📣 Registration to attend our 2026 Conference "Storytelling at Princely Courts: Narration, Performance, Social Discourse, c.1200-1800" ends TOMORROW! (15 August) Click the link below to register! Don't miss out! courtstudies.org/events/confe...

Society for Court Studies@courtstudies.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Our 2026 Conference "Storytelling at Princely Courts, c.1200-1800: Narration, Performance, Social Discourse" will take place 27-29 August at University of Wrocław and online! Early bird prices available until 20 June! There are also SCS member rates! Visit 👇 courtstudies.org/events/confe...

Save the date! For our 30th anniversary the Society for Court Studies will be holding a symposium on the question: "Where are Court Studies, now?" 📍St Mary's University Twickenham AND Strawberry Hill House 🗓 2 October 2026 🕑 From 2pm - times TBC More information will follow in September

Research news! 📣 Marc Jaffré, Deputy Chair European Branch SCS, has recently published an article in Transactions of the Historical Society "Dwarfism, Institutionalisation and Marginalisation at the Court in Early Bourbon France, 1589–1715" Click 👇 to read www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📣 CFP! The Society for Court Studies will be holding a one-day symposium at St Mary's University Twickenham in association with the Strawberry Hill House Trust to celebrate its 30th anniversary! Abstracts welcome from ECRs on "Where are Court Studies now?" 🗓 Abstracts - 17 August 🗓 Event - 2 Oct

📣 Don't forget to register to attend our 2026 conference! Early Bird prices end tomorrow!

Society for Court Studies@courtstudies.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Did you miss the Early Bird prices? No need to worry as they have been extended to 30 June! Click the link below to register for our upcoming conference! courtstudies.org/events/confe...

Andy Burnham surrounded by a big crowd of MPs hoping for preferment reminds of Madame Campan on the death of Louis XV. "A dreadful noise, absolutely like thunder, was heard in the outer apartment; it was the crowd of courtiers who were deserting the

Did you miss the Early Bird prices? No need to worry as they have been extended to 30 June! Click the link below to register for our upcoming conference! courtstudies.org/events/confe...

Society for Court Studies@courtstudies.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Our 2026 Conference "Storytelling at Princely Courts, c.1200-1800: Narration, Performance, Social Discourse" will take place 27-29 August at University of Wrocław and online! Early bird prices available until 20 June! There are also SCS member rates! Visit 👇 courtstudies.org/events/confe...

Our 2026 Conference "Storytelling at Princely Courts, c.1200-1800: Narration, Performance, Social Discourse" will take place 27-29 August at University of Wrocław and online! Early bird prices available until 20 June! There are also SCS member rates! Visit 👇 courtstudies.org/events/confe...

📣 CFP for the 2027 Art and Design strand of the 'UNESCO Perspectives: Cultural Pasts - Urban Futures' conference 🗓 Abstracts 20 July 2026 📍University of Porto, Portugal 🗓 Conference 6-8 July 2027 For more information visit amps-research.com/porto-art-design/

On Friday 5 June do consider a journey to Exeter College Oxford for a conference on "Portable Archives: Moving Repositories and their Makers across the Early Modern World" A truly global focus with Madrid, Rome, and Ming China! Spaces are limited, so email euan.huey@wolfson.ox.ac.uk to register!

The Society for Court Studies offers an annual prize on the subject of court studies. The recipient of the prize will receive £500 and their essay will be considered for publication in The Court Historian. The essay, which can be up to 10,000 words including footnotes, can

The Philip Mould gallery in London is opening an exhibition on "Elizabeth I: Queen and Court". Looks quite promising! www.facebook.com/reel/2358917...

📣 CfP "Renaissance and Early Modern Meanings of History" Renaissance Society of America welcomes proposals on any aspect of this theme. Possible themes include: - Definitions - Audiences/spaces - Sources - Collections 🗓 200 word abstract due 1 July For more info visit www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...

📣 This year the Sintra Summer School will focus on 'Serving at the Palace: From the Throne to the Kitchen in Early Modern Courts' 📍National Palace of Sintra 🗓 31 Aug - 4 Sept 2026 If you are in academic study heritage work, or are interested in this period, you can apply to take part!

