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Tiéphaine

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PhD student at Cambridge, interested in 17th-18th century Atlantic histories of language and orality. (Profile: Mary Cassatt, 'The Tea,' c. 1880) She/her.

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IHR Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800 @ihrscb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A reminder that our first event of term is happening THIS Thursday - October 1 at 5.30 pm ! Rosamund Oates will be speaking on 'Deafness in Early Modern England' - the link is finally up for people to sign-up 🥳 in-person (NB02, IHR) and online www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Silent Histories: Deafness in Early Modern England

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IHR Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800 @ihrscb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Our first event of term is on Thursday 1 October at 5.30 pm! @rosamundoates.bsky.social will be speaking on ‘Silent Histories: Deafness in Early Modern England’! Watch this space: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... full programme will be up soon and you'll be able to sign up for in-person or online!

Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800

Supported by Mark Storey and Carey Karmel

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Struggling to parse this. Exeter is celebrating its overall global ranking to 136th, comprised (it reports) of 151st (Natural Sciences), 131st (Life Sciences & Medicine) and 76th (Arts & Humanities) while announcing plans to make 25% of Arts & Humanities staff redundant. Does this compute?

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Dr Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

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IHR Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800 @ihrscb.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Sketchbooks, account books, signatures, and recipes... join us TODAY (5.30 pm) for our last event of term as Melissa Calaresu (Cambridge) discusses writing the life of the painter Thomas Jones across London, Rome, and Naples. In-person only, Room NB02 at the IHR: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

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IHR Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800 @ihrscb.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Our next and final event of this academic year is on Thursday 4 June! Melissa Calaresu will be giving the following paper ‘Painting by Numbers: Writing the Life of Thomas Jones (1744-1803)’. Thomas Jones was known for his strikingly exact portrayals of urban Naples: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Urban oil-paint image of 18th century Naples, painted with striking degrees of realism in the details and shadings. On the right hand side is a tall building of at least four stories, of pale stone, on the left is a much shorter building, also of pale stone with grey-blue shutters. On the left hand corner are some trees and foliage.

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IHR Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800 @ihrscb.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Using sketchbooks, account books, and recipes, Melissa Calaresu (Cambridge) will discuss some of the methodological problems of piecing together the life of Jones and his family from the numbers, images, and words which have survived. The event is in-person only (IHR Wolfson Room NB02). All welcome!

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IHR Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800 @ihrscb.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Just a reminder that Erin Maglaque @erinmaglaque.bsky.social is speaking TODAY at 5.30 pm! For those of you who have missed registration, do feel free to just turn up (we can always find more chairs!) or send us a direct message for a Zoom link on bluesky or at ihrscbmail@gmail.com! ✨📚

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IHR Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800 @ihrscb.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

A reminder that our next event is THIS THURSDAY (21 May) at 5.30 pm. Erin Maglaque @erinmaglaque.bsky.social will be speaking on '"A zeal without limits": the postmortem caesarian section in early modern Italy'! ✨ You can sign up here (in-person in room 243 & Zoom): www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

A zeal without limits

Society, Culture and Belief 1500-1800 Seminar

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IHR Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800 @ihrscb.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Join us in an hour at 5.30 pm (not 5 pm, as a previous post suggested) today! ✨ Laura Sangha will be talking on 'The Material Culture of Wills, England 1540-1790', both online and in-person at the IHR www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

The Material Culture of Wills, England 1540-1790

Society, Culture & Belief 1500-1800 Seminar

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IHR Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800 @ihrscb.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

...a data sample of 30,000 English wills?! 👀 📚 A reminder that Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social will be speaking TODAY, Thursday 7 May, 5 pm, on 'The Material Culture of Wills, England 1540-1790'! Sign up here to attend in person or online: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

The Material Culture of Wills, England 1540-1790

Society, Culture & Belief 1500-1800 Seminar

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IHR Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800 @ihrscb.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

