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Cambridge Early Modernists @emodcam.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

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

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Cambridge Early Modernists @emodcam.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

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

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Cambridge Early Modernists @emodcam.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

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

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Cambridge Early Modernists @emodcam.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

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

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Cambridge Early Modernists @emodcam.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

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

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Cambridge Early Modernists @emodcam.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

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

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Cambridge Early Modernists @emodcam.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

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

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Cambridge Early Modernists @emodcam.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

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

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Cambridge Early Modernists @emodcam.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

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

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Cambridge Early Modernists @emodcam.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

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

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Cambridge Early Modernists @emodcam.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

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

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Cambridge Early Modernists @emodcam.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

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

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Cambridge Early Modernists @emodcam.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

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

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Cambridge Early Modernists @emodcam.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

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

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Cambridge Early Modernists @emodcam.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

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

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Cambridge Early Modernists @emodcam.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

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Cambridge Early Modernists @emodcam.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

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

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Cambridge Early Modernists @emodcam.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

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

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Cambridge Early Modernists @emodcam.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

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

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Cambridge Early Modernists @emodcam.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

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

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Jade Jesty @jadejesty.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

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

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Cambridge Early Modernists @emodcam.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

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

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Cambridge Early Modernists @emodcam.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

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

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Cambridge Early Modernists @emodcam.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

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

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Cambridge Early Modernists @emodcam.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

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)

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Cambridge Early Modernists @emodcam.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

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

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Cambridge Early Modernists @emodcam.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

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

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Cambridge Early Modernists @emodcam.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

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

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Cambridge Early Modernists @emodcam.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Early Modern World History Seminar – Lent Term 2026 Programme 🌏

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Cambridge Early Modernists @emodcam.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

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Cambridge Early Modernists @emodcam.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Early Modern World History Seminar: 3.00 – 4.30 pm on Thursday 13 November; Senior Parlour, Gonville & Caius College Maria Gloria Tumminelli (Cambridge) – Who’s Afraid of the Fortune-Teller?: The Perception of Gypsy Women’s Magic During the Early Modern Period

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Cambridge Early Modernists @emodcam.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Early Modern World History Seminar: 3.00 – 4.30 pm on Thurs 4 December; Long Room, Gonville & Caius College Jarrah Sastrawan (Australia National University) – Old and New Gods in the Spice Islands: Religious Transformation and Global Entanglement in Early Modern Southeast Asia

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Cambridge Early Modernists @emodcam.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Eighteenth Century Seminar: 5–7 pm on Tuesday 2 December; Long Room, Gonville and Caius College Alper Metin (I Tatti & Dumbarton Oaks Joint Fellow, Harvard University) – A Spoonful of Power and Piety: Imperial Soup Kitchens in Istanbul (1742–1801)

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Cambridge Early Modernists @emodcam.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

With discussants Kate Fleet (Cambridge), Lyndal Roper (Oxford), and Joan-Pau Rubiés (UPF, Barcelona) Joint Seminar with the History of Scholarship

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Cambridge Early Modernists @emodcam.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Early Modern World History Seminar: 5–7 pm on 27 November; Senior Parlour, Gonville & Caius College Launch of Richard Calis (Utrecht), 'The Discovery of Ottoman Greece: Knowledge, Encounter, and Belief in the Mediterranean World of Martin Crusius' (Harvard University Press, 2025)

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Cambridge Early Modernists @emodcam.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar: 5.15 pm on Wednesday 26 November; Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall Adam Forsyth (Cambridge) – The Several Elizabethan Courts of High Commission

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Cambridge Early Modernists @emodcam.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar: 5.15 pm on Wednesday 19 November; Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall Sonia Tycko (Edinburgh) – Captured Consent: Contract Labour in English Charity, Colonization, and War, 1600-1700 Respondent: Renaud Morieux (Cambridge)

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Cambridge Early Modernists @emodcam.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar: 5.15 pm on Wednesday 12 November; Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall Megan Holmes, Letty Pilgrim, and Mary Whittingdale (Cambridge) – State of the Field session, ‘Bodies in Motion’

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Cambridge Early Modernists @emodcam.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Early Modern Scholarship and Religion Seminar: 4 pm on Friday 21 November Saba Alkuwari (St Andrews) – Biblical Humanism and Book Production in the Reformation: The case of Philipp Melanchthon and his relationship with the humanist printers and publishers in the first half of the sixteenth century

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Cambridge Early Modernists @emodcam.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Eighteenth Century Seminar: 5-7 pm on Tuesday 18 November; Long Room, Gonville and Caius College Tiéphaine Thomason (Cambridge) – Manufactured and Hidden Speech in Early Eighteenth-Century Saint-Pierre, Martinique

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Cambridge Early Modernists @emodcam.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Eighteenth Century Seminar: 5-7 pm on Tuesday 18 November; Long Room, Gonville and Caius College Jake Bransgrove (Cambridge) – "Clubbability" in Britain, 1760-1820: An Anatomy of a Sociable Mode

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Cambridge Early Modernists @emodcam.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History Seminar: 5.15 pm on Thursday 27 November; Lightfoot Room, St John's College Gareth Austin (Cambridge) – Coercion and Markets: reconciling economic and social explanations of slavery in precolonial West Africa, c. 1450 – c. 1900

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Cambridge Early Modernists @emodcam.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

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Cambridge Early Modernists @emodcam.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Eighteenth Century Seminar: 5-7 pm on 6 November; Senior Parlour, at Gonville and Caius College Jagjeet Lally (UCL) – Organic Matter and Consumer Society in Eighteenth-Century India (Joint Seminar with World History)

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Cambridge Early Modernists @emodcam.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar: 5.15 pm on Wednesday 5 November; Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall Imogen Peck (Birmingham) – Family Archives in England, 1650–1838: Manuscripts, Memory, and the Making of History

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Cambridge Early Modernists @emodcam.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Early Modern World History Seminar: 3.00–4.30 pm on Thursday 6 November; Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius College Sophia Feist (Cambridge) – Court Tailors, Liveries, and the Performance of Politics in the Sixteenth-century Holy Roman Empire

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Cambridge Early Modernists @emodcam.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Early Modern World History Seminar: 3.00–4.30 pm on Thursday 6 November; Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius College Tomas Brown (Cambridge) – This Ware he must grind in a Mill’: Remaking Ceramics in the Long Eighteenth Century

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Cambridge Early Modernists @emodcam.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

History and Politics Seminar: 5.30 pm on Thursday 5 November; Knox Shaw Room, @sidneysussex.bsky.social Hugo Bromley (@camgeopolitics.bsky.social) – Rendered much cheaper than our work-people can make’; conceptualisations of household employment in English and British political economy, 1688-1715

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Cambridge Early Modernists @emodcam.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar: 5.15 pm on 29 October in the Graham Storey Room of Trinity Hall Lucy Havard (Cambridge): ‘Improving’ the Garden and the Natural Knowledge of Early Modern Householders, 1600-1750

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