Fantastic evening listening to @susannah-lw.bsky.social as part of the @oxfordcourtstudies.bsky.social seminar!! Such an insightful and interesting topic - amazing how objects can reveal so much about the past! #History #Queenship #MaterialCulture

Reminder: This Monday (10th) at 4:30pm, @susannah-lw.bsky.social will be presenting her research into the global and natural material culture of the 17C English Queens. Memorial Room, Jesus College. All are welcome!

ANNOUNCEMENT – AHRC Funded Early Career Research (ECR) Fellowships in Cultural and Heritage Institutions More info here: www.vam.ac.uk/blog/project...

One week till I'll be speaking on the Stuart consorts and their global entanglements @oxfordcourtstudies.bsky.social. Please come if you can!

The Habsburgs’ ‘Florentine Diamond’ reappears after over a century hidden in Canada. (gift article)

📣 New book series, “Court Cultures, 1000-1900”, 📚 launched by @historyboy30.bsky.social & @patrikpastrnak.bsky.social w/ @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Series feat books exploring any & all aspects of global courts 👑 (all variations). CfP now open! Info & CfP: www.degruyterbrill.com/serial/cocu-...

In our first session of the year we will hear from Elizabeth Norton, speaking about Jane Seymour. Monday at 4:30, Memorial Room, Jesus College. All are welcome.

It’s that time of year again! Here is the term card for the upcoming talks. As always, everyone is welcome! Fortnightly, 4:30pm in the Memorial Room, @jesusoxford.bsky.social

The first SCS seminar for the autumn will be a panel. Monday, September 22 · 6:45 - 8:45pm CEST you can rejoice in: New Directions in Royal Histories (Panel) Misha Ewen (University of Sussex) – “Black Subjects: Recovering Histories of Enslavement at the Early Modern Palaces”

Thank you to everyone that attended our last session! Our next Digital Seminar Series seminar is on October 20 (date changed from the 21st) at 6pm UK time. Join Julia Hamilton’s talk on ‘All that’s Rich’: The Intended Meanings of Luxury Goods in Stuart Interiors. 1/2

TOMORROW SCS launches our 2025/26 VSS programme with the talk "Building the Presence of the Prince" by José Eloy Hortal Muñoz and Merlijn Hurx! This session will explore the significance of royal buildings in the consolidation of a sovereign's power Register below courtstudies.org/events/virtu...

👑📢 And check out our 2026 programme too! Come along to hear speakers talk about the truly global nature of court studies! See our website for more details on timings 👉 courtstudies.org/events/virtu...

SCS is excited to launch our Virtual Scholarship Series programme for 2025/26! Come along to hear about royal buildings, patronage, gardens, and more! Here is a summary of our programme for 2025; stay tuned for 2026! See link below for dates and times - courtstudies.org/events/virtu...

New @royalstudies.bsky.social podcast out today - hear the excellent @patrikpastrnak.bsky.social talking about his prize winning article on 15th century royal wedding gifts, his wider research on royal wedding journeys, and his project on bohemian queens royalstudies.buzzsprout.com/1934722/epis...

Our own Richard Schlag will speak today on the Status of Burgundy within the Holy Roman Empire at the time of Friedrich III, in a session co-convened with the Early Modern Central European Seminar. All welcome, drinks to follow. talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/10d...

Next in #KQ14 Session 2.12: Matrimonial Politics: Dynasties, Counsel, and Alliance was Johanna (Hanna) Sinclair “Forestieri, Stranieri & Étrangers: Foreignness at the marriage of Maria de Medici & Henri IV in 1600” unpicking the perception the ‘other’ in marriage negotiations & her bridal journey

Multiple past speakers at #KQ14, including this fantastic panel on court employees, featuring three! (And three more in the audience). Future speakers being recruited as well!

Congratulations to @patrikpastrnak.bsky.social who won the @royalstudies.bsky.social article prize! #k&q14

Today's the day! Kings and Queens 14 starts today in Lisbon (and online!) 🎉 Below, you can find today's programme, including timings for the conference workshop and Ana Maria Rodrigues' keynote 📄 🧵/2

Trinity Term Card! This term featuring talks by brilliant scholars on the Early Modern courts of Tunis, Copenhagen, Sweden, Poland-Lithuania, and the Holy Roman Empire. Alternate Mondays, 4:30pm, Memorial Room at Jesus College (plus Friday 9 June at Ship Street Centre). All are welcome! (edited)

CfA: we are looking for two replacements for our Bohemian queenship project. More details below 👇👇👇 pracuj.upol.cz/nc/zprava/cl...

Thursday, 17 April 2025 at 18:00 CET Benjamin Ringot: “VERSPERA Project : Versailles From Historical Records to Virtual Worlds" eventbrite.fr/e/apr-vss-ve... #courtstudies #versailles #digitalhumanities

Only two weeks to go! Enroll now on Sintra Summer School 2025 and enjoy a full week of lectures, workshops and visits to historic palaces and courtly sites around Lisbon! #courtstudies #palaces #royalstudies #earlymodern #iberianstudies www.parquesdesintra.pt/en/made-for-...

A change in the programme for the final session of the term: Unfortunately Kirsty Wright is unable to attend, but we are lucky to have the President of the Society of Court Studies, Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly in her place. 4:30pm, Monday 3 March, Ship Street Centre, Jesus College, all welcome!

🏆 Call for Nominations ECRs & PGRs: Submit your work for the 2025 RSJ Biennial Prize in Royal Studies by 15 March 2025! 🌍👑 Details: rsj.winchester.ac.uk/prizes

Reminder: the first talk of the year is today (20th) at 4:30 in the Ship Street Centre at Jesus College. All are welcome!

I’m pleased to announce the programme for Hilary 2025, with papers on 19C French and Spanish kings, a Savoy wedding that didn’t happen, Habsburg courtiers between Austria and Spain, and the Royal progresses of Katherine of Aragon and Katherine Parr. Alternate Mondays, Jesus College, all welcome!

The Society for Court Studies is taking its first steps on Bluesky!

My first monograph is officially available for pre-order! One for fans of #18thcentury history, #queencharlotte and #royalhistory 👑 #skystorians please do share! @routledgehistory.bsky.social www.routledge.com/Queen-Charlo...

My new chapter “Clothing the Royal Family: The Intersection of the Court and City in Early Stuart London” is out now in this fab collection #stuart #dress

The deadline for the Call for Papers for Kings and Queens 14 is quickly approaching! 📝 You only have 3 more weeks until proposals are due 🚨 🧵/3

Here is another starter pack from an adjacent network, with only a little overlap.

For colleagues in Court Studies and other monarchy/royal/aristocracy fields, here is the starter pack for you! Please let me know if you would like to be added to the list. go.bsky.app/9Jp2rxs

Dynasties and State Formation in Early Modern Europe Edited by Liesbeth Geevers, Harald Gustafsson library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...