Call For Proposals: Conference on Families in Early American and Atlantic Worlds April 15-17, 2027 Hosted by the John Carter Brown Library (Co-chairs Julie Hardwick and Karin Wulf) Details at: forms.gle/QWcB23XGbwu6...
Jamie Gemmell
@jamie-gemmell.bsky.social
Historian of the Atlantic World - working on race and slavery in early modern London | PhD Researcher, KCL History | Assistant Director, KCL CEMS | 🏳️🌈 | https://jamiegemmell.com/
Always interested to see more research on parish registers and what they can evidence about Black life and slavery. This entry for Indiana Mundi is relatively detailed, although this is by no means unusual. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ju...
Baptism record at Manchester Cathedral offers insight into Black Mancunian life in Georgian-era England
A parish entry reveals an argument that proved pivotal to the abolitionist cause, at a time when an estimated 20,000 Black people were living in the country
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Our 2026 Supplement (#18) "Medicine, Race, and Slavery in the Transatlantic World, 1600–1850" Edited by @hsmurphy.bsky.social (@kingshistory.bsky.social @cemskcl.bsky.social) Has now been published by @academic.oup.com academic.oup.com/past/issue/2...
Event on funding in medieval and early modern studies, organised by QMUL! Featuring panels on UKRI, the ERC, and the Leverhulme Trust. Tuesday 23rd June, 15:00. Full details below. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gaining-ex...
Gaining External Funding for Research in Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Learn how to score funding for your medieval and early modern research.
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Some stray thoughts on gap-filling. Take them for what they are 1. Gaps in archives are not like rips in clothing; they don't have a well defined and wholly known, or in the broadest sense wholly knowable, shape or extent. You can't cut a patch for them or fill them with putty and smooth them over.
Peter Whitewood@pwhitewood.bsky.social · 2mo agoRebranding a hallucination as a ‘critical confabulation’ that can fill archival gaps is a big no from me.
CFP: @reforc.bsky.social's #Reformazing annual conference 7-9 June 2027, in Zurich Deadline: 15 February 2027 all info: rensoc.org.uk/announcement... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians #Reformazing
NEW BOOK SERIES with @dgb-history.bsky.social: "Connected Worlds in Early Modernity" with series editors Christina H. Lee and Julia Schleck. Send proposals to the fabulous @erikagaffney.bsky.social All info: rensoc.org.uk/announcement... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
What a week it's been.... Yesterday fresh scholarship from interdisciplinary experts pushed us to think about 'the' #EarlyModern in terms of race, environment, interregional connections, adaptions, eschatology, stop-start technological change and the 'slash' in the early/modern
CEMS KCL@cemskcl.bsky.social · 2mo agoAnd, last but not least, our Annual Colloquium will take place on Thursday. This year's theme is 'Periodizing Early/Modernity' and features several panels and a roundtable. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/cfp-p...
And to conclude our week of CEMS events... A rountable reflecting on periodisation and the early/modern! Thanks to all who've joined us today and over the course of this week.
Later today! Come along online or in person if you can.
IHR British History in the Long C18th Seminar@long18thsem.bsky.social · 2mo agoNext Weds 10 June we welcome @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social (KCL) to our seminar, who will present their paper titled ‘John Satia and the 1731 ban on Black apprenticeship’ Register below to join us either in person at the IHR or online from 17:30. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
A week of CEMS events... including PGR lightning talks, our first article workshop, a book launch, and our annual CEMS Colloquium. Full details in the thread below! Join us if you can! kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events
Events — CEMS KCL Blog
'What's On' at CEMS. We run workshops, seminars, conferences, social and networking events, symposia, and more.
kingsearlymodern.co.uk
Join us on Wednesday 10 June at 5:30pm for Jamie Gemmell (KCL) speaking on 'John Satia and the 1731 ban on Black apprenticeship'. Free and open to the public in person at the IHR in Bloomsbury or online on Zoom. Please register (link below). #Skystorians
John Satia and the 1731 ban on Black apprenticeship
British History in the Long 18th Century Seminar
history.ac.uk
Our final session of 'Race and the Early Modern' will take place next Monday! We're hosting three PGR lightning talks on Merlin, witches, and slave law. Join us if you can. We have just released more tickets... @folger.edu kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...
PGR Lightning Talks - 8th June — CEMS KCL Blog
The Race and the Early Modern seminar invites Postgraduate Research Students to present 10-minute lightning talks on their research. The seminar will take place virtually on June 8th 2026 . To apply...
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Our Annual Colloquium is next week! Join us on Thursday 11th June for a series of panels and a roundtable on 'Periodizing the Early/Modern'. Full details below! kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/cfp-p...
Periodizing the Early/Modern - Annual CEMS Colloquium — CEMS KCL Blog
The annual CEMS colloquium. This year’s theme is on Periodizing the Early/Modern. The colloquium will feature several panels and a roundtable. The Colloquium will take place on 11th June.
kingsearlymodern.co.uk
Next week! Join us for the launch of Prof. Jonathan Sheehan's new book, On the Altar: A History of Sacrifice from the Sacred to the Secular. Wednesday 10th June. Full details below. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/on-th...
