The Eighteenth Century Seminar - Michaelmas Term 2025: www.hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series... 5-7 pm on Tuesday 21 October (Long Room, @caiuscollege.bsky.social): Regina Grafe (Cambridge) - How to fashion a colonial moral economy? Lending and borrowing in Spanish Latin America

Core seminar in economic and social history - Michaelmas Term 2025: www.hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series... 5.15 pm on Thursday 17 October (Room 6, Faculty of History @CamHistory): Sheilagh Ogilvie (University of Oxford) - Servanthood and the European Marriage Pattern, 1500-1900

Early Modern British and Irish History - Michaelmas 2025: www.hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series... 5.15 pm on Wednesday 22 October in @TrinityHallCamb: Paul Cavill (Cambridge) - The Two Swords: Spiritual and Temporal Jurisdiction in Henrician England /followed by a drinks reception/

Early Modern World History Seminar – Michaelmas Term 2025: hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series... 3.00–4.30 pm on Thursday 16 October: Elizabeth Currie (Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London) – The Urban Poor in Early Modern Rome: Art, Dress and Popular Imagination

Event video now available! Geopolitics & journalism Jeremy Adelman, Mary Hockaday, and Roger Mosey discuss how journalists build trust and credibility while shaping public understanding of global conflicts. Watch now via www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZoG...

Short-term post-doc for arts/humanities researchers! Do you love rare books, manuscripts, archives, art and/or objects? Would you like to explore one of our amazing Cultural Collections @universityofleeds.bsky.social for c. 6 weeks (longer part-time)? Find out more lahri.leeds.ac.uk/brotherton-f...

One day to go! Geopolitics & journalism Jeremy Adelman, Mary Hockaday, and Roger Mosey explore the challenges of reporting from conflict zones, the politics of information, and the role of media in framing global events. 📷 18 Sept, 5–6:30 pm 🌍 Zoom ✒️ Reg & info: www.cfg.cam.ac.uk/events/geopo...

In an insightful webinar with the Centre for Geopolitics, Master Mary Hockaday, Roger Mosey (Master of Selwyn College) and Jeremy Adelman (Director of the Global History Lab at the @cam.ac.uk) will explore how journalism shapes public understanding of global events. Make sure to register below 👇

📣 Registration is open for 'The future of research in Bible Society collections' @biblesoccollfuture.bsky.social on 26&27 Sept Become part of a network of scholars and experts in Religious Studies, material culture, and Medieval to Modern collections https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47443/

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New event! Geopolitics & journalism Roger Mosey, Mary Hockaday, and Jeremy Adelman will explore the challenges of reporting from conflict zones and the role of media in framing global events. 🗓️ Thu 18 Sept, 5:00-6:30 pm 🗺️ Online (Zoom) ✒️ Reg & info: www.cfg.cam.ac.uk/events/geopo...

This #WaybackWednesday, we're revisiting our February event exploring the evolution of photojournalism and strategic communications during war and emergencies from the early 20th century to the present. Watch the full discussion on YouTube: youtu.be/-yEWpSAUKrU?...

📣Call for Papers 📣 I am delighted to announce that 'Speech/less in the Early Modern World' will be held 23 April 2026 at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge. Please share far and wide and do consider submitting a proposal! 🙊 Link to PDF version: bit.ly/4lZz80R

Congratulations to Cambridge History's Annabel Brett (Prof of Political Thought and History) and Prof Jeremy Adelman (Director of the Global History Lab), both made Fellows of the @britishacademy.bsky.social They are among 12 academics from @cam.ac.uk to be elected to the prestigious fellowship.

Gain teaching experience and access a supportive platform for sharing research, approaches and critical perspectives as a CDH Methods Fellow in the 2025-26 academic year. Deadline: 16 July Apply online: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/learning/met...

