One month left to apply to @emjlynajsh.bsky.social's and my conference on early modern practical texts, featuring keynotes by the brilliant @endeeekay.bsky.social and Laurence Publicover! #CFP sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

The deadline is still over a month away, but reminder about this @themhra.bsky.social funded conference @fairbanc.bsky.social and I are organising on the exciting subject of **early modern practical texts**! 📅 Abstracts due 24/11. Full details can be found here: sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

New blog post 📢 Project researcher Dr Edda Frankot on 'Danzig’s Great Mill and the renown of its master mill builder' politicsoftheenglishgraintrade.co.uk/2025/10/06/d... #earlymodern #historyofgrain

This Thursday (9th October) at 1pm, our Early Modern Discussion Group will be recommencing! Our first paper will be presented by our very own Cameron Whiteside on 'The Commission on Fees: its "Recommendations" and "Regulation" of Manuscript Production.' Please see the website for how to join!

CFP: Reading the Practical in #EarlyModern Literature University of Sheffield, 16-17 April 2026 Deadline for submissions: 24 November 2025 All info: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/readin... #SkyStorians #EarlyModernEvents @sheffieldcems.bsky.social

Just over ONE WEEK to go! The deadline for submitting an abstract for the Winter Conference is Friday 12th September! Share the news with your friends and come on down and join us in Norwich 🏰 @ueahistory.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social @chase-dtp.bsky.social

@emjlynajsh.bsky.social and I are delighted to be running this conference on EM practical texts, generously supported by @themhra.bsky.social, and with fabulous keynotes by @endeeekay.bsky.social and Laurence Publicover. Abstracts due by 24th November!

Loudly tooting this CFP, please retweet: sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

the legitimacy of the police in the Anglophone world has been the subject of a lot of debate in recent years. I think early modern England has a lot to tell us about our relationship with the police. blog here: drlucyjsclarke.wordpress.com/2025/06/29/1...

Looking forward to sharing some of my work on Fielding this Friday! ✨

This Friday (21st March), Sheffield will be hosting an interdisciplinary workshop on beer! Topics of discussion include the politics of brewing, how to make beer more sustainably, and the globalisation of the drink! To join, get in touch!

Our first EMDG of the year is on Thursday! Join us virtually for 5-10 minutes of @emjlynajsh.bsky.social and I talking about our cats before Tom's v interesting paper ⛪

This Thursday (20th March) at 1pm, Sheffield's own Tom Nixon-Roworth will be presenting a paper on 'The campaign to restore confirmation to parish religion in the 1650s.' This will be online and if you would like to join, please see the website for details! scems.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/events

SCEMS events will be starting up again next week and we're off to a busy start! 🧵 Early Modern London: New Work and Approaches Thurs 6th March, 10am - 5:30pm This workshop, headed by Ian Archer (Oxford), will cover a range of topics, inc. the Inns of Court, translation, and London's Bridewell.

SCEMS Spring 2025 events lineup 👇

Great events coming up at Sheffield next week! Wonder who that is talking about the social history of translation in early modern London... 👀

Really looking forward to these workshops and events this semester!

SCEMS events will be starting up again next week and we're off to a busy start! 🧵 Early Modern London: New Work and Approaches Thurs 6th March, 10am - 5:30pm This workshop, headed by Ian Archer (Oxford), will cover a range of topics, inc. the Inns of Court, translation, and London's Bridewell.

Sheffield students! I am once again recruiting actors (and a fight director) for my practice-as-research workshops! please email [email protected] if interested! @sheffieldcems.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social #skystorians #practiceasresearch #actorswanted

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣 REMRA is hosting its 1st interdisciplinary conference on Northern Narratives! To register your interest, please contact the conference team ([email protected]) by 21 Feb 2025. For info, see below ⬇️ or visit bit.ly/4arhSwx @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social @thinkuhi.bsky.social

The last EMDG of 2024 will be held next Thursday lunchtime! Juliet Atkinson (Leeds) is joining us to share her research on border practices in London and Yarmouth, 1606-1640. Full details (inc. the link to join) can be found via our website: sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

We are delighted to be joined tomorrow by Prof Bernard Capp (Warwick) for a lecture on ‘The multiple worlds of James Frese: Russia, civil war radicalism, the Fleet prison, and the Millennium.' Full details (including the joining link) can be found via our website: scems.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/events

Tomorrow lunchtime, Isaac Chong (Shakespeare Institute) will be joining us at EMDG to share his research on Macbeth and conjuration magic 🧙🪄 Full details (inc. the link to join) can be found via our website: scems.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/events

We're excited to welcome Prof. Nuala Zahedieh to Sheffield this evening, who will be sharing her research on 'Canoes, commons, and capitalism'. 🛶 Full details (including the link to join online) can be found via our website: scems.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/events

Saraya Haddad (Shakespeare Institute) is joining us this Thursday afternoon to present her research on the ghostly world of Macbeth and the queering of time. See the attachment for full details 👻

it's not too late to join us in person or online for our exciting workshop this Friday @sheffieldcems.bsky.social! feat. brilliant papers on new approaches to EM law and government, and a practice-as-research workshop on arrest. free to attend, lunch is provided! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/experienci...

This week @ SCEMS, Thursday 2nd May, 5:15pm: Dr Diana Matut will be delivering a lecture on 'Performing vernacular musics: Jewish women and Yiddish song, 1500-1750.' The lecture is online only. Register here: forms.gle/RdifgN9NZeKZ... 📝

Tomorrow, Prof. Neil Kenny will be giving a lecture on Rabelais, and early modern writing’s changing relation to hierarchy and class. If you want to join us online or in person on Thurs 22nd February at 5:15, use this link to register: forms.gle/GSPF6nmAx9tV...

SCEMS is back after the Christmas break and so is the Early Modern Discussion Group! On 15 Feb, from 1-2pm we'll be taking a closer look at the primary sources we use in our own research. Please join us at 38 Mappin Street and bring your own source extracts. No sign up needed!

Next week Claire Turner will be helming our final EMDG of the semester. We will be starting at the slightly earlier time of 12pm on 7 December so please feel free to bring your lunch and discuss all things plague and PhD! For those wanting to attend online, see below: 1/2

Next week Claire Turner will be helming our final EMDG of the semester. We will be starting at the slightly earlier time of 12pm on 7 December so please feel free to bring your lunch and discuss all things plague and PhD! For those wanting to attend online, see below: 1/2

Next week, Prof. Craig Muldrew will be giving a lecture on finance and class formation in eighteenth-century England. If you want to join us online or in person on 30 November at 5pm, use this link to register for a FREE ticket: forms.gle/zkhQWqeYpzub... 1/2

Next week, Prof. Craig Muldrew will be giving a lecture on finance and class formation in eighteenth-century England. If you want to join us online or in person on 30 November at 5pm, use this link to register for a FREE ticket: forms.gle/zkhQWqeYpzub... 1/2

EMDG is back! Join us for a free online talk on Thursday 23 Nov. by Camille Paccou, who will be discussing the agency of the princesses of Hainault and Flanders. Focusing on thier networks and mobilty, Paccou will argue that women had duties, rights, and capacity to govern. 1/2

EMDG is back! Join us for a free online talk on Thursday 23 Nov. by Camille Paccou, who will be discussing the agency of the princesses of Hainault and Flanders. Focusing on thier networks and mobilty, Paccou will argue that women had duties, rights, and capacity to govern. 1/2