CREMS-York
@crems-york.bsky.social
The Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies at the University of York is a welcoming interdisciplinary community devoted to the study of the long 16th and 17th centuries.
http://york.ac.uk/crems/
http://york.ac.uk/crems/
Our next research seminar is tomorrow! Join us (in person or online) to welcome @nailyas.bsky.social who will present a paper titled ‘Early Modern Bibliotourism: The Case of English and Scottish Visitors to Continental Europe, c. 1600-1700’.
🗓️ Wednesday 5 November, 5pm
📍 Yarbrugh Room, HG/15
🗓️ Wednesday 5 November, 5pm
📍 Yarbrugh Room, HG/15
November 4, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Our next research seminar is tomorrow! Join us (in person or online) to welcome @nailyas.bsky.social who will present a paper titled ‘Early Modern Bibliotourism: The Case of English and Scottish Visitors to Continental Europe, c. 1600-1700’.
🗓️ Wednesday 5 November, 5pm
📍 Yarbrugh Room, HG/15
🗓️ Wednesday 5 November, 5pm
📍 Yarbrugh Room, HG/15
📣 Our next research seminar is today! @lenaliapi.bsky.social will be presenting a paper titled ‘Contrasting News and Controlling the Narrative: English and French News Reporting in the Wake of the 1696 Conspiracy’.
🗓️ 8 October, 5pm
📍 Yarbrugh Room, HG/15
More info: www.york.ac.uk/crems/events...
🗓️ 8 October, 5pm
📍 Yarbrugh Room, HG/15
More info: www.york.ac.uk/crems/events...
October 8, 2025 at 9:53 AM
📣 Our next research seminar is today! @lenaliapi.bsky.social will be presenting a paper titled ‘Contrasting News and Controlling the Narrative: English and French News Reporting in the Wake of the 1696 Conspiracy’.
🗓️ 8 October, 5pm
📍 Yarbrugh Room, HG/15
More info: www.york.ac.uk/crems/events...
🗓️ 8 October, 5pm
📍 Yarbrugh Room, HG/15
More info: www.york.ac.uk/crems/events...
Join us tomorrow for our first research seminar of the academic year! @saragwynbeam.bsky.social will be kicking things off with an excellent paper titled ‘Paradoxes in the History of Torture and the Advent of Modernity in Europe, 1400-1700’.
🗓️ 1 October, 1pm
📍 Yarbrugh Room, HG/15 - Heslington Hall
🗓️ 1 October, 1pm
📍 Yarbrugh Room, HG/15 - Heslington Hall
September 30, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Join us tomorrow for our first research seminar of the academic year! @saragwynbeam.bsky.social will be kicking things off with an excellent paper titled ‘Paradoxes in the History of Torture and the Advent of Modernity in Europe, 1400-1700’.
🗓️ 1 October, 1pm
📍 Yarbrugh Room, HG/15 - Heslington Hall
🗓️ 1 October, 1pm
📍 Yarbrugh Room, HG/15 - Heslington Hall
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And our FIVE YEAR teaching and research position in Early Modern Europe and the World is now live..... Please do circulate and/or think about applying. I truly love our department! @kingshistory.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 12:21 PM
And our FIVE YEAR teaching and research position in Early Modern Europe and the World is now live..... Please do circulate and/or think about applying. I truly love our department! @kingshistory.bsky.social
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VACANCY: we invite applications for a new job at the Society: Events and Academic Engagement Officer (0.6 FTE) bit.ly/3V8q5PC
The post-holder will join our professional Office to help us support history and historians. £36,433 pro rata.
Closing date: Sunday 5 October #Skystorians
The post-holder will join our professional Office to help us support history and historians. £36,433 pro rata.
Closing date: Sunday 5 October #Skystorians
Vacancy: the Society seeks to appoint an Events and Academic Engagement Officer - RHS
The Royal Historical Society seeks to appoint an Events and Academic Engagement Officer (0.6 FTE) to join its professional Office based at University College London. The post will help support and dev...
