Brett (Prof of Political Thought and History) and Prof Jeremy Adelman (Director of the Global History Lab), both made Fellows of the @britishacademy.bsky.social
They are among 12 academics from @cam.ac.uk to be elected to the prestigious fellowship.
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Methods Fellowships 2025/26 - CDH
Gain teaching experience and access a supportive platform for sharing research, approaches and critical perspectives as a CDH Methods Fellow in the 2025-26 academic year.
Deadline: 16 July
Apply online: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/learning/met...
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π£Exciting News π£
Dates & host institution for the SSHM Biennial Conference #SSHM2026 are confirmed!
Save the Date in your planners π
Theme and CFPs to follow later
#histmed #medhumanities #histSTM
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1 decade of Open Access, now 300 titles π
Introducing 'Renaissance skin' by @evelynwelch.bsky.social - freely available to all students and institutions.
A magnificent feat for research in Renaissance art & #histmed
Read it here: www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
#Renaissance #OpenAccess
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Reminder
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Massimo Sbarbaro
Register Now: csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/onlin...
#CSMBR #medicalhistory #middleages #Merchants #Health
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YouTube video by Centre for Geopolitics
Geopolitics & Memory
Event video now available! Geopolitics & memory
Dr Richard Latham Lechowick (@crasshlive.bsky.socialβ¬, βͺ@cam.ac.ukβ¬) discusses memory as a collective political act, a survival mechanism, and a site for personal negotiation.
Watch now via YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kyco...
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There's still time to register for: Shrinking 'Middle'? The geopolitics of Central Europe!
Luka Ivan Jukic talks about his forthcoming book (@hurstpublishers.bsky.social) and interrogates the idea of a European βMiddleβ with BarnabΓ‘s SzabΓ³.
Wed 23 July at 5pm
Online
Reg & info: lnkd.in/d-44GTFZ
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One day to go! Geopolitics and memory
Dr Richard Latham Lechowick and Dr Jade McGlynn will discuss how historical memory shapes peopleβs understanding of and response to geopolitical issues.
Wed 9 Jul, 5pm to 6:30pm (BST)
Online
Reg & info: lnkd.in/dAs6hcX4
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We are thrilled to speak with Prof Mary Laven @marylaven.bsky.social about her research on the Italian #Renaissance (can we call it Italian? π€) and what it means to work closely with #museums as an historian. Check out our latest podcast episode β¬οΈ
open.spotify.com/episode/0QWb... #Skystorians
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Professor Peter Mandler, Deputy Chair of the History Faculty, Professor of Modern Cultural History, Bailey Lecturer in History, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge.
Prof Peter Mandlerβs (@petermandler.bsky.social) insatiable curiosity has fuelled an extraordinary career over more than two decades at Cambridge.
As he steps back from formal teaching, the acclaimed historian reflects on a life of intellectual breadth, public advocacyβand no plans to slow down β¬οΈβ¬οΈ
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Nora Berend, Professor of European History, University of Cambridge
π Congratulations Professor Nora Berend, elected as a member of the prestigious Academia Europaea, in recognition of her outstanding achievements as a researcher.
π Read more: www.hist.cam.ac.uk/news/nora-berend-elected-member-prestigious-academia-europaea
@acad-euro.bsky.social
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New event! Shrinking 'Middle'? The geopolitics of Central Europe
Luka Ivan Jukic interrogates the idea of a European βmiddleβ with BarnabΓ‘s SzabΓ³
Wed 23rd Jul, 5pm to 6:30pm (BST)
Online
Regi & info: bit.ly/4nvBCFp
03.07.2025 14:37 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1
There's still time to register! Geopolitics and memory
Dr Richard Latham Lechowick and Dr Jade McGlynn will discuss how historical memory shapes peopleβs understanding of and response to geopolitical issues
Wed 9 Jul, 5pm to 6:30pm
Online
Reg & info: bit.ly/4lluIki
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We are delighted to share the programme for our 'Art Lovers in the World' Conference, taking place at the University of Cambridge, 28th-29th Jul 2025, funded by the DAAD Hub, the Trevelyan Fund and the GHS. Tickets are available at artloversconference.eventbrite.co.uk. We look forward to seeing you!
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Early Modern Scholarship and Religion Seminar at 16:00 on Friday 6 June in the Old Combination Room of St Catharine's College: Katherine Emery (Cambridge) - βMusic in Matthew Parkerβs Whole Psalter and Library, 1558-1575β
30.05.2025 17:14 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Book cover of 'I won't let them be like me'.
π Join us for a discussion of Richard Latham Lechowickβs new book, I Wonβt Let Them Be Like Me: Ezidi Womenβs Agency and Identity after the Sinjar Genocide'
His talk traces personal narratives of transformation in self and society
23 May from 5-7pm
Online & in-person at CRASSH
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21.05.2025 11:36 β π 2 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Early Modern Scholarship and Religion Seminar at 16:00 on Friday 30 May in the Old Combination Room of St Catharine's College: Jonas Thorup Thomsen (University of Oxford) - 'Rural lending libraries for enlightenment and edification in late eighteenth-century Denmark'
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Early Modern Scholarship and Religion Seminar at 17:30 on Thursday 15 May in The Wren Library (Trinity College): Launch for Theodor DunkelgrΓΌn's 'The Multiplicity of Scripture: The Making of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible' (2025); conversation with Piet van Boxel + a display of books
06.05.2025 15:24 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
The convenors are arranging a hybrid solution for this session: sign up to our mailing list to receive the link! www.hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series...
