16th-17th Century
24 Mar 2015
The Death of the Deer Park: Disparkment in England 1500-1800
Professor Robert Liddiard (UEA)
26 Nov 2014
Idealising the Early Modern City: Festival Design in Theory and Practise in Late Seventeenth-Century London and Paris
Elaine Tierney (V&A)
18 Nov 2014
Attitudes to ejaculation in early modern England
Dr Tim Reinke-Williams (University of Northampton)
28 Feb 2014
Virtual St Paul's Cathedral and Paul's Cross
John Schofield (St Paul's Cathedral) and John Wall (North Carolina State University)
6 Feb 2014
Chinese and British Gift Giving in the Macartney Embassy of 1793
Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford)
3 Feb 2014
Voluntarism and democracy in Britain since the 1790s
Brian Harrison (University of Oxford)
8 Jan 2014
Beyond cooking: reading the material culture of the sixteenth-century Antwerp kitchen
Bruno Blondé (University of Antwerp)
4 Nov 2013
Inhabitants of the Universe: Networks, Empire and the English East India Company in the Early Modern World
David Veevers (Kent)
17 Oct 2013
The squire's dead hand: the influence of genealogy on the development of biography in Restoration England
Jan Broadway (Manchester)
12 Oct 2013
"This sad paper": paper, metaphor, and the materiality of emotion
Helen Smith (University of York)
12 Oct 2013
'A Holocaust of Ballerinas': Inflammatory Skirts & the Dangers of Dance
Alison Matthews David (Ryerson University, Canada)
12 Oct 2013
Living with historical textiles: weaving together identity and materiality
Claire Lerpiniere (De Montfort University)
12 Oct 2013
Temporal Disjuncture and Emotional Upheaval: How A-chronic Objects Disturb Us
Jenny Walklate (Independent Scholar)
12 Oct 2013
Unable to bear. Material culture: objects and objections
Helen Hills (University of York)
12 Oct 2013
Wax Dolls, Poppets and Images of Infamy: The Enduring Nature of the Human Effigy
Natalie Armitage (University of Manchester)
12 Oct 2013
"As a sign of his love for her": Material representations of love between men and women in early modern rural Finland
Hanna Kietavainen-Siren (Jyvaskyla University, Helsinki)
11 Oct 2013
From amulets to apps: an emotional biogaphy of Edward Lovett's folklore collections
Ross Macfarlane (Wellcome Library)
11 Oct 2013
Of Hair and Heart: Understanding the Materialisation of Love among the English in the Seventeenth Century
Sarah Ann Robin (Lancaster University)
11 Oct 2013
Responses to the Great Exhibition
Geoffrey Cantor (University of Leeds and University College London)