We are delighted to welcome Dr Kate Gibson (Manchester) on Wednesday 12 November, 3.30-5pm in Forum Seminar Room 10 and on Teams for the following CEMS seminar: 'Fostering and Adoption in Eighteenth-Century Britain'. Full description attached. Please join us! @lsangha.bsky.social

A round up of recent @materialwills.bsky.social project news below 👇 Including recent @zooniverse.bsky.social milestones, project meetings, and new blog posts! #earlymodern #history #skystorians @leverhulme.ac.uk @uoearchhist.bsky.social @cemsexeter.bsky.social

Upcoming event: The Quay Words writer-in-residence, Chris Hoban, will share his narrative song-cycle, telling tales from Exeter’s Quay. Chris will be joined by renowned historian, Professor Mark Stoyle. Thursday 30 October, 18.30-19.30 Book: quaywords.org.uk/events/chris... @lsangha.bsky.social

📢TODAY📢 Tune in to hear @bhamhistory.bsky.social and @emilymayvine.bsky.social discuss our unique methodology 👇 Weds 22 Oct, 5pm Zoom #EarlyModern 🗃️ #DigitalHumanities @cemsexeter.bsky.social @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @uoearchhist.bsky.social @dhlabexeter.bsky.social

CEMS members are invited to attend ‘Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World’, a two-day conference taking place at the University of Exeter on 30-31 October 2025. Full programme attached. Register attendance (for one or both days) via: [email protected] @lsangha.bsky.social

Today! Please join us for the first CEMS Seminar of the year: Dr Emily Vine, 'Birth, Death, and Domestic Religion in early modern London'. 2.30-4pm in Forum Seminar Room 5 and on Teams. Hope to see you there! #earlymodern

TOMORROW! (5 March) Professor Catherine Hall will be delivering our annual early modern history lecture, "Racial Capitalism across the Black/White Atlantic". 15:30 to 17:00 in the Newman Red lecture theatre, or on Zoom. Register here: racialcapitalism.eventbrite.co.uk #earlymodern

Our first CEMS event of the term will be on 29 January at 2pm in the Old Library: 'Exeter & Gambling: The ‘Bewitching Lotteries’ of Virginia', from Emily Rose. In addition to the talk, there will be a showcase of archival materials from the Special Collections. Hope to see you there! #earlymodern

Professor Catherine Hall will be delivering our annual early modern history lecture, "Racial Capitalism across the Black/White Atlantic". Join us on Wednesday 5 March from 15:30 to 17:00 in the Newman Red lecture theatre, or on Zoom. Register here: racialcapitalism.eventbrite.co.uk #earlymodern

Today! Professor Rebecca Probert (Exeter Law School) will be giving a paper titled ‘Criminalizing remarriage: the scope of the Bigamy Act of 1604’ at 3.30pm in Forum Seminar Room 4, and online on Teams. Hope to see you there! #EarlyModern

On Wednesday, 04 December Professor Rebecca Probert (Exeter Law School) will be giving a paper titled ‘Criminalizing remarriage: the scope of the Bigamy Act of 1604’. Join us at 3.30pm in Forum Seminar Room 4 or on Teams. #EarlyModern

A reminder that our AGM is tomorrow in Forum Seminar room 4 and online at 3:30. If you want to add anything to the agenda please get in touch, and we look forward to seeing you there! #EarlyModern

There's a new "Will of the Month" blog post over at @materialwills.bsky.social , looking at the will of a man 'local' to @uniofexeter.bsky.social, who was 3 x mayor of the city. #twitterstorians #earlymodern #history @cemsexeter.bsky.social

We're pleased to announce our autumn programme! The early modern futures reading group will return, alongside a presentation from Exeter's own Rebecca Probert and a screening of Il Moro for #BlackHistoryMonth. But first our AGM, 2nd October, online and forum room 4! #EarlyModern

