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The Early Modern History subject group at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge | News about conferences, seminars, workshops, publications, and more
Early Modern World History Seminar:
3.00 – 4.30 pm on Thurs 4 December; Long Room, Gonville & Caius College
Jarrah Sastrawan (Australia National University) – Old and New Gods in the Spice Islands: Religious Transformation and Global Entanglement in Early Modern Southeast Asia
November 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Eighteenth Century Seminar:
5–7 pm on Tuesday 2 December; Long Room, Gonville and Caius College
Alper Metin (I Tatti & Dumbarton Oaks Joint Fellow, Harvard University) – A Spoonful of Power and Piety: Imperial Soup Kitchens in Istanbul (1742–1801)
November 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Early Modern World History Seminar:
5–7 pm on 27 November; Senior Parlour, Gonville & Caius College
Launch of Richard Calis (Utrecht), 'The Discovery of Ottoman Greece: Knowledge, Encounter, and Belief in the Mediterranean World of Martin Crusius' (Harvard University Press, 2025)
November 9, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar:
5.15 pm on Wednesday 26 November; Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall
Adam Forsyth (Cambridge) – The Several Elizabethan Courts of High Commission
November 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar:
5.15 pm on Wednesday 19 November; Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall
Sonia Tycko (Edinburgh) – Captured Consent: Contract Labour in English Charity, Colonization, and War, 1600-1700
Respondent: Renaud Morieux (Cambridge)
November 9, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar:
5.15 pm on Wednesday 12 November; Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall
Megan Holmes, Letty Pilgrim, and Mary Whittingdale (Cambridge) – State of the Field session, ‘Bodies in Motion’
November 9, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Early Modern Scholarship and Religion Seminar:
4 pm on Friday 21 November
Saba Alkuwari (St Andrews) – Biblical Humanism and Book Production in the Reformation: The case of Philipp Melanchthon and his relationship with the humanist printers and publishers in the first half of the sixteenth century
November 9, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Eighteenth Century Seminar:
5-7 pm on Tuesday 18 November; Long Room, Gonville and Caius College
Tiéphaine Thomason (Cambridge) – Manufactured and Hidden Speech in Early Eighteenth-Century Saint-Pierre, Martinique
November 9, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Eighteenth Century Seminar:
5-7 pm on Tuesday 18 November; Long Room, Gonville and Caius College
Jake Bransgrove (Cambridge) – "Clubbability" in Britain, 1760-1820: An Anatomy of a Sociable Mode
November 9, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Core Seminar in Economic and Social History Seminar:
5.15 pm on Thursday 27 November; Lightfoot Room, St John's College
Gareth Austin (Cambridge) – Coercion and Markets: reconciling economic and social explanations of slavery in precolonial West Africa, c. 1450 – c. 1900
November 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Early Modern World History Seminar:
3.00 – 4.30 pm on Thursday 13 November; Senior Parlour, Gonville & Caius College
Maria Gloria Tumminelli (Cambridge) – Who’s Afraid of the Fortune-Teller?: The Perception of Gypsy Women’s Magic During the Early Modern Period
November 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Eighteenth Century Seminar:
5-7 pm on 6 November; Senior Parlour, at Gonville and Caius College
Jagjeet Lally (UCL) – Organic Matter and Consumer Society in Eighteenth-Century India
(Joint Seminar with World History)
October 31, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar:
5.15 pm on Wednesday 5 November; Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall
Imogen Peck (Birmingham) – Family Archives in England, 1650–1838: Manuscripts, Memory, and the Making of History
October 31, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Early Modern World History Seminar:
3.00–4.30 pm on Thursday 6 November; Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius College
Sophia Feist (Cambridge) – Court Tailors, Liveries, and the Performance of Politics in the Sixteenth-century Holy Roman Empire
October 31, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Early Modern World History Seminar:
3.00–4.30 pm on Thursday 6 November; Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius College
Tomas Brown (Cambridge) – This Ware he must grind in a Mill’: Remaking Ceramics in the Long Eighteenth Century
October 31, 2025 at 4:53 PM
History and Politics Seminar:
5.30 pm on Thursday 5 November; Knox Shaw Room, @sidneysussex.bsky.social
Hugo Bromley (@camgeopolitics.bsky.social) – Rendered much cheaper than our work-people can make’; conceptualisations of household employment in English and British political economy, 1688-1715
October 31, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar:
5.15 pm on 29 October in the Graham Storey Room of Trinity Hall
Lucy Havard (Cambridge): ‘Improving’ the Garden and the Natural Knowledge of Early Modern Householders, 1600-1750
October 22, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar:
5.15 pm on 22 October in the Graham Storey Room of Trinity Hall
Paul Cavill (Cambridge): The Two Swords: Spiritual and Temporal Jurisdiction in Henrician England
October 22, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Early Modern World History Seminar:
3.00–4.30 pm on Thursday 30 October
Gabriella Johnson (Museo di Capodimonte, Naples) – ‘Co' Propri Occhi’: Artistic Practice and Theory in the Fossil Treatise of Agostino Scilla
October 22, 2025 at 11:48 AM
The Eighteenth Century Seminar - Michaelmas Term 2025: www.hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series...

5-7 pm on Tuesday 21 October (Long Room, @caiuscollege.bsky.social):
Regina Grafe (Cambridge) - How to fashion a colonial moral economy? Lending and borrowing in Spanish Latin America
The Eighteenth Century | Faculty of History University of Cambridge
www.hist.cam.ac.uk
September 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Core seminar in economic and social history - Michaelmas Term 2025: www.hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series...

5.15 pm on Thursday 17 October (Room 6, Faculty of History @CamHistory):
Sheilagh Ogilvie (University of Oxford) - Servanthood and the European Marriage Pattern, 1500-1900
Core seminar in economic and social history | Faculty of History University of Cambridge
www.hist.cam.ac.uk
September 30, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Early Modern British and Irish History - Michaelmas 2025: www.hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series...

5.15 pm on Wednesday 22 October in @TrinityHallCamb:
Paul Cavill (Cambridge) - The Two Swords: Spiritual and Temporal Jurisdiction in Henrician England /followed by a drinks reception/
Early Modern British and Irish History | Faculty of History University of Cambridge
www.hist.cam.ac.uk
September 30, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Early Modern World History Seminar – Michaelmas Term 2025: hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series...

3.00–4.30 pm on Thursday 16 October:
Elizabeth Currie (Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London) – The Urban Poor in Early Modern Rome: Art, Dress and Popular Imagination
hist.cam.ac.uk
September 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Event video now available! Geopolitics & journalism

Jeremy Adelman, Mary Hockaday, and Roger Mosey discuss how journalists build trust and credibility while shaping public understanding of global conflicts.

Watch now via www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZoG...
Geopolitics & Journalism
YouTube video by Centre for Geopolitics
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September 25, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Short-term post-doc for arts/humanities researchers! Do you love rare books, manuscripts, archives, art and/or objects? Would you like to explore one of our amazing Cultural Collections @universityofleeds.bsky.social for c. 6 weeks (longer part-time)? Find out more lahri.leeds.ac.uk/brotherton-f...
Brotherton Fellowship | Leeds Arts and Humanities Research Institute
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September 17, 2025 at 1:23 PM