Since 1996, MEMS has fostered leading research into the cultural, social and political history of the premodern world. The MEMS Virtual Bookshelf represents our members’ extensive expertise across disciplines and chronology. Current projects include Marlowe’s Canterbury, early modern middling culture, and the transcultural connections of Central and Eastern Europe, 1500-1700. Engagement is key to our members’ work with extensive involvement with museums, heritage sites and digital humanities bringing MEMS research to broader audiences in projects ranging from the British Museum’s Thomas Becket Exhibition to making Henry VIII’s tournaments viewable in virtual reality.

MEMS is also closely linked with the Centre for Heritage, CLIO, Cultures of Performance and the Material Studies Network.