Cambridge Early Modernists

Early Modern History subject group at the Cambridge History Faculty | Tweets about events, publications, and opportunities | @emodcam.bsky.social

[Cambridge Gender and Sexuality History Workshop @CamGendSexHist]

I am delighted to announce the return of the Cambridge Gender & Sexuality History Workshop, with two sessions scheduled for this term. Meetings run from 5-7pm and are held online.

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Eighteenth Century Seminar:
Imperial Paris: Slavery and Everyday Life in the Capital of the Enlightenment (c.1750-1789)
Miranda Spieler (American University in Paris)
5-7 pm, Tuesday 19 May; Long Room, Gonville and Caius College

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Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminar:
‘My worldly estate’: strategies for storing and transferring wealth in early modern wills (England 1538-1786)
Harry Smith, Emily Vine, Jane Whittle
5 pm, 21 May; ERASMUS, Queen's College

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Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminar:
Illegal trade and colonial expansion in Greenland, 1780-1800
Anna Knutsson (Cambridge)
5 pm, Thursday 14 May; ERASMUS, Queen's College

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Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminar:
Roundtable on Muldrew’s The Capitalist Self: The Social Origins of Financial Capitalism in Early Modern England (CUP, 2025).
Gareth Austin (Cambridge), Craig Muldrew (Cambridge), Jane Whittle (Exeter)
5pm, 7 May; ERASMUS, Queen's

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World History Seminar:
Luc Bulten (Cambridge/Radboud) – A presentation related to Lives, Land, and Labour: A Social History of Eighteenth-century Sri Lanka (Brill, 2026)
5.00 - 7.00pm, Thursday 7 May; Long Room, Gonville and Caius College

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Early Modern World History Seminar:
Mélanie Lamotte (Duke University) – By Flesh and Toil: How Sex, Race, and Labor Shaped the Early French Empire
5.00-7.00 pm on Thursday 21 May; Long Room, Gonville and Caius College

[Federica Gigante @Federica_Gig]

A BBC piece in which I say a few things about this marvellous Mughal astrolabe

https://t.co/MfBULWTwOR

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Early Modern World History Seminar:
Rachel Silberstein (SOAS) – The Company’s Woollens: The East India Company and the Commodity Chain of Selling English Woollens to Qing Dynasty China
3.00-4.30 pm on Thursday 7 May; Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius College

[Cambridge University @Cambridge_Uni]

Hungary’s election is a big moment.

Researchers from @CamDivinity, @CamGeopolitics and the Faculty of History, with close ties to the country, reflect on how we got here, what the result means, and what the future might hold.

Read the full story 👇
https://t.co/QtQ21Oc9rY

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Hungary’s long rebellion against the West | @evtamus

https://t.co/OMPUaSkSUM

[Cambridge Gender and Sexuality History Workshop @CamGendSexHist]

The Cambridge Gender & Sexuality History Workshop is now accepting papers for the Easter term. To participate, please send an abstract of 250 words, along with a brief biography (100 words) to [email protected] by Sunday, 19 April 2026.

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World History Seminar:
Alicia Schrikker (Leiden University) – 'Gift-exchange, Diplomacy and Violence in the Early Modern South and Southeast Asian Encounter with Dutch Colonialism'
5-7 pm on Thursday 19 March; Long Room, Gonville and Caius College

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Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar:
Jonathan Baddley (Cambridge) – The Lord’s Supper, Practical Divinity, and Further Reformation in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England
5.15 pm on Wednesday 11 March; Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall

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Eighteenth Century Seminar:
Samuel Diener (Exeter College, Oxford) – Writing the self above and 'below stairs': Class, gender, and intellectual culture in the 1740s
5-7 pm on Tuesday 17 March; Long Room, Gonville and Caius College

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Early Modern World History Seminar:
Gonzalo Velasco Berenguer (Bristol) – A Mixture of Peoples: Blood, Nation and Intimacies in the Spanish (?) Philippines
3.00-4.30 pm on Thursday 12 March; Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius College

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Eighteenth Century Seminar:
Alex Bamji (Leeds) – Ephemeral print and lay religious experience in eighteenth-century Venice
5 pm on Tuesday 3 March; Long Room, Gonville and Caius College

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Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminar:
Pinar Ceylan (Cambridge) with Christopher Markiewicz (Ghent) – The long-term financial trajectory of Ottoman foundations (Waqfs): A political economy perspective
5 pm on Thursday 12 March; Erasmus Room, Queen's College

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Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar:
Steven Gunn (Oxford) – Life and Death in Tudor Prisons
5.15 pm on Wednesday 4 March; Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall

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Global Economic History Seminar:
Safya Morshed (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) – ‘The Evolution of State Capacity in Early Modern Empires: The Mughal South Asian case 1556-1707’
5 pm on Monday 23 February; in Audit Room, King's College