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- SEMINAR: Peter Wilson (Oxford), 'Foreign Soldiers and Nation-Building in Europe c.1530-1870'
- SEMINAR: Astrid Ackermann (Jena), 'Bernhard of Weimar as military enterpriser'
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- SEMINAR: Peter Wilson, ‘“Mercenaries”, foreign soldiers and inter-state orders in Europe’s transition to modernity’
- History of War Seminar series
- SEMINAR: Klára Andresova (Prague), 'The Production of Military Knowledge in Early Modern Europe'
- Research Associates
- Marianne Klerk
- Principal Investigator
- CONFERENCE: 'Mobilising Resources for War'
- Aaron Graham
- Jeannette Kamp
- Michael Martoccio
- Cathleen Sarti
- Florian Schönfuß
- New research team appointed
- New Voices in the History of War (II): programme announced
- John Condren
- SEMINAR: Andrew Hopper (Leicester), ‘The Human Costs of the Civil Wars in England and Wales, 1642-1710’
- 'Mobilising Resources for War'
- 'Mobilising Resources for War': conference programme now published
- Call for Papers: New Voices in the History of War Conference III
- Reading the Contractor State
- Terms Matter
- Research Blog
- SEMINAR (David Parrott, Oxford): "Foreign war and civil war: France in 1652 and the costs of early-modern conflict"
- SEMINAR (Philip Dwyer, Newcastle): 'The Emotions of War: Massacre and its Affects in Europe, c1600 to 1800’. CANCELLED
- Reading Introductions, Finding Research Questions
- New Fiscal Military bibliography now available online
- December in Geneva
- Open poster session: Monday 16th March 2020
- Private Wars: Legitimacy, Finance and the Social Contract
- Publications
- 'Foreign military labour in Europe’s transition to modernity': Peter Wilson article now published open access
- Out of the Archive and Up to the Walls of the Parco Urbano delle Mura
- Research Posters
- La Porte Des Alpes: Geneva as a fiscal military hub 1685-1709 (John Condren)
- Finding Money, Finding Men: Agents and Solicitors between Amsterdam and The Hague (Jeannette Kamp)
- The Baltic Case Study (Cathleen Sarti)
- Genoa: A Fiscal Military Hub 1700-1714 (Michael Martoccio)
- Infinite Money: London and the European Fiscal-Military System (Aaron Graham)
- New vacancies: two research associate positions now advertised
- Lost and Found: the Heritage of Amsterdam’s Golden Arms Trade
- Updated project bibliography now published
- Conversations on the European Fiscal-Military System: Northern Europe
- Conversations on the European Fiscal-Military System: Southern Europe
- New project events: Conversations on the European Fiscal-Military System
- Counting Soldiers
- New project blog: Peter Wilson on Counting Soldiers
- Researchers on the Road: The Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel
- New project blog: Cathleen Sarti explores Wolfenbüttel
- Katalin Pataki
- Conversation: The Religious Politics of Military Recruitment in Early Modern Europe
- Conversation: Artillery, Warfare and the Early Modern State
- La grande enigmé : France in Europe’s Fiscal-Military System, part 1
- New research blog: John Condren on 'la grande enigmé'
- Swedish reminiscences
- New project blog: Oleksandr Turchyn in Sweden
- New article: 'The business of war untangled: Cities as fiscal-military hubs in Europe (1530s–1860s)'
- Touring the Palazzo di San Giorgio in Eighteenth-Century Genoa
- New blog post: Michael Martoccio explores contrasting visions of 18th century Genoa
- SEMINAR: Michael Kaiser (Max Weber Stiftung) and David Parrott (Oxford) 'Jan van Werth as military enterpriser'
- SEMINAR: Roger Knight (Greenwich) 'Managing British convoys, 1803-15: The Admiralty and Lloyd's'
- Revised and expanded project bibliography now published
- SEMINAR (Peter Wilson, Oxford): Cooperation amidst Competition: Europe's Fiscal-Military System 1530-1870
- An Impossible Hand
- ‘The European Fiscal-Military System 1530-1870’: Second Project Research Workshop
- New blog post: Scott Sowerby deciphers An Impossible Hand
- 'Finance, faith, and fear: The Republic of Geneva as a fiscal-military hub, 1688-1748'
- Our Man in Algiers: A Temporary Fiscal-Military Hub In North Africa, 1707
- Our Man in Algiers: new blog post from Aaron Graham
- LECTURE (Peter Wilson): Europe’s Fiscal-Military System and the Nationalisation of War 1530-1870’
- BOOK LAUNCH: Aaron Graham, 'Bills of Union: money, empire and ambition in the mid-eighteenth century British Atlantic'
- War: The Beating Heart of the Dutch Republic
- SEMINAR (Sonia Tycko, Oxford): ‘Consenting to Serve the Sovereign: Military Impressment as Contract Formation, 1625-1649’
- SEMINAR (Enrico Acciai, Copenhagen): ‘A Global Approach to Transnational War Volunteering after 1945’
- Bills of Union
- Bills of Union book launch
- SEMINAR (Katalin Pataki, Oxford): Vienna in the European Fiscal-Military System (1683 - 1815)
- The European Fiscal-Military System and the Wider World, 1530 - 1870
- New blog post: Aaron Graham on the concept of a fiscal-military ‘system’ for global historians
- Michael Depreter
- Michael Martoccio: New article in Business History journal
- The Cambier Arms Business as Military Entrepreneurship Avant-la-Lettre in the 15th Century Low Countries
- Workshop report: the European Fiscal-Military System Advisory Board
- New blog: Michael Depreter explores the story of the Cambier family's military entrepreneurship
- 'Europe’s Fiscal-Military System and the Nationalisation of War 1530-1870': Peter Wilson delivers CRAM's annual lecture, Swansea University
- The Swiss cantons and their business of war – Anything but ‘just business’
- CONFERENCE PAPER: Cathleen Sarti (Oxford) Civil Wars in the Baltic c.1550-1620
- TALK: Michael Depreter (Oxford) on Fortifications, Gunpowder artillery, and State formation
- CONFERENCE PAPER: Katali Pataki (Oxford) 'Sieged and Occupied: Vienna in 1683 and in 1809'.
