early modern history

Professor Bettina Varwig is helping classical music re-embrace its powerful relationship with our bodies. A new film reveals the dramatic impact that...

Centuries-old Asian and African manuscripts go on display for the first time

A collection of French fashion engravings offers precious new insights into the life of Samuel Pepys years after his premature final diary entry. The...

Women’s working conditions increased the odds of them being suspected as witches, according to a new analysis of an English astrologer’s case files...

A mouth-watering / stomach-churning new exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum explores our complex relationship with food

Ostrich feathers are often associated with glamorous women but this wasn’t always the case. In the sixteenth century, it was Europe’s men who...