Laural Morreale (Independent Scholar) will describe how to train Handwritten Text Recognition models to read difficult sources like the Italian financial records and will outline the costs, potential ...

Keeping It (Too Much) in the Family: Annulment by Reason of Affinity in Eighteenth-Century Venice

What we can learn from the “service departments.”

An International Workshop on the UK Prize Papers and the American War of Independence: Wartime Lives, Capture, and Transnational Exchange

An International Workshop on the UK Prize Papers and the American War of Independence: Wartime Lives, Capture, and Transnational Exchange

Alicia Volk, Univ. of Maryland. University of Maryland, College Park, 01.07.2027, Bewerbungsschluss: 15.10.2026

This book is the first dedicated study of Alice Thornton (1626–1707) and her life writings, offering unprecedented insights into how one early modern woman revised and reshaped her life story over 40 ...

Recipes through the Ages Friday, November 13, 2026 Join EMROC, Wellcome Collection, and theRoyal College of Physicians for a day of transcribing, virtual chatting, and live talks.  This year we are ex...

In 1618, the parish clerk of St Botolph’s Aldgate, in London, wrote a detailed account of a wedding he had just witnessed, ‘because we never had the like’ before.

A Renaissance literature professor cooks handwritten recipes from 1600 to 1800 because there are questions a manuscript will not answer until you have done what it says with your hands. She also refuses to call the results authentic, which is what makes them worth reading.

Exclusive: Collection’s 300,000 pages record lives of enslaved people in countries including the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa and Trinidad

Register now for SRS Prizes 2026 on crowdcast, scheduled to go live on September 18, 2026, 04:00 PM GMT+1.

“Satire, Sympathy, and Social Critique” will be on view at Beinecke Library from Oct. 12, 2026, through May 30, 2027. Drawing from the rich William Hogarth collections of Yale’s Lewis Walpole Library,...

A powerful resource for classrooms and individual readers alike, The Nursing Clio Reader invites reflection on how the past informs current debates, urging us to engage deeply with the history of repr...

Seventeenth-century virtuosi often figured themselves as epistemic weeders, grubbing up rank thickets of accumulated error. In this article, I argue that these metaphors were unnerved by the shifting...