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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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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 ...
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