
Olivia Formby
@oliviaformby
Research Fellow @EmmaCambridge | PhD candidate @CamHistory | works on children's emotions & language in early modern England | organiser of @AgeandHealth24
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http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/olivia-formby 20-11-2014 01:17:12
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Another fantastic Cambridge-Tübingen Workshop on Early Modern Religion with colleagues from History and Islamic Studies. Great papers, great discussions, and great views! Thank you DAAD Cambridge Hub




Ghost Conference Alert!! Dr Andrew Sneddon @tait_clodagh and myself are delighted to be organising a conference on historical representations of ghosts at Mary Immaculate College in Limerick in June 2025. CFP attached! Please share! #earlymodern #twitterstorians #emotions #emostorians


📢WILLS PROJECT NOW LIVE ON ZOONIVERSE 📢 Using cutting edge technology we've generated transcriptions of 25,000 wills, now we need your help to check & correct them! zooniverse.org/projects/hjsmi… 🧵1/ #History #twitterstorians #EarlyModern The Leverhulme Trust The National Archives

👉What events do we support through our Small Grants Fund? Read about the 'Age and Health 1500-1800' workshop held St John's College, Cambridge and organised by Jennifer McFarland & Olivia Formby ✨ ➡️socialhistory.org.uk/shs_exchange/a…


Tomorrow is publication day for Ilaria Scaglia and Valeria Vanesio 's wonderful Archives & Emotions Bloomsbury History. I'm lucky enough to have a chapter included on #emotions and/in the #family #archive - find out more @ bloomsbury.com/uk/archives-an…

📢The call for papers for our 2025 conference is now ✨LIVE✨ We are the biggest gathering of social and cultural historians in the UK and will be at the Black Country Living Museum from 7-9 July 2025! The call is open until 17 January 2025🌟 Please share widely! socialhistory.org.uk/conference/shs…




Please share the CFP for: 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. Our keynotes are Marcy Norton Marcy Norton (Pennsylvania) & Sara Miglietti @saramiglietti (Warburg Institute). Join us 9-10 June John Rylands Research Institute and Library Manchester. Further details: sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel...



We're excited to post the CfP for our 2025 History of Childhood Colloquium on 'Becoming Human? Childhood, Development & the Human Sciences'. We welcome papers from any discipline & career stage. Keynotes from Laura Tisdall Dr Bonnie Evans & Sally Shuttleworth. Deadline 7 March!


