Centre for Early Modern Studies (CEMS KCL)

The Centre for Early Modern Studies was established in 2015 to promote research in the early modern period (understood, here, to connote roughly 1400-1700). We aim to facilitate interdepartmental and interdisciplinary research projects, and to support and develop innovative graduate study in the field. As a Centre, we are committed not only to promoting a historical understanding across a broad range of cultures, but to thinking through the present in historically-informed ways.

Ongoing projects include: ‘London’s Records of Slavery’, ‘Multilingual London’, ‘London Migrations’, ‘Psychosomatic Early Modern’, ‘Key Things’, and ‘Keywords’.