The project « Clio on stage : Making history —Immediate history on the early-modern and contemporary stages in Britain ("Emergence Project", Sorbonne Université, 2019-2021) aims at gathering specialists of early modern literature, French drama, comparative literature, specialists of contemporary drama, and theatrical professionals, in order to study drama’s appropriation of recent or contemporary history. The conversation will take different forms : workshops and seminars, research days and conferences, and interviews and round tables with theatre professionals both within the university and outside, including with a wider outreach. Our research will lead to scientific publications (two journal issues, a collection of essays), and to the creation of a website that will offer a database with fully searchable record entries for a corpus of early-modern as well as contemporary plays on immediate history, as well as links to videos of performance whenever possible.