We're back for a new term! ✨📚 Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social will be speaking next Thursday, 7 May, on 'The Material Culture of Wills, England 1540-1790'. The event is both hybrid (via Zoom) and in Wolfson Room NB02 of the IHR... do sign-up here! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

The Material Culture of Wills, England 1540-1790

Society, Culture & Belief 1500-1800 Seminar

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IHR Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800 @ihrscb.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Just a reminder... Tomorrow, 5 March, 5.30 pm ✨ Sue Wiseman, Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social , and Michael Powell Davies @mdpowelldavies.bsky.social speaking on "Written Worlds: Non-Elite Writers in Early Modern England" Sign-up in person & online: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Written Worlds: Non-Elite Writers in Early Modern England

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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

'Written Worlds: Non-Elite Writers in Early Modern England' Sue Wiseman, Michael Powell-Davies and I will be introducing our five-year collaborative project at the @ihr.bsky.social on Thursday, March 5th. Hope to see you there! Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Written Worlds: Non-Elite Writers in Early Modern England

Who wrote in early modern England? What did they write and why did they write it? How did their writing fit into the wider worlds that they inhabited? In this talk, Sue Wiseman, Brodie Waddell and Michael Powell Davies – all from Birkbeck University of London – will address these questions by introducing their ongoing Leverhulme-funded collaborative project on non-elite writers in England from c.1570 to 1730. Our research explores the writing practices of people below the level of the gentry and clergy, considering their biographical contexts, their motivations and their contributions to written culture. In addition to giving a bird’s eye view of the sorts of writers and texts we are studying, each of the three speakers will discuss a couple of specific examples of particular writers, including the notebooks of a midland villager, the spiritual diary a London wigmaker, and the confessions of a condemned widow.

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IHR Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800 @ihrscb.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Our next event is happening next week! Sue Wiseman, Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social and Michael Powell Davies will be discussing "Written Worlds: Non-Elite Writers in Early Modern England" ✒️📖✨ Sign-up here (in-person and online) Thursday 5 March, 5.30 pm www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Written Worlds: Non-Elite Writers in Early Modern England

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IHR Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800 @ihrscb.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Our first event of this term is taking place very soon, on Thursday 5 February! Holly Fletcher (UCL) will be speaking on 'The Fats of Life in the Early Modern World, 1500-1750: Matter in Multispecies Medicine'. You can sign-up to attend in person and online here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

This provides an update on the two events coming up – the first, Holly Fletcher's 'The Fats of Life in the Early Modern World' (5 Feb, 5.30 pm, IHR Wolfson Room NB02 and online via Zoom), the second Brodie Waddell's 'Written Worlds: Non-Elite Writers in Early Modern England (5 March, IHR Wolfson Room NB02 and online via Zoom). The background image is a yellow-toned image by Bruegel of people working crops.

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Long Eighteenth Century Cambridge @18thcenturycam.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

A reminder that our first discussion group event of term (on 'voice and sound' in cities) is tomorrow, 21 February, in the Junior Parlour at Gonville & Caius College between 12 - 1 pm. 📖✨ Suggested readings here: www.hist.cam.ac.uk/workshop-lon...

Workshop for the Long Eighteenth Century | Faculty of History University of Cambridge

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Long Eighteenth Century Cambridge @18thcenturycam.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Hot off the press — our reading list for the coming term. Join us every other Wednesday, 12-1pm, at Gonville and Caius to discuss cities in the long eighteenth century 🌇

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Long Eighteenth Century Cambridge @18thcenturycam.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Our mini-symposium will follow our termly discussion group – this term, on Cities. We meet fortnightly and lunchtimes at a central Cambridge location. To stay abreast of any news, you can subscribe to our mailing list here: lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscr...

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Long Eighteenth Century Cambridge @18thcenturycam.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

We're excited to announce our CFP for our Lent term mini-symposium on the theme of Cities! We're thrilled to have Professor Miles Ogborn as our keynote speaker. If you are a Cambridge-based postgraduate, recent postgraduate, or ECR do think of applying by 12 February!

