The Centre is dedicated to the study of the diverse cultural, economic and social exchanges between early modern states in the Old World and beyond in the period 1450-1800. www.ucl.ac.uk/early-modern/
UCL Early Modern Exchanges
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Phantoms in the Classroom: Midwifery Training in Enlightenment Europe
18 June 2026, 1pm-2pm
Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.
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TOMORROW!!
IAS Book Launch: Body Size in Early Modern Germany
Author Holly Fletcher overturns false assumptions that concern with body size is a modern phenomenon or that in earlier societies fatness simply signified wealth while thinness indicated poverty.
9 June 6pm
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Coffee, Currants, and Sherbets: The ‘Exotic’ World of Cross-Cultural Food-Making in Early Modern Europe and the Middle East
19 Jun 2:30-5:30 pm
Online and @warburginstitute.bsky.social
Explores the relationship between migration & food history (1500-1800).
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Annual CEMS Colloquium - 11th June!
This year's theme is 'Periodizing the Early/Modern'. Featuring three panels and a roundtable.
Join us on 11th June. Full details below.
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Reading Group: Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies: Language, Sense and Proof
27 May 2:30–4pm
Join Rana Banna & Mary Newman, to explore how early-modern writers connected linguistic encounters with sensory encounters in the production of evidence.
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Spanish-English Translations Database, 1500 – 1640
This freely accessible database records translation activity between England & Spain in the early modern period, with detailed title page transcriptions, copy specific details and index of dedicatees & printers.
spanish-english-translation.ucl.ac.uk
Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies: Language, Sense & Proof
27 May 2:30-4pm
Join Rana Banna & Mary Newman for their next reading group, exploring how early-modern writers connected linguistic encounters with sensory encounters in the production of evidence.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Registration for our Spring Showcase is finally open! Get ready for a full day of exciting talks by our wonderful speakers from all around the globe! 🌏
You can find the link here - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chase-memr... - registration is free and the event will be online!
We can't wait to see you!
Book Launch: Body Size in Early Modern Germany
9 June 6-8pm
@ucl-ias.bsky.social welcomes @drhollyfletcher.bsky.social. Her book overturns false assumptions that concern with body size is a modern phenomenon or that in earlier societies fatness=wealth & thinness=poverty
www.ucl.ac.uk/early-modern...
🚨 TONIGHT! 6pm 🚨
'The Radical Spanish Empire. How Paperwork Politics Remade the New World'
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
The IAS is pleased to welcome author Holly Fletcher, whose book overturns false assumptions that concern with body size is a modern phenomenon or that in earlier societies fatness simply signified wea...
The annual CEMS colloquium. This year’s theme is on Periodizing the Early/Modern. The colloquium will feature several panels and a roundtable. The Colloquium will take place on 11th June.
kingsearlymodern.co.uk
Join IAS Fellows, Rana Banna & Mary Newman, for their reading group, which explores how early-modern writers connected linguistic encounters with sensory encounters of seeing, hearing, touching, tasti...
Join IAS Fellows, Rana Banna & Mary Newman, for their reading group, which explores how early-modern writers connected linguistic encounters with sensory encounters of seeing, hearing, touching, tasti...
The IAS is pleased to welcome author Holly Fletcher, whose book overturns false assumptions that concern with body size is a modern phenomenon or that in earlier societies fatness simply signified wea...
We are pleased to welcome back to the IAS Adrian Masters to present his new book (co-written with Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra) The Radical Spanish Empire. How Paperwork Politics Remade the New World.
