Finishing the year on a high - I've signed a contract with Cambridge University Press for my book: Metal and Literary Production in Early Modern England: Labour, Value, Violence. Transforming my PhD into a book whilst on a series of lectureships wasn't easy, so I WILL be celebrating every milestone

Join us in two weeks—online and in person in Cape Town—for the first MEMOs Conference! More details about online registration coming soon, stay tuned 😉

📢CFP: Annual Olivette Otele Prize 2025/26! Our annual prize for Black UK-based history PhD students is now open for submissions! 📆Key dates: - Abstracts due on 28th November - Notifications on 19th December - 8000 word essay due on 27th Feb (1/3)

From sausage makers to cheese rinds to wrinkles... a delightful evening in a packed room to celebrate Prof. @evelynwelch.bsky.social's Renaissance Skin. @kingsartshums.bsky.social @kingshistory.bsky.social @kingsenglish.bsky.social

Join us next Thursday (30/10, 5.30 pm) for Dr Emily Vine’s (@emilymayvine.bsky.social) talk on ‘Birth, Death and Domestic Religion in Early Modern London’! You can sign up to join in-person (IHR Wolfson Room, NB02) or online via Zoom here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

We've been able to increase ticket availability. If you're keen to attend, please register!

Thomas James identified as sitter in Thomas Phillips painting. James served as a musician in the army during the Napoleonic Wars. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Book launch October 23rd! Join CEMS for the launch of Prof. @evelynwelch.bsky.social's Renaissance Skin. We'll be gathering in King's History department. Comments from Dr. @historyelaine.bsky.social and Dr. Paolo Savoia. Chaired by Dr. @hsmurphy.bsky.social. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/renai...

To mark #BlackHistoryMonth, Identities presents a curated selection of articles that illuminate Black histories and lived experiences across the Black Atlantic. Read the collection with #FreeAccess: www.tandfonline.com/...#BlackHistoryMonth,#FreeAccess:@nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social

Lots of great events this semester!

Now open for booking! This online course provides an introduction to the representation of African people in the art and culture of early modern Europe. Thursdays, 13 November - 11 December, 2 - 3:30pm

Fantastic resource!

Tomorrow is August 🤯 is your syllabus ready?? Throughlines carries several exemplar syllabi to help inspire you for the semester ahead. We are also proud to announce new pedagogical resources from Patrica Akhimie and Geraldine Heng are now available. Start here: www.throughlines.org

#EarlyModern history PhD students around London: the 'Society, Culture and Belief, 1500-1800' seminar @ihrscb.bsky.social at @ihr.bsky.social is looking for a postgrad convenor for 2025/26. Stipend of £300/yr and a chance to get involved in a great seminar!

New blog post reflecting on some of the material I was looking at during my @folger.edu fellowship. Thinking about how race was staged on London's streets during the post-Restoration Lord Mayor's Show. www.folger.edu/blogs/collat...

#CfP: Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World Exeter, 30-31 October 31, 2025. Abstracts by September 5, 2025 @earlymodernwar.bsky.social #Skystorians #EarlyModernEvents #MiseryOfCivilWar www.rensoc.org.uk/event/confli...

#JobKlaxon: One year fixed-term lectureship in Shakespeare Studies @cemskcl.bsky.social (1 Sept 2025-31 August 2026. Apply by 27th July 2025. #Skystorians #Shax www.rensoc.org.uk/event/fixed-...

Really pleased and proud to announce a new @ihr.bsky.social seminar - Migration and Mobility History. We want to cover migration across time and space and speak with colleagues across disciplines. If you're interested in attending/presenting, get in touch: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Not sure how I missed this in April! Excellent new book on Pepys's Diary. Chapter 8 has a whole section that sheds new light on the Black Londoners mentioned in Pepys's Diary. Really helpful for my own work.

Still a few places available for tomorrow’s online event on Pepys’s shorthand! Saturday 5 July at 6-7pm BST.  Sign up on Eventbrite here: tinyurl.com/shorthand-sa...

Tomorrow at 14:00! Join us for our final webinar on teaching the #earlymodern. We'll be joined by Claire Titley (@thelondonarchives.bsky.social) to talk about cross-institutional collaboration. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/teach...

Call for Papers: 'Charles Ignatius Sancho: A Black British Man of Letters and His World' conference. Deadline for submissions 14 July 2025. Conference will be held 13-14 March 2026 at Northeastern University, London: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Caribbean Connections: Seventeenth-century Barbados and Britain. A 2-day workshop 25-26 June in London at KCL. Be there. www.mmor.co.uk/events/carib...

