In 1611, four young boys were enslaved off the West Coast of Africa. The event was recounted by a barber-surgeon. Sources on Medicine, Slavery and Race-making is a new blog run by our @UKRI_News project @MMoR_KCL
A wonderful blog by @AdamJBrigden examining medical commentary on the Middle Passage, and revealing intersections between slavery, race, and disease...
Check out the latest blog in our series, Adam Bridgen on 'Thomas Trotter’s Observations on the Scurvy (1786)', now live on the MMoR website here https://t.co/fdcsSDN7Fa #earlymodern#histmed@kingshistory
Beyond excited to welcome Surekha Davies to King's today to talk monsters, humanity, humanities, and the future, with a very special comment by Philip Ball... https://t.co/6UdlALZAkd Talk is followed by drinks and nibbles, so do stop by...
A pleasure to feature our neighbour Michael Aidan Pope (UCL) on the @MMoR_KCL blog - read his work on Sandoval, conversion and the religious politics of race-making....
It's another new blog Monday! Read Michael Aidan Pope's 'Alonso de Sandoval, De instauranda Æthiopum salute, and the Religious Conversion of Black Africans', now live on our website here: https://t.co/cwWzkimoA5 @kingshistory@murphyhs2019#earlymodern
Akosua Paries-Osei unpacks the sexualisation of West African adolescence in early modern travel narratives, an aspect of Renaissance race-making with troubling longevity....
📣New blog Monday: check out the MMoR website today for @PariesOsei's blog on Adultification and Sexualisation of West African Girlhood in John Ogilby’s Africa (1670) https://t.co/uHkGjZHjiD @kingshistory
Just discovered an old book chapter of mine is now open access: if you want to read about the history of medical decision-making, you definitely can!
https://t.co/lNrJJnbp9Z
CFP: ''Caribbean Connections: Seventeenth-Century Barbados and Britain''. Organised by @Hist_MichaelB and @mishaewen we are hosting a workshop on new archival research on the history of early Barbados, 25 & 26 June, deadline 7 March. Please share! https://t.co/Pyq5WDRxPE
In the latest iteration of our @MMoR_KCL blog series, we concentrate on early modern health experiences of enslaved and free members of the African diaspora, here articulated in the face of state oppression and judicial violence.... with thanks to Lexie Cook for this urgent work
Blogs are back! Every other Monday we are posting a new series of our 'Sources for Medicine, Slavery & Race-Making in the Early Modern World' blogs. First up, Lexie Cook with 'Sealing the Body: Violence and Experience in the Era of the Slave Trade' https://t.co/4n6zXtt2Uq
The CFP for our closing conference 'Medicine, Slavery, and Race in the Atlantic World, 1440-1833' is now live! Deadline for submissions is 14th February, and the conference takes place 15th-17th May 2025. Please share! https://t.co/PmnqAuoQO3 #earlymodern#histmed@kingshistory
The CFP for our closing conference 'Medicine, Slavery, and Race in the Atlantic World, 1440-1833' is now live! Deadline for submissions is 14th February, and the conference takes place 15th-17th May 2025. Please share! https://t.co/PmnqAuoQO3 #earlymodern#histmed@kingshistory
New term, new programme! And we've got some #EarlyModern gems to get you excited in this dark January.
Trade! Plague! TREASURE TROVES! With @ana_strl Sheilagh Ogilvie, and @AllisonStielau
Mondays, 5:30pm (UK time)
All welcome @ihr_history or on zoom! https://t.co/LXVzyAQDLM
New term, new programme! And we've got some #EarlyModern gems to get you excited in this dark January.
Trade! Plague! TREASURE TROVES! With @ana_strl Sheilagh Ogilvie, and @AllisonStielau
Mondays, 5:30pm (UK time)
All welcome @ihr_history or on zoom! https://t.co/LXVzyAQDLM
Who's joining us for our first session of 2025 this coming Monday?
And what a way to start! With @ana_strl on itineraries of Spanish-American Goods in the Pre-Modern Maghrib!
17:30 (UK time), in person @ihr_history or on zoom: https://t.co/WBZpMuKWQV #EarlyModern
It's a wrap from us @MMoR_KCL, for this year anyway! Have a look at some of our 2024 highlights below, and get a preview of what we'll be up to in 2025....
In our end of year update, we reflect on the year gone by and look ahead to the final phase of our project. Click the link for updates on our work and that of our research community, as well as news of upcoming events including our closing conference https://t.co/5hJ6q3sUmy
In our end of year update, we reflect on the year gone by and look ahead to the final phase of our project. Click the link for updates on our work and that of our research community, as well as news of upcoming events including our closing conference https://t.co/5hJ6q3sUmy