This is a call for Papers Poster for the 'Salon'.
Call for Papers: Mini-Symposium on Cities in the Long Eighteen Century (4 March, with 12 February Deadline) Keynote Speaker: Professor Miles Ogborn, Queen Mary, University of London
The Long Eighteenth Century Salon and Workshop is releasing its call for papers for next term's mini-symposium on the theme of Cities. The symposium will take place on the afternoon of Wednesday 4 March, at a central Cambridge location.
We therefore invite applications for 20-minute papers from postgraduates and ECRs on the following themes, from any geography and any time period between the mid-seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries:
Speech, sound, and other senses in cities
Changing mobilities in urban areas
Subaltern experiences in cities
The natural and built environment in cities
Reassessing urban centres and peripheries
Any other theme that speaks to the unique urban dynamics in this period
To apply, or should you have any questions, please send a 250-word abstract and brief bio by 12 February to the following email address: 18thcenturycam@gmail.com.
Please note that the symposium will follow three discussion group sessions on ‘cities’ (provisionally 21 January, 4 February, 18 February, lunchtimes, at a central Cambridge location). For more on the discussion group, you can sign up to our mailing list here, as we will be releasing the reading list shortly.
We especially welcome submissions that speak to the concerns of the discussion group, for which we will discuss some of Professor Ogborn’s work. We'll release a brief reading list in early January – all are welcome to join, regardless of whether you've been involved in the reading group before!

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Cambridge University History Faculty @camhistory.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Still time to register! Dr Kate Peters will give the 2nd Women’s History Seminar at Murray Edwards College TODAY 🔎 "Activist women & the challenge to patriarchy in the English revolution, 1640-60" ⏲️ Tues 2 Dec, 5 – 6.30pm 🏢 Vivien Stewart Room, Murray Edwards College Register for free tickets ⬇️

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IHR Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800 @ihrscb.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

The talk will take place in the Wolfson Room NB02 at Senate House. For those coming to Senate House for the first time, we've attached a map that shows the two nearest stations – Russell Square and Goodge Street, we're only 1-2 stops away from Euston and King's Cross for anyone outside of town!

The image shows the location of Senate House in London (circled in red) in comparison to Goodge Street station and Russell Square station (both circled in blue). These are only a short walk away from Senate House.

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IHR Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800 @ihrscb.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

A reminder that our final event of term is happening tonight! Dr Nailya Shamgunova @nailyas.bsky.social will speak on 'English and Scottish Scholars at the Global Library, c. 1500-1700'. Sign up at: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

English and Scottish Scholars at the Global Library, c. 1500-1700

This talk introduces the UKRI-funded Future Leaders project, The Global Library project.

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IHR Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800 @ihrscb.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Our final event of term is happening this Thursday (27 November) Dr Nailya Shamgunova @nailyas.bsky.social on 'English and Scottish Scholars at the Global Library, c. 1500-1700'. ✨📚 This talk will be in-person only at the IHR. You can sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

English and Scottish Scholars at the Global Library, c. 1500-1700

This talk introduces the UKRI-funded Future Leaders project, The Global Library project.

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IHR Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800 @ihrscb.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Misha’s first monograph, The Virginia Venture: American Colonization and English Society, 1580-1660, was published in 2022. Her current research focuses on the role of women in the development of colonisation and racial slavery in seventeenth-century Barbados.

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IHR Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800 @ihrscb.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

After a PhD in History at UCL, she took up posts at the University of Kent and the University of Manchester, and was a Curator for Inclusive History at Historic Royal Palaces between 2021and 2022.

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IHR Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800 @ihrscb.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Dr Misha Ewen ( @drmishaewen.bsky.social ) is Assistant Professor in American History at the University of Sussex. She works on histories of gender, slavery, and colonialism in the early modern Atlantic world.

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IHR Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800 @ihrscb.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

... Since there’s a bit of time between now and our next event, we thought we would introduce some of the new convenors who have joined us this year! 🥳 We’ll be introducing one a week until our next event. Dr Emily Vine spoke at our most recent seminar. We'd now like to introduce Dr Misha Ewen!

