EMH EarlyModernHistory

  Term 1- Autumn 2021 07 oct 2021 Making peace in the English Civil Wars William White (York) Online- via Zoom 21 oct 2021 "I have sent you the book of nus": gender, identity and news cultures in seventeenth-century England Hannah Jeans (York) Online- via Zoom 04 nov 2021 Forging identity through death: the Quaker dead of seventeenth-century London Anna Cusack (Birkbeck) Online- via Zoom 18 nov 2021 The great hedgehog massacre: vermin eradication and popular improvement in early modern England Will Cavert (University of St Thomas, Minesotta) Online- via Zoom 02 dec 2021 William Laud vs the English print underground, 1628-1637 William Clayton (UEA) Online- via Zoom 16 dec 2021 The Bothwell Depositions of 1679: rethinking the “Covenanters” of Restoration Scotland Laura Doak (Dundee) Online- via Zoom

  John Adamson on Eilish Gregory’s book, Catholics During the English Revolution, 1642-1660: Politics, Sequestration and Loyalty (Boydell Press, 2021) Given the number of historians in this country and elsewhere working on the events of the 1640s and 1650s in the British Isles and the ever-growing body of their publications, it is not surprising that it has become increasingly difficult to keep up with the flow of articles, books and reviews coming from their word-processors. Even with the aid of Google’s alerts and daily checks on social media like Twitter, some items of interest are inevitably missed. That was certainly the case for John Adamson’s review in the Catholic Herald in August of Eilish Gregory’s recent book on the sequestration of Catholics’ estates in the English Civil War and the immediately succeeding period. [1] John Adamson’s review began with a brief account of long-standing fears about Catholic attempts to subvert England’s liberties and Protestantism stret...

  Gold for Secrets: the Hartlib Circle and the early English Empire 1630-1660   Mon, 6 Sep 2021 11:11 Timothy Miller's 2020 Oxford University D.Phil. thesis covers the interests of Samuel Hartlib and his associates in the colonisation of Ireland, New England, Virginia and the Caribbean. It is important and can be found and downloaded from the University's website. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:443f6117-ad95-4cc1-8eef-456c507d42d4

 

 

 All seminars begin at 17:15pm London time and will take place on-line. 4 October 2021: 'Just Fines: Mathematical Tables, Church Landlords, and Algorithmic Fairness circa 1628'. William Deringer, MIT. 18 October 2021: '"Picture Makers" and "Base Mechaniks" in Elizabethan and early Stuart England'. Robert Tittler, Concordia University.  1 November 2021. 'Trouble in Swallowfield?' Ralph Houlbrooke, University of Reading. 15 November 2021. 'William Gager, Shame, Honour, and Marital Violence'. Brian Weiser, Metropolitan State University of Denver. 29 November 2021. 'Parliament's Princes: the Guardianship of Charles I's Children, 1642-1653'. Lucy Underwood, University of Warwick.  13 December 2021. 'Sheriffs' Courts in Tudor England: Procedure and Popularity'. Jonathan McGovern, Nanjing University.