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UCL Early Modern Exchanges

@uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social
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The Centre is dedicated to the study of the diverse cultural, economic and social exchanges between early modern states in the Old World and beyond in the period 1450-1800. www.ucl.ac.uk/early-modern/

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UCL Early Modern Exchanges @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
English and Spanish music for classical guitar: from the Renaissance to 1826 29 Oct 2026, 13:00 – 14:00 Recital and conversation with Flavio Matani and Alexander Samson @samsonaws.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...
A painting from around 1618, 'Three Musicians' by Diego Velázquez. Two men standing, one playing a guitar and singing the other with a violin. A boy in the foreground holds a guitar and a glass of water.
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UCL Early Modern Exchanges @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Our MA Early Modern Studies trains you in palaeography, book history & archival research skills, plus options in information & literary studies, history & language. Join us for a taster lecture, learn more about the course & ask questions 📅1 May 2-3:30pm BST online app.geckoform.com/events-embed...
Someone in the archive, examining an old document, wearing gloves.
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UCL Early Modern Exchanges @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
⚠️Register before 12 April ⚠️ Marking Music: the Use of Music Books in Early Modern Europe 11–12 May 2026 @cemskcl.bsky.social & online For scholars of music, book history & related to explore how people engaged with books containing music in early modern period. www.tickettailor.com/events/aheve...
Painting by Joos van Winghe (circa 1600) entitled 'Elegant company, playing with torchlight'. Group of musicians playing lute, flute, harpsichord and a singer, with other instruments on a table in the foreground.
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UCL Early Modern Exchanges @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Reformation Studies Colloquium 15-17th April 2026, UCL This colloquium is devoted to deepening our understanding of the religious reformations of the sixteenth century in all their aspects and relationships to other historical phenomena. www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
Poster for the colloquium with a photo of a stained glass window from a church and details of speakers, ticket prices etc
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UCL Early Modern Exchanges @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Ethiopian Christianity, Islam and European Perceptions of Religious Sameness and Difference 10 December 2025, 5pm–7pm A UCL Early Modern Exchanges seminar with Eduardo Fernández Guerrero (The Warburg Institute) and Carlos Cañete Jiménez (CSIC) www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Event title 'Between Translation and Confusion' next to a coat of arms with a dragon and a man with a sword
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UCL Early Modern Exchanges @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Charms & Experiments in English Medieval Medical Manuscripts 11 September 1-2pm at @wellcomecollection.bsky.social Join this Historical Health & The Body Reading Group session for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Two drawings of skeletons from the early modern period, with bones and muscles numbered
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UCL Early Modern Exchanges @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
CfP ‘Built with books: shaping the shelves of the early modern library’ Submit by 16th May This 2-day symposium (9-10 Sept at UCL) will explore the rich field of early modern library studies, inviting fresh, interdisciplinary perspectives and methodologies. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
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UCL Early Modern Exchanges @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Time Frames: Marking the Early Modern 28 May 2025, 5:30 pm–8:00 pm www.ucl.ac.uk/early-modern...
Time Frames: Marking the Early Modern
28 May 2025, 5:30 pm–8:00 pm
Join Professor Alexander Samson for his inaugural lecture. Before the shattering of organic and providential temporalities by universal clock time, a period dubbed the ‘early modern’ foreshadowed and heralded our ‘modernity’. But how are our times different from what came before?
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UCL Early Modern Exchanges @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Call for Papers: ‘Built with books: shaping the shelves of the early modern library’ Deadline 16th May 2025 9 –10 September 2025 at UCL, London
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UCL Early Modern Exchanges @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
CfP: British and Irish Spenser Seminar Deadline 25 April 2025 Queens' College, Cambridge, 30 June 2025
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