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

If you're around at 10:30(ish) today I'll be speaking to Julie Skentelbery on BBC Cornwall for #talklikeapirate day, and about my upcoming lecture at National Maritime Museum Cornwall on 9 November (nmmc.co.uk/2023/02/lectur…).

#Jobs : 2 postdoctoral research fellows for 'Wills & Material Culture in England 1540-1790'

1) #EarlyModern (working with historians at Exeter) jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecrui…

2) #DigitalHumanities (working with Software Engineer at The National Archives, London) jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecrui…

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.

On 15 May at 13:00 (UK time) we will host Dr Rachel Foxley (of University of Reading 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! research.reading.ac.uk/emrc/event/emr…

This term’s Cambridge Early Modern Economic and Social History seminars will be offered hybrid, so slide in my DMs for the zoom details.

Or enroll for the email list to keep up to date here: hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series/e….

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.

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: exeter.ac.uk/news/events/de… CEMS Exeter Exeter History EMRC

TODAY Dr. Philippa Hellawell of The National Archives 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: research.reading.ac.uk/emrc/event/emr…) for the link.

🌟New Blog Post🌟

PhD History student, Graham Moore, has released the first episode of his new podcast Charting History Podcast.

Graham introduces the podcast and the latest episode, with another one of our PhD students Luke Walters, in the blog below:
unireadinghistory.com/2023/02/03/int…

Deadline 3rd Feb for interest in our NB fully-funded PhD studentship, 'The Women in the Ledger Stones', with Newcastle Cathedral: northernbridge.ac.uk/media/sites/te…

Our first seminar of the year is today: Graham Moore & Luke Walters (both Doctoral and Researcher College, Uni of Reading students in University of Reading History) will be speaking about 17th C pirate trials (full details here research.reading.ac.uk/emrc/event/emr…).

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

Applications to SWW DTP #PhD studentship working with Dr. Philippa Hellawell, Mark Williams, & me will close on Monday 16 Jan - so still time to apply! Funded collaborative project with The National Archives University of Reading History EMRC MEMORI.

Please do share it with potential applicants.

#PhD #funding opportunities at University of Reading History - including TWO Collaborative Doctoral Award studentships (one w/ The Royal Society, one w/ The National Archives) and open student-led funding scheme with SWW DTP, as well as Uni of Reading international studentships and local bursaries.