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Beat Kümin

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Early modernist interested in parish communities, local memory and food / drink history; occasionally successful footie teams and eclectic period pop. Homepage: go.warwick.ac.uk/beatkumin

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... AND: @WarwickHistory also offers a Teaching Fellowship in Medieval and Early Modern History on a full-time basis for a fixed-term period of 36 months from 1 September 2026 to 31 August 2029. For full details, please see warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

28.02.2026 11:57 👍 5 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
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Applications are now open for the 21st edition of the IEHCA Summer School on Food & Drink Studies at Tours from 29 June to 4 July 2026. For full details and registration visit summerschool.iehca.univ-tours.fr/english/2026...

16.02.2026 17:43 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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VACANCY - we are looking for a new early modern British colleague to join us at Warwick! Thematic focus open, with interests in religious change and/or social relations particularly welcome. Full details at warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

05.02.2026 19:07 👍 10 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 1
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Tower capsule progress: all known Austrian sites have now been entered on the project website. Examples include 56 locations in Vorarlberg and deposits on top of a plague cross in Murau / Styria: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...

31.01.2026 18:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Parish Symposium 2026 Logo

Parish Symposium 2026 Logo

CALL FOR PAPERS: 'Parish Data', the 24th Parish Symposium co-hosted with Lublin, will take place at Warwick Uni on Sat 16/5/2026 - we now invite proposals for 15 minute papers by Fri 6 March 2026 - all parish researchers welcome! For full details please check go.warwick.ac.uk/my-parish/pa...

23.01.2026 20:31 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
CALL FOR PAPERS: The urban parish in the pre-industrial era - Forum

CALL FOR 'SPECIAL ISSUE' PAPERS of high academic quality for the 2027 issue of Fascicle 2 of 'Roczniki Humanistyczne' – History: The urban parish in the pre-industrial era (by 31/1/26); for full details see warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...

05.11.2025 19:10 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Many congratulations to the REWIND project of
Warwick History students on the county documentary "Pathways to the Past" (youtube.com/watch?v=Lf10...) and the publication of their first magazine (instagram.com/p/DPZDfLRCP7...) 👍🎺🎉

18.10.2025 15:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

CALL FOR PAPERS AND SESSIONS - Eleventh International Convention on Food & Drink Studies at IEHCA Tours in France 10-12 June 2026; check out full details at villa-rabelais.fr/en/iehca-eur... & submit proposals by 15 November

20.09.2025 09:38 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Many congratulations to Serin Quinn from Warwick History on winning the biannual 'Food & History' prize for her essay on sweet potatoes awarded at the 10th Food & Drink Studies convention in Tours today 🎉🍾🏆

13.06.2025 13:23 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Raising a glass to two successful PhD journeys with Serin & Daniel at Tours last night 🎉 - 10th IEHCA Food & Drink Studies Convention starts today!

11.06.2025 07:36 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How lovely, 🙏 - am I meant to guess the location or can I just ask?

10.06.2025 10:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The Catholic and Protestant churches of Berneck in Saint-Gall. Pic: BK.

The Catholic and Protestant churches of Berneck in Saint-Gall. Pic: BK.

Tower capsule project blog post #22 casts spotlights on shared churches in the Lake Constance region, where Catholics and Protestants worshipped in the same spaces for centuries, naturally not without tensions: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...

05.06.2025 14:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
PG Conference reception + organisers

PG Conference reception + organisers

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Congrats to the organisers of our @warwickhistorypgs.bsky.social conference - a sterling job concluded with a well-deserved terrace reception

23.05.2025 16:39 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Wrapping up our conference with a PhD alumni panel and Q&A, discussing life post-PhD, decision-making and publication.

Thank you to everybody who presented at and attended the conference 👏

23.05.2025 15:27 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Panel discussion at the Warwick History PG Conference on 22 May 2025

Panel discussion at the Warwick History PG Conference on 22 May 2025

Lively discussions on mobilities, materiality, gendered bodies and conflict at the annual conference of @warwickhistorypgs.bsky.social yesterday - looking forward to panels on institutions, concepts, science and an alumni celebration today !

23.05.2025 07:58 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Our annual conference returns! All welcome to attend this two-day showcase of exciting postgraduate research from the Warwick History Department

08.05.2025 10:49 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1