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/...

#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!

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...

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...

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

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-...

If you know you're coming, please do register via the link in our original post. (It helps us gauge numbers.) If the booking form reads as fully booked, don't let this put you off and do feel free to turn up anyway – we can typically always find extra chairs!

To those who haven't been to the seminar before, it is open to all – that is, to all historians of career stages, but also to the general public. It's a great opportunity to meet and chat, and we often continue the discussion over drinks/refreshments in the IHR common room ☕ or over dinner. 🥂

The event is in person, in IHR Seminar Room N304, Third Floor, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU. For those of you who haven't been before, Senate House is about as centrally located as you can get in London – so easy to get to if you’re planning to be in London that day.

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-...

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