It is a great pleasure to announce the return of the Spanish-English Translations Database 1500 - 1640, do bookmark and enjoy: spanish-english-translation.ucl.ac.uk. It may need some tweaking to bring up to date, but it's great to have you back...

Can't wait to chat about Radical Empire! 13 May 6-8pm. Do pop along if you can... www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of... www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

IAS Book Launch: The Radical Spanish Empire

We are pleased to welcome back to the IAS Adrian Masters to present his new book (co-written with Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra) The Radical Spanish Empire. How Paperwork Politics Remade the New World.

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Book Launch: The Radical Spanish Empire 13 May 6pm Unrelenting lawfare by non-elite Spaniards, Indigenous people, women & the enslaved, led to weakened theocracy, curtailed native lordship, reshaped law and forged an order in 1570s under viceroys, bishops & inquisitors www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

IAS Book Launch: The Radical Spanish Empire

We are pleased to welcome back to the IAS Adrian Masters to present his new book (co-written with Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra) The Radical Spanish Empire. How Paperwork Politics Remade the New World.

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📣 Mercedes García Arenal will be at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social on April 29, 3.30-5.30 ! Thanks to Julian Weiss, will have the privilege to hear an extended version of her Lyell Lecture. Responses from Rachel Scott, @samsonaws.bsky.social and myself ! Book your ticket here: lnkd.in/etsE997i

Our MA Early Modern Studies trains you in palaeography, book history & archival research skills, plus options in information & literary studies, history & language. Join us for a taster lecture, learn more about the course & ask questions 📅1 May 2-3:30pm BST online app.geckoform.com/events-embed...

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A History of Poetry in Italy, 1200–1600 18 March 5:30-7:30pm From the medieval Sicilian invention of the sonnet form to early modern epics, and from poetry recorded in graffiti & marginalia to the classification & cataloguing of a poetic canon in the age of print. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

'Written Worlds: Non-Elite Writers in Early Modern England' Sue Wiseman, Michael Powell-Davies and I will be introducing our five-year collaborative project at the @ihr.bsky.social on Thursday, March 5th. Hope to see you there! Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Hello Bluesky! My new book, THE FIREARM REVOLUTION, is out on 14 April. It’s about how a new technology changed society, and how hard it was to control. Here’s a little thread of what’s inside:

It is with great sadness that we are sharing the news that the UCL Faculties of Social & Historical Sciences and Arts & Humanities have decided to close the IAS. We will close our doors forever on 31 July 2026. Follow the link to leave thoughts, comments, memories 💗 www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

All good things come to an end

It is with great sadness that we are sharing the news that the UCL Faculties of Social & Historical Sciences and Arts & Humanities have decided to close the IAS on 31 July 2026.

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⛔ Second statement in one week #saveleicesterml #saveleicesterlanguages Following last week’s formal letter to the University of Nottingham, AHGBI has now issued a second statement—this time to the University of Leicester—regarding the proposed closure of its Department of Modern Languages.

Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies: Language, Sense & Proof 12 Nov 2:30-4pm This new @ucl-ias.bsky.social reading group explores how early-modern writers connected linguistic encounters with sensory encounters in the production of evidence. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

New IAS Reading Group: Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies

Join the IAS Postdoctoral Fellows, Rana Banna & Mary Newman, for the first session of the reading group, exploring how early-modern writers connected linguistic encounters with sensory encounters of s...

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Goodbye to the history department at Lancaster University, where the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social was founded 49 years ago. From tomorrow we are part of a School of Global Affairs. Next year, who knows what will be - please sign our petition against mass redundancies chng.it/PZfTFDjNcr

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🎭 From lost comedias to lucid dreams, each year students from around the world reimagine Spanish Golden Age Theatre for the Our New Gold Festival. Watch '24-'25's prize winners and read @samsonaws.bsky.social's (@uclselcs.bsky.social) reflections on the Festival in our latest blog: bit.ly/4kQwid4

For anyone interested who couldn’t make it to my inaugural ‘Time Frames: Marking the Early Modern’ here’s a recording: mediacentral.ucl.ac.uk/Play/124439

Time Frames: Marking the Early Modern

Time Frames: Marking the Early Modern Professor Alexander Samson Before the shattering of organic and providential temporalities by universal clock time, a period dubbed the ‘early modern’ foreshado...

