The World Turned Upside Down on the role of fortresses, etc., in the English Civil Wars
The WTUD website has an interesting podcast on this subject. It can be heard via the link here .
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Sam Fullerton (University of Texas) on Sexual Politics in Revolutionary England
S exual Politics in Revolutionary England with Sam Fullerton February 12 at 9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 5pm GMT Join NACBS to celebrate Sam Fullerton’s recent work Sexual Politics in Revolutionary England. Jamie Gianoutsos will join Sam Fullerton in conversation. Info and RSVP here. Pasted from the North American Conference on British Studies.
Jonathan Fitzgibbons on the new edition of Oliver Cromwell's letters and speeches (edited by John Morrill and his team)
This challenging article can be found in the Seventeenth-Century History Journal and can be read here .
Local History Societies
I have just spent an afternoon checking through my list of local history societies and groups in my county. I am interested in the programmes of talks and visits that they will be holding in 2025. There are just about one hundred of these but some, unfortunately, do not have websites and others only give short noice of meetings on platforms lik Facebook. Many interesting subjects are covered and provide opportunities for local historians and others, including academic historians and archaeologists, to reache out to people who are interested in the past. I should add that they represent a community that may need to be mobilised, if that is possible, to resist the attempts by some institutions to squeeze history teaching out of our universities.
Religious History of Britain seminar at the IHR programme for the winter 2025 term (pasted)
Winter Term 2025: 14 January (online): David Manning (Leicester): 'Anglican/Quaker Divinity in the 1650s'. 28 January (please note this takes place at 17:00 (GMT) in the Teaching Suite, The Warburg Institute in Woburn Square) : Nick Mole (Buckinghamshire Record Society): 'An Inspector Calls: The Buckinghamshire Church Survey of 1637-39 and the Laudian Reformation of the Parish Church'. 11 February (online): George Lasry, Norbert Biermann, Satoshi Tomokiyo, and Alex Courtney: 'The Lost Letters of Mary Stuart'. 25 February (please note this takes place at 17:00 (GMT) in the Teaching Suite, The Warburg Institute in Woburn Square) : Maddy Keightley-Phillipps (Durham): ''Shee deals in Popish Books': Early Modern English Women and the Transnational Distribution of Illicit Catholic Books'. 11 March (please note this takes place at 17:00 at Westminster Cathedral Archives, 16a Abingdon Road, High Street Kensington) : Pe...
Tudor and Stuart seminar at the Institute of Historical Research: programme for the coming term (pasted)
Monday 13 January 5:30pm London time; on zoom only Piers Brown (Kenyon College, USA): ‘Early Modern Crowd Affects and Crowd Effects’ How might we theorize an early modern version of the psychology of crowds? While the language of the passions has become a dominant paradigm for the history of emotions in the period, it doesn't extend effectively to an understanding of how people behave as groups, whether they be crowds, audiences, or subjects. Using the corpus of Shakespeare's writing as my primary source, I explore the early English vocabulary for describing crowds, with a focus on their depiction as surfaces on which distinctive movements can be read by orators, actors and authorities as a reflection of their passionate responses. Piers Brown is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Kenyon College, Gambler, Ohio, USA Book here: https://www.history.ac.uk/events/early-modern-crowd-affects-and-crowd-effects Our pro...