EMRC

This is the twitter feed for the Early Modern Research Centre at the University of Reading. Join our mailing list:

[Dr Christos Giannatos @dmvc18]

CALL FOR PAPERS🚨
Join us on 13 Sept 2024 for the ‘Atlantic Geographies’ conference, hosted by @ReadingEMRC @UniRdg_history, to consider the impact of the Atlantic Ocean's geography on the history of the early modern world.
Abstracts by email to @moregreyham and I by 1 June.

[Richard Blakemore @historywomble]

If you're around at 10:30(ish) today I'll be speaking to @Skentelbery on @BBCCornwall for #talklikeapirate day, and about my upcoming lecture at @TheNMMC on 9 November (https://t.co/c3MDFk4YuO).

[EMRC @ReadingEMRC]

Today! Dr Rachel Foxley will tell us all about her exciting new research working, exploring digital analysis of seventeenth-century polemical texts.

Join us at 13:00-14:00 (UK time) on zoom - email or DM us for the link.

[EMRC @ReadingEMRC]

On 15 May at 13:00 (UK time) we will host Dr Rachel Foxley (of @UniRdg_History), speaking on 'Political Polarisation in the English Civil War: A Digital Humanities Approach'. This session has been rescheduled from last term.

Follow the link to sign up! https://t.co/eHozykt0zm

[EMRC @ReadingEMRC]

On 15 May at 13:00 (UK time) we will host Dr Rachel Foxley (of @UniRdg_History), speaking on 'Political Polarisation in the English Civil War: A Digital Humanities Approach'. This session has been rescheduled from last term.

Follow the link to sign up! https://t.co/eHozykt0zm

[EMRC @ReadingEMRC]

TODAY at 1pm-2pm (UK time) we welcome Dr Lucy Underwood (Warwick) to speak on 'The original (British) priest-harbourer: English Catholics, St Alban and the British past'.

As usual, we will meet on Zoom - DM or email us for the link.

[Lizzy Williamson @earlymodernpost]

If you like #earlymodern #digitalhumanities, you can't miss the fabulous Erin McCarthy talking about her new ERC project on John #Donne, manuscript circulation, and network analysis this Weds, 3.30pm GMT - join here: https://t.co/3Wcq4PHmOY @CEMSexeter @exeterclio @ReadingEMRC

[EMRC @ReadingEMRC]

TODAY @pbhellawell of @UkNatArchives will speak at our online seminar on 'Commercial Experiments and West African Knowledge in the early eighteenth-century Royal African Company'.

On Zoom at 1pm (UK time). DM or email us (details here: https://t.co/uzlTdcb99e) for the link.

[University of Reading History @UniRdg_History]

🌟New Blog Post🌟

PhD History student, @moregreyham, has released the first episode of his new podcast @chartinghistpod.

Graham introduces the podcast and the latest episode, with another one of our PhD students @CaptainJackdaws, in the blog below:
https://t.co/ZFxAaOVug2

[EMRC @ReadingEMRC]

Our first seminar of the year is today: @moregreyham & @CaptainJackdaws (both @UniRdg_PhD students in @UniRdg_History) will be speaking about 17th C pirate trials (full details here https://t.co/zSHjoThTuj).

Join us on Zoom at 1pm, me hearties! Email or DM for the link.

[EMRC @ReadingEMRC]

And Dr Rachel Foxley of @UniRdg_History completes the programme on Mar 20 with her paper on ‘Political Polarisation in the English Civil War: A Digital Humanities analysis’

[EMRC @ReadingEMRC]

We are very excited for our spring term seminar programme! Full details are on our website (https://t.co/NEOFDgSufo) and all seminars happen on Zoom, Mondays, 1-2pm (UK time). Sign up to our mailing list (https://t.co/pb9zoCmeps) to get the joining details.

[EMRC @ReadingEMRC]

@PersuasiveLit of @UniRdg_EngLit will be speaking to us on Mar 6 about ‘Twenty years since Wrightson’s Earthly Necessities: Early modern social, cultural and economic history’.

[Richard Blakemore @historywomble]

Applications to @SWWDTP #PhD studentship working with @pbhellawell, @mrfw17thc, & me will close on Monday 16 Jan - so still time to apply! Funded collaborative project with @UkNatArchives @UniRdg_History @ReadingEMRC @CardiffMEMORI.

Please do share it with potential applicants.

[Richard Blakemore @historywomble]

#PhD #funding opportunities at @UniRdg_History - including TWO Collaborative Doctoral Award studentships (one w/ @royalsociety, one w/ @UkNatArchives) and open student-led funding scheme with @SWWDTP, as well as @UniofReading international studentships and local bursaries.

[Reading HA Branch @HAReadingBranch]

Our final speaker of the year will be @mark_hailwood on 'What did women do all day in Tudor and Stuart England?'. Friday 9 Dec at @readingsch, 7:30pm, all welcome. If you would like to join us for (Christmas) dinner before hand, email details here:
https://t.co/cYeDtyjcWz

[Richard Blakemore @historywomble]

#PhD #funding opportunity! Applications are open for this @SWWDTP studentship on on the history of empire and slavery in West Africa, working with me at @UniofReading @UniRdg_History @ReadingEMRC, @pbhellawell at @UkNatArchives, and @mrfw17thc at @cardiffuni @CUHistArchRel.