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18 Jun 2024: The Skilliter archive collection includes correspondence, unpublished papers, and documentation, as well as photographic material, in discrete special collections. We hold a founding collection of the Susan Skilliter archives, along with material

21 Jun 2024: The Skilliter Centre Research Library focuses on Ottoman history. Originally made up of Susan Skilliter’s bequest of some 3,000 books, it now comprises over 12,000 volumes. It has a large collection of travel accounts and Ottoman material from the

25 Jun 2024: This conference examined the Ottoman frontier under four main headings: the fluid frontier, the fixed frontier, the commercial frontier and the cultural frontier. 17-20 March 1999 The Fluid Frontier Chair: Colin Heywood (SOAS) Colin

21 Jun 2024: From 2007 to 2010, the Skilliter Centre ran a series of graduate seminars. Papers given at the Skilliter Centre Graduate Seminar in Ottoman Studies Butrus Abu-Manneh (Haifa), “The Reform Edict of 1856 and its antecedents”. James

14 Jun 2024: Thursday 24th June 2021 4.30pm (UK time) The Armeno-Turkish Manuscripts and Prints in the Mekhitarist Congregation in Vienna as a unique source for the intellectual and cultural history of the Ottoman Empire Professor Yavuz Köse University of

18 Jun 2024: In March 2009, four of the undergraduates taking Dr. Fleet's course on the history of modern Turkey - Ivan Gladstone, Bayan Parvizi, Isobel Spaven-Donn, and Adam Williams - visited Ankara, with bursaries from the Skilliter Centre. Whilst in Ankara,

25 Jun 2024: Chair: Suraiya Faroqhi (Munich)   Kate Fleet (Cambridge) Italians, Turks and intelligence in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries   Alexander Halenko (Kiev) Moscow spying in the Ottoman empire from the fifteenth to the

21 Jun 2024: From 1-10 September 2005 there was a Skilliter Centre tour organised for a group of 26 Newnham alumnae and friends and led by Ebru Boyar and Kate Fleet to Istanbul, Bursa and Edirne. Over the ten days of the tour, the group visited sites ranging

21 May 2024: The Skilliter Centre research projects are designed to bring together scholars to address specific research questions.

18 Jun 2024: This conference considered various aspects of corsairing, piracy and ransom in the Mediterranean. CHAIR: Elena Frangakis-Syrett (CUNY) Elizabeth Zachariadou (Crete) Itinerant corsairs in the Aegean (14th-15th centuries)  Nicolas Vatin (

25 Jun 2024: Colin Heywood (SOAS) Ottoman documents and their context Julian Chrysostomides (Royal Holloway, London) Byzantine and Venetian sources for Ottoman history Kate Fleet (Cambridge) Genoese archival sources for Ottoman history Colin Imber

25 Jun 2024: Focusing on commerce, banking, crafts, guilds and economic trends, this conference considered the Ottoman economy in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Amnon Cohen (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), The changing face of the Fertile Crescent:

19 Jun 2024: 2023 Ebru Boyar & Kate Fleet (2023) “The League of Nations and Turkish political refugees in Greece in the early 1930s”, Middle Eastern Studies, DOI: 10.1080/00263206.2023.2255139

25 Jun 2024: CHAIR: Lesley Peirce (UCLA) Jonathan Harris (London), Laonikos Chalkokondyles and Ottoman taxation.  Kate Fleet (Cambridge), Tax farming in Istanbul after the conquest: the case of rents.  Eleni Sakellariou (Ioannina), Th

19 Jun 2024: Search for:. Skilliter Centre. About Skilliter Centre. This author has not yet filled in any details. So far Skilliter Centre has created 35 blog entries. This conference, which examined travel accounts, histories and chronicles, and personal

25 Jun 2024: This conference examined various aspects of identity in the late Ottoman empire.​​ Discussant: Ulrike Freitag (SOAS) Bülent Gökay (Keele), A quest for identity: the Kurds in the late Ottoman empire. Nelida Fuccaro (Exeter), The Yazidi

21 Jun 2024: Much has been written about the lack of visibility of women, their insignificance in society and their lack of a role in spheres such as politics or popular protest. Traditionally regarded as a largely silent element of society, restricted to the

14 Jun 2024: The aim of the conference (30 June-2 July 2011) was to examine the role of women within Ottoman society and to question some of the more stereotypic representations of women not as integrated, active and visible members of society but as excluded,

3 Jun 2024: Aid Branches of the People’s Houses: Shoes, Lunches and Circumcision Ceremonies (1933-1946)./em/p pMesadet Maria Sözmen (University of California, Santa Barbara), emNurturing the Future: Intellectual Philanthropy and Charity

21 Jun 2024: Discussant: Kate Fleet (Cambridge) Bülent Gökay (Cambridge) The end of Ottoman rule in the Balkans   Discussant: Richard Crampton (Oxford) Stevan Pavlowitch (Southampton) Serbia and the decline of the Ottoman empire