Browse our podcasts and videos from past events

Micheline White tells us what it meant to give and to get gifts in early modern English courts and cities.

Catherine Richardson and Hannah Lilley explore gifts that were given in the last wills and testaments of middling status men and women in 1590s and 1620s Ipswich.

Listen to John Henderson on what an extraordinary image evoking what it was like to live through plague in Renaissance Florence.

What did books mean to women in the medieval to Enlightenment period – and how did they use them? Listen to three Birkbeck academics explore the topic as part of Arts Week 2020.

Professor Leonard Barkan (University of Princeton) discusses his work on the relationship between words and pictures from antiquity to the Renaissance. This event formed part of Birkbeck Arts Week 2013.

Dr Adam Smyth on not getting a Renaissance joke - part of series on Jokes, Laughter and Literature for Arts Week 2012.

This half-day symposium brought together historians, literary scholars and actors to explore the relationship between the experience of servants in early modern England, and the representation of servants onstage.

This half-day symposium brought together historians, literary scholars and actors to explore the relationship between the experience of servants in early modern England, and the representation of servants onstage.

This half-day symposium brought together historians, literary scholars and actors to explore the relationship between the experience of servants in early modern England, and the representation of servants onstage.

This half-day symposium brought together historians, literary scholars and actors to explore the relationship between the experience of servants in early modern England, and the representation of servants onstage.

How did people ‘see’ in the Renaissance? This panel discussion formed part of Birkbeck Arts Week 2015.

This half-day symposium brought together historians, literary scholars and actors to explore the relationship between the experience of servants in early modern England, and the representation of servants onstage.