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What's happening in the early modern blogosphere? EMC gathers content from all its listed blogs several times a day: here's a taste of what they've posted in the last month. Press the button for a fresh selection!

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Roundtable: The History of Childhood & Youth: Holly N.S. White 2 Nov

Conference | HECAA Sessions at UAAC, 2018 10 Nov

Stardust Sweatshirt by Oasis with Royal Observatory Greenwich 10 Nov

A remarkable dislocation 25 Oct

Conférence « Trésors de Richelieu » : Un « très curieux recueil » : le fonds... 22 Oct

“Your Excellency will therefore excuse our doing anything” 1 Nov

The Royal College of Physicians of London 1518-2018: Historical Reflections 26 Oct

Captain Horatio Nelson 17 Nov

A ‘Divellish’ Woman Discovered: The Witch of Newbury, 1643 1 Nov

IMAGES RE-VUES // Séminaire 2018-2019 14 Nov

Monday 30 October 1665 31 Oct

Symposium | Art, History, and Sinology 1 Nov

Fortnightly Book, November 11 12 Nov

CFP:  Movement and Mobility in the Medieval Mediterranean (6th-15th Centuries) 7 Nov

A Fashionable Neoclassical Dress, 1800-1805

This formal dress, c. 1800-1805, of white cotton gauze, features small floral sprays across the textile. It is detailed with a border design “composed...

SilkDamask • 7 Nov 2018

The Weather in Whaplode, Lincolnshire

It’s a well-known fact that we Brits are obsessed with the weather… and with talking about it. Being an island, the old saying of ‘four...

All Things Georgian • 6 Nov 2018

The voyage of Captain John Narbrough to the Strait of Magellan and the South Sea...

The Hakluyt Society is pleased to present its newest publication: The Voyage of Captain John Narbrough to the Strait of Magellan and the South Sea in his...

Richard who? • 3 Nov 2018

Picture of the Week #519

Decorative ceiling at Hampton Court Palace. Photo May 2015.

TudorHistory.org Blog • 24 Oct 2018

It started in Salem for John Derian

I’ve been a fan of decoupage artist and entrepreneur John Derian forever or what seems like it: since I bought my first piece at a little Marblehead...

streets of salem • 3 Nov 2018

Exhibition | Armenia!

Altar Frontal, detail, New Julfa, 1741; gold, silver, and silk threads on silk (Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, Armenia; photo by Hrair Hawk Khatcherian...

Enfilade • 18 Nov 2018

November 1

What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? Providence Gazette (November 12, 1768).“To plead and defend the glorious...

The Adverts 250 Project • 12 Nov 2018

Slavery Advertisements Published November 16, 1768

The Slavery Adverts 250 Project chronicles the role of newspaper advertising in perpetuating slavery in the era of the American Revolution. The...

The Adverts 250 Project • 16 Nov 2018

Giving Dickinson His Due

Back in 2012 I compared the number of books lately published about Thomas Paine, supposedly a neglected Founder, with the much smaller number published...

Boston 1775 • 15 Nov 2018

Slavery Advertisements Published October 28, 1763

The Slavery Adverts 250 Project chronicles the role of newspaper advertising in perpetuating slavery in the era of the American Revolution. The...

The Adverts 250 Project • 28 Oct 2018

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