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CEMS KCL: https://kingsearlymodern.co.uk/
Centre Director: @hsmurphy.bsky.social
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CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social · Jan 13
KCL's Centre for Early Modern Studies is on Bluesky! Give us a follow for updates on our upcoming events.

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CEMS KCL Blog -- Events, projects, articles, and workshops from The Centre for Early Modern Studies at King's College London. Join the Mailing List to stay up to date with our regular programme of pub...
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From sausage makers to cheese rinds to wrinkles... a delightful evening in a packed room to celebrate Prof. @evelynwelch.bsky.social's Renaissance Skin.

@kingsartshums.bsky.social @kingshistory.bsky.social @kingsenglish.bsky.social
Picture of the audience for the book launch. Prof. Welch is pictured at the front. Picture of the front cover of Renaissance Skin book.
October 24, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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hsmurphy.bsky.social
TOMORROW!! Renaissance Skin: the final celebration. This *sold out* , but we've been able to squeeze in a few more chairs. If you're interested in materials, bodies, meaning, or even just sausages, do come and celebrate @evelynwelch.bsky.social's return to @kingshistory.bsky.social. #EarlyModern 🗃️
October 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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⛪ On 9 November, discover a snapshot of German life in early 18th-century London, where short talks, an exhibition of rarely displayed paintings, documents, and silverware, and an organ recital reveal more about this little-known community with @cemskcl.bsky.social and @beinghumanfest.bsky.social ⤵️
Refuge, Science, Faith: Discovering London's 18th-Century Germans | King's College London
Discover a snapshot of German life in early 18th-century London.
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October 24, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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We've been able to increase ticket availability. If you're keen to attend, please register!
October 22, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Tomorrow at 17:00! We're delighted to be launching Prof. @evelynwelch.bsky.social's new book Renaissance Skin.

Waiting list now activated.

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Renaissance Skin Book Launch — CEMS KCL Blog
Book launch for Prof. Evelyn Welch's Renaissance Skin, hosted by King's Centre for Early Modern Studies.
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October 22, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Book launch October 23rd!

Join CEMS for the launch of Prof. @evelynwelch.bsky.social's Renaissance Skin. We'll be gathering in King's History department. Comments from Dr. @historyelaine.bsky.social and Dr. Paolo Savoia. Chaired by Dr. @hsmurphy.bsky.social.

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Renaissance Skin Book Launch — CEMS KCL Blog
Book launch for Prof. Evelyn Welch's Renaissance Skin, hosted by King's Centre for Early Modern Studies.
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October 14, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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evelynwelch.bsky.social
We are getting the Renaissance Skin band back together in a few weeks time! Do join us to discuss everything skin from piercing dog's ears to skin under the 17th-century microscope. Thank you @hannahmurphynews.bsky.social for organising such a special event @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
October 3, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Join @kingsdllc.bsky.social for a seminar on the early modern invention of the southern world. LLC will be welcoming Dr. Juan Carlos Mantilla to hear about his project, Cosmographia Antarctica.

Tomorrow at 16:00!

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Cosmographia Antarctica: The Early Modern invention of the Southern World between the Andes and the Mediterranean | King's College London
Juan Carlos Mantilla explores how between the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Andean and Mediterranean intellectuals reinvented global cosmography from the equinox southward.
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September 30, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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jamie-gemmell.bsky.social
Lots of great events this semester!
September 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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CEMS events for semester 1! We have three events in the calendar for this term.

Firstly, on October 3rd, we'll be hosting a welcome event for early modernists across King's. Join us at 10:30 for a networking brunch.

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Kick off the new academic year with a networking brunch. — CEMS KCL Blog
Kick off the new academic year with a networking brunch for early modernists across King’s. We’ll hear about ongoing research from early modernists across the A&H faculty.
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September 24, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Headed into London today for this to listen to these amazing keynotes. My new project is on the Caribbean and it’s relatively new territory for me, so can’t wait to learn from these brilliant colleagues. (can you tell how excited I am??)
June 25, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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onslies.bsky.social
THIS WEEK!!!
June 23, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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ihreurope1500.bsky.social
EXCITING WEEK THIS WEEK! #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
June 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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profjennyshaw.bsky.social
Tomorrow and Thursday! Come along if you can! 🗃️
June 24, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Looks great, pity I can't make them! #WomensHistory
June 24, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Not one, but two keynote lectures! Join CEMS and MMoR next week.