September! If, like me, that means a switch to teaching preparation, here's a reminder that our many-headed monster blog hosts loads of useful short introductions to #EarlyModern History topics as well as posts on the discpline of History more broadly 🗃️ In this thread I will highlight a few. 1/

📢EXCELLENT RESOURCE KLAXON📢 warwick.ac.uk/cwad V. Hitchman & teams' #EarlyModern parish data inc. 🗃️ 1) Spreadsheet listing ALL parishes in England and Wales, with maps showing them 2) individual spreadsheets for all counties, showing survival/finding info for churchwarden accounts

Hard, cold, and short? The first episode of @markhailwood.bsky.social’s NEW Historical Association podcast busting some common assumptions about life in early modern England history.org.uk/podcasts/cat... manyheadedmonster.com/2024/07/16/w... 🗃️

📣NEW TODAY: my report on our 'What's in a Will?' workshops📣 Find out what we got up to at The National Archives and in the University of Exeter's Digital Humanities Lab #EarlyModern 🗃️ sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

📢NEW POST📢 From different versions of wills, to household items, to exploring the Zooniverse, our latest post reflects on activities and conversations at our recent workshops #EarlyModern 📇 sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

Thanks so much to all the participants at our first What's in a Will Workshop at The National Archives yesterday. We had numerous interesting conversations, plus we are delighted to report that our workshoppers transcribed 350 lines from our #EarlyModern wills during the day! 📇

We have a few spaces left at our free Exeter 'What's in a Will' workshop - open to anyone with an interest in historical wills and/or deciphering old handwriting! #History #Devon @cemsexeter.bsky.social Fri 21 June Uni of Exeter www.eventbrite.com/e/whats-in-a...

At the workshop we discussed exactly how Transkribus (the Handwritten Text Recognition platform we use on the project) works. It's not exactly the same but there are parallels with Large Language Models (LLMs), good explainer for those here: www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

'Citizen Humanities' is concept that - as General Editor of @vchlondon.bsky.social (which has been using these approaches in myriad different ways for 125 years), I'm pretty familiar with: the tools and accessibility of material changes but history as a collective/collaborative endeavour does not!

We're pleased to announce that CEMS member Helena Taylor's new book, Women Writing Antiquity: Gender and Learning in Early Modern France, has just been published by OUP: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

📢 A reminder for our funded PhD studentship 📢 on Global Commodities in #EarlyModern wills (Deadline 1 May). Find out more in this blog post, which outlines some of the themes this project could explore - Please share! #History #PhDChat sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

The deadline for this fantastic #earlymodern PhD studentship is 1 May - please so share with those who may be interested. There's lots of scope for the successful candidate to take it in a direction that most interests them.

CEMS is teaming up with Exeter centre for medieval studies for a careers event for students and early career! We will hear from recent PhDs at Exeter Harry R. McCarthy, Teresa Witcombe and Sarah-Jayne Ainsworth on their post-PhD experience. Wednesday, 2-3:30, forum seminar room 11.

If you didn't catch our first project newsletter, you can catch up here with our first 'Project Progress' blog. Find out what we’ve been up to since November 2023, and we also look ahead to some exciting activities happening over the next few months: sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

If you missed the Wills project newsletter then we've just posted about what we've been up to here: sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult... #EarlyModern 🗃️

CEMS today! @lsangha.bsky.social and @emilymayvine.bsky.social are introducing the @materialwills.bsky.social project at 3:30, forum seminar room 6 and online here sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult... See you all there! #EarlyModern

Reminder that @EmilyMayVine & I are talking about wills @cemsexeter.bsky.social tomorrow Weds 28 Feb, 3.30pm #EarlyModern #history 🗃️ [note: same talk as Monday!] ‘The Material Culture of Wills, England 1540-1790.’ In person/on Zoom - joining info: sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

CEMS today: Performance and the Paper Stage in Revolutionary England! Workshop with Niall Allsopp and Emma Depledge, Gareth Roberts visiting professor. Forum seminar room 12 at 12:30, #EarlyModern

