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TODAY! Early Modern World History Seminar
Peter Burke (Cambridge): Towards a History of Misunderstandings
5-7 pm on Thursday 29 January; Bateman Auditorium, Gonville & Caius College (followed by refreshments)
Peter Burke (Cambridge): Towards a History of Misunderstandings
5-7 pm on Thursday 29 January; Bateman Auditorium, Gonville & Caius College (followed by refreshments)
January 29, 2026 at 11:50 AM
TODAY! Early Modern World History Seminar
Peter Burke (Cambridge): Towards a History of Misunderstandings
5-7 pm on Thursday 29 January; Bateman Auditorium, Gonville & Caius College (followed by refreshments)
Peter Burke (Cambridge): Towards a History of Misunderstandings
5-7 pm on Thursday 29 January; Bateman Auditorium, Gonville & Caius College (followed by refreshments)
Quantitative History Seminar:
Leigh Shaw-Taylor (Cambridge) – Economic development in early modern England and Wales: A review of the evidence
5 pm on Wednesday 4 February; William Hardy Building Room 101 in the Department of Geography and Zoom
Leigh Shaw-Taylor (Cambridge) – Economic development in early modern England and Wales: A review of the evidence
5 pm on Wednesday 4 February; William Hardy Building Room 101 in the Department of Geography and Zoom
January 29, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Quantitative History Seminar:
Leigh Shaw-Taylor (Cambridge) – Economic development in early modern England and Wales: A review of the evidence
5 pm on Wednesday 4 February; William Hardy Building Room 101 in the Department of Geography and Zoom
Leigh Shaw-Taylor (Cambridge) – Economic development in early modern England and Wales: A review of the evidence
5 pm on Wednesday 4 February; William Hardy Building Room 101 in the Department of Geography and Zoom
Eighteenth Century Seminar: Launch of Victoria Avery and Melissa Calaresu (eds.), 'The Pineapple from Domestication to Commodification' (2025)
Chaired by Sujit Sivasundaram with volume contributors Kasia Boddy & Eszter Csillag
5 pm on Tuesday 3 February; Long Room, Gonville & Caius College
Chaired by Sujit Sivasundaram with volume contributors Kasia Boddy & Eszter Csillag
5 pm on Tuesday 3 February; Long Room, Gonville & Caius College
January 29, 2026 at 1:34 PM
Eighteenth Century Seminar: Launch of Victoria Avery and Melissa Calaresu (eds.), 'The Pineapple from Domestication to Commodification' (2025)
Chaired by Sujit Sivasundaram with volume contributors Kasia Boddy & Eszter Csillag
5 pm on Tuesday 3 February; Long Room, Gonville & Caius College
Chaired by Sujit Sivasundaram with volume contributors Kasia Boddy & Eszter Csillag
5 pm on Tuesday 3 February; Long Room, Gonville & Caius College
Early Modern British and Irish History:
Tim Harris (Brown) – Liberty and Slavery in Restoration England: Ignoramus Jurors, Kidnappers, and Slave Traders
5:15 pm on Wednesday, 4 February, Graham Storey Room in Trinity Hall
Tim Harris (Brown) – Liberty and Slavery in Restoration England: Ignoramus Jurors, Kidnappers, and Slave Traders
5:15 pm on Wednesday, 4 February, Graham Storey Room in Trinity Hall
January 29, 2026 at 1:21 PM
Early Modern British and Irish History:
Tim Harris (Brown) – Liberty and Slavery in Restoration England: Ignoramus Jurors, Kidnappers, and Slave Traders
5:15 pm on Wednesday, 4 February, Graham Storey Room in Trinity Hall
Tim Harris (Brown) – Liberty and Slavery in Restoration England: Ignoramus Jurors, Kidnappers, and Slave Traders
5:15 pm on Wednesday, 4 February, Graham Storey Room in Trinity Hall
Early Modern World History Seminar – Lent Term 2026 Programme 🌏
January 29, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Early Modern World History Seminar – Lent Term 2026 Programme 🌏
TODAY! Early Modern World History Seminar
Peter Burke (Cambridge): Towards a History of Misunderstandings
5-7 pm on Thursday 29 January; Bateman Auditorium, Gonville & Caius College (followed by refreshments)
Peter Burke (Cambridge): Towards a History of Misunderstandings
5-7 pm on Thursday 29 January; Bateman Auditorium, Gonville & Caius College (followed by refreshments)
January 29, 2026 at 11:50 AM
TODAY! Early Modern World History Seminar
Peter Burke (Cambridge): Towards a History of Misunderstandings
5-7 pm on Thursday 29 January; Bateman Auditorium, Gonville & Caius College (followed by refreshments)
Peter Burke (Cambridge): Towards a History of Misunderstandings
5-7 pm on Thursday 29 January; Bateman Auditorium, Gonville & Caius College (followed by refreshments)
Reposted by Cambridge Early Modernists
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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)
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)
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)
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 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)
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)
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
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 26 November; Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall
Adam Forsyth (Cambridge) – The Several Elizabethan Courts of High Commission
5.15 pm on Wednesday 26 November; Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall
Adam Forsyth (Cambridge) – The Several Elizabethan Courts of High Commission
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)
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 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)
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)
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’
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 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’
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’
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
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
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
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
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
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
Tiéphaine Thomason (Cambridge) – Manufactured and Hidden Speech in Early Eighteenth-Century Saint-Pierre, Martinique
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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)
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)
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
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 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
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
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
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
Sophia Feist (Cambridge) – Court Tailors, Liveries, and the Performance of Politics in the Sixteenth-century Holy Roman Empire
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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 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
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