EMH EarlyModernHistory

 

 Andrew Hopper will be giving a talk on this subject in Banbury tomorrow evening. For more details follow the link  here  .

  I watched this on-line discussion of Hill's corpus of works from the late-1930s until the 1990s last night with some discomfort. In a personal sense I ought to say that I always got on perfectly well with Christopher Hill although I disagreed with his work, approach and methods.       First of all, Hill's influence reached its apogee in 1972 with the publication of his book, The World Turned Upside Down. This was mainly true outside Oxford University but not within it where other figures - Hugh Trevor-Roper, J.P.Cooper, Keith Thomas and Donald Pennington - were significant. It was already clear from the work being done by John Morrill, Kevin Sharpe and Blair Worden in the university that an entirely new approach was being formulated to the events of the early to middle Stuart period. Hill (like Lawrence Stone) appeared to me to have been completely oblivious to this developing shift in focus let alone to the work of Conrad Russell in London. (Hill private...

 

  Call for Papers, Reformation Studies Colloquium April 15-17, 2026, University College London We warmly invite papers from advanced postgraduate students as well as early career researchers and established scholars. We welcome papers on any aspect of your research related to Reformation studies, broadly defined. This includes, but is not limited to, papers on any and all confessions or denominations; local, regional, national or global contexts; the pre- and post-history of the Reformations; and papers that touch upon the process or experience of Reformation. Interdisciplinary papers are also welcome, incorporating insights from disciplines such as Archaeology, Art History, History, Literary Studies, Material Culture Studies, Musicology, and Theology. The Colloquium will be hosted by University College London’s Department of History as part of the UCL200 bicentennial celebrations.  In tune with UCL’s embrace, ever since its founding, of diversity and pluralism, ...

 For this highly interesting piece of work on the Many-Headed Monster blog follow the link  here  .