Have zoom link, can sneak you in still!

Join us tomorrow! We'll be in the @ihr.bsky.social from 17:30 to talk all about English Imperial Formation. Join us, either in Bloomsbury or on zoom: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyMdoern #Skystorians

Featuring (inevitably?) Samuel V*ssall @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social , 'Insolence' @deborahhamer.bsky.social @jorisvdt.bsky.social @bramvanleuveren.bsky.social @henklooijesteijn.bsky.social , Cartagena/Habsburg America @amandajsummers.bsky.social @jjponcevazquez.bsky.social @csschmitt.bsky.social

This coming Monday! Excited to be welcoming @roperlou.bsky.social to the @ihr.bsky.social for a paper on “The Guinea Trade and English Imperial Formation, 1624-1664” MON, 11 June, 17:30, in person or inline —sign up for link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #earlymodern #skystorians

We’re OFF! Excitedly listening to Mélanie Lamotte’s introduction of the volume.

Today! I am so delighted to be celebrating and discussing Mel's new book.

This coming Monday! Very excited to have teamed up with the French History seminar for a discussion of Mélanie Lamotte's By Flesh & Toil: How Sex, Race, & Labor Shaped the Early French Empire (@harvardpress.bsky.social) MON, 18 May, 17:30, zoom & in person @ihr.bsky.social #EarlyModern #Skystorians

Blighty is officially warned that I will be 'gracing it w/my presence at the end of the month @thiagokrause.bsky.social @prizepapers.bsky.social 🙃

THIS TERM's PROGRAMME! Join us for 2 exciting events with Mélanie Lamotte, @lrhodges.bsky.social, @juliehardwick.bsky.social, and @roperlou.bsky.social Mondays, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social Everybody welcome, in person or online--register for the zoom link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern

WE’RE OFF! YOU CAN STILL SNEAK IN, #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

TONIGHT! We can still sneak you in on a clandestine zoom link if you want! Or join us in Bloomsbury which is even more glorious in Springtime #EarlyModern #SkyStorians #SlaveryArchive

(booked 😁)

MONDAY! Join us for an exciting paper about the Early Atlantic Slave trade and the Invention of Modern Corporeality by Pablo Gómez! 23 March, 17:30 (UK) @ihr.bsky.social & on zoom -- register for the link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians #SlaveryArchive

We’re OFF! You can still join us. Excited to be hearing from @sheilaghogilvie.bsky.social ! #EarlyModern #HistMedicine #HistSTM

We still can smuggle you in if you didn't sign up for the official zoom link on time! Or make your way to Bloomsbury to come and enjoy the paper in real life. #EarlyModern #Skystorians #HistMed #HistSTM

NEXT MONDAY! Excited we get to welcome @sheilaghogilvie.bsky.social to the @ihr.bsky.social to talk about Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to Covid. 9 March, 17:30 (UK), in person & online -- sign up for the zoom link. #EarlyModern #SkyStorians #HistSTM #HistMed

Keen to listen! And if this tastes of more: come and listen to a conversation about it @ihreurope1500.bsky.social & the French Seminar @ihr.bsky.social with Mélanie Lamotte, @juliehardwick.bsky.social, and @lrhodges.bsky.social. Bound to be fascinating! 18 May, 17:30 (UK Time), in person & online

And we’re OFF! Excited to hear from Federica Gigante!

Have the zoom link! Can still smuggle you in! #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

TONIGHT! Join us in Bloomsbury or share a cool early modern titbit to get the zoom link clandestinely...

NEXT SESSION COMING UP! Federica Gigante will talk about "Enslaved Networks: Muslim Lives and the Movement of Knowledge and Things in the #EarlyModern Mediterranean" MON 16 FEB, 17:30. Join us @ihr.bsky.social or on zoom -- sign up for the link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #SkyStorians

*Reposted CFP with alt text* III Colloquium on Late Medieval and Early Modern Cities: Moving and Being Moved London, 11-12 June 2026 Deadline abstract submissions: 31 January 2026 Looking forward to meeting everyone! 🤗🤗 #medievalsky #skystorians #medieval #earlymodern #callforpapers #history

⚡ Lightning Talks at The London Archives ⚡ Are you a student or ECR? Need feedback on your work? Can you summarise it in 5 minutes? Join us for Lightning Talks at The London Archives - a friendly event open to researchers of London and its history! 📆 Wed 11 February 🕔 5pm

We're delighted to announce our event @foundlingmuseum.bsky.social 8 March 2026, London, 2-4pm: "18th-Century Women, Struggle, Fame or Fortune". Talks will be in the Picture Gallery (free with Museum admission). Full list of speakers via link: foundlingmuseum.org.uk/event/women-... /1

AMENDED PROGRAMME! But with good news: we'd love to welcome you to *four* sessions this term, not three! Join us @ihr.bsky.social on Mondays at 17:30, or on zoom (sign up for the link here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...) #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

VERY EXCITING BOOK! Come and discuss this VERY EXCITING BOOK with @ihreurope1500.bsky.social on 18 May @ihr.bsky.social! and get your copy from @harvardpress.bsky.social: www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

Winter Programme 2025-26 for our seminar on Europe & the World @ihr.bsky.social ! Mondays, 17:30 (UK time). Everybody very welcome, in Bloomsbury or on zoom. All info and forms to get the zoom links here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

VERY excited we get to discuss Mélanie Lamotte's book @ihreurope1500.bsky.social with @lrhodges.bsky.social & @juliehardwick.bsky.social and Mélanie herself! 18 May, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social Get your copy @harvardpress.bsky.social: www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

SHORTLY!

