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.
The World Turned Upside Down on the Long Parliament and Slavery (pasted notice)
How the Interregnum Parliament boosted the slave trade - an untold story? While terms such as “slavery” and “liberty”, frequently occur in parliamentarian rhetoric, particularly when damning their enemies, ever-increasing numbers of West African people were actually being transported across the ocean to colonies in the Caribbean. According to distinguished parliamentary historian, Dr Stephen Roberts, it was during the Interregnum that the foundations of Britain’s leading role in the slave trade were established. Dr Roberts emphasizes that there was early and sustained parliamentary involvement in the development of slavery in the Atlantic World in the seventeenth century. Caribbean colonies were engines of trade, and in terms of the labour market, large-scale white labour rested on the principle of indentured servitude. But neither the scale of white immigrant labour, nor the principles on which it rested, were enough to service the new and profitable boom industry ...
Next British Agricultural History Conference call for papers (pasted)
BRITISH AGRICULTURAL HISTORY SOCIETY Annual Conference 2027, Lancaster, 16-18 April 2027 The Society’s Annual Conference will be held at the University of Lancaster on 16-18 April 2027. This conference celebrates the 75th anniversary of the foundation of the Society in 1952. We therefore see it as a special occasion, looking both backwards over the over the achievements of the discipline since 1952 with its expansion into new areas and changes of emphasis, and towards the future. We intend that the conference will illustrate the range and diversity of agricultural and rural history. We therefore invite proposals for papers addressing all aspects of agricultural and rural history, including, but not limited to, the following themes Animal History — Diet, Food, Processing and Retailing — Environmental History Leisure and Recreation — Perceptions of the Countryside — Power and Conflict Progress and Innovation — Work and Workers Whilst the primary focus will be on Britain and I...
King's College, London seminar on Worldly Women at the Court of King Charles II (pasted)
Worldly Women at the Court of Charles II: Exile, Excess, and the Expanding World 22nd October, 17:00, River Room, King's Building On Thursday 22 October, join Dr Kerry Apps (Sheffield) and Dr Annalisa Nicholson (KCL), in conversation with Dr Hannah Dawson (KCL) and Catharine MacLeod (National Portrait Gallery), for a discussion on women’s transnational activities at the court of Charles II. Within that Francophilic and cosmopolitan court, many women embraced trends and opportunities from continental travel and global consumerism to libertinism. How did court women respond to libertine ideologies? How did this libertinism lend itself to links with Europe and the expanding world? And how did court women signal their supposed worldliness by fashioning themselves and their homes with global and colonial objects? The panel will focus on figures at the centre of recent research, including the French exile Hortense Mancini, the Italian queen consort Maria of Modena, and the Anglo-Scotti...
Tudor and Stuart Seminar's autumn programme at the Institute of Historical Research (pasted)
12th October Alan Stewart (Columbia University), ‘ Prosecuting Essex: Francis Bacon in the courtroom and on the page’ 26th October: Julia Hamilton (independent scholar), ‘Performative Politics: Displaying Privacy in Stuart Interiors Using Built and Material Culture’ 9th November: Edward Taylor (University of Birmingham), ‘ Mercurius Gallobelgicus and the News Revolution in Britain, 1592-c.1650’ 23rd November: Erica Canela (University of Birmingham), ‘ The Battle for England's Soul: Richard Baxter and the Early Quakers in the 1650s’ 7th December: Naomi Tadmor (University of Lancaster), ‘ The settlement of the poor in England c .1660–1780: law and social change’