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The UK is a relatively low tax economy This means the revenue raised by Government as a proportion of GDP has been low historically Less funding raised for infrastructure/healthcare/education etc A thread 🧵

Barnstormingly brilliant inaugural! Amazing reflections on the importance of recognising different conceptions of time, and capping it off with a call, in the midst of universities & humanities in crisis, to imagine other futures, inspired not just by present or immediate past.

Verrrrrrrry excited about @samsonaws.bsky.social’s inaugural on marking the #EarlyModern

LOL. Yes, UCL Events Team, I too am excited about @samsonaws.bsky.social's inaugural tomorrow! UCLUCL!

Really looking forward to delivering my inaugural lecture, do sign up, be lovely to see you there fellow early modernists! www.ucl.ac.uk/early-modern...

Time Frames: Marking the Early Modern

Before the shattering of organic and providential temporalities by universal clock time, a period dubbed the ‘early modern’ foreshadowed and heralded our ‘modernity’. But how are our times different f...

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Female street performers in early modern Europe still a few slots left, do come along... www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Rope-Dancing and Female Performance

An Early Modern Exchanges event with Prof Clare McManus (Northumbria) and Prof Thibaut Maus de Rolley (UCL)

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Do pop along tomorrow for our event at 5 on Muslim ambassadors: www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

The Play of Negotiation: Muslim Ambassadors in Spanish Classical Theatre

Early Modern Exchanges welcomes Ruben Gonzalez Cuerva to discuss unearthing cultural heritage and analysing the interplay between actual Islamic representatives in Habsburg Madrid and the different ar...

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Delighted to announce my professorial inaugural at UCL on 28th May, do sign up be great to see you all there! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/time-frame...

Time Frames: Marking the Early Modern

Time Frames: Marking the Early Modern

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And here's @samsonaws.bsky.social with his book MARY AND PHILIP: The marriage of Tudor England and Habsburg Spain. Also available for 30% off on our Renaissance Literature and History Reading List: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/02... 👈

Fabulous night yesterday at @edincollegeofart.bsky.social who threw me an inaugural party, talking digital/arts/hums/creativity. Packed house and packed zoom! Thanks to all who were there. And don’t let the dystopian nightmare bullshit dim your sparkle.

For anyone interested in the early Bodleian Library or early modern book owners, the Shaping Scholarship project at CELL, UCL has made the project data available: ebdo.org.uk/data/ It details every officially recorded donation made c. 1600-1620, plus some extras, which is around 10,000 items.

At long last: committees.parliament.uk/committee/20...

Education Committee announces session on higher education funding - Committees - UK Parliament

Education Committee Chair Helen Hayes MP has today announced a deep dive evidence session examining funding issues in the higher education sector. 

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Five of the billionaires who attended Donald Trump's inauguration have lost a combined $210 billion in wealth since then, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index Oh dear www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Billionaires at Trump’s Swearing-In Have Since Lost $210 Billion

As Donald Trump took the oath of office on Jan. 20, he was flanked by some of the world’s wealthiest people. The billionaires present that day — including Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg — h...

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Delighted to announce my professorial inaugural at UCL on 28th May, do sign up be great to see you all there! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/time-frame...

Time Frames: Marking the Early Modern

Time Frames: Marking the Early Modern

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#IStandWithUkraine

Date and Time: Tuesday 25 February 2025, 6-8pm Location: IAS Common Ground, G11 Ground Floor, South Wing Register: IAS Book Launch: Political Culture in the Early Modern Iberian Worlds | Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) - UCL www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ias-book-l... All welcome!

IAS Book Launch: Political Culture in the Early Modern Iberian Worlds

Join authors Mario Graña Taborelli and Adrian Masters for the launch of their books, Jurisdictional Battlefields and We, the King.

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