New Reading Group: Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies 12 Nov 2:30pm Join IAS Fellows Rana Banna & Mary Newman for the first session, exploring how early-modern writers connected linguistic encounters with sensory encounters of seeing, hearing, touching, tasting & smelling www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

📆 Coming up on 18 Nov: UCL Lunch Hour Lecture, The Witch in the Bible and Beyond Hear from Dr Alinda Damsma on her research about the impact of the Bible on the early modern witch-hunts. These lectures are free, open to all and online. Book now: buff.ly/LupLYZS @uclhjs.bsky.social

Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies: Language, Sense & Proof 12 Nov 2:30-4pm This new @ucl-ias.bsky.social reading group explores how early-modern writers connected linguistic encounters with sensory encounters in the production of evidence. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies: Language, Sense & Proof 12 Nov 2:30-4pm This new @ucl-ias.bsky.social reading group explores how early-modern writers connected linguistic encounters with sensory encounters in the production of evidence. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 11 11 Nov 2-3:30pm with @ctlnkane.bsky.social The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group is an informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Displaying Sara Baartman, the 'Hottentot Venus' 6 November 2025, 1pm-2pm Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

⚠️Last chance to register! Space, Mobility & Subjecthood in Early Modern History 29 Oct 5:30pm UCL & online With authors of new books on histories of the Spanish Atlantic, feat. Bethan Fisk, Chloe L. Ireton, Adolfo Polo y la Borda, Julia McClure & Santiago Muñoz Arbeláez www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Join us for this term's Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group @ucl-ias.bsky.social ! Newcomers very welcome, just email me to sign up! For more info: tinyurl.com/y7kue3ek.

HYBRID: Space, Mobility, and Subjecthood in Early Modern History 29 Oct 5:30–7:30 pm A roundtable with authors of new books on histories of the Spanish Atlantic: Bethan Fisk, @chloeireton.bsky.social, Adolfo Polo y la Borda, Julia McClure and Santiago Muñoz Arbeláez. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Emotions, Sound & Personhood in Early Modern England 9 October 2025, 1pm-2pm Join @wellcomecollection.bsky.social for the Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Gendered Time & Medicine in Early Modern Germany 23 October 2025, 1pm-2pm Join @wellcomecollection.bsky.social for the Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

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Chardin and the Oeconomie of Painting 9 Oct 5:30-7:30pm In early modern France, “oeconomie” referred to the art of managing material resources, particularly within a household. @uclhistoryofart.bsky.social welcome Dr Sarah Grandin (Courtauld Institute) for this seminar www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

Masculinity & Madness in Western India 1871-1940 25 September 2025, 1pm-2pm Join us at @wellcomecollection.bsky.social for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

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...

Space, Mobility & Subjecthood in Early Modern History 29 Oct 5:30pm at UCL This roundtable will be of interest to scholars working on the histories of imperial formations, subaltern lives, and intellectual histories from the margins of empires in the early modern period www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

In our latest blog, @sladeschoolucl.bsky.social MFA student Noemi Stysiak reflects on our inspiring recent Celebration of Humanities Education, featuring research from @abbis.bsky.social, @samsonaws.bsky.social & many more from across @artshumsucl.bsky.social! 🔗: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/che/2025/07/...

🎭 From lost comedias to lucid dreams, each year students from around the world reimagine Spanish Golden Age Theatre for the Our New Gold Festival. Watch '24-'25's prize winners and read @samsonaws.bsky.social's (@uclselcs.bsky.social) reflections on the Festival in our latest blog: bit.ly/4kQwid4

Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 10 29 July 2–3:30pm with @ctlnkane.bsky.social The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group is an informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Historical Health & The Body Reading Group 17 July 1-2pm @wellcomecollection.bsky.social The article for this week's session is Heather Taylor's (2025) 'An experiment pervyd for a thynge y lost': 'Non-medical' Charms and experimenta in Medieval Medical Manuscripts. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 9 15 July 2025, 2pm-3:30pm This is an informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

For anyone interested who couldn’t make it to my inaugural ‘Time Frames: Marking the Early Modern’ here’s a recording: mediacentral.ucl.ac.uk/Play/124439

Historical Health & The Body Reading Group Join at the Wellcome Collection for the Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers. 3 July 2025, 1pm-2pm www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

📢 REGISTRATION OPEN! Built with books: shaping the shelves of the early modern library 9–10 Sep UCL @livesandletters.bsky.social This symposium will explore the rich field of early modern library studies, inviting fresh, interdisciplinary perspectives & methodologies. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

