Check out the latest GEMMS blog post by Lauren Pearl Holmes! Lauren analyzes elements of proto-sentimentalism in a 1708 manuscript sermon preached during Lent by Benjamin Wadsworth, pastor of the First Church of Boston. gemmsproject.blogspot.com/2024/12/to-p... #c18th #earlymodern

Excited to talk about @emdigit.bsky.social for the RSA Digital Humanities Speaker Seminar on November 13th, especially with Giovanna Ceserani! EMDigIt and World of Travel have so much to say to each other about the history of travel #earlymodern #17thcentury #digitalhistory

But the fun isn't over yet! Less than a week until the Preachers, Hearers, Readers and Scribes Echo Conference! Join us for our virtual conference on Saturday, Oct. 19, 9:00 am-2:30 pm Eastern Time. Register on Eventbrite tinyurl.com/PRHSEcho Will also be recorded. #Earlymodern #17thC #c18th

Thank you to everyone who attended the GEMMS conference in Boston/Cambridge last week! It was a wonderful conference. Thanks also to our partners at Harvard Divinity School and the Congregational Library who helped everything run smoothly! Here are a few photos. #Earlymodern #17thc #c18th

Today (Sept 26) is the last day to register for the Preachers, Hearers, Readers, and Scribes Conference! The conference is Oct 3-5 at the Congregational Library, Boston and Harvard Divinity School. Registration at: tinyurl.com/PHRSConference We hope to see you there! #Earlymodern #17thc #c18th

Come to Bristol! Think together with a lot of clever and thoughtful #earlymodern ists! Get some helpful input on your research! #skystorians

This special issue of JMEMS looks great, and also includes an article on "Charity, Neighbors, and Gender in London Godly Sermons" by Astrid Giugni. #earlymodern #17thc

Only 3 more days to register for the Preachers, Hearers, Readers, and Scribes Conference! Deadline: Sept 26 The conference is Oct 3-5 at the Congregational Library, Boston and Harvard Divinity School. Registration: tinyurl.com/PHRSConference We hope to see you there! #earlymodern #17thc #c18th

The Preachers, Hearers, Readers and Scribes conference includes a wide range of panels on early modern manuscript sermons, as well as keynote lectures by Dr. Frank Bremer, Dr. David Hall and Prof. Ann Hughes. . For the conference program, see gemmsproject.blogspot.com/p/phrs-confe...

Only 1 week left to register for Preachers, Hearers, Readers and Scribes Conference! The conference will be Oct 3-5 at the Congregational Library, Boston, and at Harvard Divinity School. . Register at: www.eventbrite.ca/e/preachers-... Registration deadline: Sept 26 #earlymodern #17thc #c18th

Less than 2 weeks left to register for Preachers, Hearers, Readers and Scribes Conference! The conference will be Oct 3-5 at the Congregational Library & Archives and Harvard Divinity School. . Register at: eventbrite.ca/e/9490966626... Registration deadline: Sept 26 #earlymodern #17thc #c18th

Only 1 day until our free GEMMS 2.0 Virtual Workshop on Sept 10 at 12 pm EDT/5 pm BST! We hope you can join us to see what GEMMS 2.0 can do! Register to join us live or receive a link to the recording later: www.eventbrite.ca/e/gemms-20-v... #earlymodern #17thC #c18th

There is less than a week until our free GEMMS 2.0 Virtual Workshop on Tuesday, Sept 10 at 12 pm EDT/5 pm BST! Join us to learn more about the new iteration of GEMMS: Register at: www.eventbrite.ca/e/gemms-20-v... The workshop will be recorded, so you can watch it later. #EarlyModern #17thC #c18th

For more on GEMMS 2.0 (gemms.usask.ca), please join us for a virtual workshop on September 10. Register at www.eventbrite.ca/e/gemms-20-v... The workshop will take place on Zoom and also will be recorded for later viewing. #EarlyModern #17thC #c18th