📣Exciting News 📣 Dates & host institution for the SSHM Biennial Conference #SSHM2026 are confirmed! Save the Date in your planners 📅 Theme and CFPs to follow later #histmed #medhumanities #histSTM

1 decade of Open Access, now 300 titles 🔓 Introducing 'Renaissance skin' by @evelynwelch.bsky.social - freely available to all students and institutions. A magnificent feat for research in Renaissance art & #histmed Read it here: www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781... #Renaissance #OpenAccess

Reminder 𝐌𝐄𝐑𝐂𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐋𝐄 𝐂𝐔𝐋𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐇: 𝐇𝐲𝐠𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐭𝐞-𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐥 «𝐙𝐢𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐢» Massimo Sbarbaro Register Now: csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/onlin... #CSMBR #medicalhistory #middleages #Merchants #Health

Event video now available! Geopolitics & memory Dr Richard Latham Lechowick (@crasshlive.bsky.social‬, ‪@cam.ac.uk‬) discusses memory as a collective political act, a survival mechanism, and a site for personal negotiation. Watch now via YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kyco...

There's still time to register for: Shrinking 'Middle'? The geopolitics of Central Europe! Luka Ivan Jukic talks about his forthcoming book (@hurstpublishers.bsky.social) and interrogates the idea of a European ‘Middle’ with Barnabás Szabó. Wed 23 July at 5pm Online Reg & info: lnkd.in/d-44GTFZ

One day to go! Geopolitics and memory Dr Richard Latham Lechowick and Dr Jade McGlynn will discuss how historical memory shapes people’s understanding of and response to geopolitical issues. Wed 9 Jul, 5pm to 6:30pm (BST) Online Reg & info: lnkd.in/dAs6hcX4

Wondering what it is like to study history at Cambridge, and what we are looking for in potential students? Watch this! www.youtube.com/channel/UC6T... More detail about the course here: www.hist.cam.ac.uk/course/histo...

We are thrilled to speak with Prof Mary Laven @marylaven.bsky.social about her research on the Italian #Renaissance (can we call it Italian? 🤔) and what it means to work closely with #museums as an historian. Check out our latest podcast episode ⬇️ open.spotify.com/episode/0QWb... #Skystorians

Prof Peter Mandler’s (@petermandler.bsky.social) insatiable curiosity has fuelled an extraordinary career over more than two decades at Cambridge. As he steps back from formal teaching, the acclaimed historian reflects on a life of intellectual breadth, public advocacy—and no plans to slow down ⬇️⬇️

👏 Congratulations Professor Nora Berend, elected as a member of the prestigious Academia Europaea, in recognition of her outstanding achievements as a researcher. 🔎 Read more: www.hist.cam.ac.uk/news/nora-berend-elected-member-prestigious-academia-europaea @acad-euro.bsky.social

New event! Shrinking 'Middle'? The geopolitics of Central Europe Luka Ivan Jukic interrogates the idea of a European ‘middle’ with Barnabás Szabó Wed 23rd Jul, 5pm to 6:30pm (BST) Online Regi & info: bit.ly/4nvBCFp

There's still time to register! Geopolitics and memory Dr Richard Latham Lechowick and Dr Jade McGlynn will discuss how historical memory shapes people’s understanding of and response to geopolitical issues Wed 9 Jul, 5pm to 6:30pm Online Reg & info: bit.ly/4lluIki

We are delighted to share the programme for our 'Art Lovers in the World' Conference, taking place at the University of Cambridge, 28th-29th Jul 2025, funded by the DAAD Hub, the Trevelyan Fund and the GHS. Tickets are available at artloversconference.eventbrite.co.uk. We look forward to seeing you!

Early Modern Scholarship and Religion Seminar at 16:00 on Friday 6 June in the Old Combination Room of St Catharine's College: Katherine Emery (Cambridge) - ‘Music in Matthew Parker’s Whole Psalter and Library, 1558-1575’

📔 Join us for a discussion of Richard Latham Lechowick’s new book, I Won’t Let Them Be Like Me: Ezidi Women’s Agency and Identity after the Sinjar Genocide' His talk traces personal narratives of transformation in self and society 23 May from 5-7pm Online & in-person at CRASSH buff.ly/rMcNqEg

Early Modern Scholarship and Religion Seminar at 16:00 on Friday 30 May in the Old Combination Room of St Catharine's College: Jonas Thorup Thomsen (University of Oxford) - 'Rural lending libraries for enlightenment and edification in late eighteenth-century Denmark'

