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WTUD at 50 by ?

 I do hope I will make the 60th anniversary. But, as I said then, and as Josie hinted anyway, The World Turned Upside Down, to be frank, is not my favourite Hill book. And it was interesting at that Sheffield conference that all that there were, there were literary scholars, all the literary scholars were incredibly enthusiastic, and the historians were more critical to a greater or lesser degree. And I suppose what I want to say, in a sort of more sociological than intellectual way, is similar to John really, is to talk about Christopher Hill's life and achievements more generally. I've worked with Christopher at the Open University, I've benefited much from his kindness and support. But my favourite book is not The World Turned Upside Down, but is, well, I do the Jackie Eels, how old we are, and I'm even a mile older than Jackie. Puritanism and Revolution, which was published in 1958, and which I have the 1968 Panther paperback edition, which I bought when I was at sc...
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University of Oxford seminar: Early Modern Britain (pasted)

  Early Modern Britain Seminar, Michaelmas Term 2026 Thursdays at 5 pm, Oakeshott Room, Lincoln College; online on Teams (please email ian.archer@history.ox.ac.uk) 15 October Prof. Lucy Wooding (Lincoln College) ‘“Sinceritie in these daies was sure borne to be sad”: Religion, Dissimulation and Elizabethan Drama’ Jeffrey Knapp, ‘Preachers and Players in Shakespeare’s England’, Representations 44 (1993), 29-59; Kilian Schindler, Religious Dissimulation and Early Modern Drama: The Limits of Toleration (2023), Introduction 22 October Rev Dr Brian Mac Cuarta (Campion Hall) ‘Irish wheat for London’s food crisis, 1630-1631’ Paul Slack, ‘Books of Orders: the making of English social policy 1577-1631’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society , 5th ser. 30 (1980), 1-22; Norman Gras, The evolution of the English corn market from the twelfth to the eighteenth century (Cambridge MA, 1915), 77-86; Raymond Gillespie, ‘Harvest crises in early seventeenth-century Ireland...
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Today's historiographical reflections

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My historiographical report today is going to be rather short. I haven't found anything very interesting on the internet today, but I did come across a couple of photographs of Peter Lake and Richard Cust on Sandy Solomon's Facebook page. She's the wife of Peter Lake, and apparently they've had Richard Cust to stay a few days ago with them in Suffolk as their guest, and there are a couple of photographs of Richard and Peter walking Sandy Solomon and Peter Lake's dog, really quite attractive, actually, in the way.      The other thing I've been thinking about is really how to treat the teleology in Conrad Russell's work, The Fall of the British Monarchies. Russell set himself up, certainly from the mid-1970s, as the apostle of criticism, as far as Whig and Marxist history was concerned. But, if you look at these accounts, say, of the short Parliament of April and May 1640, you can see there are all sorts of pointers to the future outcome of allegiance during ...
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Waseem Ahmed, Everyday informing in Revolutionary England

Waseem Ahmed is a postgraduate student at University College, London and has discussed this topic  here  on The World turned upside down website. If interested, his political stance has been criticised by Keith Livesey on his blog, A Trumpet of Sedition, on 7th October.
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Isabelle Baudino, Seventeenth-Century Remembered: Book Illustrations and the Cultural Memory of the English Revolutions

 Details of this work (in French) can be found  here  .
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Early Modern British History seminar at the University of Oxford this autumn

 The programme for this seminar can be found  here  . It has some highly interesting papers to be heard.
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Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar at the University of Cambridge

 The programme of this seminar running from this autumn to next spring can be found  here  . It has some important papers to offer. Well worth examining.
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