Seminars, Conferences, Events (Semester 1 26/27) Hybrid CREMS Seminars start 15 minutes after the advertised start time. Wednesday 30 September 5pm-7pm CREMS INTRODUCTORY SHINDIG! All Welcom...

PhD Position Women in the Early Modern Language Sector

In episode 111 of the Drafting the Past podcast, Kate Carpenter interviews Dr. Lauren Working about how she used objects to tell a new history of England and the Americas in the sixteenth and seventee...

Reviews, craft essays, news and more for readers and writers of history.

In Tudor and Stuart England, cactuses and Chesapeake plants grew in London gardens, and much of the silver gleaming in banquets had once travelled on the backs of mules across Panama. Join Lauren Work...

Birmingham Botanical Gardens describes the bloom as the "botanical world's ultimate farewell tour".

“These are tools to extract from who we are to erase us,” says organizer Krystal Two Bulls.

Silver, Spices, and the Slave Trade: The Coymans Family and Dutch Entrepreneurship in the Spanish Americas (1580-1700) explains how Amsterdam entrepreneurs, specifically the Coymans family, built prof...

The ‘incredible iridescence’ of American feathered headdresses, artworks, shields and wall hangings attracted...

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

Our pick of new history books for June. From Alexander the Great to the Great Exhibition, the South Seas to Iran

"From rumours of lost Amazonian cities of gold to the silver running through the mountains of Bolivia, hopes for dazzling wealth fuelled the imperial fantasies of the Tudors and Stuarts. But while sto...