EMH EarlyModernHistory

John McDonnell, M.P., has just put up a discussion between these figures on the origins, course, consequences and significance of the Civil War  here  . The discussion is well worth listening to although I have serious doubts about some of its aspects and contentions.

Earlier on today, I came across an audio recording on Youtube of the late Brian Manning's views on the English Revolution and its historiography and interpretation. It is well worth listening to even though I do not agree with his overall position. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDIZFYzDVHs)

  Hearing the Plague in Seventeenth-century London The Many-headed Monster has been one of the most successful internet blogs of recent years. Its founders, Mark Hailwood, Laura Sangha, Brodie Waddell and Jonathan Willis, were all products of the important school of social history at the University of Warwick and have contributed positively to the dissemination of research about the economy, society, culture and beliefs of English people in the early modern period. More recently, they have attracted a number of postgraduate contributors to offer posts on their ongoing research, thereby widening the scope of their site and adding to its vigour. One of these, Claire Turner, a second-year postgraduate student at the University of Leeds has composed a fascinating piece on ‘Pestilential Soundscapes: Hearing the Plague in Seventeenth-Century London’ and published it five days ago on the Monster’s site. No such piece or research would have been contemplated when I was a postgraduate, w...

  The Directorship of the Institute of Historical Research I was reading David Cannadine’s book, Making History Now and Then: Discoveries, Controversies and Explorations, two days ago when I came across his reflections on his time working at the Institute of Historical Research in the University of London from 1998 to 2008. For the first part of this period, he was the Institute’s Director, a role he considered to be “one of the four senior posts in the English historical profession, along with the Regius Professorships of Modern History at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and the Presidency of the Royal Historical Society … But unlike the two Oxbridge professorships, the Directorship of the IHR carries with it specific and extensive administrative responsibilities; and unlike the Presidency of the Royal Historical Society, it is a full time academic job here in the University of London.” [i] I have to admit that this comparison had never occurred to me. There can be n...

 

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