Early Modern Research Centre (University of Reading) Seminar Programme for 2024-2025 (pasted)
EMRC Seminar programme 2024-5 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 Mary 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 ’: Rediscover