Please join us for our online seminars, which are held on Mondays, 13:00-14:00 (UK time), on MS Teams. Please sign up to our mailing list or email emrc@reading.ac.uk for the link.

21 October 2024: Liesbeth Corens (Queen Mary), ‘English and/or Catholic: Binaries in the Archives of the Seventeenth Century’.

18 November 2024: EMRC PhD Showcase. PhD students at any institution working on any aspect of the early modern world may give a short introduction to their project. Sign up here.

16 December 2024: Christopher Marsh (Queen’s University, Belfast) and Angela McShane (Warwick), ‘Hit Songs of the Seventeenth Century: Introducing the 100 Ballads Project’.

17 February 2025: Michael Bennett (Sheffield), ‘Merchant Houses, London Banks, and Plantation Development in the Ceded Islands, 1763-90’.

17 March 2025: Lewis Wade (Leiden), ‘Crisis and Conflict in the Consulates: Rethinking the Institutional Foundations of French Mediterranean Commerce under Louis XIV’.

28 April 2025: Tabitha Stanmore (Exeter), ‘The Fenland Witch Trials, 1645-47’.

12 May 2025: Jane Eade (National Trust), ‘Mrs Carlile the great paintress’: Rediscovering Joan Carlile (c.1606-79).