Early Modern Scholarship and Religion Seminar at 17:30 on Thursday 15 May in The Wren Library (Trinity College): Launch for Theodor Dunkelgrün's 'The Multiplicity of Scripture: The Making of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible' (2025); conversation with Piet van Boxel + a display of books

Early Modern Scholarship and Religion Seminar, 4.00-5.30 pm on Friday 2 May, in the Old Combination Room of St Catharine's College: Book launch for Timothy Twining’s (KU Leuven) 'The Limits of Erudition: The Old Testament in Post-Reformation Europe' (2024) with Simon Ditchfield (York)

Early Modern World History Workshop, 3.00 pm on Thursday 20 March, Senior Parlour at Gonville and Caius College: Marissa Smit-Bose (Cambridge) - Knowledge and Exchange in the Equine Mediterranean

Early Modern Scholarship and Religion Seminar, 4.00-5.30 pm on Friday 21 March, in the Harrods Room (Queen's Building) of Emmanuel College: Katie McKeogh (KCL) - Religious Culture and the Ownership and Reading of Music Books in Sixteenth-Century England

The Eighteenth Century, 5 pm on Tuesday 11 March in the Long Room of Gonville & Caius College: Katherine Parker (Royal Geographical Society) - Papering Exploration: Printing Pacific Geographic Knowledge in Britain in the Mid-Eighteenth Century

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminar, 5 pm on Thursday 13 March in Room 11 of the History Faculty: Aidan Collins (University of Newcastle) - Credit, debt, and personal failure in the English and New York Courts of Chancery, 1674-1800

Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar, 5.15 pm on Wednesday 12 March in the Graham Storey Room of Trinity Hall: Joseph Robertson (Christ’s College) - The Gunpowder Plot and English anti-Jesuitism

Early Modern World History Seminar, 3 pm on Thursday 13 March in the Senior Parlour of Gonville & Caius College: Amanda Wunder (CUNY) - Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez: A Tailor at the Court of Philip IV

Early Modern World History Workshop, 3.00-4.30 pm on Thursday 6 March in the Senior Parlour of Gonville & Caius College: Diana Berruezo Sanchez (Barcelona) - Black Multilingualism and Cultural Agency in Early Modern Iberia

Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar, 5.15 pm on Wednesday 5 March, in the Graham Storey Room of Trinity Hall: Katherine Emery (Emmanuel College) - ‘Liturgical Libraries: Music and Sound in Matthew Parker’s Whole Psalter (1567)’

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminar, 5.00 pm on Thursday 27 February, in Room 11 of the Faculty of History: Matthias Donabaum (University of Vienna) - Property, debt, and women’s economic agency in 18th-century Austria

Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar, 5.15 pm on Wednesday 26 February, in the Graham Storey Room of Trinity Hall: Katherine Emery (Emmanuel College, Cambridge) - Liturgical Libraries: Music and Sound in Matthew Parker’s Whole Psalter (1567)

Early Modern Scholarship and Religion Seminar, 4.00-5.30 pm on Friday 21 February, in the Sydney Smith Room of St Catharine's College: Felix Liber (Cambridge) - Political reasons for John Selden's Hebraic turn, 1629-1654

Early Modern World History Seminar, 3.00-4.30 pm on Thursday 27 February, in the Senior Parlour (Gonville and Caius College): Oren Margolis (UEA) - Pontifex maximus and the Epigraphy of Early Renaissance Rome

Early Modern World History Workshop, 3 pm, Thurs 20 Feb, Gonville & Caius College: Amy Craig (Cambridge) - A Mother's Touch: Embodied Experiences of Small Things in the London Foundling Hospital, 1741-1760 Amelia Hutchinson (Cambridge) - Health, Medicine and Global Trade in Early Modern Augsburg

Eighteenth Century Seminar, 5 pm, 18 February, Long Room - Gonville & Caius College: Ronald C. Po (LSE) - The Temple Archipelago: Power and Governance in Eighteenth-Century China

Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar, 5.15 pm, Graham Storey Room at Trinity Hall: Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille (University of Rouen Normandy) - Memoir-writing, historiography and the English Revolution: the case of Sir Thomas Fairfax's Short Memorials

Early Modern World History Seminar - Lent Term 2025 🌎

Early Modern World History Workshop - Lent Term 2025 🌍