Michael Rosen on the words used to describe the qualities of smells in different languages

Congolese minister met Belgian officials to discuss records mapping former colony’s mineral wealth

We are pleased to announce that NiCHE’s 2026 Best Book in Canadian Environmental History Prize has been awarded to Jack Bouchard, Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the Rutgers Univer...

Low Countries History

A History of Textile Cleanliness. Washing and Perfuming Fabrics from the Medieval to the Modern Period This international conference will bring together scholars from different periods and disciplines to explore how textiles were cleaned and cared for, and how these practices shaped everyday experiences of hygiene, smell, social norms, aesthetic preferences, quality, and economic life. ___ Diese internationale Konferenz bringt Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler aus unterschiedlichen Epochen und Disziplinen zusammen, um zu untersuchen, wie Textilien gereinigt und gepflegt wurden und wie diese Praktiken alltägliche Erfahrungen von Hygiene, Geruch, sozialen Normen, ästhetischen Präferenzen, Qualität und wirtschaftlichem Leben prägten. Programm   Organisiert von Moïra Dato (Institute of Art History, University of Bern) and Érika Wicky (Université Grenoble-Alpes/LARHRA) EK 01. Mai 2026 Universität Bern, Hauptgebäude / Abegg-Stiftung Riggisberg Website der Veranstaltung A History of Textile Cleanliness. Washing and Perfuming Fabrics from the Mediev… Image for Content

Promoting the study of the Renaissance since 1967

How can historians engage with hands-on research to better understand the embodied knowledge and sensorial experiences in historical practices? In what ways can creative works be implemented in order ...

People on the internet are arguing about what ‘science’ means and what properly belongs to the ‘history of science’. (Aparna Nair’s thread on Bluesky is a good introdu…

Cambridge Core - History of Medicine - Phrenitis and the Pathology of the Mind in Western Medical Thought

Join CEMS for a talk by Prof. Abigail Williams on non-elite reading in long-eighteenth-century Britain. Wednesday 18th March, 17:30-19:00

Journée d'études jeunes chercheurs Seeing the Other Empire: British Travel Writing and Imperial Rivalry in Europe and the Near East, 1783-1914 organisée par Arman Martirosyan et Suheyla-Hacer Sahin ...

A 1-day conference on food and war in Britain, including the challenges of feeding armies and the wider impact of warfare on British food.

The Work of Mending is a series of research-led, hands-on workshops exploring what hands do and what they mean across histories of making, repairing and caring.

New research by an historian from the University of Bristol offers an intriguing suggestion about one of history’s biggest mysteries – the original purpose of the world-famous Bayeux Tapestry.

The Society currently invites applications for the following six schemes — open to historians across a range of career stages and backgrounds — with closing dates from 23 January to 6 March 2026. For ...