Looking forward to this workshop tomorrow! GEMMS 2.0 has been years in the making, and it is exciting to be able to show off all the new features. If you can't join us live, you also can register to receive a link to the recording.

Nicole wrote a fascinating blog about communion season in Scotland. She used two collections of ms communion sermons to explore some of the practices of communion season, which often involved multiple sermons over a two week period. I had no idea!

Event: The cyber incident at the British Library has called into question our reliance on online systems to consult medieval manuscripts. Join this conversation on the current situation, and on rethinking practices 🕔 5-6.30pm 💻 Wed 7 Feb Online (free) visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/feb24/...

I am very excited that my chapter on Queen Anne’s patronage of the clergy, 1702-1714 was published today, as part of the fantastic collection Later Stuart Queens, 1660-1735! link.springer.com/book/10.1007... Thank you to Eilish Gregory and Michael Questier for being wonderful & supportive editors!

I am really looking forward to this conference! We have received some great proposals so far. If you work on anything involving manuscripts related to early modern or early 18thC sermons (including notes, records of preachers, diaries, comments on sermons, etc), consider submitting a proposal!

Only a week and a half left to submit your proposal for the "Preachers, Hearers, Readers, and Scribes" Conference (Cambridge/Boston, MA, Oct 2024)! Deadline: 1 January 2024 Send your proposal to [email protected] See: gemmsproject.blogspot.com/2023/10/call... #EarlyModern #17thC #18thC

I enjoyed chairing Arnold's lecture. It was a fantastic conclusion to our series! I am going to miss doing these!

Check out this recording for Hannah's fantastic analysis of a range of lay preachers in the 16th and 18th centuries. We also had an engaging discussion about how these sermons challenge definitions of sermons and the precarity of those who aspired to join the ministry.

On Tuesday, Mari Takayanagi and Elizabeth Hallam Smith will give their @ihr_history Parliaments, Politics and People seminar paper about the women who once operated behind the scenes at the House of Lords... Find out how to attend this hybrid seminar👇 ow.ly/L7bB50Q9nCL

Please share - I’ve got a great postdoc project I’d love to undertake, on the role of hymns in the British Atlantic world of C17 and 18, specifically in contexts of mission, colonialism, slavery, and abolition. I’m looking for a prospective supervisor/institution - thanks

I enjoyed chairing Hannah's lecture yesterday! She explored a wide range of lay preachers from the 16th and 17th centuries. And we discussed how these sermons challenge conventional definitions of the genre of sermons. It was a great event! #EarlyModern #17thC

TOMORROW! Only 1 day until Hannah Yip's free virtual lecture on sermons by the unordained on November 21! Register to join us live or receive a link to the recording. www.eventbrite.ca/e/hannah-yip... We hope you can join us! #EarlyModern #17thC

In case you haven’t registered yet for the #BSECS 53rd Annual Conference at St Hugh’s Oxford, 3-5 Jan 2024 we are going to entice you by skeeting some of the incredible panels that we have lined up #18thC #skystorians www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...

It is so exciting to share this cfp publicly (as it has, of course, been in the works for a while). It should be a great conference! Please share with anyone you think might be interested.

Looking forward to chairing this lecture in a couple of weeks! Hannah has come across some fascinating examples of lay sermons in the archives.

Looking forward to this lecture by Hannah Yip! She is an excellent GEMMS researcher who has dug up many interesting manuscripts that challenge conventional definitions of sermons.

Thank you to Ann Hughes for her fantastic lecture on "Puritan preachers and London merchants" last week and to all those who joined us live! If you missed it or want to watch it again, you will find it here: youtu.be/rn7FHgMkSVk?... #earlymodern #17thC

Looking forward to chairing Ann Hughes's lecture tomorrow! It should be a fantastic lecture, and we have a lot of people registered already, so we should have a great discussion too. Hope to see you there!

Join us for a free virtual lecture by Ann Hughes on October 18 at 5-6:30 pm BST/12-1:30 pm EDT: “Puritan preachers & London merchants: The sermon manuscripts of Walter Boothby & John Harper, 1620s-60s” Register to join us live or get a link for the recording. www.eventbrite.ca/e/ann-hughes...

Come and join us in Oxford for the next in person BSECS conference 3-5th January. Abstracts for panels and papers during by 30th October 2033. Please share #skystorians www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...

We've had some great lectures so far. Looking forward to all of these!