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September 23, 2025 at 11:54 AM
VACANCY: we invite applications for a new job at the Society: Events and Academic Engagement Officer (0.6 FTE) bit.ly/3V8q5PC
The post-holder will join our professional Office to help us support history and historians. £36,433 pro rata.
Closing date: Sunday 5 October #Skystorians
The post-holder will join our professional Office to help us support history and historians. £36,433 pro rata.
Closing date: Sunday 5 October #Skystorians
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Delighted to share our first call for contributions! We are seeking proposals to lead meetings in any format which will promote conversation and debate among junior Lister scholars. Deadline 15th October. See below & please help spread the word!
September 1, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Delighted to share our first call for contributions! We are seeking proposals to lead meetings in any format which will promote conversation and debate among junior Lister scholars. Deadline 15th October. See below & please help spread the word!
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Postgraduates, studying for a Masters' or PhD in history or cognate discipline, are also warmly welcome in the Society bit.ly/45adrEh
PGR membership includes access to student research support, professional training, publications, online resources and our Directory of historians #Skystorians
PGR membership includes access to student research support, professional training, publications, online resources and our Directory of historians #Skystorians
July 30, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Postgraduates, studying for a Masters' or PhD in history or cognate discipline, are also warmly welcome in the Society bit.ly/45adrEh
PGR membership includes access to student research support, professional training, publications, online resources and our Directory of historians #Skystorians
PGR membership includes access to student research support, professional training, publications, online resources and our Directory of historians #Skystorians
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📢 We’re thrilled to announce that we have up to 4 student bursary awards for the MA in Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York for 2025-26. Deadline to apply is 31 July. Please share widely! www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c... #18thcentury #18thC
Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies bursaries - Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York
Thanks to funding from an external donor, we offer up to four bursaries towards fees for the MA in Eighteenth Century Studies.
www.york.ac.uk
June 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
📢 We’re thrilled to announce that we have up to 4 student bursary awards for the MA in Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York for 2025-26. Deadline to apply is 31 July. Please share widely! www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c... #18thcentury #18thC
Next week’s @cecs-york.bsky.social seminar looks fantastic! 🖋️
@kharveyhistory.bsky.social #earlymodern #eighteenthcentury #skystorians
@kharveyhistory.bsky.social #earlymodern #eighteenthcentury #skystorians
Our final research seminar of the semester is on 3 June at 4.30pm. Join us to welcome @kharveyhistory.bsky.social who will present a paper titled ‘Chat, Scribble and Scrawl: Women’s Letters in Britain, c1680-1820’.
📍 KG/07
More info 👉🏼 www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...
📍 KG/07
More info 👉🏼 www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...
Chat, Scribble and Scrawl: Women’s Letters in Britain, c1680-1820 - Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York
Karen Harvey explores conversations about the body in women's letters.
www.york.ac.uk
May 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Next week’s @cecs-york.bsky.social seminar looks fantastic! 🖋️
@kharveyhistory.bsky.social #earlymodern #eighteenthcentury #skystorians
@kharveyhistory.bsky.social #earlymodern #eighteenthcentury #skystorians
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Registration for the conference is now open 🥳
There are a number of ticket options and registration will remain open until 1 June. The full programme is available on our website (subject to slight changes)
We can't wait to see everyone in July!!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand...
There are a number of ticket options and registration will remain open until 1 June. The full programme is available on our website (subject to slight changes)
We can't wait to see everyone in July!!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand...
Understanding King James VI & I: 400 years on
A multi-day conference with accompanying workshops and activities that interrogate James' rich life and legacy.
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April 10, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Registration for the conference is now open 🥳
There are a number of ticket options and registration will remain open until 1 June. The full programme is available on our website (subject to slight changes)
We can't wait to see everyone in July!!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand...
