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Early Modern Britain Seminar
Thursdays at 17:00 in the Oakeshott Room, Lincoln College, and online via Microsoft Teams.
If you are not already on the Early Modern Britain mailing list, please contact Ian Archer – mailto:ian.archer@history.ox.ac.uk – to be added to the list to receive the Teams link.
Type: Seminar Series
Series organisers:
Ian Archer,
Alexandra Gajda,
Steven Gunn,
Lucy Wooding
Timing: Thursdays at 17:00
Organising department: Faculty of History
Talks:
Thursday 23 October 2025
Early Modern Selfhood Revisited: the Case of Feminism
Date: 23 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Dr Hannah Dawson (KCL)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 30 October 2025
Sailing upon Storied Seas: The Maritime Environment in Seafarers’ Writings, 1650-1750
Date: 30 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Dr Richard Blakemore (University of Reading)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 6 November 2025
“The thing is no Goblin; but the very party we talk on”: Self-fashioning and Mobility Aids in seventeenth-century Britain
Date: 6 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Olivia Bennison (St Edmund Hall, Oxford)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 13 November 2025
Rethinking the 1650s
Date: 13 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Professor Michael Braddick (All Souls College)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 20 November 2025
Captured Consent: Contract Labor in English Charity, Colonization, and War, 1600–1700
Date: 20 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
s:
Dr Sonia Tycko (University of Edinburgh),
In discussion with Professor Giuseppe Marcocci (Exeter College)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 27 November 2025
William Sancroft’s Jest-Book; or, what did a seventeenth-century archbishop find funny?
Date: 27 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Dr Tim Reinke-Williams (University of Northampton)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 4 December 2025
Writing James VI and I
Date: 4 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Professor Clare Jackson (Trinity Hall, Cambridge)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Oakeshott Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Editors:
Laura Spence,
Belinda Clark
