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Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies

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The official BlueSky page for the Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies, based at the University of Sheffield. Website: https://scems.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/. Email: scems@sheffield.ac.uk

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CEMS KCL@cemskcl.bsky.social · 5mo ago

CfP for our Annual Colloquium! This year's theme is 'Periodising the Early/Modern'. We're looking for abstracts from PGRs/ECRs. Deadline: 7th April Full details below. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/cfp-p...

CfP: Periodizing the Early/Modern - Annual CEMS Colloquium — CEMS KCL Blog

Call for Papers for the Annual CEMS Colloquium. This year’s theme is periodizing the early/modern. The CfP deadline is 7th April. The Colloquium will take place on 11th June.

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Grace Murray@mazinggrace.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Finally (inevitably?) I have succumbed to How X Read His Y! Grateful for the chance to revisit Joseph Banks’ copy (actually copies) of Thomas Tusser’s husbandry manual in verse, among other plant marginalia. And looking forward to what promises to be a great 2 days! Registration ⬇️

Chloe Fairbanks@fairbanc.bsky.social · 5mo ago

One month to go till registration closes for #ReadingthePractical @sheffieldcems.bsky.social @themhra.bsky.social @emjlynajsh.bsky.social! Online attendance is free, in person is free for self-funded/unwaged PGRs and ECRs, and you can register HERE: bit.ly/4rb7CiX

Emily Naish@emjlynajsh.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📣 Just over a week left to register for 'Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature'! 📣 @fairbanc.bsky.social We have a HUGE range of papers and panels, plus a careers roundtable AND two brilliant keynote speakers! Plus online attendance is free. Registration HERE: bit.ly/4rb7CiX

Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature | University of Sheffield

This two-day interdisciplinary symposium will invite scholars to re-consider practical texts written between c. 1558 and 1642 as productive sources for lit

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Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies@sheffieldcems.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Izzy Daltry will be joining us online **today at 1pm** to share her research on water in Antony and Cleopatra! Details below 👇

Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies@sheffieldcems.bsky.social · 5mo ago

EMDG is back, this Thursday (26th Feb, 1-2pm)! Izzy Daltry will be joining us from Hull to present a paper on watery emotion in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. Izzy's abstract and the link to join online can both be found via our website: scems.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/events

Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies@sheffieldcems.bsky.social · 5mo ago

EMDG is back, this Thursday (26th Feb, 1-2pm)! Izzy Daltry will be joining us from Hull to present a paper on watery emotion in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. Izzy's abstract and the link to join online can both be found via our website: scems.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/events

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Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies@sheffieldcems.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Now only **FIVE DAYS** until the deadline for @fairbanc.bsky.social and @emjlynajsh.bsky.social's conference on EM practical texts that will take place in Sheffield next April! sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies - CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature

CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature

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Chloe Fairbanks@fairbanc.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Just TEN DAYS LEFT to submit your abstracts for @emjlynajsh.bsky.social's and my conference on EM practical texts @sheffieldcems.bsky.social. The conference has hybrid capability, and we have six self-funded student/non-waged ECR travel bursaries of £75 each. sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

Emily Naish@emjlynajsh.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The deadline is still over a month away, but reminder about this @themhra.bsky.social funded conference @fairbanc.bsky.social and I are organising on the exciting subject of **early modern practical texts**! 📅 Abstracts due 24/11. Full details can be found here: sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies - CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature

CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature

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Mabel Winter@mabelwinter.bsky.social · 10mo ago

New blog post 📢 Project researcher Dr Edda Frankot on 'Danzig’s Great Mill and the renown of its master mill builder' politicsoftheenglishgraintrade.co.uk/2025/10/06/d... #earlymodern #historyofgrain

Danzig’s Great Mill and the renown of its master mill builder

The city of Gdańsk has a historical centre with several striking buildings which can make any historian’s heart beat faster, even with the knowledge that they were partly rebuilt after the destruct…

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Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies@sheffieldcems.bsky.social · 10mo ago

This Thursday (9th October) at 1pm, our Early Modern Discussion Group will be recommencing! Our first paper will be presented by our very own Cameron Whiteside on 'The Commission on Fees: its "Recommendations" and "Regulation" of Manuscript Production.' Please see the website for how to join!

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Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌈 no human is illegal@lucyjsclarke.bsky.social · last yr.

the legitimacy of the police in the Anglophone world has been the subject of a lot of debate in recent years. I think early modern England has a lot to tell us about our relationship with the police. blog here: drlucyjsclarke.wordpress.com/2025/06/29/1...

Policing by consent: an early modern perspective

This post derives from some of the work I’ve been doing on my Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship over the last year and a half. For more on these themes, I’ve an article coming out in H…

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Ella Alton@ellaalton.bsky.social · last yr.

Our first EMDG of the year is on Thursday! Join us virtually for 5-10 minutes of @emjlynajsh.bsky.social and I talking about our cats before Tom's v interesting paper ⛪

Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies@sheffieldcems.bsky.social · last yr.

This Thursday (20th March) at 1pm, Sheffield's own Tom Nixon-Roworth will be presenting a paper on 'The campaign to restore confirmation to parish religion in the 1650s.' This will be online and if you would like to join, please see the website for details! scems.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/events

Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies@sheffieldcems.bsky.social · last yr.

This Thursday (20th March) at 1pm, Sheffield's own Tom Nixon-Roworth will be presenting a paper on 'The campaign to restore confirmation to parish religion in the 1650s.' This will be online and if you would like to join, please see the website for details! scems.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/events

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Upcoming events If you would like to be notified about upcoming events, email scems@sheffield.ac.uk to be added to our mailing list.

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John Gallagher@earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · last yr.

Great events coming up at Sheffield next week! Wonder who that is talking about the social history of translation in early modern London... 👀

Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies@sheffieldcems.bsky.social · last yr.

SCEMS events will be starting up again next week and we're off to a busy start! 🧵 Early Modern London: New Work and Approaches Thurs 6th March, 10am - 5:30pm This workshop, headed by Ian Archer (Oxford), will cover a range of topics, inc. the Inns of Court, translation, and London's Bridewell.