On the Altar by Prof. Jonathan Sheehan: Book Launch — CEMS KCL Blog
Join CEMS for the launch of Prof. Jonathan Sheehan’s latest book, On the Altar: A History of Sacrifice from the Sacred to the Secular .
kingsearlymodern.co.uk
Next Weds 10 June we welcome @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social (KCL) to our seminar, who will present their paper titled ‘John Satia and the 1731 ban on Black apprenticeship’ Register below to join us either in person at the IHR or online from 17:30. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
John Satia and the 1731 ban on Black apprenticeship
British History in the Long 18th Century Seminar
history.ac.uk
Delighted to be delivering a paper at the @long18thsem.bsky.social next Wednesday. I'll be speaking about racemaking, citizenship, and London's Black presence through the case of John Satia and the 1731 ban on Black apprenticeship. Come along if you can! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
John Satia and the 1731 ban on Black apprenticeship
British History in the Long 18th Century Seminar
history.ac.uk
Engaging the public in humanities & social sciences feels more important than ever. So we are offering £8k grants for researchers to work with galleries, libraries, archives, museums or performing arts organisations to do this. Please help spread the word! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
SHAPE Involve and Engage
A funding programme for innovative public engagement from the British Academy.
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The Society is pleased to publish the Shortlist of its 2026 First Book Prize for early career historians: bit.ly/4dARJO1 This year's list includes eight monographs published in 2025 and follows an open call for submissions. Our two prize winners will be announced in July #Skystorians
Annual @cemskcl.bsky.social Colloquium: "Periodizing the Early/Modern", 11 June 2026, King's College London rensoc.org.uk/announcement... #EarlyModern #EarlyModernEvents #IsItEarlyModernThough
Join us on 11th June to consider periodisation and early modernity. Is early modernity a bounded entity or a mode of thought? I'll be trying to think through of some of this in my own work on race...
CEMS KCL@cemskcl.bsky.social · 2mo agoAnnual CEMS Colloquium - 11th June! This year's theme is 'Periodizing the Early/Modern'. Featuring three panels and a roundtable. Join us on 11th June. Full details below. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/cfp-p...
AHRC Studentship: Slavery and the Seven Years’ War within and across the Caribbean Archipelago: www.kcl.ac.uk/study-legacy...
AHRC Studentship: Slavery and the Seven Years’ War within and across the Caribbean Archipelago
The Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) is pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded AHRC doctoral studentship, to be jointly supervised across History and War Studies
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And we're off... halfway through our first panel on Enslavement and Forced Mobilities. Grateful to @anastruillou.bsky.social for organising such a great workshop!
We're delighted to be launching Prof. Jonathan Sheehan's latest book - On the Altar: A History of Sacrifice from the Sacred to the Secular. Join us on 10th June at 17:30. Full details below. @kingsartshums.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/on-th...
On the Altar by Prof. Jonathan Sheehan: Book Launch — CEMS KCL Blog
Join CEMS for the launch of Prof. Jonathan Sheehan’s latest book, On the Altar: A History of Sacrifice from the Sacred to the Secular .
kingsearlymodern.co.uk
I'll be discussing some of my work on John Satia and London's 1731 ban on Black apprenticeship next Monday. If you'd like to attend, get in touch and I can forward along the Zoom details and the work in progress.
CEMS KCL@cemskcl.bsky.social · 3mo agoJoin us next week for our next 'Race and the Early Modern' seminar. We'll be discussing a paper by @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social on John Satia and the ban on Black Apprenticeship. The pre-circulated materials will be sent out later today. Full details below. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...
I'll be discussing some of my work on John Satia and London's 1731 ban on Black apprenticeship next Monday. If you'd like to attend, get in touch and I can forward along the Zoom details and the work in progress.
CEMS KCL@cemskcl.bsky.social · 3mo agoJoin us next week for our next 'Race and the Early Modern' seminar. We'll be discussing a paper by @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social on John Satia and the ban on Black Apprenticeship. The pre-circulated materials will be sent out later today. Full details below. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...
THIS TERM's PROGRAMME! Join us for 2 exciting events with Mélanie Lamotte, @lrhodges.bsky.social, @juliehardwick.bsky.social, and @roperlou.bsky.social Mondays, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social Everybody welcome, in person or online--register for the zoom link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern
Join UCL's Early Modern Exchanges to celebrate the launch of 'The Radical Spanish Empire' by Jorge Canizares-Esguerra and Adrian Masters. 13th May @ 6pm. Full details below!
UCL Early Modern Exchanges@uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social · 3mo agoBook 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...
Three - yes three! - medieval & #EarlyModern events at Birkbeck soon. Weds May 6th ‘Women, History and the Stage: Creative Encounters with the Medieval Past’, playwright Sarah Dickson, medievalist @mpdavies.bsky.social, with performance of ‘The Will of Ellen Langwith’: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
