EMH EarlyModernHistory

 Ann Hughes, formerly of Keele University, is standing in the Labour Party's interest in the Lichfield City South County Council election on May 6th. I watched Eamon Darcy speak about the Irish Rebellion of 1641 to the Offaly Historical Society last night. This talk will probably appear on that society's Youtube channel at a later date. Tonight there will be a zoom conference on the History of Parliament's recently published volumes on the House of Lords 1624-1629. 

 

 

 

 

  Britain in Revolution Seminar, Trinity Term 2021. Mondays 17.00(BST) via Microsoft teams.   26 April, John Morrill (University of Cambridge): ‘‘They made a desert and they called it peace': Cromwell's War in Ireland’.     10 May, Sarah Mortimer and David Scott (University of Oxford & History of Parliament): ‘ Henry Marten and 'the Original of all Just Power'’.     24 May, Grant Tapsell (University of Oxford): ‘ The Ordeal of William Sancroft: A conservative endures Britain in revolution'.   7 June, Anthony Milton (University of Sheffield): ‘Further reformation? Episcopalian royalist rethinking in the 1650s'  

I bought the latest edition of the TLS yesterday and was intrigued to see that the first review was by Paul Collier on recent publications in the area of politics, notably on the most recent work of Robert D. Putnam. Collier focuses at the start on putnam's concept of "social capital", i.e. the idea that social relationships are productive in the senses that they can generate and enforce common purposes. Putnam first used this concept to explain the differences between northern and southern Italy by tracing their origins back to the associative relationships that developed between citizens in the towns of the north and contrasting these with the feudal relationships and autocratic rule established following the Norman conquests and settlements in the medieval period. I am interested in this idea if still puzzled about why it did not apply in England in the longer term as a consequence of the Norman conquest in 1066. But it hints at an idea I have been contemplating for se...

  Teaching Fellow in Early Modern History University of Birmingham  - School of History and Cultures Location: Birmingham Salary: As this vacancy has limited funding the maximum salary that can be offered is £30,942 Grade 7 Hours: Full Time Contract Type: Fixed-Term/Contract Placed On: 8th April 2021 Closes: 5th May 2021 Job Ref: 97049 College of Arts and Law Location: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK Fixed Term Contract to 31 August 2022 This appointment offers an exciting opportunity to join the Department of History in the School of History and Cultures at Birmingham. The Department is one of the largest and most diverse in Britain and has an international reputation for excellence in research and teaching. In REF 2014 History was ranked first nationally, with exceptionally high-calibre research publications as well as strong impact beyond the academy. We seek a specialist to consolidate and expand our teaching strengths in the field of Early Modern Histor...

My short tribute to Roger Howell, Jr., of Bowdoin College, Maine and St John's College, University of Oxford has just gone up on the Internet Archive site and can be seen  here  .

 16th November, 2017

 

Aaron Columbus will be giving a seminar paper on this subject on 23rd April next between 1 and 2.30 p.m (New Zealand time) at the University of Wellington in New Zealand. Further details can be found  here  . Please note the time difference between United Kingdom and New Zealand time zones. 

  This lecture by Vanessa Harding of Birkbeck College, University of London can be viewed free of charge. Tickets can be accessed via eventbrite.

  Quite by chance, I was browsing on Twitter last Friday (9 th April) when I spotted on Edward Vallance’s site a reference to a video conference organised by William Clayton of the University of East Anglia at the end of last month. Further searches led me to William Clayton’s review of the book edited by Chris Kyle and Jason Peacey, Connecting Centre and Locality: Communication in early modern England, which appeared under the auspices of the Manchester University Press in 2020 and which Clayton had reviewed for The Seventeenth Century in its most recent issue. [1] This is a subject which interests me and I did give some thought to responding to William Clayton’s largely laudatory comments. However, I was also conscious that I had not read this collection of essays and was thus less well equipped than I should be for assessing either the book or William Clayton’s review. There was, however, one historiographical issue upon which I did feel qualified to comment. Right at the st...