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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 2d

To mark #BlackHistoryMonth, Identities presents a curated selection of articles that illuminate Black histories and lived experiences across the Black Atlantic.

Read the collection with #FreeAccess:
www.tandfonline.com/...

@nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social

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Jamie Gemmell @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social · 14d

Lots of great events this semester!

CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social · 14d

CEMS events for semester 1! We have three events in the calendar for this term.

Firstly, on October 3rd, we'll be hosting a welcome event for early modernists across King's. Join us at 10:30 for a networking brunch.

kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/welco...

Kick off the new academic year with a networking brunch. — CEMS KCL Blog

Kick off the new academic year with a networking brunch for early modernists across King’s. We’ll hear about ongoing research from early modernists across the A&H faculty.

kingsearlymodern.co.uk

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The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social · 22d

Now open for booking!

This online course provides an introduction to the representation of African people in the art and culture of early modern Europe.

Thursdays, 13 November - 11 December, 2 - 3:30pm

The Representation of African People in Early Modern European Art & Culture

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warburg.sas.ac.uk

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Jamie Gemmell @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social · Aug 21

Fantastic resource!

The London Archives @thelondonarchives.bsky.social · Aug 21

🔍 Did you know that we have a searchable dataset that draws on records of Londoners of African, Caribbean, Asian and Indigenous heritage in our parish registers from 1561-1840?

The project started in 2000 and, thanks to our staff and volunteers, now has records of 2600 Londoners!

#SwitchingTheLens

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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · Jul 31

Tomorrow is August 🤯 is your syllabus ready??
Throughlines carries several exemplar syllabi to help inspire you for the semester ahead. We are also proud to announce new pedagogical resources from Patrica Akhimie and Geraldine Heng are now available. Start here: www.throughlines.org

Throughlines — Race in the premodern classroom

Created by field-leading scholars, Throughlines’ pedagogical approaches offer accessible and critical ways to incorporate discussions of race in the premodern studies classroom.

www.throughlines.org

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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · Jul 24

#EarlyModern history PhD students around London: the 'Society, Culture and Belief, 1500-1800' seminar
@ihrscb.bsky.social at @ihr.bsky.social is looking for a postgrad convenor for 2025/26. Stipend of £300/yr and a chance to get involved in a great seminar!

The ‘Society, Culture and Belief, 1500-1800’ seminar at the Institute for Historical Research would like to appoint a doctoral student as a stipendiary postgraduate seminar convenor for 2025/26. You would be an active member of our lively, friendly seminar. Your main responsibilities would be to contribute to our social media presence, encourage other postgrads to attend the seminar, and occasionally assist with minor administrative tasks to help the seminar run smoothly. The expectation would be that you would come to the seminar as often as possible.

We normally host nine seminar talks over the course of the academic year. In 2024/25, we hosted talks by Rachel Winchcombe (Manchester), Fara Dabhoiwala (Princeton), Will Tullet (York), Tiéphaine Thomason (Cambridge), Nikki Clarke (Birkbeck), and Juliet Atkinson (Leeds).

The Institute will provide you with a stipend of £300 (£100/term) and will cover the cost of your meals if you attend post-seminar dinners.

The current convenors are Holly Fletcher (UCL), Laura Gowing (KCL), Kate Hodgkin (East London), Eva Johanna Holmberg (Queen Mary), Tiéphaine Thomason (Cambridge), Emily Vine (Exeter), Brodie Waddell (Birkbeck) and Roisin Watson (Open University).

To apply, please send a cover letter (max one page) indicating why this opportunity is of interest and a CV (1-2 pages) to b.waddell@bbk.ac.uk by September 1st.

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Jamie Gemmell @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social · Jul 24

New blog post reflecting on some of the material I was looking at during my @folger.edu fellowship. Thinking about how race was staged on London's streets during the post-Restoration Lord Mayor's Show.

www.folger.edu/blogs/collat...

