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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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The Boat Drinks Book 25 Aug

Poem a Day XIII 19 Sep

Henry VII’s birthplace may have been found 17 Sep

SMFS Best Article of Medieval Feminist Scholarship Prize 13 Sep

Torpedo Tan Leather Strap Watch 11 Sep

My Apologies 5 Sep

ANZAMEMS publication prizes and conference travel bursaries close soon 6 Sep

Francophone Quebecers in Canada’s Odyssey: Pillar or Passengers? 19 Sep

4 in 1 Tool Pen 13 Sep

“The determined Resolution of the Citizens” of New York 26 Aug

New Book: Bennett, “African Kings and Black Slaves” 17 Sep

Monday 4 September 1665 5 Sep

Calligraphy Kit 15 Sep

Golf Pictures 22 Sep

Slavery Advertisements Published August 26, 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 • 26 Aug 2018

How I Spent the Summer…

I’m writing this in late August, while Twitter is alive with posts on what people have accomplished, or not, over the summer, and the guilt they...

Early Modern Ballads • 17 Sep 2018

Green Wigs? Ecology and the Long Eighteenth Century

The following post is reblogged from Liverpool University Press. The author, Denys Van Renen, is Associate Professor of English at the University of Nebraska...

Voltaire Foundation • 28 Aug 2018

From 1667 London to 1929 Chicago...

It's the Bees' Knees! Well the cocktail break is finally over and I have returned to my blog!!!I’m no longer entrenched in the gritty plague-ridden...

Susanna Calkins, Author • 21 Sep 2018

Dr. Jaques and “a scarlet coat of red velvet”

In his Hundred Boston Orators (1852), James Spear Loring wrote of John Hancock:He wore a scarlet coat, with ruffles on his sleeves, which soon became the...

Boston 1775 • 6 Sep 2018

Thomas Boulsover – a silver plated, coppper-bottomed Hero of the Revolution!

As part of my trawl through the backwaters of the 18th Century, looking for overlooked heroes to include in my forthcoming book** with Pen and Sword on...

Georgian Gentleman • 2 Sep 2018

Thomas Inglefield, an artist born without limbs

“Portrait in profile of a young man who lacks hands and legs beyond the knee; full-length, sitting on a cushion before a lectern on the right, drawing...

Recent Antiquarian Acquisitions • 28 Aug 2018

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Wars of Louis Quatorze • 23 Sep 2018

Display | Bad-boy Adrian Beverland

Now on view at the Rijksmuseum: Bad-boy Adrian Beverland / Hadriaan BeverlandRijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 26 April — 17 September 2018 Isaak Beckett,...

Enfilade • 1 Sep 2018

Giorgione's Judith*

Giorgione: Judith with the Head of Holofernes. Hermitage, St. Petersburg.Although originally given to Raphael, scholars for over a century have agreed...

Giorgione et al... • 9 Sep 2018

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