”Launch forth, my soul”: Medieval and Early Modern Religion and Seafaring 18 June 2025, 5:00 pm–7:30 pm Showcases the work of Ukrainian academic, Dr Andrii Pastushenko. With co-speakers, Dr David Harrap (QMUL) and Dr Richard Blakemore (University of Reading). www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Professor Alexander Samson delivering his fascinating inaugural lecture on 28 May: 'Time Frames: Marking the Early Modern'. @samsonaws.bsky.social @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social #MarianEngland #UniversalClockTime #EarlyModern

Historical Health & The Body Reading Group Join @historyfinn.bsky.social and Katherine Wills at @wellcomecollection.bsky.social for their Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers. 19 June 2025, 1pm-2pm www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 8 The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group is an informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts. 10 June 2-3:30pm @ctlnkane.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

”Launch forth, my soul”: Medieval and Early Modern Religion and Seafaring 18 June 2025, 5–7:30pm at UCL, London With Dr Andrii Pastushenko, Dr David Harrap (QMUL) and Dr Richard Blakemore (U of Reading) www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

”Launch forth, my soul”: Medieval and Early Modern Religion and Seafaring 18 June 2025, 5–7:30pm at UCL, London With Dr Andrii Pastushenko, Dr David Harrap (QMUL) and Dr Richard Blakemore (U of Reading) www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 7 27 May 2-3:30pm with @ctlnkane.bsky.social The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group is an informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Historical Health & The Body Reading Group 22 May 1-2pm @wellcomecollection.bsky.social We will be discussing Liane Maria Bertucci's ‘Herbs, Roots, Amulets, and Prayers in the Practices of “Saint” Vicente and other Healers in São Paulo in the 1910s’ www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Displacement & the French Revolution 29 May 9:45am–6:30pm @uclhistory.bsky.social This interdisciplinary workshop gathers historians, historical geographers, literary scholars & art historians working on the theme of "displacement" in and around the French Revolution. www.ucl.ac.uk/history/even...

Still a few slots left for our Director's Inaugural Lecture, sign up before they're gone! www.ucl.ac.uk/early-modern...

Such a fascinating topic, female acrobats and aerialists in EM Europe, still a few places left, please sign up it's not too late! www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Rope-Dancing & Female Performance 14 May 5pm UCL ⭐ Voltigeuses: Female Rope-dancers in 17thC Paris Thibaut Maus de Rolley (UCL) ⭐ Early modern women’s rope-dancing and the editing of Shakespearean drama: Cicely Peadle & The Two Noble Kinsmen Clare McManus (Northumbria) www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Come and join us at @livesandletters.bsky.social to talk about #EarlyModern libraries! Two weeks to get your abstracts in! Check the website for full details, incl. how PhDs and ECRs can apply for funding to attend…

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...

📝 Please register so we order enough wine! 🍷 Rope-Dancing and Female Performance 14 May 2025, 5-7pm With Prof Clare McManus (Northumbria) and Prof Thibaut Maus de Rolley (UCL) www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Including Prof Thibaut Maus de Rolley's paper on "Voltigeuses: Female Rope-dancers in Seventeenth-century Paris"

Always good to know the exact reason for handing over information, and this is a KEY reason.

📝 Please register so we order enough wine! 🍷 Rope-Dancing and Female Performance 14 May 2025, 5-7pm With Prof Clare McManus (Northumbria) and Prof Thibaut Maus de Rolley (UCL) www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Project Launch: New World Royalists 9 May 2025, 6–7:30 pm The Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery is delighted to announce the launch of NEW WORLD ROYALISTS, an innovative new digital humanities project that focuses on Port Royal Parish, Jamaica. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Don’t forget the ambassadors are coming tomorrow at 5… www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Time Frames: Marking the Early Modern 28 May 2025, 5:30 pm–8:00 pm www.ucl.ac.uk/early-modern...

Two weeks until the spring London Shakespeare Seminar with Richard Ashby and Alison Shell! Sign up here — www.tickettailor.com/events/shake... #Shakespeare #earlymodern

Born on this day in 1626, in Antwerp, the incomparable Jan van Kessel. Grandson of my friend Jan Brueghel. Painted insects (as demonstrated here in a signature work!) & many other things living & dead.

Worst two-day stock market crashes in the U.S. by percentage loss: 1. 1929 (the Great Depression) 2. 1987 (Black Monday) 3. 2008 (the Great Recession) 4. YESTERDAY AND TODAY And while this happened, the man responsible for it was golfing and dining with enemies of America.

Here's a map of all the redundancies in UK Higher Education. It's a rout.