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A recording of John Morrill in conversation with Miranda Malins and Paul Lay lasting 33 minutes is available  here  . Well worth hearing.

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 Her History Today article can be found  here  .

 

The History of Parliament's blog now has a piece by Dr Andrew Thrush on the struggle between Sir Robert Cecil and the 2nd Earl of Essex for this role. Follow the link  here  for access. 

 Jessica Purdy's engaging analysis of this subject can be read  here  on History Today's site.

 For a discussion of this subject, follow the link  here  to The Conversation.

A lecture on  “Richard Boyle, Earl of Cork and the Clonakilty Community: some new Evidence, c.1613-41” will be delivered by Dr. David Edwards, Senior Lecturer in the School of History, University College Cork this Thursday 23rd February at 8pm at the Clonakilty GAA Pavilion in the Irish Republic. 

 The University of Notre Dame has arranged a conference in London on this subject next month. For the details of the speakers and registration, click on the link  here  .

 

Details of this two hour seminar hosted by the Congregational Library can be found  here  . Frank Bremer will be one of the speakers.

  'Key Texts', Call for Proposals The  CEMS Blog  Postgraduate Series, 2023. Dear members of CEMS, After  Keywords  in 2021 and  Key Things  in 2022, the Centre for Early Modern Studies is looking to  commission six short pieces for this year's postgraduate blog series . Each piece will be paid, of around a thousand words in length, and  take a single 'key text' as its point of departure . The series seeks to think about – and re-think – the texts that have occupied, continue to occupy, and ought to occupy places in our teaching and research. Participants might make the case for a primary text they believe has long been overlooked by their discipline or celebrate a secondary source that has been vital to the development of their field. We're particularly keen to hear reflections and provocations on texts – whether old or new – which participants feel point in important new directions for early modern studies. Texts mi...

 

Yesterday evening I started reading Wesley Frank Craven's book on The Dissolution of the Virginia Company and came across his short quotation from the start of the instructions the company gave to George Yeardley on 18th November, 1618: the relevant phrase is to be found in Kingsbury, Volume III, pp.98-99 where Yeardley was informed that the company had "thought good to bend our present cares and Consultations .... to the setling there [i.e. in Virginia] of a laudable form of Government by Majestracy and just laws for the happy guiding and governing of the people there inhabiting  like as we haue already done for the well ordering of our Courts here and of our Officers and accions for the behoof of that plantacion  ...." The highlighted words are the ones I am puzzled about. I am not clear exactly what this refers to or, more importantly, when this procedure had been accomplished. Was it very recent or some time in the past? If it had been done recently, the puzzle is com...

 Abstracto Lo primero que me llamó la atención esta mañana fue la reseña de Jesse Child en The Guardian del nuevo libro de Paul Lay, Providence Lost: the Rise and Fall of Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate, publicado por Zeus Books. Su propia escritura se ha centrado en gran medida en el período Tudor, pero encontró que el trabajo de Lay es una discusión muy gratificante de un período complejo e intrigante. Oliver Cromwell creía que la providencia de Dios lo había elevado de las filas de la nobleza menor en Huntingdonshire y la isla de Ely a Lord Protector de Inglaterra, Escocia e Irlanda en 1653. Era el gobernante de facto de los tres reinos con los objetivos fundamentales de conservar el buen orden, de asegurar un alto grado de libertad de conciencia y de preparar estas islas para el regreso de Cristo. Estos objetivos implicaban la represión de las insurrecciones realistas, la reforma moral de los impíos al prohibir la embriaguez, la fornicación y el juego, y llevar a cabo el asalto ...

  Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: a talk by Professor John Morrill & Team 24-03-23  -  24-03-23 , 7:30 PM  -  9:30 PM Admission: ££15 adults, £12 members Location: Huntington Town Hall Oliver Cromwell has left more correspondence and recorded speeches than any other individual in British history prior to the 1800s, much of which was first published by Thomas Carlyle in 1845. Carlyle's text, and that of others who published similar volumes, missed out, edited or misinterpreted many of the texts, meaning that many of the histories written since then have depended on inaccurate sources. Over the last decade a team of academics from across Britain, Ireland and the USA have been working to collate, verify and annotate a new edition of Oliver Cromwell's letters and speeches, consisting of more than 1,000 texts. Cromwell rose from lowly origins in Huntingdon to become a notable commander, preside over the trial and execution of a king, undertake the most complete ...

 

12 January, 2012 Keith Thomas  

  EMSI American Origins Virginia Beginnings  Saturday, February 4 at 9:00am  to  12:00pm  Virtual Event Part I: Book Discussion The Virginia Venture: American Colonization & English Society, 1580-1600 Misha Ewen, Historic Royal Palaces Part II: Roundtable Sir Henry Spelman of London and Henry Spelman of Jamestown: The Antiquarian & the Interpreter Moderator: James Rice, Tufts University Karen Kupperman, NYU Holly Brewer, University of Maryland David Lupher, University of Puget Sound Emily Rose, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies Saturday, February 4, 2023 Online Event 9:00 am - 12:00 noon (PT) Dial-In Information Register via  Zoom .