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Cambridge Early Modernists retweeted
OUT NOW - Selling the Word of God: The Early Commercial History of the English Bible
Pictured here @EmmaCambridge beneath the Tyndale window, and with the @Newnham_College table and pink velvet chaise longue that enabled its writing
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Cambridge Early Modernists retweeted
'Francis Bacon and the crisis of the palatinate'
Quentin Skinner Lecture, 19 June
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Dr Samuel Zeitlin on Bacon’s evolving responses to the crisis of the Palatinate through writing and civil histories, in response to the onset of the Thirty Years War
ALT Quentin Skinner lecture 2026.
Cambridge Early Modernists retweeted
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
Cambridge Early Modernists retweeted
A BBC piece in which I say a few things about this marvellous Mughal astrolabe
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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 Early Modernists retweeted
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 👇
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ALT Image of a large, historic building with spires and an ornate facade under a blue sky with clouds. Text on the image reads: "Hungarian Election 2026: Four Cambridge researchers specialising in Hungarian history and politics give their reaction".
Cambridge Early Modernists retweeted
Hungary’s long rebellion against the West | @evtamus
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Cambridge Early Modernists retweeted
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.
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
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
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
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
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