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Trinity College Dublin Centre for Early Modern History
Research Seminar Series

All seminars will take place on Mondays at 4.00pm at the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute.

Hilary Term 2026


9 February

Gender, Race and Kinship in Early Barbados
Misha Ewen (University of Sussex)


16 February

Incarcerating the Citizen: Prisons and the Experience of Imprisonment during the French Revolution, 1789–95
Leon Hughes (Trinity College Dublin)


23 February

The Early Modern Home as a Site of Enquiry
Leonie Hannan (Queen’s University Belfast)


9 March

On Land and at Sea: The Enslaved Childhood of Julius Soubise, 1754–1764
Jenny Shaw (University of Alabama)


16 March

‘What should we do with the drunken sailor?’ The conflicted politics of drink and drunkenness in the Royal Navy, c.1660–1689
Angela McShane (University of Warwick)


23 March

The Royal Dublin Society and the Legacies of Empire, c.1731–1877
Rachael Scally (Trinity College Dublin)


30 March

Transatlantic Threads: Tracing the Material and Visual Culture of Linen in the Eighteenth Century
Sally Tuckett (University of Glasgow)

Convenors
Robert Armstrong, Joseph Clarke, Susan Flavin, Graeme Murdock, Jane Ohlmeyer, Micheál Ó Siochrú, Patrick Walsh

Enquiries: sflavin@tcd.ie

Previous Seminars.