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  Early Modern Britain Seminar Michaelmas Term 2022 Thursdays at 5pm in The Ship Street Centre, Jesus College (except weeks 3 and 5 in Habakkuk Room, Jesus College) and on Teams. Drinks in Lincoln College bar after the seminar.   Thursday 13 October  Dr Alexandra Gajda (Jesus College) and Dr George Southcombe (Sarah Lawrence College and Wadham College) ‘The English Witchcraft Statute of 1563 Revisited’ (This paper is dedicated to the memory of Clive Holmes)                Norman Jones, ‘Defining Superstitions: Treasonous Catholics and the Act Against Witchcraft of 1563’, in Charles          Carleton et al., eds,  States, Sovereigns, and Society  (1998), 187–203; Michael Devine, ‘Treasonous Catholic Magic and the 1563 Witchcraft Legislation: the English State’s Response to Catholic Conjuring in the Early Years of Elizabeth I’s reign’, in Marcus Harmes and...

  Clive Holmes Memorial Event Start date Sat, 29/10/2022 - 14:00 End date Sat, 29/10/2022 - 17:00 Lady Margaret Hall A Celebration of the Life and Work of Clive Holmes (1943-2022) A memorial event for  Dr Clive Holmes  will be held at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, on Saturday 29th October 2022 at 2pm, so that we can celebrate Clive's life, teaching, and scholarship.  Please find below a programme for the day which will take place in the Simpkins Lee Theatre: Welcome Frances Lannon  - Clive as a colleague and member of LMH * John Morrill  - Clive as a scholar of the English Civil Wars *   Eleanor Holmes   -  Schubert, Vier Impromptus, no. 3 * George Southcombe  - Clive as a scholar of early modern witchcraft * Grant Tapsell  - Clive as a tutor * Benjamin Thompson   and   Katy Cooper   -  Music from John Gay, The Beggar's Opera * Philip Holmes  - Clive as a family-man * Katy Cooper   -  Purce...

 

 

 

From left to right at the table were seated (1) Anthony Milton (University of Sheffield) (2) Peter Lake (Vanderbilt University) and (3) Michael Braddick (University of Sheffield). This photograph was posted on Dr Neil Younger's twitter account and is copied from there. (No restrictions were indicated forbidding its reproduction.)  

  I am afraid that Sturza’s account of the events of the 1640s and your analysis of its merits (and faults) is not correct, Keith. First of all, the historiography of this period is wrong. The problems with a materialist or Marxist explanation were apparent well before the rise of so-called ‘Revisionism’ in the mid-1970s. The debates over the fortunes of the gentry between Tawney and Stone on one side and Trevor-Roper and J.P.Cooper on the other had stimulated a raft of research into the condition of landowners In many counties across England but also the growth of county studies and the hypothesis first advanced by Alan Everitt about the importance of localism in the ensuing conflicts. (John Morrill actually cut his historical teeth in this area and has never to my knowledge subscribed to the view that the English Civil War or Revolution came as a bolt from the blue.) In Cambridge, the work of Peter Laslett and the CAMPOP group called into very serious question whether any classes...