We are delighted to announce the launch of GEMMS 2.0 (gemms.usask.ca)! GEMMS 2.0 has new and enhanced searches, and allows contributors to add data to GEMMS. For more details, see gemmsproject.blogspot.com/2024/08/intr... #earlymodern #17thc #c18th

Registration is open for the Preachers, Hearers, Readers and Scribes Echo Conference! The one-day conference will take place on Zoom on Saturday, Oct. 19, 9:00 am-2:30 pm Eastern Time Register on Eventbrite tinyurl.com/PRHSEcho Will also be recorded. #Earlymodern #17thC #c18th

Registration is now open for the Preachers, Hearers, Readers & Scribes Conference! The conference will be Oct 3-5 at the Congregational Library, Boston & Harvard Divinity School. To register: eventbrite.ca/e/9490966626... We hope to see you in October! #17thC #c18th #earlymodern

#OTD in 1724 the Anglican clergyman Henry Sacheverell died. Sacheverell was infamous for a 5 Nov 1709 sermon, which led to his trial by parliament and sparked riots in London. For more, see Hannah Yip’s new article theconversation.com/how-one-18th... #earlymodern #c18th

GEMMS has reached a new milestone - we have recently entered sermon #30,000 in the database! In our new blog, Lucy Underwood discusses this sermon by Peter Wright SJ, a Catholic priest in England from 1644 until his execution in 1651. #earlymodern #17thC gemmsproject.blogspot.com/2024/06/a-ca...

Check out the latest GEMMS blog post by @nicolemaceira.bsky.social, one of GEMMS's researchers: "Communion Season in Glasgow and the Surrounding Areas, c.1695-1720: Evidence from the Wodrow Collection" gemmsproject.blogspot.com/2024/04/comm... #earlymodern #17thC #c18th

Should you be in the Boston area next week, do come join us at the "Rethinking Early Modern Confessionalism" workshop at Harvard. #earlymodern 🗃️

#OnThisDay 4 April 1660 John Milton published his last republican pamphlet: 'Brief Notes upon a Late Sermon' in which he advocated an elected monarchy as being preferable to the restoration of the Stuart dynasty. Bust of Milton in our collection. #17thCentury #OTD

📢 Reminder: we are offering a funded PhD studentship on global commodities in #EarlyModern wills! 📢 This post shows the scope a student would have to shape their research & the other resources at their disposal - please share! 📇 sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

A reminder that registration for Sound Faith: Religion and the Acoustic World, 1400-1800 is open now! Thurs 13- Fri 14 June at the University of York (with a graduate workshop on 'Audiation' on the afternoon of Wed 12 June with Lucia Martinez Valdivia). #earlymodern 🗃️ www.york.ac.uk/crems/events...

Hi, everyone! This is the first post (and thread) of the 'STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Verse, 1475-1700' research team led by Principal Investigator, Professor Erin McCarthy (University of Galway). 1/5

A useful thread reporting on the state of play at the BL Manuscripts Room rn. Summary: no guaranteed photos, no access to strongeroom (special select) manuscripts, until e-services are restored. Glad they've restored access for so many. Let's hope the rest of us can get back soon.

FUNDING AVAILABLE! Today, with the launch of the programme website, we open applications for not one, not two, not three, not four but FIVE doctoral scholarships on handwritten cultures PLUS a master's plus doctoral scholarship: www.komldsp.org.uk

The #CfP for #SCSC2024 is now live! #twitterstorians #earlymodern #Toronto www.sixteenthcentury.org/conference

Opportunity in the Parker Library! 1-year Fellowship in manuscript and rare book studies Parker Library Stipendiary Early-Career Research Fellowship tenable for one year from 1 October 2024.  DL: 6 March 2024 www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/about/opport... #BookHistory #medievalsky

Reminder: send us your expressions of interest by the end of this week!

I'm on the hunt for people who are happy to share book proposals with me, particularly for academic presses (Palgrave, Routledge, OUP, CUP, MUP, YUP, JHUP)! Can be history or further afield. Pls share widely!