There are a number of ticket options and registration will remain open until 1 June. The full programme is available on our website (subject to slight changes)
We can't wait to see everyone in July!!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand...
This year’s Magic and Witchcraft Conference (23-25 June) is not to be missed!! Join us online or in person! 🦇 #earlymodern #skystorians #witchcraft
Registration for the CREMS Magic and Witchcraft Conference 2025 is now live!
23-25 June
Join us in York (or online) for three days exploring the question: what is a witch in history?
#skystorians #witchcraft #conference #history
www.york.ac.uk/crems/events...
23-25 June
Join us in York (or online) for three days exploring the question: what is a witch in history?
#skystorians #witchcraft #conference #history
www.york.ac.uk/crems/events...
May 20, 2025 at 7:29 AM
This year’s Magic and Witchcraft Conference (23-25 June) is not to be missed!! Join us online or in person! 🦇 #earlymodern #skystorians #witchcraft
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Happy Friday! you can now register for our @cemskcl.bsky.social colloquium on Early Modern War Narratives! June 6th in person and online! Keynote by Andrew Hopper and Ismini Pells, funded by KCL, CEMS, & @srsrensoc.bsky.social. Register here (and pls repost!) — www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...
Select tickets – CEMS KCL Colloquium: Early Modern War Narratives – King's College London
This year, KCL's Centre for Early Modern Studies' Annual Colloquium will be on Early Modern War Narratives. Join us for a day o...
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May 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Happy Friday! you can now register for our @cemskcl.bsky.social colloquium on Early Modern War Narratives! June 6th in person and online! Keynote by Andrew Hopper and Ismini Pells, funded by KCL, CEMS, & @srsrensoc.bsky.social. Register here (and pls repost!) — www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Early Modern History, Material Culture & Heritage- 1 yr research post working on ‘Knotted Histories: Early Modern Global Carpets, Global Exchange and the Public Country House’ - University of Oxford - Faculty of English #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNC287/p...
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Early Modern History, Material Culture & Heritage at University of Oxford
Discover Postdoctoral Research Associate in Early Modern History, Material Culture & Heritage jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.
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May 16, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Early Modern History, Material Culture & Heritage- 1 yr research post working on ‘Knotted Histories: Early Modern Global Carpets, Global Exchange and the Public Country House’ - University of Oxford - Faculty of English #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNC287/p...
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A new post, on the end of the infamous Court of Star Chamber and its afterlife: legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/04/22/t...
The End(s) of a Lawless Court
Why and how did the Court of Star Chamber come to be seen as a lawless court? And did the act that abolished the court in 1641 end the lawless discretion people feared in it?
legalhistorymiscellany.com
April 22, 2025 at 8:13 AM
A new post, on the end of the infamous Court of Star Chamber and its afterlife: legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/04/22/t...
Join us tomorrow 23 April for our next research seminar! Michał E. Nowakowski will present a paper titled 'Words That Burn: Catholic–Reformed Polemics and Their Impact in Early Modern Vilnius (1574–1647)'.
📍 12pm-2pm, The Treehouse, Berrick Saul Building (in person only).
📍 12pm-2pm, The Treehouse, Berrick Saul Building (in person only).
April 22, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Join us tomorrow 23 April for our next research seminar! Michał E. Nowakowski will present a paper titled 'Words That Burn: Catholic–Reformed Polemics and Their Impact in Early Modern Vilnius (1574–1647)'.
📍 12pm-2pm, The Treehouse, Berrick Saul Building (in person only).
📍 12pm-2pm, The Treehouse, Berrick Saul Building (in person only).
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📢NEW WILL OF THE MONTH📢
Why was gentleman James Liddell so very particular about how he wanted his body to be laid to rest?
⚰️📜🪦💍🥄👛👕
#EarlyModern 🗃️ @leverhulme.ac.uk @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @uniofexeternews.bsky.social
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Why was gentleman James Liddell so very particular about how he wanted his body to be laid to rest?
