@LauraGowing

Early modern women, queer, law, etc. Professing feminist history @kingshistory and https://xitter.cf/t.co/QSlFPjh0X4. Speaking personally.

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Akosua Paries-Osei unpacks the sexualisation of West African adolescence in early modern travel narratives, an aspect of Renaissance race-making with troubling longevity....
Medicine and the Making of Race, 1440-1720@MMoR_KCL17 Mar 2025
📣New blog Monday: check out the MMoR website today for @PariesOsei's blog on Adultification and Sexualisation of West African Girlhood in John Ogilby’s Africa (1670) bit.ly/3FKJwsZ @kingshistory

John Ogilby’s Africa (1670):  Adultification and Sexualisation of West African Girlhood  — Medicine...

This blog post aims to illuminate the entanglement between slavery, medical science and law in the late seventeenth-century through the adultified and sexualised lens of girlhood in West Africa. John...

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The CFP for our closing conference 'Medicine, Slavery, and Race in the Atlantic World, 1440-1833' is now live! Deadline for submissions is 14th February, and the conference takes place 15th-17th May 2025. Please share! tinyurl.com/4y9bee66 #earlymodern #histmed @kingshistory

CFP: Medicine, Slavery, & Race in the Atlantic World — Medicine and the Making of Race, 1440-1720

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And here's the CFP weblink (compressed by 'X' in my first post): sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleep…

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Bodies, Emotions, and Material Culture Collective@bemccollective10 Dec 2024
Please share the CFP for: 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. Keynotes are Marcy Norton @marcy_norton (Pennsylvania) & Sara Miglietti @saramiglietti (Warburg Institute). Join us 9-10 June @TheJohnRylands Manchester. Further details: sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleep…...
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The Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHoSTM) at King's College London invites applications for Hans Rausing Scholarships for MA and PhD studies in the history of science and technology. Deadline: 15th April, 2025. kcl.ac.uk/study-legacy/fundi…

Hans Rausing Scholarships | King's College London

Two Hans Rausing Scholarships are offered by the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (ChoSTM) at King’s College London.

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CEMS Conference! Rethinking State and Society in Early Modern Britain. Organised by Dr. Jonah Miller (@kingshistory). December 17th 2024 Sign up: buytickets.at/centreforearly…

Select tickets – CEMS: Rethinking State and Society in Early Modern Britain Conference – King's...

CEMS: Rethinking State and Society in Early Modern Britain Conference – King's College London, Tue 17 Dec 2024 - It is almost twenty-five years since the publication of two landmark studies of state...

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Register: history.ac.uk/events/women-b… @ihr_history @LauraGowing @DrAlanaGHarris @carmenmangion @ClaireLanghamer @CornelieUsborne @ConorLucey70 @BeingKirst @ElizabethCBiggs @TheSAHGB
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Could not be more excited to see former @CemsKcl Jonathan Powell's work on fiction, law, and women's voices in print. The word groundbreaking gets overused, but for me this painstaking research and expansive conceptual innovation was truly revelatory doi.org/10.1093/res/hgae059
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Today! Join us @ihr_history
Laura Gowing@LauraGowing2 Oct 2024
All welcome to hear exciting new work by @DrJulieHardwick - @ihr_history London, and zoom, but come live if you can!
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📢ARTIST CALLOUT📢 For more information and details about how to apply: buff.ly/47YhzYO @exeterclio @UniOfExeterHASS @UniofExeterNews @LeverhulmeTrust @artsandculturex @CEMSexeter
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Journalists are meant to speak truth to power. That's our job. But what do you do when that power is your own news org? This thread (professional suicide note?) is about @guardian & @ObserverUK's future. Because it turns out you can’t believe everything you read on a poster.. 1/
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Hetan Shah@HetanShah5 Oct 2024
We’ve opened the call for @BritishAcademy_ /@LeverhulmeTrust Senior Research Fellowships which give established scholars a year away from teaching and administration to complete a significant piece of research thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fund…
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New fixed-term job in King's CHOSTM/History! Lecturer in the History of Science and the Environment, 1800 - 2000. Further details: kcl.ac.uk/jobs/096146-lectur…
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All welcome to hear exciting new work by @DrJulieHardwick - @ihr_history London, and zoom, but come live if you can!
IHR Women's History Seminar@IHRWomen2 Oct 2024
Register: history.ac.uk/events/enslave… @ihr_history @LauraGowing @DrAlanaGHarris @carmenmangion @ClaireLanghamer @CornelieUsborne @DrJulieHardwick
"An unidentified enslaved woman in a 1753 portrait of Mme Deurbrouq." Musée d'Histoire de Nantes

ALT "An unidentified enslaved woman in a 1753 portrait of Mme Deurbrouq." Musée d'Histoire de Nantes

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Come to my workshop on #materiality of #LetterWriting at UCL in November! Check out the webpage for more:
UCL EarlyMod Xchange @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social@UCLEarlyModXcha25 Sep 2024
Workshop on visual and material aspects of letter-writing in early modern Britain 22 Nov 9am–4pm @UCL_IAS with @livesandletters This workshop, organised by @samklai, is designed to boost research in epistolary materiality through knowledge exchange ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advan…
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Owen Davies@odavies924 Sep 2024
Fully funded PhD in History! Do check this out. I'm lucky to have amazing History colleagues, & their expertise covers a wide range of topics & regions, from early modern to contemporary.
UniofHertsHistory@UHertshistory24 Sep 2024
The History group is offering a funded PhD Studentship to work with any member(s) of the team. If you have an idea for a project please consider applying. jobs.ac.uk/job/DJT631/phd-st…
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OK, who had "Sandi Toksvig officiating at the wedding of Bjorn from ABBA" on their bingo card this weekend?
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PUBLISHED: Natalie Zemon Davis’ critical autobiographical essay on politics, activism & the historian's craft & consciousness @HistoricalJnl @cambUP_History 👉🏾doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X240… It was a real honour to write the foreword. I am deeply grateful & humbled.
The Historical Journal@HistoricalJnl20 Sep 2024
📢Out now on #firstview! 'Experiencing Exclusion: Scholarship after Inquisition' by Natalie Zemon Davis and Stefan Hanß (@StefanHanss) (@UoMSALC) #History #Politics #Activism #Academia 👉Read online here: cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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