received from Dr. Guillemette Crouzet (European University Institute) and Dr. Eva Miller (University College London) Dates: 25th – 26th May 2023 Times: 10:00 – 18:15 (25th May) 9:30 – 18:30 (26th May) Location: Occulus 0.04, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL Programme (html) Programme (pdf.) Registration Registration is required for attendance at the conference. There is a small conference fee of £5. The conference will be in person only. The final panel discussion, ‘Whose Heritage?’ is open to all and does not require registration. Overview Since Napoleon invaded Egypt in 1798 with a ca ..read more

Received from Dr. Becca Gosse and Dr. Alex Taves (University of York) Key Details Date: 1st-2nd June 2023 Location: University of York Confirmed participants external to the University of York: Catherine Cubitt (UEA); Erin Dailey (Leicester), Rachel Stone (Bedfordshire & KCL) Event Abstract Kinship is often treated as a social phenomenon that binds people together permanently through the creation of mutual ties, obligations, and emotions between individuals. Over the last decades, work on family and kinship in the early Middle Ages has addressed the basis of this claim through considering ..read more

by Annabel Hancock (St. John’s College, Oxford) After over a year of preparation, the conference took place on 13-14th January 2023 in the Oxford History Faculty, and it was a great success! We were thrilled to welcome five eminent keynote speakers as well as 26 speakers and 20 attendees. Attendance was truly international with speakers from the US, Taiwan, Israel, Australia, The Netherlands, and Spain, to name a few places. There were also participants from a range of career stages with a large number of postgraduate students and ECRs speaking alongside renowned professors. Programme details ..read more

by the Past & Present editorial team If you an ECR historian (or know one) hoping to apply to our IHR, London Fellowship scheme this year please note the competition for 2023-25 is running, but is opening a bit later than usual. Deadline will be announced soon. Do keep an eye on our website and the relevant section of the IHR’s Past & Present logo, 2017 all rights reserved The post Past & Present ECR Fellowships 2023-25 appeared first on Past and Present ..read more

Received from Mónica García-Fernández & Alba Martínez (Leeds) 27th January 2023, 09:00-17:45,  University of Leeds, venue tbc (will be sent to those registered prior to the event) Full Programme Registration Past & Present is pleased to support this event and supports other events like it. Applications for event funding are welcomed from scholars working in the field of historical studies at all stages in their careers.  Past & Present logo, 2017 all rights reserved The post Registration Opens for Family and Marriage in 20th Century Spain: Gender Politics, Sub ..read more

Received from Dr. Samuel Agamu (Royal Holloway, London and Reading) Classics and Italian Colonialism  Conference Date: 22-24 June 2023 Conference Venue: Museo delle Civiltà, Rome Organisers: Samuel Agbamu (RHUL/Reading) and Elena Giusti (Warwick) in collaboration with Gaia Delpino (Museo delle Civiltà) and Rosa Anna Di Lella (Museo delle Civiltà) Confirmed Speakers: Dechasa Abebe (Addis Ababa), Andrea Avalli (Genoa), Sergio Brillante (San Marino), Elena Cadamuro (Genoa), Filippo Carlà-Uhink (Potsdam), Omar Coloru (Bari), Uoldelul Chelati Dirar (Macerata), Anna Maria Cimino (independent ..read more

by Dr. Peter Hill (Northumbria) The Ottoman Political Economies workshop was held in Cambridge on the 14th and 15th October 2022. The event was hosted by CRASSH and supported, in addition, by the Past and Present Society, the Economic History Society, and the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge. Ottoman Political Economies began as an online reading group in 2020, during the Covid-19 lockdowns. It was conceived as a space to bring together scholars, mainly early in their careers, interested in questions of political economy in Ottoman history – an area often dominated by cultural and i ..read more

by the Past & Present editorial team In 2021 and 2022 the Past & Present Society was pleased to sponsor a series of workshops and a conference organised by the Examining the Resources and Revenues of Royal Women in Premodern Europe project. Through a series of blog posts co-ordinated by Dr. Elena Woodacre the project’s Principal Investigator, participants in the events reported and reflected upon them. These blog posts are listed below: Examining the Resources and Revenues of Royal Women in Premodern Europe Workshop One: Land by Dr. Katia Wright (AGC Museum, Winchester) Examining ..read more

by the Past & Present editorial team Past & Present’s 2022 Supplement (No. 16) Beyond Truth: Fiction and Disinformation in Early Modern Europe, edited by Dr. Emma Claussen and Dr. Luca Zenobi (Cambridge) has been published. The volume’s abstract is as follows: “Fake news and fabrications have always both intrigued and alarmed. Over and above this ubiquity, at particular historical junctures, awareness — and wariness — of fakery have reached such prominence in public consciousness as to turn it into a cultural phenomenon in its own right. This was the case in the early modern period whe ..read more

by the Past & Present editorial team Past & Present was delighted to learn that Dr. Koh Choon Hwee (Los Angeles, California) has received an Honourable Mention in the 2022 Berkshire Conference of Women Historians article prize for an article in any field of history by a woman scholar. The award is for her article “The Ottoman Postmaster: Contractors, Communication and Early Modern State Formation” published in Past & Present No. 251 (May 2021). The comments from the Prize Committee read as follows: “Choon Hwee Koh impressed the committee with this paper discussing outsourcing of c ..read more