Eighteenth Century Seminar: Imperial Paris: Slavery and Everyday Life in the Capital of the Enlightenment (c.1750-1789) Miranda Spieler (American University in Paris) 5-7 pm, Tuesday 19 May; Long Room, Gonville and Caius College

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminar: ‘My worldly estate’: strategies for storing and transferring wealth in early modern wills (England 1538-1786) Harry Smith, Emily Vine, Jane Whittle 5 pm, 21 May; ERASMUS, Queen's College

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminar: Illegal trade and colonial expansion in Greenland, 1780-1800 Anna Knutsson (Cambridge) 5 pm, Thursday 14 May; ERASMUS, Queen's College

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminar: Roundtable on Muldrew’s The Capitalist Self: The Social Origins of Financial Capitalism in Early Modern England (CUP, 2025). Gareth Austin (Cambridge), Craig Muldrew (Cambridge), Jane Whittle (Exeter) 5 pm, Thursday 7 May; ERASMUS, Queen's College

World History Seminar: Luc Bulten (Cambridge/Radboud) – A presentation related to Lives, Land, and Labour: A Social History of Eighteenth-century Sri Lanka (Brill, 2026) 5.00 - 7.00pm, Thursday 7 May; Long Room, Gonville and Caius College

Early Modern World History Seminar: Mélanie Lamotte (Duke University) – By Flesh and Toil: How Sex, Race, and Labor Shaped the Early French Empire 5.00-7.00 pm on Thursday 21 May; Long Room, Gonville and Caius College

Early Modern World History Seminar: Rachel Silberstein (SOAS) – The Company’s Woollens: The East India Company and the Commodity Chain of Selling English Woollens to Qing Dynasty China 3.00-4.30 pm on Thursday 7 May; Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius College

December Issue: Alexandra Walsham on 'Heirloom Books: Family Memory, Genealogy, and English Archives, c.1450–1850' academic.oup.com/ehr/article/... @emodcam.bsky.social

Heirloom Books: Family Memory, Genealogy, and English Archives, c.1450–1850*

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World History Seminar: Alicia Schrikker (Leiden University) – 'Gift-exchange, Diplomacy and Violence in the Early Modern South and Southeast Asian Encounter with Dutch Colonialism' 5-7 pm on Thursday 19 March; Long Room, Gonville and Caius College

Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar: Jonathan Baddley (Cambridge) – The Lord’s Supper, Practical Divinity, and Further Reformation in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England 5.15 pm on Wednesday 11 March; Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall

Eighteenth Century Seminar: Samuel Diener (Exeter College, Oxford) – Writing the self above and 'below stairs': Class, gender, and intellectual culture in the 1740s 5-7 pm on Tuesday 17 March; Long Room, Gonville and Caius College

Early Modern World History Seminar: Gonzalo Velasco Berenguer (Bristol) – A Mixture of Peoples: Blood, Nation and Intimacies in the Spanish (?) Philippines 3.00-4.30 pm on Thursday 12 March; Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius College

Eighteenth Century Seminar: Alex Bamji (Leeds) – Ephemeral print and lay religious experience in eighteenth-century Venice 5 pm on Tuesday 3 March; Long Room, Gonville and Caius College

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminar: Pinar Ceylan (Cambridge) with Christopher Markiewicz (Ghent) – The long-term financial trajectory of Ottoman foundations (Waqfs): A political economy perspective 5 pm on Thursday 12 March; Erasmus Room, Queen's College

Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar: Steven Gunn (Oxford) – Life and Death in Tudor Prisons 5.15 pm on Wednesday 4 March; Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall

Global Economic History Seminar: Safya Morshed (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) – ‘The Evolution of State Capacity in Early Modern Empires: The Mughal South Asian case 1556-1707’ 5 pm on Monday 23 February; in Audit Room, King's College

Global Economic History Seminar: Safya Morshed (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) – ‘The Evolution of State Capacity in Early Modern Empires: The Mughal South Asian case 1556-1707’ 5 pm on Monday 23 February; in Audit Room, King's College

Early Modern Scholarship and Religion Seminar: Harry Spillane (Cambridge) – 'Too Many Bibles? Religious Uniformity, English Scripture and the Book of Common Prayer, 1549-1662' 4.00-5.30 pm on Friday 27 February; in Gulliver Room, Emmanuel College

Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar: Martha McGill (Cambridge) – ‘Cunningly Couched in our Bowels’: Devils and the Human Body in Early Modern Britain 5.15 pm on Wednesday 25 February; in Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall

Early Modern World History Seminar: Sonia Wigh (Cambridge) – The Lone Pregnant Body: Crafting Feminine Forms Through Manṣūr’s Anatomy (1640-1850) 3.00-4.30 pm on Thursday 26 February; in Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius College

Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar: 5.15 pm on Wednesday 18 February in the Graham Storey Room of Trinity Hall James Fox (Glasgow): Measuring, Accounting and the Social Dynamics of Numeracy in Scotland and Northern England, c.1660–1800

I’m looking forward to presenting my research into Royalist experiences of siege in Newcastle this Wednesday at the Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar at Trinity Hall! Please do come along! ⚔️🏰 @emodcam.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social #skystorians #earlymodern

Early Modern Scholarship and Religion Seminar: 4 pm on Friday 6 February, RJP Seminar Room at Emmanuel College Maddy Keightley-Phillipps (Durham) – 'A 'Vertuous Education': The Religious Education of Catholic Girls in Early Modern England

Early British and Irish History Seminar: 5.15 pm on Wednesday 11 February, Graham Storey Room at Trinity Hall Jade Jesty (Cambridge) – Royalist Experiences of Siege in Newcastle, 1640-1673

Early Modern World History Seminar: 3 pm on Thursday 12 February, Senior Parlour at Gonville and Caius College Jan Machielsen (Cardiff) – The Original Air Friar: St Joseph of Copertino and the Miracle of Flight

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)

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

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

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

Early Modern World History Seminar – Lent Term 2026 Programme 🌏