FIRST SEMINAR TODAY! We'll hear from Yahya Nurgat about "The Politics of Sacred Space in the Early Modern Islamicate World: The Shrines of Karbala and Najaf" Join us in Bloomsbury or on zoom! #EarlyModen #SkyStorians www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

TOMORROW! Join us, in person or online!

Definitely sign up for the zoom link if you're not in London. But if you're joining in person, could you also register via the in-person link? We obviously will welcome everyone -- enthusiastically -- but it helps in showing numbers of participation.

PROGRAMME FOR THE TERM UP! Exciting papers coming you way, on zoom & @ihr.bsky.social, #EarlyModern #SkyStorians: sacred spaces, epidemics, and corporeality. Sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Social media manager is embarrassingly late, but delighted to have to sit on the floor because of HOW MANY PEOPLE are here to come and listen to the brilliant @araujohistorian.bsky.social

THIS COMING MONDAY! The fab @araujohistorian.bsky.social presents on "Dahomey: A West African Kingdom in the Centre of the World During the #EighteenthCentury" with comment by Toby Green. All welcome, in person @ihr.bsky.social or via zoom -- register for link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

THIS COMING MONDAY! The fab @araujohistorian.bsky.social presents on "Dahomey: A West African Kingdom in the Centre of the World During the #EighteenthCentury" with comment by Toby Green. All welcome, in person @ihr.bsky.social or via zoom -- register for link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

I will be in London to present the paper "Dahomey: A West African Kingdom in the Centre of the World During the Eighteenth Century" at the @ihreurope1500.bsky.social on Dec 1, 17h30 (London time) register here to join us in person or online www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #slaveryarchive

HUGELY looking forward to @araujohistorian.bsky.social’s paper in a week’s time! (So much so that we’re going to ignore that that means *IT’S DECEMBER IN A WEEK’S TIME*) Join us in lovely Bloomsbury or on zoom! #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

WE’RE OFF! excited to hear from @rogerleejesus.bsky.social Also check out the exciting ERC project he is part of on law & land I the iberian empire (beyond property) iberland.eu

MONDAY! Looking forward to welcoming @rogerleejesus.bsky.social to the @ihr.bsky.social seminar for a talk on "Colonialism and Land: Rethinking Imperial and Local Agency in the Portuguese Empire in Asia 17 Nov, 5:30, hybrid (register for zoom link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...) #EarlyModern

This is TODAY! Join us in Bloomsbury or online! #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

MONDAY! Looking forward to welcoming @rogerleejesus.bsky.social to the @ihr.bsky.social seminar for a talk on "Colonialism and Land: Rethinking Imperial and Local Agency in the Portuguese Empire in Asia 17 Nov, 5:30, hybrid (register for zoom link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...) #EarlyModern

Two funded PhDs here as part of the Inventing Futures programme at IMEMS! One on the project Utopia in the World and the other on the project Framing Gendered Violence, lead supervisors Richard Scholar and Ita Mac Carthy in Modern Languages and Cultures, details via the link...

TOOOOOOOOOOM!!! @tombhamilton.bsky.social! Oh this is brilliant, humongous congratulations. The Natalie Zemon Davis Prize from the @16csociety.bsky.social! 🤩 #NZD4Eva (don't forget her birthday on Saturday, our #EarlyModern feast day)

We look forward to meeting all those attending #HistDay25 today: bit.ly/4nvfl9v We're one of 70 exhibitors making this an ideal opportunity to discover new resources and archives to support your research. Thanks to @ihr.bsky.social & @senatehouselib.bsky.social for making this possible #Skystorians

EARLY MODERN PHDs!!! #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

Folger Institute Short-Term Fellowships #medieval #earlymodern www.anzamems.org/?p=...

CFP: Tolerance and Dissent Deadline for abstracts 15 January 2026 Conference: 24-26 June 2026, University of Fribourg Travel grants available for graduate students #EarlyModern #SkyStorians all info: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/tolera...

CFP: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns Confirmed keynote speaker: @jddavies66.bsky.social Deadline: 20 December 2025 Conference: 22 May 2026, European University Institute, Florence all info: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/gender... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

EXCITED FOR OUR NEXT SESSION! Sari Nauman on "Between Categories: Migration, War, and Refuge in the #EarlyModern Baltic Sea". Monday, 10 Nov, 17:30, @ihr.bsky.social NB02 and on zoom (register for link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...) #SkyStorians #MovingHistory #HistoryOfMigration