Performing Race in the London Lord Mayors' Show, 1660-1708 | Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...

www.folger.edu

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · Jul 21

#CfP: Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World

Exeter, 30-31 October 31, 2025. Abstracts by September 5, 2025 @earlymodernwar.bsky.social #Skystorians #EarlyModernEvents #MiseryOfCivilWar

www.rensoc.org.uk/event/confli...

Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World

University of Exeter, October 30, 2025 - October 31, 2025

Deadline for submission/application: September 5, 2025
Call for Papers

We are exploring early modern conflict in all its forms. We particularly seek to unpack the interactions between the more traditional aspects of conflict, such as the political, tactical and strategic, with the more human side of it, including sociocultural approaches that explore experiences, representations and impacts of violence. As such, we particularly welcome proposals that look beyond purely military history and break chronological, geographical and disciplinary boundaries.

We welcome proposals for individual papers of up to 20 minutes, or full panels of three to four papers, on any aspect of conflict, war and violence in the early modern period.

Speakers might consider, but are not limited to, the following themes:

• Physical, tactical, operational and strategic aspects of warfare.
• Martial identities, values and motivations.
• Notions of gender, race, class and religion.
• Remembering, (re)imagining and representing violence and/or conflict.
• The experience of violence, its impact and the everyday at war.
• Popular allegiance in early modern conflict.
• Maritime violence and naval warfare.
• The bureaucracy of conflict, finance and the law.

Abstracts of up to 300 words, along with a biographical note, should be sent to earlymodernwar@gmail.com by Friday 5th September.

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · Jul 21

#JobKlaxon: One year fixed-term lectureship in Shakespeare Studies @cemskcl.bsky.social (1 Sept 2025-31 August 2026. Apply by 27th July 2025. #Skystorians #Shax

www.rensoc.org.uk/event/fixed-...

Fixed Term Lecturer in Shakespeare Studies

King's College London, September 1, 2025 - August 31, 2026
Deadline for submission/application: July 27, 2025

The English department at King’s College London wishes to appoint a full-time Lecturer in Shakespeare Studies on a fixed-term basis from 1 September 2025 to 31 August 2026. The role will be on our AEP pathway, with an emphasis on teaching and educational scholarship. The successful candidate will have proven experience of university teaching, a record of published research appropriate to their career-stage, and also be able to undertake administrative and pastoral duties. They will be able to teach on a range of undergraduate and postgraduate modules. These may include the level 4 modules Early Modern Literary Culture and the introductory first-year module Reading Poetry; the level 5 module The Film of the Play; and the level 6 module Shakespeare’s London (co-taught with our colleagues at Shakespeare’s Globe). They may also be asked to supervise MA dissertations for students on our MAs in Shakespeare Studies and Early Modern Literature: Books That Matter, as well as BA dissertations. The postholder will contribute, as personal tutor, to the pastoral care of students. They will be expected to undertake departmental administration as required. They will be responsible to the Head of Department.

Further details are available here: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/120046-lecturer-in-shakespeare-studies. The deadline for applications is 27th July 2025.

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Kathleen Commons @kabcommons.bsky.social · Jul 11

Really pleased and proud to announce a new @ihr.bsky.social seminar - Migration and Mobility History. We want to cover migration across time and space and speak with colleagues across disciplines. If you're interested in attending/presenting, get in touch: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Migration and Mobility History

The IHR Migration and Mobility seminar provides a space for historians and scholars from other disciplines to come together to discuss migration and mobility in history.

www.history.ac.uk

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Jamie Gemmell @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social · Jul 8

Not sure how I missed this in April! Excellent new book on Pepys's Diary. Chapter 8 has a whole section that sheds new light on the Black Londoners mentioned in Pepys's Diary. Really helpful for my own work.

Kate Loveman @kateloveman.bsky.social · Apr 24

The Strange History of Samuel Pepys’s Diary is officially published today! Available for £22 or less in all good bookshops, and some evil ones.

www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...

