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  Zoom Webinar  Debating Intellectual Change in early modern Europe (16 th   – 18 th   centuries)  Hosted by IMEMS, Durham University  7 July 2022, 3.00pm-5.00pm BST   Registration now open to all:  please click here  to book your place.   Participants and titles :     Jeffrey Burson:   “Transposing Erudition from Late Humanism to the Early Enlightenment”   Robert Ingram:   “Sin and Sovereignty”  Dmitri Levitin:   “European intellectual change, 1500–1800: two big myths, and how to replace them”  Diego Lucci:   “Long Reformation or Religious Enlightenment?”   Luisa Simonutti:   “Islamic Influences on Intellectual Change in Seventeenth-Century Europe”   Ann Thomson:   “How useful is the notion of “the Enlightenment”?”    Chair/moderator:   Marco Barducci   (University of Pavia/IMEMS)    In this Zoom Webinar, l eading intellectual historians...

  Cromwell Association Study Day 2022 The Auditorium, St Fagans National Museum of History, St Fagans, Cardiff Saturday 15th October Ismini Pells A nation under siege: Wales and the Welsh in the Civil Wars of the 1640s Chaired by Dr Ismini Pells, Trustee of the Cromwell Association and postdoctoral research fellow, Department for Continuing Education at the University of Oxford, working on the major AHRC-funded research project,  ‘Conflict, Welfare and Memory: Maimed Soldiers and War Widows of the English Civil Wars, 1642-1700’ , Civil War Petitions Project. Agenda 9.45  Registration and coffee 10.25  Welcome and introduction 10.30  ‘The Nursery of the King’s Infantry’? How distinctive was the main civil war (1642-46) in Wales? Professor Peter Gaunt Pembroke Castle Almost all of Wales came out swiftly, fervently and without resistance for the king in 1642 and then served as part of the royalist heartlands, uncontested and seeing little active fighting for most o...

 

I am sorry to say that I missed the IHR seminar on the volume of essays in honour of Ann Hughes edited by Jason Peacey and Peter Lake and published by the Manchester University Press, which took place yesterday afternoon. The strike by the RMT Union precluded my hopes of getting to London and I let the organisers know at about 12.20 p.m. that I would not be coming. Sadly, I did not check again because, at c.3.15 p.m. yesterday, they sent me and others e-mails indicating that the seminar would take place as a hybrid session on zoom: I did not see either message until this morning. So, I am cross and disappointed that I could not see or hear what happened at the seminar.  On the other hand, news reaches me this morning that the edition of Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches overseen by John Morrill will be published in three volumes in August, each volume costing £170.

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Next week, the Institute of Historical Research will be holding a seminar in honour of Ann Hughes and to launch a festschrift in her honour. This will be published by the Manchester University Press. Some indications of its contents can be found  here  . 

Details of this three-year Fellowship can be found  here  . (The British Isles are excluded.) Closing date for applications is 15th August, 2022. 

  Early Modern History News The Civil War Petitions blog has an account of Bridget Rumney’s loss of her mother and two mothers after the massacre of women and children by Sir Thomas Fairfax’s troops after the battle of Naseby in 1645. It can be read at https://www.civilwarpetitions.ac.uk/blog/echoes-of-a-massacre-the-petition-of-bridget-rumney/   Ann Hughes and John Rees discussed the Levellers at the Levellers’ Day in Burford on 22 nd May, 2022. It can be seen at    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsrO__tn-94   Rosalind Smith has an intriguing discussion of female ownership of Eikon Basilke at https://emmersoncollection.cems.anu.edu.au/?p=887   A.Z.Foreman has a post on Andrew Marvell’s An Horation Ode at https://www.patreon.com/posts/67625995   Michael Braddick is taking up a three-year British Academy/Wolfson Fellowship and a three-year lectureship to cover his teaching is now being advertised. https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CQQ880/le...

  Richard Pulley and Virginia Richard Pulley’s connection with the early colonial history of Virginia seems straightforward enough. His testimony was cited in legal proceedings in the court of Chancery in the Easter term of 1623 and again in a suit in the High Court of Admiralty in 1623-1624. Both cases had arisen from Sir Samuel Argall’s period as Deputy Governor in the colony between 1617 and the spring of 1619. Argall had become involved in quarrels with Edward Brewster, one of his putative successor Lord Delaware’s dependents over the disposal of the late peer’s men and property resulting in Brewster being tried under martial law and expelled from Virginia. These disputes re-surfaced in the Courts of the Virginia Company of London after both men returned to England in 1619. Their allies and patrons – the 2 nd Earl of Warwick’s on Argall’s side and Sir Edwin Sandys and his supporters on that of Brewster – became involved in the partisan struggles for control of the company th...