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Tuesday, February 16th, 2010Stephen Brogan, President of the Early Modern Society, will be giving a paper at the Seventeenth-Century British History Seminar at the IHR on Thursday 25 February 2010 entitled ‘The Royal Touch: Scrofula, Sin and the Restored Stuarts, 1660-88′.
Venue: Institute of Historical Research (University of London), Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
Time: 5:15 in [...]
Stephen Brogan on ‘The Royal Touch’ at the IHR
Monday, January 18th, 2010Stephen Brogan, President of the Early Modern Society, will be giving a paper at the Seventeenth-Century British History Seminar at the IHR on Thursday 25 Feb entitled ‘The Royal Touch: Scrofula, Sin and the Restored Stuarts, 1660-88′.
Venue: Institute of Historical Research (University of London), Senate House, Malet Street, LONDON WC1E 7HU
Time: 5:15 in the [...]
‘Bethinke Thy Selfe’ in Early Modern England: 30% Discount for EM Intelligencer Readers!
Monday, January 11th, 2010‘Bethinke Thy Selfe’ in Early Modern England: Writing Women’s Identities
Ulrike Tancke
Amsterdam/New York, NY 2010. VIII, 266 pp. (Costerus NS 180)
ISBN: 978-90-420-2808-1 Paper
ISBN: 978-90-420-2809-8 [...]
Call for Papers: From Coronation to Chari-Vari: The Many Uses of Ritual and Ceremony in the Early Modern World
Thursday, November 19th, 2009From Coronation to Chari-Vari: The Many Uses of Ritual and Ceremony in the Early Modern World
One Day Colloquium at Birkbeck, University of London
Friday 24 September 2010
As part of Birkbeck’s thriving research culture, this event will bring together scholars to discuss the purpose and reception of ritual and ceremony in the early modern period. [...]
Birkbeck at Edinburgh
Monday, September 28th, 2009Two of the Scottish History Research Seminars for 2009-10 have Birkbeck connections.
First, Dr Laura Stewart, currently of Birkbeck, will speak on Authority, Agency and the Scottish Church in the Mid-Seventeenth Century on 19 Nov 2009.
And on 11 Feb 2010, yours truly (who did an MA at Birkbeck) will do a talk on An [...]
Stephen Brogan Events
Monday, December 22nd, 2008Stephen Brogan, President of the Early Modern Society, will be lecturing in early 2009. Don’t miss!
17 Jan, A “monster of metamorphosis”: reassessing the Chevalier / Chevalière d’Eon Affair’. Central London Historical Association, 2pm, IHR, £3 non-members.
20 Jan, ‘The royal touch in early modern England: a reassessment’. Birkbeck Research Seminar Series, 5pm, room [...]
Lady Antonia Fraser on Historical Biography
Thursday, November 13th, 2008The Birkbeck Early Modern Society is pleased to announce that Lady Antonia Fraser will our Christmas speaker this year!
The topic will be ‘Is Historical Biography Worth It?’ and the talk will take place on 12 December 2008 at 6:30 pm. The event is free to members of the Birkbeck Early Modern Society, non-members £3, Membership £5. (Room [...]
Rediscovering the Cheapside Hoard: 11 November
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008You are warmly invited to attend our second paper of this academic year. The Cheapside Hoard is the greatest hoard of Elizabethan and Jacobean jewellery ever found. Now displayed in the Museum of London, it was uncovered in the cellar of a building demolished in 1912. The hoard includes a wide range of high quality necklaces, [...]
Autumn 2008 Bulletin – Out Now!
Sunday, October 26th, 2008The latest edition of the Birkbeck Early Modern Society Bulletin is now available. Inside you’ll find all our usual reviews (and at least one lucky EMSer was able to get a coveted RSC Hamlet ticket!), articles, and events listings – and even information on London’s oldest pubs! Click EMS Bulletin Volume 8 to read it!
Life Writing in Early Modern England
Monday, October 6th, 2008You are warmly invited to the Birkbeck Early Modern Society’s first event of this academic year.
We are delighted to welcome Dr Adam Smyth who will be speaking about ‘Life-Writing in Early Modern England: the Case of the Almanac’, 6.30pm, Malet St, room B18, on 21 October.
If you haven’t yet joined the Society or you need [...]
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