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  24 April  (hybrid):        Henry Oscar Davies Patton (Oxford), ‘The literary works of the Gentlemen of the Elizabethan Chapel Royal: Politics, Religion, and Print’.   22 May  (hybrid):         William Cavert (St Thomas), ‘Early Modern Vermin Killers’.   5 June  (online):          Memorial Panel for Matt Growhoski, with Tom Cogswell (UC Riverside), Peter Lake (Vanderbilt) and Laurie Nussdorfer (Wesleyan)   19 June  (hybrid):        Charlie Fenton (Kent), ‘The Impact of the Edwardian Reformation on the County of Kent’   3 July  (online):           The Elizabethan Tacitus: papers from Helena Rutkowska (Oxford) and John-Mark Philo (University of East Anglia).  

 This post to be occupied for one year to the end of September, 2024 has just been advertised  here  . Applications must be made between now and towards the end of April, 2023.

 Twenty-First Warwick Symposium on Parish Research Parish and Performance Saturday 13 May 2023Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL Co-organized by Beat Kümin (Warwick / My-Parish) & John Craig (Simon Fraser / Records of Early English Drama) with Daniel Gettings and Maria Tauber (Warwick) ‘The Thames at Richmond, with the Old Royal Palace’(unknown Flemish school, early 17thC). © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. FINAL PROGRAMME 9.45 – 10.15 Registration and Coffee (Institute of Advanced Study, Foyer) 10.15 – 10.30 Welcome and Introduction by the co-organizers (IAS Seminar Room) 10.30 – 11.30 Keynote Address, chaired by John Craig (Seminar Room)Peter Greenfield (University of Puget Sound),‘a strange perswasion’: English Parish Performances and the Records of Early English Drama 11.30 – 1 pm   Session 1: MUSIC, DANCE & CHARIVARI, chaired by Beat Kümin (Seminar Room) Susan Skinner (University of Plymouth), ‘Music, Place and Cultu...

 Workshop for the Early Modern Period Call for Papers – Easter Term 2023  The Workshop for the Early Modern Period (WEMP) is now inviting submissions for papers to be presented during Easter Term 2023. The workshop provides a forum for graduate students to present research on any aspect of early modern history in a friendly and sociable environment. These workshops are an excellent platform to trial potential avenues of research, receive feedback on your work, and gain experience presenting to a group and responding to ideas and questions. The call for papers this Easter Term 2023 is OPEN. Papers may focus on all or part of the period c. 1450-1800. Submissions are open to MA, MPhil and PhD students from Cambridge as well as other academic institutions. The format consists of two twenty-minute papers followed by discussion, questions, and feedback. Workshops are well attended by students from a range of disciplines. If you are interested in presenting your work, please send a t...

  William Camden and his World July 14 @ 9:00 am  -  5:00 pm Conference William Camden and his World William Camden (1551-1623), antiquary, historian, herald, and schoolmaster at Westminster School was a founder member of the Society of Antiquaries and a pioneering scholar of British antiquities. Perhaps the most famous English scholar of his day, he was celebrated throughout the European republic of letters. Camden’s Britannia was the first comprehensive chorographical survey of Britain and Ireland, while his Annals of the reign of Elizabeth I, the earliest complete history of the Queen’s reign, was a landmark piece of historical writing, hailed as the first ‘modern’ work of history by an English author. 2023 is the four-hundredth anniversary of Camden’s death, and a timely moment to revisit his life and work, and the many legacies of his scholarship. Conference Programme: 09.00:  Registration opens 10.00: Welcome and Introduction 10.15: Session 1 – Camden’s Annals ...

 

Three British Revolutions: a postscript to the 1976 Folger Conference In May, 1976, the Folger Institute of Renaissance and Eighteenth-Century Studies held a conference at the Folger Shakespeare Library to explore the relationships between the British Revolutions of 1641 and 1689 and their sequel in the rebellion of the American colonies in 1776. The contributors as the editor of its proceedings, J.G.A.Pocock, noted in his introduction apparently held that "something like a new perspective on all three Revolutions was emerging " but that they had announced that , although not the authors or originators of a new interpretation, they did feel "that they had announced the fact of its emergence from recent research and reflection." This was an oblique reference in the case of the English Revolution of 1641 to Lawrence Stone's claim at the conference that a consensus had now been reached on its origins as a revolt against a corrupt royal court. (Christopher Hill diss...

  Historians, PhDs, and Jobs in 2023 Posted on  March 13, 2023   by  Brodie Waddell 1 Brodie Waddell Amid yet another year of university strikes in the UK, the Higher Education Statistics Agency has released the latest data on staff and degrees granted. A couple of years ago, I used this data to try to get a sense of the job market for historians, so it seems like a good time to use the new figures to provide an update. First, let’s take a look at what’s happening in the USA, where they are able to provide a more rigorous view of the job market because the American Historical Association tracks job advertisements and provides an annual report. In previous years, the AHA reports had been  published with a Chart of Doom  which showed the catastrophic collapse of job openings relative to degrees granted: Advertised job openings and new history PhDs awarded:  AHA Jobs Report 2021 . In their  most recent report, from August 2022 , they decided not...

 The Many-Headed Monster blog has an important new post by Brodie Waddell (Birkbeck) on these vital subjects. It can be read  here . Do read it.

 There is a video recording of Richard Cust's talk available on Youtube,  which can be seen  here  . Well worth watching.

 

 

 This review may be read  here  .

The next meeting of Cambridge’s Early Modern British and Irish History seminar series will be held this   Wednesday  (8 March).   Prof. Andy Hopper  (Oxford) will be giving a paper on ‘ Conflict, Welfare and Memory: The Civil War Petitions Project’ .   The seminar will be held at  5:15pm  in the  Graham Storey Room  at  Trinity Hall .

 For Keith Livesey's review on his blog, follow the link  here  .

  Translation and Colonization in the Early Modern Antilles 8 March 2023, 4pm - 6pm University College London In this seminar Michael Harrigan discusses the techniques French colonial populations used to translate for Amerindian and enslaved African populations. West African knowledge, the Royal Society and the early Jamaican mahogany trade 9 March 2023, 5.30pm - 7pm Institute of Historical Research Part of the 'Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800' seminar series.  "Bundles": Empowered Packets in the Early Modern Atlantic World: a workshop with Cécile Fromont 28 April 2023, 9.30am - 6pm King's College London Hosted by Medicine and the Making of Race, this exploratory workshop gathers an interdisciplinary group of scholars with knowledge and expertise of “early modern bundles”, handcrafted pouches which could bestow their wearers with power or protection.  If you would like to attend, please email  mmor@kcl.ac.uk . Calls for Papers Christianity and Racemaking ...

 

 

 

 The call for papers for this conference can be found  here  . The closing date is 5th May, 2023.

Rachel Hammersley's blog has a post today giving her reflections on the conference held at the Institute of Historical Research in London last month marking the 50th anniversary of the publication of Christopher Hill's book, The World Turned Upside Down. It can be read  here  .