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Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800

Supported by Mark Storey and Carey Karmel

Venue: Seminar Room N304, IHR.
Time: Thursdays 17:30
Convenors: Laura Gowing (KCL), Kate Hodgkin (University of East London), Michael Hunter (Birkbeck), Brodie Waddell (Birkbeck), Rosalind Carr (University of East London), Kat Hill (Birkbeck), Eva Johanna Holmberg (Queen Mary)

Term 1- Autumn 2022

The Virginia Venture: American Colonization and English Society, 1580-1660

Misha Ewen (HRP)

IHR Seminar Room N304, Third Floor, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

Seeing Women in the 18th century English and Dutch East India Companies

Mark Williams (Cardiff)

IHR Seminar Room N304, Third Floor, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

Term 2- Winter 2023

Of mermaids and monsters: transgender history and the long eighteenth century

Onni Gust (Nottingham)

IHR Seminar Room N304, Third Floor, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

Imperialism, individualism and ambition: military, administrative and landowning activities of Prince Alexander Menshikov in the Hetman State in 1704-1727

Hanna Fillipova (Gothenburg)

Online- via Zoom

West African knowledge, the Royal Society and the early Jamaican mahogany trade

Hannah Cusworth (Hull and English Heritage)

IHR Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

What to do with pictures? Using printed images in early modern British History & relaunching the British Printed Images to 1700 database

Adam Morton (Newscastle)

Online- via Zoom

Term 3- Spring/Summer 2023

Material Culture of Early Modern Prague

Anna Parker (Cambridge)

IHR Seminar Room N304, Third Floor, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

"Poems in prose": 17th century mock-petitions

Leah Veronese (Oxford)

Online- via Zoom

Death, Paper, Scissors: Material Lives of the London Bills of Mortality

Mark Jenner (York)

IHR Seminar Room N304, Third Floor, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

Cow conflict and water wars: the environmental politics of wetland improvement in early modern England

Elly Robson (Cambridge)

IHR Seminar Room N304, Third Floor, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

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