⚰️📜🪦💍🥄👛👕
#EarlyModern 🗃️ @leverhulme.ac.uk @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @uniofexeternews.bsky.social
sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...
April 22, 2025 at 7:10 AM
📢NEW WILL OF THE MONTH📢
Why was gentleman James Liddell so very particular about how he wanted his body to be laid to rest?
⚰️📜🪦💍🥄👛👕
#EarlyModern 🗃️ @leverhulme.ac.uk @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @uniofexeternews.bsky.social
sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...
Why was gentleman James Liddell so very particular about how he wanted his body to be laid to rest?
⚰️📜🪦💍🥄👛👕
#EarlyModern 🗃️ @leverhulme.ac.uk @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @uniofexeternews.bsky.social
sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...
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We can hardly wait for the opening on 2 May of Austen and Turner: Country House Encounter. Read more about the exhibition at Harewood House, co-curated by the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies: www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve... #Austen #Turner
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April 22, 2025 at 8:04 AM
We can hardly wait for the opening on 2 May of Austen and Turner: Country House Encounter. Read more about the exhibition at Harewood House, co-curated by the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies: www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve... #Austen #Turner
Don’t miss tonight’s research seminar! Join us online or in-person to welcome Bettina Varwig who will present a paper titled ‘Dis-ease, Pain and Redemption in Early Modern Musicking’.
📍6pm The Treehouse, Berrick Saul Building
More info and registration 👉🏼 www.york.ac.uk/crems/events...
📍6pm The Treehouse, Berrick Saul Building
More info and registration 👉🏼 www.york.ac.uk/crems/events...
Bettina Varwig - Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, University of York
Bettina Varwig discusses the impact of J.S Bach's music on early modern Lutheran congregants.
www.york.ac.uk
April 3, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Don’t miss tonight’s research seminar! Join us online or in-person to welcome Bettina Varwig who will present a paper titled ‘Dis-ease, Pain and Redemption in Early Modern Musicking’.
📍6pm The Treehouse, Berrick Saul Building
More info and registration 👉🏼 www.york.ac.uk/crems/events...
📍6pm The Treehouse, Berrick Saul Building
More info and registration 👉🏼 www.york.ac.uk/crems/events...
Our next seminar is tonight! Join us (online or in person) to welcome Prof Amanda Wunder (Lehman College & CUNY Graduate Center) who will present a paper titled ‘Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez: A Tailor at the Court of Philip IV’
📍 5pm, B/S/104
More info: www.york.ac.uk/history-of-a...
📍 5pm, B/S/104
More info: www.york.ac.uk/history-of-a...
Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez: A Tailor at the Court of Philip IV
Please join us for the History of Art Research Seminar “Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez: A Tailor at the Court of Philip IV” with Professor Amanda Wunder (Lehman College & CUNY Graduate Center...
www.york.ac.uk
March 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Our next seminar is tonight! Join us (online or in person) to welcome Prof Amanda Wunder (Lehman College & CUNY Graduate Center) who will present a paper titled ‘Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez: A Tailor at the Court of Philip IV’
📍 5pm, B/S/104
More info: www.york.ac.uk/history-of-a...
📍 5pm, B/S/104
More info: www.york.ac.uk/history-of-a...
Our next seminar is this Thursday (6 March) at 12.15pm! Please join us (online or in person) to welcome @alexbamji.bsky.social who will present a paper titled ‘Ephemeral print and lay religious experience in early modern Venice’.
📍The Treehouse, Berrick Saul
More info: www.york.ac.uk/crems/events...
📍The Treehouse, Berrick Saul
More info: www.york.ac.uk/crems/events...
Alex Bamji - Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, University of York
Alex Bamji presents this event
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March 3, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Our next seminar is this Thursday (6 March) at 12.15pm! Please join us (online or in person) to welcome @alexbamji.bsky.social who will present a paper titled ‘Ephemeral print and lay religious experience in early modern Venice’.
