Early modern science @kingshistory, Director @cemsKcl, PI @MMoR_KCL, "A New Order of Medicine" https://xitter.cf/t.co/oGL2Y7SmVu
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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
Exciting announcement! We are starting our brand new blog series on the MMoR website TODAY, beginning with an introductory blog post from @murphyhs2019 Read it here! bit.ly/3Iz13TM #histmed #earlymodern #twitterstorians @kingshistory
A wonderful blog by @AdamJBrigden examining medical commentary on the Middle Passage, and revealing intersections between slavery, race, and disease...
Very pleased with my recent collaboration with the superb @MMoR_KCL project !(about slavery, naval medicine, and the early shaping of abolitionism)
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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 bit.ly/3YRjQle #earlymodern #histmed @kingshistory
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Very pleased with my recent collaboration with the superb @MMoR_KCL project !(about slavery, naval medicine, and the early shaping of abolitionism)
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 bit.ly/3YRjQle #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... mmor.co.uk/events/book-talk-… Talk is followed by drinks and nibbles, so do stop by...
Trotter, scurvy, and slavery - read our latest blogpost by Adam Bridgen... mmor.co.uk/blog/thomas-trott…
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: bit.ly/4j7BEkt @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) bit.ly/3FKJwsZ @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!
vr-elibrary.de/doi/pdf/10.13…
Deadline this week! Exciting....
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! bit.ly/4aOJ20G
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' bit.ly/3D3NuvR
Four years of project work have all lead to our capstone conference!! Please RT our CFP. An amazing roster of confirmed speakers, and all expenses paid....
#twitterstorians #ECRs #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #Slaveryarchive
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! tinyurl.com/4y9bee66 #earlymodern #histmed @kingshistory
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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! tinyurl.com/4y9bee66 #earlymodern #histmed @kingshistory
TODAY!!! Our first seminar of 2025! @ana_strl on the fascinating history of new world material culture in #earlymodern North Africa...
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! history.ac.uk/seminars/europ…
ALT programme of the IHR early modern seminar 13 January: Ana Struillou From Mexico to Algiers. Tracing the itineraries of Spanish-american Goods in the pre-modern Maghrib 10 February: Sheilagh Ogilvie : Controlling contagio: epidemics and institutions from the Black Death to Covid 10 March: Allison Stielau: Treasure Hoards in the Thirty Years' War
2025!!! Looking ahead to exciting new research….
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! history.ac.uk/seminars/europ…
ALT programme of the IHR early modern seminar 13 January: Ana Struillou From Mexico to Algiers. Tracing the itineraries of Spanish-american Goods in the pre-modern Maghrib 10 February: Sheilagh Ogilvie : Controlling contagio: epidemics and institutions from the Black Death to Covid 10 March: Allison Stielau: Treasure Hoards in the Thirty Years' War
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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: history.ac.uk/events/mexico-… #EarlyModern
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! history.ac.uk/seminars/europ…
ALT programme of the IHR early modern seminar 13 January: Ana Struillou From Mexico to Algiers. Tracing the itineraries of Spanish-american Goods in the pre-modern Maghrib 10 February: Sheilagh Ogilvie : Controlling contagio: epidemics and institutions from the Black Death to Covid 10 March: Allison Stielau: Treasure Hoards in the Thirty Years' War
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 tinyurl.com/4fbaezdb
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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 tinyurl.com/4fbaezdb
Hannah Murphy retweeted
Please share the CFP for: 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. Keynotes are Marcy Norton
@marcy_norton (Pennsylvania) & Sara Miglietti
@saramiglietti (Warburg Institute). Join us 9-10 June
@TheJohnRylands Manchester. Further details: sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleep…...
