Early Modern Resources

Society is ‘dedicated to encouraging and advancing research that focuses on issues of gender and/or women’s role in the arts of early modern culture, circa 1660-1800′; links and syllabi as well as society information and recent newsletters

‘an international, interdisciplinary forum for discussing all aspects of eighteenth-century studies’

Research Centre (Queen Mary, University of London), which develops archive-based research projects of relevance to the early modern period 1500 – 1800, particularly letter collections, lives and works and marginalia

Ongoing research projects, links to resources, an online newsletter (Cambridge University, English department)

Cultures of Knowledge is an interdisciplinary group of scholars working with partners in Britain and abroad to reconstruct the correspondence networks central to the revolutionary intellectual developments of the seventeenth century.

Includes a ‘webliography’ of early modern resources; links to departments, organisations, scholars etc, and EMC events at Michigan (University of Michigan)

Aims to bring together scholars and practitioners working with early modern dress and textiles in different disciplines and settings to identify common areas of understanding and to develop new research tools; includes discussion list

The Centre for Early Modern Exchanges is dedicated to the study of the diverse cultural, historical, economic and social exchanges between England and Europe, European countries, the Old World and the New in the period 1450-1800.

An interdisciplinary international community of scholars of early modern Japan.There is an interdisciplinary journal, electronic discussion list and bibliographies

website for an interdisciplinary project utilising new technologies to faciliatate collaboration between scholars; includes a Virtual Research Group and pilot etexts project (University of Hull)

interdisciplinary and international society examining all aspects of 18th-century Scottish culture and society.

Founded in 1970, the Folger Institute is a center for advanced study and research in the humanities, which is sponsored by the Folger Shakespeare Library and a consortium of 40 universities in the U.S. and abroad.

the website of the Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (IMEMS) at Aberystwyth and Bangor Universities. IMEMS is focused on the investigation into the period 500-1800 and on changing the ways in which research in the arts and humanities is carried out

Website for research project on first intellectual networks of early modern Europe, including info on research publications, conferences and workshops, presentations and events; aim to develop an international network of scholars working on topics related to learned Academies.

GW MEMSI brings the study of early Europe within a global perspective to students (from undergraduate to doctoral), teachers and researchers, and an interested public.

Aimed at ‘anyone with a scholarly interest in Reformation and Renaissance theology, spirituality and related disciplines’; information on its activities as well as a useful list of internet resources

Website with information about the society, announcements of upcoming conferences and other resources

website and project which aims to provide a community space for academics, researchers, archivists, and the public interested in Britain’s soldiers in the eighteenth century.

Site includes online resources and bibliography, as well as society information and a discussion list

Mainly news and information about the Center, academic programs, fellowships, newsletter

The USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute (EMSI) supports advanced research and scholarship on human societies between 1450 and 1850.

The Warburg Institute is concerned mainly with cultural history, art history and history of ideas, especially in the Renaissance. It aims to promote and conduct research on the interaction of cultures, using verbal and visual materials.

The Women’s Studies Group: 1558-1837 is a small, informal multi-disciplinary group formed to promote women’s studies in the early modern period and the long eighteenth century.