📣Less than a week to go until our 50th anniversary conference! Our full programme is out now, please find it here: socialhistory.org.uk/events/confe...

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Deadline tomorrow! We’ve already received some fantastic proposals from scholars across disciplines, countries and career stages and look forward to putting the programme together. If you work on early modern violence or conflict, don't miss out ⬇️🗡️ #earlymodern

Thank you very much to all who have submitted abstracts. We have received many excellent submissions and are excited to start working on the programme soon. If you work on violence or conflict and you haven't submitted yet, remember this is the final week to send us your abstracts! 🗡️⬇️ #earlymodern

With only two weeks to go before our CfP closes, we are pleased to confirm this year’s conference activity: a tour of Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM), led by our very own Zara Money @zara-money.bsky.social. Remember to send us your abstracts to [email protected] by 22 May!

Any #skystorians interested in the English Civil War? Come along to the Dorset History Centre on 6 June for a full day of talks on current research from Civil War scholars, including our own Tom Gayton and Eamonn Welch. See attached for more details, and please help us spread the word! #earlymodern

Delighted to be talking about my dissertation research with the lovely folks at the IHR’s British History in the 17th Century seminar this Thursday, April 30 (10:30am Calgary time/5:30pm UK time)! Wish I could be there in person, but I’ll be zooming in instead. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

One month left to submit your abstracts for our summer conference. If you work on any aspect of early modern violence, we want to hear from you! Remember to send us your abstracts by 22 May, and please help us spread the word ⬇️

We have had many submissions we're hoping to run back to back panels! Get your abstracts in by Friday next week if you want to be involved!

The British Commission for Maritime History (BCMH) is pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 'New Researchers in Maritime History Conference', on 17-18 April. If you want to keep up with emerging maritime research, don't miss it! ⚓ www.maritimehistory.org.uk/new-research...

We’re delighted to announce our keynote speaker for our upcoming conference, Prof. Elaine Murphy (Plymouth) @plymprivateer.bsky.social, who will deliver a paper on how 17c sailors and their wives navigated wartime separation ⚓ Please see our full CfP below, and send your abstracts by 22 May!

CfP from historians of everyday forms of violence and conflict (broadly defined). Attendees will also enjoy the delights of Devon in the early autumn ... 👇

We’re delighted to announce the first keynote speaker for our upcoming conference: Prof. Andrew Hopper (Oxford), who will be speaking on his forthcoming book 'Widowhood and Bereavement in the English Civil Wars'. The conference will be held on 2-3 Sept in Exeter. Email us your abstracts by 22 May!

With four weeks to go, we are excited to announce our keynote speakers and update our Call for Papers for our upcoming “Tension & Fragmentation” Conference. We will share more about them shortly.

Wonderful to see that we have already started receiving abstracts for our upcoming conference this summer. If you are an early modernist studying violence from any discipline, do consider this opportunity to share your research with our network, and please help us spread the news! ⬇️

I'm excited to share the Call for Papers for the Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World conference is here. This year's theme is 'Beyond the Battlefield' encouraging a vast array of interdisciplinary discussion about these themes from various social viewpoints. Please do share.

Please help us share the call for papers for this exciting conference I am co-organising this summer! 📜 We welcome submissions from anyone looking at any aspect of early modern violence, particularly those looking beyond military history, and those who would not call themselves historians at all 🗡️⚓

Very excited for our return in 2026! Please help us spread the word, and consider submitting an abstract to our #earlymodern conference below ⬇️

We're back! Building on the success of our inaugural conference last year, we are delighted to announce its return with the new theme: Beyond the Battlefield🗡️ The conference will take place at the University of Exeter on 2-3 September. Deadline for abstracts is 22 May. Please circulate widely!

@dylanneill.bsky.social and I are back at it! We are hosting another conference later this year with a fantastic committee! For anyone interested please do reach out! Abstract deadline is 20 April 2026!

What a wonderful couple of days in beautiful Potsdam for the Cultures of War and Violence conference, organised by the Society for the History of War. Thank you @sochistorywar.bsky.social for having me, and as always @swwdtp.bsky.social for making it possible! 💫🗡️

After a year of work, the conference on Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World @earlymodernwar.bsky.social could not have gone better. Thank you again to all speakers and attendees, to my fellow organisers and our sponsors @exeter.ac.uk and @swwdtp.bsky.social for making it happen! 🗡️

Once again, we thank you all for your support. And especially the organisers, Dylan Neill Andrés @dylanneill.bsky.social , Teoni Passereau @teonipassereau.bsky.social, Tom Gayton and Padmanabha Reddy Addula. We hope to see you all again in future editions of the conference! 🗡️⚓⚔️🏴‍☠️

The two keynotes were representative of our wide variety of topics, from land and maritime warfare to the boundaries of legitimacy surrounding early modern violence and the impact and representation of such violence in its various forms. All through a range of excellent panels!

