EMH EarlyModernHistory

  Seminar Paper options   Fraud or Prophet: Conrad Russell and the origins of ‘Revisionism’ This paper offers a critical assessment of the evolution of Russell’s views on Parliamentary and political history in the early Stuart period. It examines contemporary historiography on these subjects and argues that Russell’s ‘revisionist’ revolt in 1975 ignored this work: it was already clear that Whig explanations had failed and had been superseded. His claims were based on outdated suppositions from the 1950s. Furthermore, his general analysis rested on explanatory models borrowed from Aylmer and Everitt and offered spectacularly inaccurate detailed accounts of Parliamentary proceedings.     Reactions to the onset of the Personal Rule and alternative forms of government in Church and State This paper considers the reaction of Charles I’s principal critics in the east of England to the dissolution of Parliament in 1629 and the start of the period of Personal R...

All Souls College in the University of Oxford will be marking the publication of this major work with an on-line conference on Friday, 3rd September. Registration will be open  here  until 2nd September.

A copy of this document can be found via the NACBS website  here  . Some early modern sessions are planned.

Simon Healy left the History of Parliament Trust some time ago but is editing the newsletters covering the Parliament of 1624 for the forthcoming HoP edition of its proceedings. If anyone knows what else he may be engaged in doing, please let me know.

 Details of this forthcoming event can be found   here  .

  A223  -  Early modern Europe: society and culture 1500-178 Close date:   Thursday, 26 August, 2021 - 12:00 Module: A223 Role: Associate Lecturer Faculty: Faculty of Arts Presentation start date(s): October Tuition delivery model: Regular Face to Face student contact Location(s): R01 Open University in London R02 Open University in the South R03 Open University in the South West R04 Open University in the West Midlands R05 Open University in the East Midlands R06 Open University in the East of England R07 Open University in Yorkshire R08 Open University in the North West R09 Open University in the North R10 Open University in Wales R11 Open University in Scotland R12 Open University in Ireland R13 Open University in the South East Additional information: We welcome applications from anywhere in the UK or ROI but the tuition and student group will be based in the advertised location.   Module person specification   How to apply Pasted from a link via twitte...

  This conference marks the 500th anniversary of William Cecil, Lord Burghley's birth, presenting new research on his life and activities. About this event 2020 /1 marks the 500th anniversary of the birth of William Cecil (Lord Burghley from 1572), one of the most important statesmen and patrons of the Elizabethan age. Burghley was described by the Spanish ambassador as ‘the man who does everything’. Indeed his reach extended far beyond the world of the court to encompass the counties of England and the City of London, where he connected into expanding circles of trade and economic activity that spanned across the known world. At home, he became the leading architectural patron of the time, using his houses to exercise and reflect the magnificence of the state as well as his own dynastic ambitions. The scope of his interests was remarkable. Events commemorating Cecil’s birth includes this major three-day conference at St John’s College in Cambridge, 20-22 September 2021, directed b...

  CfP: The Origins of Capitalism – deadline 15 October Date / time 25 March - 26 March, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm   CALL FOR PAPERS: DEADLINE 15 September 2021 This event will be held in-person at Ohio University, 25-26 March 2022. The Menard Family George Washington Forum on American Ideas, Politics, and Institutions, which has its home at Ohio University, invites paper proposals for a conference and subsequent edited volume on the origins of capitalism. The conference will be held at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, on March 25 and 26, 2022. Previous Menard Family George Washington Forum conferences have resulted in edited books from the university presses at Cambridge, Manchester, Oxford, and Virginia. Gareth Austin (Cambridge), Sven Beckert (Harvard), Emma Griffin (East Anglia) and Prasannan Parthasarathi (Boston College) will deliver plenary lectures. This conference and its subsequent volume will examine yet again the origins of what Max Weber called “the most fateful force in o...

This post tenable for 23 months is now being advertised  here  . Closing date for applications is two weeks today, i.e. 25th August, 2021.

This permanent post starting in January, 2022 is currently being advertised  here  . The closing date for applications is later this month.

  01 September 2008 Oliver Cromwell as Bailiff of Huntingdon in 1626 The three hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Oliver Cromwell's death falls in the next few days. The exact date depends upon one's view of the calendrical changes accepted in England in the eighteenth century. Whichever date one chooses, Cromwell's death marked the end of one of the most remarkable lives of the early modern period. The most obscure part of Cromwell's personal and public life lies in the period up to 1630. When he wrote his essay on The Making of Oliver Cromwell , in the late-1980s, John Morrill concluded that "We know next to nothing about Oliver's role in the government of Huntingdon in the 1620s because so few borough records survive. ... He may or may not have been one of the twenty-four burgesses elected by all freemen annually to form the common council; he may even have served as one of the two bailiffs. As one of the leading subsidy-men it is to be expected that ...