Cabinet of Natural History
Department of History and Philosophy of Science, 1pm, Seminar Room 1
Lachlan Fleetwood (Cambridge):
‘”The motion of the blood is in fact a sort of living barometer”: Altitude sickness, poisonous plants & instrumentalised bodies in the Himalaya, 1800–1850’
Tuesday 17 October
Slade Lectures in Fine Art 2017-18
Lecture Room 3, Mill Lane, Cambridge, 5-6pm
Professor Stephen Bann (University of Bristol):
“Scenes and Traces of the English Civil War” – “A Kentish Family in Wartime: The Bargraves of Bifrons”
Andrew Hadfield (University of Sussex):
‘Lying, testimony, and murder in early modern England: the case of Annis and George Dell (1606)’
Wednesday 18 October
Cambridge Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar
Trinity Hall, Graham Storey Room, 5.15pm.
Jason Peacey (UCL):
‘”To move the first day of term”: strategies, practices and a seventeenth-century microhistory’
Thursday 19 October
Early Modern World History Seminar
Gonville and Caius College,Senior Parlour, 1-2.30pm.
‘Academies at Work and Play in Early Modern Italy’
