EMH EarlyModernHistory

17:03:31 So I'm just going to start the recording now. 17:03:37 Brilliant Well, hello and welcome. It's wonderful to have you all here My name is Kate Smith. I'm the director of the Birmingham Research Institute for history and cultures. 17:03:47 We've organized tonight's session in collaboration with the Center for early for religious and early modern studies here at the University of Birmingham. 17:03:59 So brick, the Birmingham Research Institute history and cultures is here to really try and encourage interdisciplinary conversations and to champion the value of humanity's research and scholarship in academia, and beyond. 17:04:14 So a couple of housekeeping things just before I hand over to know a millstone who's going to be chairing tonight's event. If you could stay on mute, while you're listening in. 17:04:25 That will be great just to reduce the kind of interference and no will say some comments about how and when you can be asking questions