📣 CFP "Tuscany and the Iberian Empires: Migration and Knowledge Transmission in the Early Modern Period" 🗓 30 Oct 2026 📍Medici Archive Project Via de' Benci 10, Florence Papers can explore migration, diplomacy, and knowledge/cultural exchange! 🗓 200 word abstracts due 15 July

Our April VSS session on Thursday 16 April will see two speakers present on the theme of gardens! Esther Lupón González will speak on medieval Islamic gardens at the Caliphal Court of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān III Baijayanti Chatterjee will present on Mughal gardens under the Nawabs of Bengal 1707-1757

Here are the full details for the "Hungry for Data" workshop, including "Travel and accommodation costs of accepted speakers will be reimbursed according to COST rules. Early career researchers may also apply for Short-Term Scientific Missions". cost-senses.eu/activities/w...

Workshop 1 WG2: Hungry for Data: studying court dining and using sensor(y) data – SENSES | COST Action CA24164

Dining at court may have been a feast for the senses – but what kind of data do we have to understand and measure these feasts? Court studies has a strong inter

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Hungry for Data: Studying court dining and using sensory data (1300–1800). Interested in how data, the senses, and court dining can be studied together? The workshop “Hungry for Data: Studying court dining and using sensory data (1300–1800)” invites

📣 We are excited to announce another call for blog contributions! We would love to hear from anyone working on themes related to court studies! To find out more visit 👇 courtstudies.hypotheses.org/contributors...

Get ready for our March VSS session tomorrow, 19 March at 17:00 GMT/18:00 CET! Come along to hear Rebecca I. Arnheim discuss Eleonora d’Aragona’s central role in the feminine networks that shaped Italian courtly life during the Quattrocento. Register below 👇 www.eventbrite.fr/e/mar-vss-pa...

One of our Court Studies team will be speaking on the topic "Court Dwarfs, Physical Difference and Institutionalization" on 17 March at 6pm GMT! Details below 👇

Royal Studies@royalstudies.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Join the 1st 2026 Digital Seminar Series session on 17 March at 6pm GMT. "Court Dwarfs, Physical Difference and Institutionalization" Register here (free entry but you must be an RSN member): www.tickettailor.com/events/royal... Become a RSN member: www.royalstudiesnetwork.org/join-contact...

What was the significance of the Stuart Withdrawing Room? Come along tomorrow evening to find out! You'll need to register by 5pm today if you want to attend!

Society for Court Studies@courtstudies.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Join us this Thursday 19 Feb 18:00 CET/17:00 GMT to hear about "A space of significance: The evolution of the Stuart Withdrawing Room" Come along to hear about the importance of accessibility at the Stuart Court from Julia Hamilton! Register below 👇 www.eventbrite.fr/e/feb-vss-a-...

Join us this Thursday 19 Feb 18:00 CET/17:00 GMT to hear about "A space of significance: The evolution of the Stuart Withdrawing Room" Come along to hear about the importance of accessibility at the Stuart Court from Julia Hamilton! Register below 👇 www.eventbrite.fr/e/feb-vss-a-...

Buckle up! On Monday 9 February, Lily Freeman-Jones (Queen Mary University of London) will present “Soaring Arias and Loose Stitches: Women as Race-Makers Between Early Modern European Courts”. 18:00 GMT – Online via Zoom, register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lily-freem...

Lily Freeman-Jones (QMUL) - "Soaring Arias and Loose Stitches"

“Soaring Arias and Loose Stitches: Women as Race-Makers Between Early Modern European Courts”

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How are your 2026 New Year's resolutions going? If one of those was to submit an abstract for our 2026 Conference, then you're in luck! The deadline has been extended to 28 Februrary! If you work on any topic that connects to our theme "Storytelling at the Court" we want to hear from you! Info 👇

New Podcast episode out now! Part 3/3 on Monarchy and Money (monarchy-money.org), our hosts, Charlotte Backerra & Cathleen Sarti, interview Fabian Persson to discuss 'Court Economy' Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/1934722/epis...

CfP "Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500-1750" exploring the role of women as writers of 'history' including chronicles, drama, and verse narratives An interesting link to our 2026 conference theme "Storytelling at Court"! 🗓 Proposals due 28 Feb 🗓 Conference 18-19 June 📍Oxford University

By the reign of Louis XV the setablishment of the Royal Academy of Surgeons. Also included here an obstetrics model. Matthew Howles at SCS

A botanical garden was also part of Versailles. For example producing the first pineapple grown in France. Matthew Howles at SCS

A large menagerie was situated at Versailles. Used both for scientific investigation and to showcase gifts sent to the French King. "Star of the show" Louis XV's rhinoceros (died in the revolution, possibly stabbed by revolutionaries...). Matthew Howles at SCS