Less than a week till our @cemskcl.bsky.social colloquium on early modern war narratives! Sign up here to attend in person or online! 👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/centr... Please repost! ⚔️

Join us next Friday!

This Thursday! A couple of spaces left. Do join us to talk about teaching and digital repositories with @emilymayvine.bsky.social

REMINDER: We offer bursaries of up to £500 per head to support UK-based postgraduate and early career researchers to arrange panels on London-related topics for academic conferences. See here for further details on how to apply (please repost to help spread the word!)

Join CEMS on June 6th for our Annual Colloquium! This year's theme is Early Modern War Narratives. Full details below.

Join CEMS on June 6th for our annual colloquium! Excellent theme for this year's event.

Happy Friday! you can now register for our @cemskcl.bsky.social colloquium on Early Modern War Narratives! June 6th in person and online! Keynote by Andrew Hopper and Ismini Pells, funded by KCL, CEMS, & @srsrensoc.bsky.social. Register here (and pls repost!) — www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...

The next few articles address issues of race in London's history and heritage. First is 'From Historical Fiction to Historical Praxis: Researching Long Eighteenth-Century London’s Black Lives', by Montaz Marché and @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social (also open access): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It's here. Our 50th anniversary special issue, on 'London's Past Today', edited by @aidannorrie.bsky.social and Robert Shoemaker: www.tandfonline.com/toc/yldn20/c.... 🧵

Our next newsletter goes out this week! Sign up below to receive it in your inbox. If you have any upcoming #earlymodern events or CfPs, get in touch and we can include them. kcl.us14.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...

New article out in @thelondonjournal.bsky.social and it's Open Access! It has been such a pleasure writing this piece with Dr. Montaz Marché. We were mainly trying to position social history as part of a range methods to narrate histories of 18th c. Black lives. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Today’s the day! The 50th anniversary special issue of @thelondonjournal.bsky.social, which I co-edited with Bob Shoemaker, is published! It concludes with my rather personal reflection on the future of the humanities: I’d be very grateful if you gave it a read www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

FINAL PROJECT CONFERENCE! Register to attend Medicine, Slavery, and Race in the Atlantic World, bringing together longstanding project collaborators and exciting, new interlocutors. Spaces are *extremely* limited, so do sign up... see the programme at www.mmor.co.uk/events/confe... #EarlyModern 🗃️

Come along on Monday!

Join us tomorrow at 14:00! We'll be talking all things syllabi and trying to think through the turn to global history in many early modern survey courses.

I've arrived! Delighted to be spending the next few months @folgerlibrary.bsky.social as a short-term fellow. If you're in and around DC and want to connect, lmk.

Something else I’m doing, this should be a great series of events on approaching early modern history (I’m talking about archives of course, and building relationships with historians).

Join us through the spring to think about teaching the early modern! I really want this to be a space to share practices.

Teaching the Early Modern: A Webinar Series! CEMS will be hosting three online sessions on teaching practices and strategies. We'll have three sessions through the spring: 23rd April, 29th May, and 19th June. Full details below! kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/teach... @kingsartshums.bsky.social

Deadline this Friday! CfP for our Annual CEMS Colloquium. This year's theme is Early Modern War Narratives. Full details below! kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/lamen...

Submit your abstracts! Deadline next Friday!

Deadline in just a week's time! Come and share your work at our annual CEMS Colloquium - this year on early modern war narratives and organised by Dr. Emily Rowe.

PhD Studentship available! @ihr.bsky.social and Historic Royal Palaces AHRC CDP project on the Tower of London and Londoners, late medieval and Tudor. Focus on looking at everyday people supplying the Tower, especially migrants, also global commodities. Full fees + stipend - UK or international

Our Annual CEMS Colloquium is on Early Modern War Narratives. We're currently looking for 15-minute papers that speak on this theme. Send us an abstract by April 11. Full details below! kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/lamen... @emilyrowe1.bsky.social @hsmurphy.bsky.social

Things are dire. But the Royal Historical Society is still funding postgraduate research. Next deadline is 6 June 2025. Grants of £500 or £1,000 available. Details: royalhistsoc.org/research_fun...

Come and talk about early modern war narratives, war reporters, & reader responses at this KCL Colloquium in June! 👇

Excited to run the annual @cemskcl.bsky.social colloquium on early modern war narratives in June! Check out the CFP below, please share widely, and submit an abstract!