Centre for Editing Lives and Letters

24/04/2026

UCLDH is delighted to welcome Melissa Terras, Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage at the University of Edinburgh, to give the 2026 Susan Hockey Lecture.

15/04/2026

Taster session: Early Modern Studies MA
1st May, 2-3:30pm BST, online
Our MA provides expert training for future researchers, teaching palaeography, book history & archival research skills, alongside options from art history, information studies, literary studies, history, languages & history of science/medicine. At this Graduate Open Event, we will run a short taster lecture, outline the nature of the course and hold a Q&A.
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19/03/2026

AHRC Studentship – Invisible Hands: Migrant Labour and British Craft in the 18th Century
Closes 15-Apr-2026
UCL & V&A
Drawing on the V&A’s rich collections, uncatalogued departmental card indexes, and external archival sources, the project will reconstruct the creative communities that shaped Britain’s material culture. Using historical, curatorial, and digital humanities methods, the student will uncover both visible and invisible ‘migrant hands’ that contributed to furniture-making, textiles, metalwork, ceramics, and other craft industries.

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

18/03/2026

Reformation Studies Colloquium
15-17th April 2026, UCL London
This biennial colloquium is devoted to deepening our understanding of the religious reformations of the sixteenth century in all their aspects and relationships to other historical phenomena. For this purpose it brings together a wide range of specialists in the history of religion in the early modern era (circa 1400-1700).
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/social-historical-sciences/history/news-and-events/events-schedule-2025-26/reformation-studies-colloquium

13/03/2026

Book Launch: A History of Poetry in Italy, 1200-1600
18 March 5:30–7:30pm
Catherine Keen, Guyda Armstrong & Rhiannon Daniels launch their book, which reveals the poetry of Italy (1200-1600) as a site of creative plurality in genre, form & language.

In conjunction with the Centre for Early Modern Exchanges, the IAS is delighted to welcome Catherine Keen, Guyda Armstrong and Rhiannon Daniels to launch their new book.

13/02/2026

Call for Chapters: Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies
Deadline for submissions: 12th April 2026.
We invite chapter proposals for an edited volume examining how encounters through language and the senses shaped the production of evidence in the early modern period (c.1492–1700).

Language, Sense, and Proof in the Early Modern World. Deadline for submissions: 12th April 2026.

11/02/2026

Europe Through Jokes and Laughter
9 March 2026, 4pm-6pm
Communities of Laughter and Constructions of Cultural Belonging and Otherness in the Context of the European Expansion in the Early Modern Period.

Communities of Laughter and Constructions of Cultural Belonging and Otherness in the Context of the European Expansion in the Early Modern Period.

19/11/2025

Historical Health & The Body Primary Sources Show-and-Tell
20 November 2025, 1pm-2pm
Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.

Join us at Wellcome Collection for our Historical Health & The Body Reading Group for PhD, ECR & interested historical researchers.

13/10/2025

Space, Mobility, and Subjecthood in Early Modern History
29 October 2025, 5:30 pm–7:30 pm
A roundtable with authors of new books on histories of the Spanish Atlantic, featuring Bethan Fisk, Chloe L. Ireton, Adolfo Polo y la Borda, Julia McClure and Santiago Muñoz Arbeláez.

A roundtable with authors of new books on histories of the Spanish Atlantic, featuring Bethan Fisk, Chloe L. Ireton, Adolfo Polo y la Borda, Julia McClure and Santiago Muñoz Arbeláez. Respondent, Jorge Díaz Ceballos and chaired by Alexander Samson.

06/10/2025

Libraries and Delinquency: The Case of Charles Burney (1757-1817)
7 Oct 2025, 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Hybrid via Zoom and in the Auditorium of the Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London
IES History of Libraries seminar with Sophie Coulombeau (University of York)

Charles Burney D.D. (1757-1817) was a classicist, author, critic, educator, clergyman and thief. He was one of the most notorious collectors of the Romantic period, and his unique collection of newspapers, theatrical materials, printed books and manuscripts – including the Burney Collection of ear...