28.04.2025 07:47 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Early Modern Scholarship and Religion Seminar, 4.00-5.30 pm on Friday 2 May, in the Old Combination Room of St Catharine's College: Book launch for Timothy Twiningβs (KU Leuven) 'The Limits of Erudition: The Old Testament in Post-Reformation Europe' (2024) with Simon Ditchfield (York)
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Early Modern World History Workshop, 3.00 pm on Thursday 20 March, Senior Parlour at Gonville and Caius College:
Marissa Smit-Bose (Cambridge) - Knowledge and Exchange in the Equine Mediterranean
13.03.2025 15:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Early Modern Scholarship and Religion Seminar, 4.00-5.30 pm on Friday 21 March, in the Harrods Room (Queen's Building) of Emmanuel College:
Katie McKeogh (KCL) - Religious Culture and the Ownership and Reading of Music Books in Sixteenth-Century England
13.03.2025 15:07 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The Eighteenth Century, 5 pm on Tuesday 11 March in the Long Room of Gonville & Caius College:
Katherine Parker (Royal Geographical Society) - Papering Exploration: Printing Pacific Geographic Knowledge in Britain in the Mid-Eighteenth Century
08.03.2025 11:24 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminar, 5 pm on Thursday 13 March in Room 11 of the History Faculty:
Aidan Collins (University of Newcastle) - Credit, debt, and personal failure in the English and New York Courts of Chancery, 1674-1800
08.03.2025 11:22 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar, 5.15 pm on Wednesday 12 March in the Graham Storey Room of Trinity Hall:
Joseph Robertson (Christβs College) - The Gunpowder Plot and English anti-Jesuitism
08.03.2025 11:20 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Early Modern World History Seminar, 3 pm on Thursday 13 March in the Senior Parlour of Gonville & Caius College:
Amanda Wunder (CUNY) - Spanish Fashion in the Age of VelΓ‘zquez: A Tailor at the Court of Philip IV
08.03.2025 11:19 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Early Modern World History Workshop, 3.00-4.30 pm on Thursday 6 March in the Senior Parlour of Gonville & Caius College:
Diana Berruezo Sanchez (Barcelona) - Black Multilingualism and Cultural Agency in Early Modern Iberia
28.02.2025 14:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar, 5.15 pm on Wednesday 5 March, in the Graham Storey Room of Trinity Hall:
Katherine Emery (Emmanuel College) - βLiturgical Libraries: Music and Sound in Matthew Parkerβs Whole Psalter (1567)β
28.02.2025 14:22 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Early Modern Historian of the Mediterranean with a focus on Italy, quarantine, architecture, funerary rituals and religious minorities.
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The Past and Present Society: making cutting edge social history accessible since 1952. Our journal Past & Present is published by Oxford University Press.
https://academic.oup.com/past
Historian of Race, Slavery, Commodification, Consumption, Intoxication in the Early Modern Atlantic | Research Fellow
@CaiusCollege
Early modern historian at USC. Cultural history, Netherlands, tulipmania, arctic, history of art, history of science, history of the book, etc. Opinions expressed are mine, not USCβs.
The Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) has pioneered interdisciplinary approaches to the history of health, welfare, medical science and practice https://sshm.org/
#histmed
Community of Medieval & Renaissance Studies at Monash University, Australia. The past is not as distant as you imagine.
(Banner: Lincoln County Archives, BNLW 1/1/55/1; Profile pic: Monash, Bischoff frag. 002, MS 1821) Skeets by KN.
Early modern historian interested in medicine, expertise, race-making, writing practices. Director of KCL Centre for Early Modern Studies, PI of Medicine and the Making of Race https://www.mmor.co.uk Author https://upittpress.org/books/9780822945604
Pro-Vice-Chancellor University East Anglia and Professor of Early Modern Studies. Previously Director, Institute of Cultural and Creative Industries, University of Kent; everyday life, material histories, creative heritage.
Historian of feminisms, labour and disability at University of Cambridge. Fellow of Murray Edwards college. Lover of nyckelharpa and uilleann pipes. She/her
English prof, Oxford. Author and broadcaster. Early modern literature, history, and cross-cultural encounters. Fuelled by tea.
The Historical Journal publishes papers on all aspects of British, European, and world history since the fifteenth century.
Historian: mobility & recordkeeping of #earlymodern Catholic minorities. Book: confessional mobility and English Catholics in Early Modern Europe. Also grumpy about the state of UK Higher Education so likely to talk about how it is being failed...(She/Her)
Early Modernist, Prof UEA; Historical Lead, Gloucester Project & Co-Director, Hakluyt Project
https://research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/claire-jowitt
https://www.gloucestershipwreck.co.uk/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/claire-jowitt-416943160/
Sr Acq Editor, Early Modern Studies, Amsterdam University Press. Comm Editor, Art History, Lund Humphries. Founder, Art Herstory. Etsy shop, http://artherstorynotes.etsy.com
The official BlueSky page for the Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies, based at the University of Sheffield.
Website: https://scems.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/. Email: scems@sheffield.ac.uk
Ottoman and Turkish Studies at the University of Vienna. Turkish in Vienna. Making a difference. Since 1541.
πUniversity of Vienna
π https://orientalistik.univie.ac.at/en/disciplines/turkish-studies/
Assistant Professor of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. PhD from Stanford. Exploring the intersections of knowledge, medicine, and natural history in the early modern Mediterranean. Istanbulite.