25.06, 17:00 - @profjennyshaw.bsky.social on "The Women of Rendezvous"

26.06, 17:00 - @sdamussen.bsky.social on "Seeing Racial Patriarchy"

Full details below.

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Caribbean Connections: Seventeenth-Century Barbados and Britain — CEMS KCL Blog
Join King's Medicine and the Making of Race for two keynote lectures by Dr. Jenny Shaw (University of Alabama) and Prof. Susan D. Amussen (University of California Merced). Each keynote will think thr...
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June 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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noorhashmi.bsky.social
Thank you @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social & Claire Titley for organising this really interesting and insightful webinar! It was very helpful to find out more about what The London Archives do on a day-to-day basis aside from collections etc. 😊
June 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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thelondonarchives.bsky.social
There's no better way to spend your Thursday afternoon than with one our archivist @clairelouisetitley.bsky.social talking about cross-institutional collabs and site visits with @cemskcl.bsky.social.

Spoilers, The London Archives DOES offer site visits. #archives #EarlyModern #HigherEducation
June 13, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Tomorrow at 14:00! Join us for our final webinar on teaching the #earlymodern. We'll be joined by Claire Titley (@thelondonarchives.bsky.social) to talk about cross-institutional collaboration.

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Teaching the Early Modern - Webinar Series — CEMS KCL Blog
A series of webinars on teaching the early modern, from building syllabi to using digital repositories to site visits.
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June 18, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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clairelouisetitley.bsky.social
Doing a thing this Thursday with @cemskcl.bsky.social!
thelondonarchives.bsky.social The London Archives @thelondonarchives.bsky.social · Jun 13
There's no better way to spend your Thursday afternoon than with one our archivist @clairelouisetitley.bsky.social talking about cross-institutional collabs and site visits with @cemskcl.bsky.social.

Spoilers, The London Archives DOES offer site visits. #archives #EarlyModern #HigherEducation
cemskcl.bsky.social CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social · Jun 12
Join us next Thursday for our final webinar on Teaching the #earlymodern. We'll be joined by Claire Titley (@thelondonarchives.bsky.social) to talk about cross-institutional collaborations.

Online, June 19, 14:00

kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/teach...
June 15, 2025 at 6:28 AM
cemskcl.bsky.social
Join us next Thursday for our final webinar on Teaching the #earlymodern. We'll be joined by Claire Titley (@thelondonarchives.bsky.social) to talk about cross-institutional collaborations.

Online, June 19, 14:00

kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/teach...
Teaching the Early Modern - Webinar Series — CEMS KCL Blog
A series of webinars on teaching the early modern, from building syllabi to using digital repositories to site visits.
kingsearlymodern.co.uk
June 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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jadejesty.bsky.social
I had a wonderful time at KCL’s Early Modern War Narratives conference last Friday! All of the papers were absolutely fascinating! @cemskcl.bsky.social

I am very grateful for the opportunity to present my own research into the non-elite experiences of siege in Newark! ⚔️

#earlymodern #skystorians
June 9, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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faraiunvers.bsky.social
Today at the @cemskcl.bsky.social conference I learned that ghosts are a Jesuit conspiracy. They stick candles on crabs, then release them into graveyards to convince the unwary of the doctrine of Purgatory. (Either that or they’re just chaps dressed up in bedsheets.)
Some early moderns dressed in sheets with torches, pretending to be the deceased James VI/I.
June 6, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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faraiunvers.bsky.social
Putting the finishing touches on some slides for tomorrow’s @cemskcl.bsky.social colloquium on early modern war narratives. It’s a great joy to return to the crusader I call ‘Bob’, whose story has been the jumping off point for so many fascinating lines of research since I first ‘met’ him in 2018.
A PowerPoint slide showing a battle between Matthias Corvinus and some Ottomans, with the title of my presentation - ‘“Scutum inde gero”: Truth, memory, and self-promotion in an early modern war poem’ - superimposed.
June 5, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Join us this Friday! In person and online tickets available.
June 2, 2025 at 3:31 PM