EMH EarlyModernHistory

 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, 5 th 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’, Irish Ec...

  Chadwick Room, Selwyn College Wednesdays 5.15pm (unless otherwise stated)     Michaelmas Term   21 October                       Kate Peters (Murray Edwards College, Cambridge) ‘ Alas, Master, for it was Borrowed’: Public Faith Bills and the Politics of Credit in the English Civil War’                                                 Followed by a drinks reception   28 October       Matthew Champion (University of Melbourne) and Harriet Lyon (Christ’s College, Cambridge)                   Writing Early Modern Histo...

 For Munro's assessment of Trevor-Roper's life and career follow the link  here  .

 

 

 Looking through some old files a few days ago I came across the late David Underdown's review of Clive Holmes's Book,  The Eastern Association in the English Civil War , in the Journal of Modern History (Volume 48 (1976), Pp.324-326). It was generally complimentary about Clive Holmes's scholarship in analysing the economic and social as well as the political fabric of the six counties that formed the Association after the start of the English Civil War. Holmes had brought out the differences between them very effectively. But there was one striking feature in his review: Underdown recognised the influence of the 2nd Earl of Warwick in the county of Essex but thought the Earl and his gentry allies had reinforced rather than created the widespread sympathy for the Long Parliament's cause. There was a danger that support for Parliament at lower levels of society might not be fully appreciated and that the civil war might be seen as a sort of aristocratic fronde in which P...