Our autumn update includes some exciting publication news, team updates and a round up of the past year of MMoR

8th October 2026

The event, sponsored by MMoR, included Hannah’s talk Inspection, Disease Narratives and Transatlantic Slavery

7th September 2026

The 2026 supplement Medicine, Race, and Slavery in the Transatlantic World, 1600–1850 features articles by Hannah, Carolin, and project collaborators

May 2026

Special issue Christianity and Race-Making: New Approaches includes Eli’s introduction and article Divine Providence, Racial ‘Monstrosity’ and the English Reformation

May 2026

Hannah’s paper Porting Records in the Afro-Caribbean Littoral was given during the workshop’s first panel The Portable Pasts and Futures of Archives

5th June 2026

King’s Past event officially launches Researching institutional involvement in transatlantic slavery: a guide for archivists, researchers & institutional stakeholders

6th May 2026

Hannah gave her paper Fugitive Sources at the EHR hosted symposium When there are no sources in St John’s College, Oxford

17th April 2026

Seminar Medical Epistemologies of Transatlantic Slavery led by Hannah as part of the Trinity Centre for Early Modern History Seminar Series

13th October 2025

We are delighted to announce that Hannah Murphy has been awarded a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship renewal for Medicine and the Making of Race, now running until September 2028

September 2025

Our spring update includes highlights of RSA Boston, our May conference, and upcoming events.

17th June 2025

CFP, workshop 25th & 26th June. Deadline for responses 7th March 2025.

CFP for our closing conference (15-17 May 2025). Deadline for responses 14th February 2025.

We reflect on the past year and look ahead to the final phase of our project

19th December 2024

Read our Autumn 2024 update, including news on project events and updates on our research

16th September 2024

Read our Spring 2024 update, including news on project events, our blog series, and team news

22nd May 2024

Read Hannah and Eli’s account of their time at RSA Chicago in March 2024

22nd May 2024

Read on for book recommendations from our community and events to come in 2024

4th January 2024

Read our autumn 2023 update, including news on upcoming events

November 2023

Read Hannah’s write-up of our project trip to the exhibtion here

October 2023

Read Eli Cumings’ summary of our September 2023 conference here

October 2023

Summer School participant Amalia Levi publishes blog post ‘Archives of Empires, Archives of Race: A Reflection on the 2023 Archives, Slavery & Race-Making Summer School’

October 2023

Hannah is giving a seminar on ‘Medicine, the Archive and the Making of Slavery in Early Modern Barbados’ on 19th October 17:30-19:00

October 2023

Our autumn blog series will be released every other Monday throughout the autumn term …and a reminder that our full summer series is available to read now! Each blog examines sources related to the history of medicine, slavery & racemaking.

September 2023

Read our 2023 summer update from the MMoR project including news on a new blog series, our summer school, and other events

June 2023

On 6/7 March, Hannah Murphy and Eli Cummings travelled to Puerto Rico for the annual Renaissance Society of America conference.

March 2023

Read our call for participants here

18th January 2023

Read our call for papers here

18th January 2023

Read our summary of 2022, and what we are looking forward to as a project in the coming year

11th January 2023

Come and work with us! We are hiring for our second post-doc/research associate at King’s College London to work on the MMoR project. Applications are open until 5th June 2022.

Hannah leads an online seminar on ‘Medical Involvement in the Early Modern Slave Trade’.

30th Nov 2021

As part of our opening conference on 24th May 2022, we are inviting all interested PGR/doctoral students and participants the opportunity to design and display 'research posters' around relevant doctoral projects.

Online seminar ‘Spectacle, Slavery, Race: Medical Encounters and the 'Languages of Blackness' in Early Modern Europe’

10th Nov 2021

Hannah Murphy’s new article “Rewriting Race in Early Modern European Medicine" is now available open access

31st October 2021

Renaissance Skin launches exhibition curated by Hannah Murphy featuring the work of Peter Brathwaite

10th Sept 2021

Hannah Murphy awarded UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship for Medicine and the Making of Race

15th Oct 2020