January 18: Ceri Sullivan (Cardiff) ‘Keeping or Violating the Cooperative Principle, in Conversations between God and George Herbert’ February 1: Alan Marshall (Bath Spa) ‘Oliver Cromwell and the Secret Arts of Government’ February 15: David Parry (Exeter) ‘Salvation from Nothing: King Lear’s Redemption of Tragedy and Luther’s Hidden God’ March 1: Tabitha Stanmore (Bristol) ‘Finding the Baseline: Habitat and Biodiversity in Early Modern England’. March 15: Sarah Ward (UWE) ‘Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Post-Mistresses, Post-Wenches and Other Seventeenth-Century Women of the Post’