- SEMINAR: Ismini Pells (Oxford) 'Military Welfare in early modern Europe'
- Mapping the Thirty Years War
- CONFERENCE PAPER: John Condren (Oxford) "Bonaparte, Geneva, and the Helvetic Republic, 1798-1813"
- Expanded project bibliography now published
- Something Amiss at the Inn of Andrea Rovegno: A Story of Deserters and Recruiters at the Port of Genoa
- Deserters and Recruiters -a new blog post from Michael Martoccio
- Lost in Translation? Compiling the Fiscal-Military System Bibliography
- New blog post: compiling the Fiscal Military Systems bibliography
- Horses, hay, and hitches in haulage: France’s use of the United Provinces for the movement of military supplies in the Seven Years War
- SEMINAR: Sabine Jesner (Graz) 'Managing Habsburg battlefield medicine during the Ottoman wars, 1716-1792'
- New article: 'Exploiting the Urban System? The Frictions of Military Finance and Diplomacy in the Dutch Republic, 1688–1714'
- Roundtable discussion: Presenting Early Modern Warfare
- Having Fun with a Unique Source: The Sound Toll Registers Online
- New blog post: The Sound Toll Registers online
- KEYNOTE: 2022 Massena Society Conference: Peter H. Wilson
- Privateers from Zeeland to Zealand
- New blog: Katalin Pataki on Privateers from Zeeland to Zealand
- New publication: Cathleen Sarti, 'Deposing Monarchs. Domestic Conflict and State Formation, 1500-1700'
- Forthcoming: Peter H. Wilson, 'Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-speaking Peoples since 1500'
- SEMINAR: Andrew Ayton (Keele) 'The king’s war at sea: armees and maritime service in fourteenth-century England'
- Foreign Enlistment
- New blog post: Aaron Graham considers Foreign Enlistments
- Project speakers at 'Avant l'État' conference, Lille
- Workshop report: Beginnings of the Fiscal-Military System
- Workshop report: Beginnings of the Fiscal-Military System
- A profitable partnership: France and the Swiss Confederacy
- New blog post: John Condren on France and the Swiss Confederacy
- Workshop report II: Endings of the Fiscal-Military System
- Workshop report II: Endings of the Fiscal-Military System
- CONFERENCE PAPER: The Fiscal-Military System in Early Modern Europe
- CONFERENCE PAPER: 'Gdańsk as Baltic hub: Between war business and neutrality in the Northern Wars period, c.1630 to 1721”
- SEMINAR: Sveinn Johannesson (Edinburgh), The American Scientific-Military State in the Early Nineteenth Century
- Part II A profitable partnership: France and the Swiss Confederacy 1793 - 1813
- Project Books - "Infinite Money: London and the European Fiscal-Military System, 1650-1870"
- Forthcoming project books: new blogs
- Cooperation amidst Competition. Europe’s Fiscal-Military System and the Nationalisation of Warfare 1530-1870
- Seeing Like Soldiers in the United States
- New guest blog: Sveinn Jóhannesson on 'Seeing Like Soldiers in the United States'
- Forthcoming project books: Peter Wilson on 'Cooperation amidst Competition'
- TALK: Michael Martoccio. "Fortune's Solders: The Business of War in Europe from the Italian Wars to the War in Ukraine"
- KEYNOTE (Peter Wilson): 'Contractors, States, and the Circulation of War Resources in Europe’s Fiscal-Military system 1530-1870’
- SEMINAR: Malte Riemann (Reading/Sandhurst): 'Mercenaries, Modernity, and the International: Re-evaluating the 19th century 'shift away from mercenary use''
- LECTURE: (Peter Wilson, Oxford), ‘The Habsburg Monarchy as a Fiscal Military State in the international context’
- SEMINAR: Louis Sicking (Amsterdam/Leiden), Warfare and European expansion in the Indian Ocean and Pacific, 1450-1850
- SEMINAR: David Parrott (Oxford), Beyond Richelieu's Army: perspectives on army, state and society in France, 1620-1660
- The Baltic Region in Europe's Wars
- Forthcoming project books: Cathleen Sarti on the Baltic region in Europe's wars
- New article: "Provisions, Passports and the Problems of International Warfare in Early Eighteenth-Century Northern Italy"
- The British Fiscal-Military State During the American War of Independence
- New guest blog: Patrick Gale on the pressures of the American War on the British fiscal-military state
- Upcoming conference papers this autumn
- Roundtable video: Neutrality and the Baltic, History and Future
- Project Books: The Alpine Vault of Europe
- New blog post: The Alpine Vault of Europe
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- The Business of War in the Baltic Sea Region
- New blog: The Business of War in the Baltic Sea Region
- SEMINAR: (Peter Wilson) Urban Hubs in Europe’s Fiscal-Military System, 1530-1870
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- SEMINAR: William Godsey (Austrian Academy of Sciences): “Local Authority and Private Enterprise: Provisioning the Habsburg Army from the Seven Years War”
- SEMINAR: Fabrizio Ansani (Exeter): “At the origins of raw materials diplomacy. Saltpeter trade in Renaissance Italy"
- SEMINAR: Graeme Callister (York St Johns): 'Compulsion, Compliance and Combat: New Perspectives on Napoleonic Conscription'