Early Modern Britain Seminar

Thursdays at 17:00 in the Oakeshott Room, Lincoln College, and online via Microsoft Teams.

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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 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