The Strange History of Samuel Pepys's Diary

Cambridge Core - British History after 1450 - The Strange History of Samuel Pepys's Diary

www.cambridge.org

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Kate Loveman @kateloveman.bsky.social · Jul 4

Still a few places available for tomorrow’s online event on Pepys’s shorthand!

Saturday 5 July at 6-7pm BST. Sign up on Eventbrite here:
tinyurl.com/shorthand-sa...

Reading Samuel Pepys's Shorthand: an online talk and workshop

Find out how Pepys kept his secret diary and have a go at reading the shorthand he wrote it in for yourself!

tinyurl.com

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CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social · Jun 18

Tomorrow at 14:00! Join us for our final webinar on teaching the #earlymodern. We'll be joined by Claire Titley (@thelondonarchives.bsky.social) to talk about cross-institutional collaboration.

kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/teach...

Teaching the Early Modern - Webinar Series — CEMS KCL Blog

A series of webinars on teaching the early modern, from building syllabi to using digital repositories to site visits.

kingsearlymodern.co.uk

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Jun 12

Call for Papers: 'Charles Ignatius Sancho: A Black British Man of Letters and His World' conference. Deadline for submissions 14 July 2025. Conference will be held 13-14 March 2026 at Northeastern University, London: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Portrait of Ignatius Sancho painted by Thomas Gainsborough. Sancho look to the left. He is wearing a red waistcoat with gold trimming and a dark jacket.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Jun 7

Caribbean Connections: Seventeenth-century Barbados and Britain. A 2-day workshop 25-26 June in London at KCL. Be there. www.mmor.co.uk/events/carib...

2-day Workshop: Caribbean Connections: Seventeenth-Century Barbados and Britain — Medicine and the Making of Race, 1440-1720

Organisers: Dr Michael Bennett (University of Sheffield), Dr Misha Ewen (University of Sussex), and Dr Hannah Murphy (MMoR & CEMS, KCL) Barbados is central to the global history of slavery. The ...

www.mmor.co.uk

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Emily Rowe @emilyrowe1.bsky.social · May 31

Less than a week till our @cemskcl.bsky.social colloquium on early modern war narratives! Sign up here to attend in person or online! 👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...

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Select tickets – CEMS KCL Colloquium: Early Modern War Narratives – King's College London

This year, KCL's Centre for Early Modern Studies' Annual Colloquium will be on Early Modern War Narratives. Join us for a day o...

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Jamie Gemmell @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social · May 30

Join us next Friday!

CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social · May 30

Next Friday! CEMS Colloquium on #earlymodern war narratives. Join us for a day of panels.

kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/lamen...

@kingsartshums.bsky.social @kingsenglish.bsky.social @kingshistory.bsky.social

Early Modern War Narratives - Annual CEMS Colloquium — CEMS KCL Blog

Join CEMS for our annual colloquium. This year's theme is early modern war narratives. Keynote: Prof. Andrew Hopper and Dr. Ismini Pells.

kingsearlymodern.co.uk

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Jamie Gemmell @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social · May 27

This Thursday! A couple of spaces left. Do join us to talk about teaching and digital repositories with @emilymayvine.bsky.social

CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social · May 22

Teaching the Early Modern: A Webinar Series - Session 2! Join CEMS next Thursday for an online discussion about using digital repositories. We're delighted to be joined by @emilymayvine.bsky.social.

Thursday 29th May at 14:00

kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/teach...

Teaching the Early Modern - Webinar Series — CEMS KCL Blog

A series of webinars on teaching the early modern, from building syllabi to using digital repositories to site visits.

kingsearlymodern.co.uk

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The London Journal @thelondonjournal.bsky.social · May 20

REMINDER: We offer bursaries of up to £500 per head to support UK-based postgraduate and early career researchers to arrange panels on London-related topics for academic conferences. See here for further details on how to apply (please repost to help spread the word!)

Conference Panel Bursary | The London Journal

The London Journal is eager to support early career scholars present their work on London at conferences and publish articles based on this work. To that end, the Journal is pleased to annouce a conference panel bursary.

www.thelondonjournal.org

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CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social · May 16

Join CEMS on June 6th for our Annual Colloquium! This year's theme is Early Modern War Narratives. Full details below.

CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social · May 12

Tickets available for our Annual CEMS Colloquium! Join us on June 6th.

This year's theme is Early Modern War Narratives and has been organised by Dr. @emilyrowe1.bsky.social. Keynote by Prof. Andrew Hopper and Dr. Ismini Pells.

kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/lamen...

Early Modern War Narratives - Annual CEMS Colloquium — CEMS KCL Blog

Join CEMS for our annual colloquium. This year's theme is early modern war narratives. Keynote: Prof. Andrew Hopper and Dr. Ismini Pells.

kingsearlymodern.co.uk

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Jamie Gemmell @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social · May 12

Join CEMS on June 6th for our annual colloquium! Excellent theme for this year's event.

CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social · May 12

Tickets available for our Annual CEMS Colloquium! Join us on June 6th.

This year's theme is Early Modern War Narratives and has been organised by Dr. @emilyrowe1.bsky.social. Keynote by Prof. Andrew Hopper and Dr. Ismini Pells.

kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/lamen...

Early Modern War Narratives - Annual CEMS Colloquium — CEMS KCL Blog

Join CEMS for our annual colloquium. This year's theme is early modern war narratives. Keynote: Prof. Andrew Hopper and Dr. Ismini Pells.

kingsearlymodern.co.uk

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Emily Rowe @emilyrowe1.bsky.social · May 9

Happy Friday! you can now register for our @cemskcl.bsky.social colloquium on Early Modern War Narratives! June 6th in person and online! Keynote by Andrew Hopper and Ismini Pells, funded by KCL, CEMS, & @srsrensoc.bsky.social. Register here (and pls repost!) — www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...

Select tickets – CEMS KCL Colloquium: Early Modern War Narratives – King's College London

This year, KCL's Centre for Early Modern Studies' Annual Colloquium will be on Early Modern War Narratives. Join us for a day o...

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The London Journal @thelondonjournal.bsky.social · May 6

The next few articles address issues of race in London's history and heritage. First is 'From Historical Fiction to Historical Praxis: Researching Long Eighteenth-Century London’s Black Lives', by Montaz Marché and @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social (also open access): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Abstract
Creative approaches, specifically historical fiction, and scholarship from Black Studies and Slavery Studies, have critically interrogated the relationship between method and the political and ethical stakes of conducting research on Black Lives and Atlantic slavery. This article uses historical fiction—Sara Collins’s Confessions of Frannie Langton (2019) and Paterson Joseph’s Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho (2022)—and the case of Lucy Johnson, an eighteenth-century Londoner frequently referred to as black, to bring this conversation to bear on long eighteenth-century London’s Black residents. It argues that blackness was a pluralistic category connected to the specific contexts of eighteenth-century London society. As such, methods that theorise blackness as a singularity embedded in Atlantic slavery cannot be easily moved into this distinctive London context. Instead, this article suggests how a social historical approach, informed by a critical engagement with the archive and moving between the imagined recoveries of historical fiction and the impossible narratives of Atlantic-oriented scholarship, might prove generative in future research on Black London.

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The London Journal @thelondonjournal.bsky.social · May 6

It's here. Our 50th anniversary special issue, on 'London's Past Today', edited by @aidannorrie.bsky.social and Robert Shoemaker: www.tandfonline.com/toc/yldn20/c....
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"The London Journal
A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present
Vol. 1 No. 1 May 1975"

Text over red cover based on historical map of London near Thames.

"The London Journal
A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present
50th Anniversary Special Issue: London's Past Today
Editors: Aidan Norrie and Robert Shoemaker."

Red cover composed of illustration of London on Thames, accompanied by other historical illustrations and photos of London.

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CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social · May 6

Our next newsletter goes out this week! Sign up below to receive it in your inbox.

If you have any upcoming #earlymodern events or CfPs, get in touch and we can include them.

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