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IHR Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800 @ihrscb.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

A quick reminder that Dr Emily Vine @emilymayvine.bsky.social will be speaking TODAY on 'Birth, Death and Domestic Religion in Early Modern London' from 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm in the Wolfson Room (NB02 at the IHR) and online, via Zoom! ✨ www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Birth, Death and Domestic Religion in Early Modern London

Society, Culture and Belief, 1500-1800 Seminar- Session 2

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Long Eighteenth Century Cambridge @18thcenturycam.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

The Salon got off to a fantastic start last week when we discussed smell! This week, it’s Taste, and we’ll be meeting 12-1pm tomorrow in the Junior Parlour at Caius. We’ll discuss Robles’ chapter on ‘Squid’ in Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds + the online exhibition kitcheninthecabinet.com

kitcheninthecabinet.com

The Kitchen in the Cabinet

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Long Eighteenth Century Cambridge @18thcenturycam.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Our first session of the term takes place tomorrow (Wednesday 15th) at 12 noon! Please note the updated location in the Junior Parlour, Gonville & Caius

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IHR Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800 @ihrscb.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Join us next Thursday (30/10, 5.30 pm) for Dr Emily Vine’s (@emilymayvine.bsky.social) talk on ‘Birth, Death and Domestic Religion in Early Modern London’! You can sign up to join in-person (IHR Wolfson Room, NB02) or online via Zoom here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Birth, Death and Domestic Religion in Early Modern London

Society, Culture and Belief, 1500-1800 Seminar- Session 2

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IHR Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800 @ihrscb.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Just a final reminder that our first event of term is happening tomorrow at 5.30 pm! 🎉 Lyndal Roper will be speaking on ‘Turbulence and the German Peasants’ War of 1524-6’. All are welcome to join! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

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IHR Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800 @ihrscb.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Our first event is taking place next Thursday (16 October) at 5.30 pm. Lyndal Roper will be speaking on 'Turbulence and the German Peasants’ War of 1524-6’. You can join us in-person (Room 243, Senate House) or online – but do book a place here ✨ www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Turbulence and the German Peasants’ War of 1524-6

Society, Culture and Belief, 1500-1800 Seminar- Session 1

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IHR Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800 @ihrscb.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

We're back! 🎉 And we're thrilled to announce our term card for Autumn 2025! Our first event is on Thursday 16 October at 5.30 pm. Lyndal Roper will be discussing 'Turbulence and the German Peasants' War of 1524-6'. You can register to attend the event at: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

To attend, please register at the event of your choice here. If you have signed up but suddenly find yourself unable to make it, you can relinquish your spot by emailing: ihr.events@sas.ac.uk. If you would like to attend in-person and the event reads as fully booked, please do drop by anyway as we can always find some extra chairs!

Thursday 16 October, 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm
Lyndal Roper (University of Oxford), Turbulence and the German Peasants’ War of 1524-6
Please register here if you would like to attend.
Hybrid. Online-via Zoom & Room 243, Second Floor, Senate House

Thursday 30 October, 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm
Emily Vine (University of Exeter), Birth, Death and Domestic Religion in Early Modern London
Please register here if you would like to attend.
Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House

Thursday 27 November, 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm
Nailya Shamgunova (University of East Anglia), ‘English and Scottish Scholars at the Global Library, c. 1500-1700’
Please register here if you would like to attend.
Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House

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IHR Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800 @ihrscb.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

#EarlyModern history PhD students around London… We are looking for a postgrad convenor for 2025/26. The stipend is of £300/yr and it’s a chance to get involved in a really welcoming seminar!

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Dylan Neill Andres @dylanneill.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Please help us share the call for papers for this exciting conference I am co-organising this autumn! 📜 We welcome submissions from anyone looking at any aspect of early modern violence, particularly those looking beyond military history, and those who would not call themselves historians at all 🗡️⚓

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IHR Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800 @ihrscb.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Our next event is this Thursday (19 June) in IHR Room N304 5.30-7.00 pm. We're thrilled that @willtullett.bsky.social will be speaking on ‘Animals and “Smellscapes" in Early Modern England’ ! Details and registration here (registrations are used to gauge numbers) www.history.ac.uk/events/anima...

