Official account for the IHR's Religious History of Britain, 1500-1800 Seminar series. Regular term time seminars on Tuesdays, 5:30pm (UK time). All welcome!
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We are delighted to announce our Summer Term 2026 programme for the IHR's 'Religious History of Britain, 1500-1800' Seminar series! For more information about this term's programme, please see this link: history.ac.uk/news-events/se… . We look forward to seeing you there!
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We're so excited to be helping @AshmoleanMuseum make The Origins of Museums available digitally for the first time.
The book explores how collectors live with their objects, a subject which has become increasingly studied.
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We are currently awaiting for our autumn term programme to be formally uploaded onto our webpage at the IHR, but in the meantime we are delighted to announce our first seminar of the Autumn Term which is taking place online only on Tuesday 3 November at 5pm (GMT). 1/
offers some preliminary thoughts on how and why and with what consequences Dowsing read and annotated his books, the subject of a workshop that took place at Simon Fraser University this past September'.
Although the link for Simon's paper should be available soon on the IHR 5/
webpage for the seminar, in the meantime if you would like to receive the link to attend his paper, please email: [email protected].
We look forward to seeing you there! 6/
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Our annual Reformation Day Lecture, hosted by the Institute of Reformation Studies and Early Modern History, will take place at 5.15pm on Tuesday 27 October in St Mary’s College Lecture Room 1. All are welcome and there will be a reception afterwards!
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#CfP 📢 Conference: “Sieges, Sacks, and Surrenders in the Early Modern World”, Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium (TRRC)
📆 12–13 Nov 2027 | 🌍 Toronto (Canada)
⏰ 30 Nov 2026
🔗 trrc.ca/?utm_source=chatgpt.…
#EarlyModernHistory #MilitaryHistory #HistoryofViolence
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Antonio Pattori is a Research Fellow at the British School at Rome and a DPhil student at University College, Oxford.
His lecture will draw upon his ongoing study of diplomacy in Early Modern Europe and political conspiracies in mid-sixteenth century Italy.
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OUT NOW - Selling the Word of God: The Early Commercial History of the English Bible
Pictured here @EmmaCambridge beneath the Tyndale window, and with the @Newnham_College table and pink velvet chaise longue that enabled its writing
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We have a lot of brilliant lectures coming up this term @PuseyHouse ! There will be lectures on Lancelot Andrewes, seeing God with St Augustine, pre-Raphaelite art, Hans Sachs and communism, Beowulf and Christianity, and the grammar of Christian hope.
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The 2nd speaker at the Tudor Times Summit bit.ly/4wOdTnn Henry VIII and his in-laws is @cath_fletcher She will be discussing the European diplomatic ramifications of Henry VIII's marriage to Katherine of Aragon, aunt of Emperor Charles V. @garethrussell1 @ENortonHistory
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The 7th volume in the series is out in December! 'Early Modern Catholic Missions and Emotions: Conflict, Suffering, and Communities in Global Encounters', eds Elisa Frei, Thomas Santa Maria with Carlos Eire. Details: boydellandbrewer.com/book/ea… #twitterstorians #earlymodern #history
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Call for Papers: Lutheranism and the British Isles!
Proposals for twenty-minute papers are welcomed from postgraduate students, early career researchers, and established scholars across history, theology, literature, musicology, and material studies.
Deadline: 31 December 2026
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@renwarwick's Hon Prof, Elizabeth Goldring speaking on Holbein at the Warwick Words History Festival, 4.30pm on 8 Oct. Details and a booking link can be found at warwickwords.co.uk/~ptxrmllt…
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Our last paperback sale of the year continues! Save 40% on selected paperback books until this Friday. No code required.
Browse the sale 👉 buff.ly/z3J8986
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Welcome to our first event of the year. Dr Fern Riddell's lecture is based on her highly acclaimed recent book Victoria's Secret: The Private Passion of a Queen (2025), a provocative re-evaluation of Queen Victoria's relationship with her servant John Brown.
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The autumn RSN newsletter is coming out soon. If you have news, promotions, calls for papers etc. which you would like included in our october newsletter, please send your contributions by 30th september to [email protected]
In memory of our convenor Dr Tom Freeman who sadly died before Christmas 2025, we are holding a special event in memory of Tom and his work on Tuesday 6 October, 1-6pm at King's College London. The event is a hybrid one, and for all details to register 1/
in-person or to attend online, please see this page where contact details can be found to register your interest royalhistsoc.org/calendar/re… 2/