We would like to thank our two keynote speakers, Mark Stoyle and Jo Esra. While Mark took us back to Civil War Exeter with a talk and guided walk along the city walls, Jo made us think about the emotional consequences of such violence by looking into the experiences of pirate captives ⚔️🏴‍☠️

What an incredible couple of days! It was a real pleasure to host such amazing speakers on a wide variety of topics relating to conflict and violence in the early modern period 🗡️ Thank you to everyone who spoke, attended and supported us, and especially to our sponsors @swwdtp.bsky.social !

I thoroughly enjoyed watching the results of these past few months of effort. Thank you to all speakers and attendees (both in person and online), my co-organisers @dylanneill.bsky.social, @swwdtp.bsky.social, and everyone that shared and engaged with this project along the way!

Day two of the conference complete! With some excellent panels and speakers, day two was completely filled with some amazing papers on Privateering, Methodology, Naval Violence, Representations of Violence on the Stage, and England's relations with her Neighbours in the Late Seventeenth Century.

Day one complete of the Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World conference! Had some very insightful talks covering a variety of topics! The day finished with a fantastic talk from Professor Mark Stoyle followed by a walking tour of the city walls! I look forward to tomorrow!

Just finished preparing my paper for this - after a full year of working on this conference, I can't wait to finally to see it happen in a couple of days! 🗡️

The conference is free to attend for all, so if you would like to join us, either in person or online, do register using the following link. We look forward to seeing you all very soon! 🗡️⚓🏴‍☠️🌍 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

We will continue with more representations of violence, this time on the early modern stage, before returning with some more pictures of maritime violence with naval accounts and concluding by discussing England's conflicting relations with its neighbours in the late 17c 🌍

On Day 2, we'll be adding a maritime flavour by looking at unlawful violence at sea ⚓ Starting with Dr Jo Esra's keynote on North African pirates and interpreting interdisciplinary approaches to violence before moving on to the transformation of privateering during the 18c 🏴‍☠️

On Day 1, we'll be discussing early modern representations of violence and relations between armies and civilians, before delving into the English West Country's experience of Civil War, concluding with a keynote and guided tour by Professor Mark Stoyle 🗡️

Our jam-packed programme is ready to go! Keep reading for more ⬇️

This conference has been so long in the making, and the day's finally almost here! We're very excited to see everyone in just a couple of weeks - check out the final programme below, along with the registration link for anyone wishing to attend (it's free!) 🗡️

Registration is now open! Join us this Halloween for a conference full of (historical) blood, conflict and violence 🩸We're hugely grateful to all who have submitted proposals and can't wait to see you all soon! 🗡️ Keep an eye out for the full programme, and register here: forms.gle/be4TAxmG9SVX...

Don't forget that today is the last day to submit your abstracts! 🙌🏻 Thank you very much to all who have already submitted. We aim to review all abstracts shortly, so please bear with us, and we'll be in touch very soon 🗡️

#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...

Had an absolutely amazing time at the fantastic James VI & I conference in Glasgow. Three full days of James, with brilliant speakers and fascinating papers - learnt a lot and made new friends, who could ever ask for more? Thank you to the amazing organisers @kingjamesconf.bsky.social 👑📜

DAY TWO - Book Workshop Our own Alexandra Plane leads a wonderful session on Jacobean books in University of Glasgow Library. A fantastic workshop showing James's learning influences, library and writings 📖👑

A new account here on Bluesky, for the conference on Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World, scheduled for the end of October at the University of Exeter. @earlymodernwar.bsky.social Please do follow (and make plans for this autumn)

Excellent to see this call for papers for a conference bridging the gap between military, political, social & cultural approaches to conflict, war and violence in the #EarlyModern world. 🗃️ 👇

Please help us share the call for papers for this exciting conference I am co-organising this autumn! 📜 We welcome submissions from anyone looking at any aspect of early modern violence, particularly those looking beyond military history, and those who would not call themselves historians at all 🗡️⚓

We are thrilled to announce that the Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World Conference, with a keynote address by Professor Mark Stoyle, will be held on 30-31 October at the University of Exeter. Please help us spread the world, and consider submitting a proposal!🗡️

Call for Papers for our interdisciplinary conference exploring Dialogues of Nonconformity across the British Atlantic World, 1500-1800, taking place at the University of Birmingham on 12 September 2025. Keynote delivered by Professor Alec Ryrie. Papers welcome from researchers at any career stage.

Grateful for the opportunity to present at the wonderful Work, Authenticity and Social Identity Conference at Warwick this week. What an incredible selection of papers! Thank you @annajpravdica.bsky.social and the rest of the @earlymodern2025.bsky.social organisers for a wonderful conference 📜