Animals and “Smellscapes" in Early Modern England

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Long Eighteenth Century Cambridge @18thcenturycam.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Our final workshop of term is happening this evening (Monday 16th) at 5 pm at the Junior Parlour at Gonville & Caius. We're excited to hear papers from Emily Maisonville and Joseph Opp!

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Long Eighteenth Century Cambridge @18thcenturycam.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Our next event of term is taking place TODAY! (Monday 2nd June) at 5.30 pm (not 5 pm!) in the Junior Parlour at Gonville & Caius College. We'll be hearing papers from João Moreira da Silva @joaomoreiradasilva.bsky.social and Andrés Jácome. All are welcome to join!

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IHR Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800 @ihrscb.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Our next event is tomorrow, Thursday 22 May, 5.30 - 7.00 pm. Tiéphaine Thomason (Cambridge) @teaphaine.bsky.social will speak on (French) speech in Martinique's streets 'Mobilising the Francophone Speechscape in Eighteenth-Century Urban Martinique' www.history.ac.uk/events/mobil...

Mobilising the Francophone Speechscape in Eighteenth-Century Urban Martinique

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Renaud Morieux @renaudmorieux.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Delighted that the English version of my article on the lost letters of the Galatée ship just came out, with a wonderful translation by @teaphaine.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @annaleshss.bsky.social

Lost Letters | Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales - English Edition | Cambridge Core

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IHR Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800 @ihrscb.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

If you're wondering...who could you trust in the seventeenth century? @nikkic.bsky.social will be speaking to us later today about the importance of personal news networks in the judgement of accuracy! Join us at 5.30 pm in room N304 (3rd floor, IHR, Senate House). All are welcome! #EarlyModern

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IHR Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800 @ihrscb.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

If you've ever wondered how #EarlyModern news consumers found and shared reliable information during plague and fire... 🔥 Come join us in just a few days (Thursday 27th) for a talk by Nicola Clarke @nikkic.bsky.social on seventeenth-century news and accuracy...! www.history.ac.uk/events/i-am-...

“I am told … but I know not of a certainty”: The value of accuracy in the multimedia world of news in England 1658-1685

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IHR Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800 @ihrscb.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Our next event is on Thursday 27 February, 5.30-7.00 pm. Nicola Clarke (Birkbeck) will speak on seventeenth-century accuracy and news: '“I am told … but I know not of a certainty”: The value of accuracy in the multimedia world of news in England 1658-1685.' www.history.ac.uk/events/i-am-...

“I am told … but I know not of a certainty”: The value of accuracy in the multimedia world of news in England 1658-1685

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Long Eighteenth Century Cambridge @18thcenturycam.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

It’s our first session of the Lent Term today! Join us at 5pm in the Library Seminar Room, St John’s College, to hear Jonathan Salamon discussing “Moments of Absorption in Bach’s Keyboard Works”, and @zarakesterton.bsky.social talking about illusion and artifice in Carmontelle’s portraiture 🎹🎨

Carmontelle’s watercolour portrait of the Mozart family gathered around a piano

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IHR Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800 @ihrscb.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

We're thrilled to have moved across to BlueSky! 🦋 By way of introduction, we are the Society, Culture & Belief Seminar, 1500-1800. We host papers each term at the Institute of Historical Research (@ihr.bsky.social) in London – all are welcome! Keep an eye out for upcoming events #earlymodern

Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800

Supported by Mark Storey and Carey Karmel

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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

'In Search of Francis Williams' Join us next Thursdays at the @ihr.bsky.social to hear Fara Dabhoiwala talking about his search for the Black Jamaican polymath Francis Williams (c. 1690-1762)! #EarlyModern 🗃️ Register here: www.history.ac.uk/events/searc...