programme of hte Low Countries Seminar, Institute of Historical research, Fridays 17:30
17 October: Alexander Marr: Three Renaissance ‘Grotesques’: Holbein, Dürer, Massys
31 October: Dirk van Miert: The Synod of Dordrecht: binding the Anglo-Dutch orthodox Republic of Letters
17 November: Eliot Benbow: Low Countries Merchants in and around London c. 1350-1550: Specialising in the Trade of Everyday Goods
programme of hte Low Countries Seminar, Institute of Historical research, Fridays 17:30
17 October: Alexander Marr: Three Renaissance ‘Grotesques’: Holbein, Dürer, Massys
31 October: Dirk van Miert: The Synod of Dordrecht: binding the Anglo-Dutch orthodox Republic of Letters
28 November: Eliot Benbow: Low Countries Merchants in and around London c. 1350-1550: Specialising in the Trade of Everyday Goods
PROGRAMME! Excited to be welcoming Alexander Marr, Dirk van Miert, and @ebenbow.bsky.social this term -- and David Hopkin, Jeroen Puttevils, Feike Dietz, Sam Geens, Valika Smeulders, and Gloria Moorman in Spring.
All welcome @ihr.bsky.social or zoom! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #SkyStorians
29.09.2025 20:27 — 👍 22 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 2
There's still plenty of times to get tickets for our 80th anniversary event on 'Memory and Commemoration' on Saturday 18th June:
www.eventbrite.com/e/memory-and...
01.06.2025 07:21 — 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Very much looking forward to what is shaping up to be a fantastic celebration of LMS on its 80th anniversary!
28.04.2025 12:37 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
New Research on Late Medieval England at Queen Mary
Join us to discover new research on the later Middle Ages, and celebrate the contribution that Virginia Davis has made to the field and QM.
Very excited to be advertising this event @qmul.ac.uk on Thursday 29th May (9:00-18:30) 🙂
Join us for a day of new research on the later Middle Ages, and to celebrate the contributions that Virginia Davis has made to that field and to QM more broadly.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-resear....
28.04.2025 12:35 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Will keep an eye out for him 🙂
31.03.2025 15:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This is fascinating David! Would the "Mr Hobson" referenced in the below document be William Hobson by any chance? 🙂https://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/abstract/no3/pp44-58#h3-s3
31.03.2025 14:39 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
It was a real joy to work with John on this chapter and a delight to finally see it in print. Very much looking forward to reading the rest of the chapters! 🙂
26.03.2025 12:55 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hi there Blue Sky! Let us start with a bang, shall we?
Join us next Saturday for our smashing February Colloquium on Religious Minorities in the Middle Ages.
Free registration here: qmul-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#MedievalBlueSky
15.02.2025 08:06 — 👍 34 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 3
A poster advertising a London Medieval Society colloquium on the subject of religious minorities in the Middle Ages. The poster features a banner image depicting a scene from a medieval manuscript depicting a group of women in discussion.
The poster details are as follows:
LMS Religious Minorities Saturday 22nd February 10:00-15:00 (UK time) via Zoom
10:10 Virtual Meeting Room Opens
10.20 Welcome and Introduction
10.30 Helen Flatley (Oxford), 'Female Networks in Medieval Toledo: The Formation of a 'Mozarabic Community, 1085-c.1315'
11:15 Break
11:30 Ana Roda Sánchez (Queen Mary London), 'Radicalisation of Jews and Jewish Conversos in 15th-century Toledo (1449-1465)'
12:15 Lunch
13:15 Kerstin Mayerhofer (Vienna), 'Faith Under Fire: Jewish Responses to Christian Dominance'
14:00 Break
14:15 Sarah Ifft Decker (Rhodes College), 'Lost in Translation: Jews and Christian Notaries in the Late Medieval Mediterranean'
15: End of Event
Tickets: Free (Register on Zoom)
www.londonmedievalsociety.com @LondonMedSoc
Image credit: Sarajevo, National Museum, Sarajevo Haggadah (14th c. Catalonia)
Delighted to begin posting on this account by advertising the upcoming London Medieval Society colloquium on Religious Minorities in the Middle Ages. 🙂
The colloquium will be on the 22nd February from 10:00-15:00 and you can register for free via the Zoom link: qmul-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
03.02.2025 18:20 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Historian of 17th- and 18th-century travel at Birkbeck, working on servants and other non-elite travellers. New book on British journeys to Iberia: https://uclpress.co.uk/book/no-country-for-travellers/
Professor of history @uclhistory.bsky.social + co-convenor @anthropoceneucl.bsky.social. Editor at @enghistrev.bsky.social.
Institutions, rationalities, environments, mostly medieval.
https://tinyurl.com/2p8r9yeh + https://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropocene/.
Official account for the medieval history subject group at the University of Cambridge. Posting about all things medieval
Borders, Boundaries, Barriers: Real and Imagined in the Middle Ages (Rewley House, 20-21 April 2026)
Registration open early October: https://buytickets.at/bordersboundariesandbarriers/1842029
The London Archives is a free public archive focusing on the history of London from 1067. Visit today and explore 1000 years of history.
About us - https://www.thelondonarchives.org/
Events - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-london-archives-2913691059
Dutch-Belgian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. For everyone with an interest in this fascinating period in history. See also EMLCjournal.bsky.social and https://achttiendeeeuw.wordpress.com/
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/
Historian of medieval & early modern world. Merchant networks, with a sideline in cockatoos. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/07/05/where-did-that-cockatoo-come-from
https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463722315/keeping-family-in-an-age-of-long-dis
Medieval historian working on cathedrals, pilgrimage, Thomas Becket, Yorkshire etc. Co-Director, Centre for Pilgrimage Studies, University of York
The 5th Middle Ages in the Modern World conference (MAMO). King's College London, 24-26 June 2025.
themamo.org
Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at Cardiff University. Beer enthusiast. The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret.
Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin
Cultural and social history of early modern England and Ireland
https://voicesproject.ie/
Medievalist at the University of Reading
The LMS is a forum for cross disciplinary and interdisciplinary discussions about the Middle Ages. The LMS has been hosting colloquia since 1945; it hosts three colloquia each year.
Website: https://londonmedievalsociety.com/
archaeologist, medievalist, longbow archer and virtual cricketer, something to do with PAS… and uni Reading & Helsinki
Central Unit of the Portable Antiquities and Treasure team at the British Museum.
The Portable Antiquities Scheme is a DCMS funded project to encourage the voluntary recording of archaeological objects found by members of the public.
Doctora en Historia Moderna por la Universidad de Sevilla.
PhD in Early Modern History (University of Seville, Spain).
Especialista en el comercio anglo-castellano del periodo Tudor (Siglo XVI).
Specialist in anglo-castilian trade during the Tudor period.
ERC and University of Copenhagen research project investigating the shared history of the Lesser Antilles, 1650-1850. Website: www.inthesamesea.ku.dk
#Earlymodern nerd. Hired pen. Curator of hipsters. Snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. #Tudor? Sure. #Jacobean? SIGN ME UP.
Coming Spring 2027, "Wilton House," a novel of Lady #MaryWroth. @regalhouse.bsky.social. Stay tuned! https://www.kaydalywriter.com