📍The Treehouse, Berrick Saul
More info: www.york.ac.uk/crems/events...
📍The Treehouse, Berrick Saul
More info: www.york.ac.uk/crems/events...
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Just enjoyed a really excellent paper from @claireturner.bsky.social at @crems-york.bsky.social seminar exploring some of the material they’re finding in their work on the sensory history of early modern cancer and identity. Now attempting to measure how long 9 thumbs is…
February 20, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Just enjoyed a really excellent paper from @claireturner.bsky.social at @crems-york.bsky.social seminar exploring some of the material they’re finding in their work on the sensory history of early modern cancer and identity. Now attempting to measure how long 9 thumbs is…
Our next research seminar is on 20 Feb, join us (in person or online) to welcome @claireturner.bsky.social who will present a paper titled ‘Gender, Identity and the Senses in Early Modern Cancer Cases’.
📍 12.15pm, The Treehouse, BSB
#earlymodern
📍 12.15pm, The Treehouse, BSB
#earlymodern
Claire Turner - Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, University of York
Claire Turner explores the experiences of cancer in early modern England.
www.york.ac.uk
February 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Our next research seminar is on 20 Feb, join us (in person or online) to welcome @claireturner.bsky.social who will present a paper titled ‘Gender, Identity and the Senses in Early Modern Cancer Cases’.
📍 12.15pm, The Treehouse, BSB
#earlymodern
📍 12.15pm, The Treehouse, BSB
#earlymodern
Our first seminar of the semester is today (6pm)!
Join us (in person or online) to welcome Eva Johanna Holmberg (Uni of Helsinki) who presents a paper titled ‘The Torments and Travails of Jamestown: Early 17th century settler colonial body in pain’.
📍 The Treehouse, Berrick Saul Building
Join us (in person or online) to welcome Eva Johanna Holmberg (Uni of Helsinki) who presents a paper titled ‘The Torments and Travails of Jamestown: Early 17th century settler colonial body in pain’.
📍 The Treehouse, Berrick Saul Building
Eva Johanna Holmberg - Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, University of York
Eva Johanna Holmberg explores the emotional and sensory history perspectives to pain in early colonial Virginia.
www.york.ac.uk
February 13, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Our first seminar of the semester is today (6pm)!
Join us (in person or online) to welcome Eva Johanna Holmberg (Uni of Helsinki) who presents a paper titled ‘The Torments and Travails of Jamestown: Early 17th century settler colonial body in pain’.
📍 The Treehouse, Berrick Saul Building
Join us (in person or online) to welcome Eva Johanna Holmberg (Uni of Helsinki) who presents a paper titled ‘The Torments and Travails of Jamestown: Early 17th century settler colonial body in pain’.
📍 The Treehouse, Berrick Saul Building
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On Wed 12 March, we co-host a hybrid lecture by José Lingna Nafafé (Bristol) presenting his recent book, winner of the African Studies Association UK’s Best Book Award: Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the 17th Century.
www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/hist...
www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/hist...
Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the seventeenth century
BRIHC and DASA hosted lecture by Dr José Lingna Nafafé (University of Bristol) presenting his recent book, winner of the African Studies Association UK's Best Book Award (2024).
www.birmingham.ac.uk
January 21, 2025 at 12:34 PM
On Wed 12 March, we co-host a hybrid lecture by José Lingna Nafafé (Bristol) presenting his recent book, winner of the African Studies Association UK’s Best Book Award: Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the 17th Century.
www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/hist...
www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/hist...
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save the date: I'm giving a paper on my new research project, 'Gender, Identity, and the Senses in Early Modern Cancer Cases', at @crems-york.bsky.social on Feb 20 at 12:15pm!
January 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
save the date: I'm giving a paper on my new research project, 'Gender, Identity, and the Senses in Early Modern Cancer Cases', at @crems-york.bsky.social on Feb 20 at 12:15pm!