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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
• Oxford Mosaic Accessibility Statement
• 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'
• SEMINAR: Sarah von Hagen (Göttingen) 'Violent Seas: Experience, Representation, and Technology of Naval Warfare, 1665–1783'
• SEMINAR: Rachel Blackman-Rogers (KCL): 'How the Navy saved Britain 1793-1798'