A reminder that today is the Gareth Roberts lecture by EmmaDepledge - Beyond Folios: Buying and Selling Shakespeare in the late Seventeenth Century. Newman Purple, 5-7 #EarlyModern

Exciting new resource on ballads sure to be of interest to #EarlyModern scholars! www.100ballads.org

Exciting workshop on early modern representative democracy, organised by the Centre for Political Thought and REDIRECT Exeter, with presentations from Alan Cromartie, James Harris, Markku Peltonen, and Cesare Cuttica. Wednesday in Forum seminar room 12, 1:30-6:30 #EarlyModern

📢Do you enjoy reading #EarlyModern documents like this? If so you could contribute directly to our project by becoming an Expert Volunteer & transcribing 25 pages of wills to co-create our 'ground truth' data. 📇 Details: sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

A reminder that 2 PhD studentships are available on our Leverhulme Trust project The Material Culture of Wills 🗃️ (1) Global commodities in #EarlyModern wills www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... (2) Gender & the material culture of wills www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

Happy new term! CEMS has a very exciting programme including work in progress, a workshop on early modern democracy, seminars on performance and wills, and a careers workshop... Details will follow closer to the time! #EarlyModern

Funded PhDs! Material Culture of Wills, England 1540-1790 by Jane Whittle and @lsangha.bsky.social is recruiting two fully funded PhDs to start September, one on gender and material culture and one on global commodities #EarlyModern www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

📣 2 PhD studentships are available on our Leverhulme Trust project The Material Culture of Wills, England 1540-1790📣 🗃️ PhD 2: Global Commodities in #EarlyModern Wills www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

Three new postdoc positions in the Department of Languages, Cultures and Visual Studies on the project Cultures of Philosophy: Women Writing Knowledge in Early Modern Europe! One each to focus on Italy, England and the Dutch Republic - see next post for links #EarlyModern

📣*JOBS* Exeter's Dept. of Languages, Cultures & Visual Studies is appointing 3 postdoctoral fellows to join the ERC-awarded, URKI funded project 'Cultures of #Philosophy: Women Writing Knowledge in #EarlyModern Europe'. 🗃️ 3) Focus on the Dutch Republic: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

📣TOMORROW (Weds): The Joyce Youings Memorial Lecture Professor Alexandra Shepard, 'Who Cared? Looking after Children in C18th London'. Wed 6 December, 15.30-17.00 GMT University of Exeter or Zoom #EarlyModern 🗃️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/who-cared-...

Have you started a history PhD recently? Want to tell us about it in 5 mins or less? @long18thsem we want to hear the best PGR research about 18th C Britain at our #LightningTalks event in March 2024

One week to go until the Joyce Youings memorial lecture! Alexandra Shepard will be speaking to us on childcare in the C18th. This is both in person and online, registration here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/who-cared-.... See you there! #EarlyModern

📢The Joyce Youings Memorial Lecture 2023 📢 Prof Alex Shepard, 'Who Cared? Looking after Children in C18th London'. 📅 Wed 6 December, 15.30-17.00 GMT 📍 University of Exeter or Zoom #EarlyModern #History 🗃️ Registration & details: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/who-cared-...

"The Rabble that Can Write" *NEW* post from @markhailwood.bsky.social giving you a taste of the many, many different ways people left their mark (ha!) in #EarlyModern England: manyheadedmonster.com/2023/11/21/t...

A reminder that the Joyce Youings memorial lecture by Alexandra Shepard is rapidly approaching! Weds 6th Dec, 3:30-5, Streatham Court C. Sign up link is here! #EarlyModern child-care-work-C18th.eventbrite.co.uk

The Joyce Youings memorial lecture has been postponed until 6th Dec. Fear not, existing tickets will be valid for the new date. If you don't have tickets and would like to see Alexandra Shepard on the childcare in the 18th century, we will circulate more details soon!