EMH EarlyModernHistory

 

 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...

  30th September:  Convenor Dr Joan Redmond will be celebrating the publication of her monograph   Religion, Rebellion and Violence in Ireland, c1603-1649 . There will be a book launch and drinks reception at KCL on Wednesday 30th September from 6pm. Full details and the registration link can be found   here .    -   6th October:   Remembering Tom Freeman.   Tom Freeman, among his many other roles, was a convenor of the IHR’s Religious History of Britain seminar.  They are organising a half-day hybrid conference in his memory   on   Tuesday 6th October 1pm-6pm  in the Weston Room (Rolls Chapel), Maughan Library, KCL. To register in-person or online attendance please email   K.C.Fincham@kent.ac.uk .    -   10th October:  The Cromwell Association's annual Study Day will take place on Saturday 10th October at the Old Palace in Worcester and will be on the theme of 'Ending the Civil Wars' to mark ...

 The History Woman's blog has an interesting account of a recent conference relevant to the early modern period. It can be read  here  .

 A recording of this lecture can be found on Youtube. It is well worth watching (but no link can be provided here).

  The essays in ‘Virginia 1619’ and the 2nd Earl of Warwick Robert Rich was born in 1587 or 1588 and was the eldest son of the 3rd Lord Rich and his wife, Penelope, the sister of the 2nd Earl of Essex. Following King James VI of Scotland’s accession to the English throne in 1603, he became one of the Knights of the Order of the Bath in July of that year and, in August, 1618, when his father purchased the title to the Earldom of Warwick, the titular Lord Rich. When his father died in March, 1619, he succeeded to his title as the 2nd Earl of Warwick.i For reasons that are not entirely clear the authors of this volume of essays refer to him as “Warwick” at dates ranging from 1614 to 1618.ii His colonial aims in Virginia and Bermuda are described in a number of critical ways. In Virginia, his purposes were allegedly those of plunder, of exploiting the colony’s stock of cattle, lands and servants, of aiming to establish a ‘manorial’ structure comparable to that in Bermuda, and of using ...