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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 John Rylands Research Institute and Library Manchester. Further details: sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel...

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

It's a wrap from us Medicine and the Making of Race, 1440-1720, 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....

Page proofs are here

Who's joining us for our first session of 2025 this coming Monday? And what a way to start! With Ana Struillou on itineraries of Spanish-American Goods in the Pre-Modern Maghrib! 17:30 (UK time), in person Institute of Historical Research or on zoom: history.ac.uk/events/mexico-… #EarlyModern

2025!!! Looking ahead to exciting new research….

TODAY!!! Our first seminar of 2025! Ana Struillou on the fascinating history of new world material culture in #earlymodern North Africa...

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 King's History

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

Pleased to see my and Guido van Meersbergen’s special issue on “Travel Studies and the Decolonial Turn” is out now! Thanks to our contributors Vishvesh Kandolkar, Gábor Gelléri now on BlSk, Janet Remmington, R. Benedito Ferrão & Joanne Lee. ✨ tandfonline.com/toc/rstw20/27/2

In the latest iteration of our Medicine and the Making of Race, 1440-1720 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

Deadline this week! Exciting....

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/10.131…

Akosua Paries-Osei unpacks the sexualisation of West African adolescence in early modern travel narratives, an aspect of Renaissance race-making with troubling longevity....

A pleasure to feature our neighbour Michael Aidan Pope (UCL) on the Medicine and the Making of Race, 1440-1720 blog - read his work on Sandoval, conversion and the religious politics of race-making....

Trotter, scurvy, and slavery - read our latest blogpost by Adam Bridgen... mmor.co.uk/blog/thomas-tr…

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-ta… Talk is followed by drinks and nibbles, so do stop by...

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 King's History

Very pleased with my recent collaboration with the superb Medicine and the Making of Race, 1440-1720 project !(about slavery, naval medicine, and the early shaping of abolitionism)

A wonderful blog by @AdamJBrigden examining medical commentary on the Middle Passage, and revealing intersections between slavery, race, and disease...