Anne Goldgar
@annegoldgar
Professor emerita of early modern European history, University of Southern California and King’s College London. Views expressed are mine, not theirs.
Naomi Tadmor’s long-awaited book, The Settlement of the Poor in England c. 1660-1780, is now out from CUP and can be bought at a 20% discount using the code below.
CFP: Mid-career workshop for early modern British historians at USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Instutute Jan 2027. Applications due 31 July 2026.
Huntington-USC Early Modern Studies Institute, early modern Europe seminar, Fri 21 Nov, 12-2 pm: Kathy Stuart, “The Devil’s Bath: Suicide by Proxy and the History of Emotions in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Germany, Seaver Classroom 1-2, Huntington. All welcome.
Full program for 2025-6 for the IHR Low Countries Seminar. All meetings both in person and online. To register for any session, go to www.history.ac.uk/seminars/low...
Institute of Historical Research Low Countries Seminar program for this autumn! All seminars 5:30 Fridays, IHR and online.
Could anyone with Old Church Slavonic please translate for me this inscription on a cross, pictured in Jan Huygen van Linschoten’s account of the 1594 voyage to Novatya Zemlya?
Thanks, but clicking on the three dots does not allow me to do anything other than report the feed. I just get this:
EMSI European History Seminar, this Friday, 8 Nov, at 12 pm: Daniel Rafiqi (UCLA Clark) on “Post-Revocation Huguenot Life Writing and the Navigation of Refugee Experience,” Huntington Library Seaver classroom 3. All welcome!
Online early modern English paleography course 25 November-6 December
Presenting the terrific program for this year’s Low Countries Seminar at the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London. All papers online or hybrid and open to all. You will however need to register for individual papers at the IHR website.
New Festschrift for the late lamented scholar of early modern radicalism and religion, Justin Champion
Conference May 3&4 at USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute on Craft and Crafting in the Early Modern World. For more info/to register: dornsife.usc.edu/emsi/craft-a...
Deeply sorry to learn of the death of Natalie Zemon Davis, the most brilliant early modern historian of our time, influence on every one of us, and my teacher and mentor for my whole life as a historian. She was extraordinary.