📣The government consultation on whether it should destroy all post-1858 UK wills apart from those of a few ‘famous people’ closes tonight! Read about what would be lost in this short blog, & add your own response to the proposal 🗃️ www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/fe...

The first post in the new 'Will of the Month' series on the @materialwills.bsky.social blog is now live: expect London ministers, the Great Fire of 1666, and secret books and papers that were set aside to be burned... sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

#EarlyModern history PhD students around London: the 'Society, Culture and Belief, 1500-1800' seminar at @ihr.bsky.social is looking for a postgrad convenor for summer term 2024. Stipend of £100 and a chance to get involved in a great seminar! 🗃️ societycultureandbelief.wordpress.com/2024/02/11/o...

Nature editorial on the cyber attacks on the #BritishLibrary and other research institutions: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Latest from the #BritishLibrary on rebuilding after being hacked: Restoring our services - 9 February 2024 update blogs.bl.uk/living-knowl...

Event: The cyber incident at the British Library has called into question our reliance on online systems to consult medieval manuscripts. Join this conversation on the current situation, and on rethinking practices 🕔 5-6.30pm 💻 Wed 7 Feb Online (free) visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/feb24/...

NEW Fellowship Opportunity! The NNI and the Albany County Historical Association seek a graduate student to visit 10 smaller archives to identify documents related to enslaved and free Blacks and Indigenous people in Albany County over the summer. For more information: forms.gle/p4M8Z8Be985L....

I'm involved in this new research project on AI, museums, coloniality, and the visitor experience, and we're hiring three new positions! Please read and feel free to share the ads in the post below widely : we're looking for a Research Associate, a Research Assistant, and a Project Administrator.

Advanced warning that most of my content is basically going to be me flapping my hands at you all to encourage you to come to York this summer for what I am humbly declaring will be the BEST CONFERENCE EVER ;-) #earlymodern 🗃️

As well as our amazing speakers, we have three phenomenal keynotes (1/3) Up first is Lucía Martínez Valdivia (Reed College): Of Sounds This Is the Strain: Literary Audiation and Early Modern English Poetic Devotion #earlymodern 🗃️

It is great to see the BL recovering from the cyber-attack - and congratulations all staff who have worked hard to get this far. Remember that while the manuscript catalogue remains unavailable, the useful resource from @memslibukc.bsky.social is there to help.

Will I see you in Vienna in September 2025? If you are interested in palaeography and what to discuss how to identify a scribe, you will want to submit a proposal to the next conference of the Comité international de paléographie latine: cipl.hypotheses.org/1201

Deadline approaching! Only a few days left to submit your proposal for: "Preachers, Hearers, Readers, Scribes" Conference (3-5 Oct. 2024 in Cambridge & Boston, MA) Deadline: 1 January 2024 For details, see gemmsproject.blogspot.com/2023/10/call... #earlymodern #17thC #c18th

Only a week and a half left to submit your proposal for the "Preachers, Hearers, Readers, and Scribes" Conference (Cambridge/Boston, MA, Oct 2024)! Deadline: 1 January 2024 Send your proposal to [email protected] See: gemmsproject.blogspot.com/2023/10/call... #EarlyModern #17thC #18thC

The Northamptonshire preacher Nicolas Estwick preached at the funeral of Robert Bolton, rector of Broughton, #OTD in 1631. GEMMS has a record for reader's notes on the sermon, held at the British Library (Harley MS 6534). gemmsorig.usask.ca/view_record.... Portrait ©NPG #EarlyModern #17thC

We do not usually raise points that might be seen as political - any more than simply doing history inevitably is - but we find this proposal, that would result in the destruction of almost all original post-1800 UK wills concerning. This consultation closes 23 February 2024.

The recording is now available for Arnold Hunt's lecture: "From print to manuscript: the commonplacing of printed sermons" youtu.be/csZ_GMtwkYI Thank you to Arnold for a fantastic lecture & to all those who joined us live last week! #earlymodern #17thC

Latest from the British Library: "disruption to certain services is expected to persist for several months." blogs.bl.uk/living-knowl...