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  Christopher Thompson (22 July, 2023)   I agree on all the points you have made. The use of petitioning as a means of pressurising Parliament goes back, I believe, to the Presbyterian campaigns of the 1580s in which the 3rd Lord Rich, the 2nd Earl of Warwick's father, had been engaged. One recourse available to the Junto post-1640 was to appeal to a version of the medieval past in which Kings were constrained by Magna Carta, statutes and ordinances but this could only be stretched so far. More radical groups appeared willing to use such forms of pressure later in the 1640s. Like Christopher Thompson 3 hrs ago A point that I ought to have made yesterday concerns the 2nd Earl of Warwick's resources. His privateering interests are well known. But he also had more purely military resources at his disposal. Evidence from 1625 and 1648 indicates that he had a private armoury at his house at Leez Priory. Arthur Wilson's autobiography (composed in c.1649) indicates the presenc...

 This is now available on the NACBS's website.

  Postdoctoral Researcher in the ERC Consolidator project FEATHERS   The FEATHERS project on manuscript production, led by Prof. Nadine Akkerman at the University of Leiden, is advertising a postdoctoral position on the project team, to write several peer-reviewed articles and assist in developing methodology aimed at understanding the ways in which a secretary, scrivener or scribe might interact and influence their patron/employer. In order to apply the candidate must propose a case-study which can serve to explore concepts associated with collaborative authorship in the secular manuscript industry, in governmental, literary or legal texts produced in England between 1558 and 1642. The application closes on 31 July 2023 and full details can be found  here ; please circulate these to anyone who might be interested.  

Malcolm Smuts has posted some highly interesting comments on this subject  here  on the Academia.edu site.

  Symposium at the University of Plymouth Date: 6-7 September 2023 This symposium will bring together scholars to examine women and their interactions with the sea and maritime world from 1500-1750. We invite submissions for 20-minute papers from PhD students, early career researchers and established researchers from across the world. The symposium will run in a hybrid and in person format. Proposals may cover topics that includes but are not limited to the following themes • Experiences of women at sea • Women living and working in maritime communities (dockyards, port towns; fishing) • Women and the Navy • Women and Piracy • Women and migration • Enslaved women and the sea • Indigenous women and the sea • Women and private companies (EIC; VOC etc) • Material culture of women at sea • Lives ashore – separation from sailor husbands/family members • Gender and the Sea Closing Date for abstracts: 6 August 2023 Please email your abstract of 200-300 words and a short biography/CV to:...

  Two postdoctoral positions at Exeter   The Leverhulme-funded project ‘The Material Culture of Wills: England 1540-1790’, led by Prof. Jane Whittle and with Co-Investigators Dr Laura Sangha at the University of Exeter and Mark Bell at The National Archives, are advertising two postdoctoral positions.   An expert in early modern history with experience of wills and palaeography: https://jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC107GF.open?VACANCY_ID=407579fIQu&WVID=3817591jNg&LANG=USA An expert in digital humanities: https://jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC107GF.open?VACANCY_ID=955097fKbe&WVID=3817591jNg&LANG=USA   Please circulate these adverts to any contacts who might be interested in applying.

The conference held by the Society of Antiquaries last Friday is available on Youtube  here  . I saw most of it and can recommend it highly.

  S.R.Gardiner’s anticipation of the ‘county community’ hypothesis Several decades ago, Alan Everitt argued in his study of the county of Kent that its rulers formed a community of their own, that this community was distinct from that of other counties and that, when its leaders spoke of their ‘country’ they meant Kent rather than England. It was in reaction to the demands of the King and his Privy Council that the community of Kent shaped its political and religious responses and that this form of localism helped to explain the antecedents and outbreak of the English Civil War or Revolution. There is no doubt about the stimulus that this hypothesis gave to the investigation of county histories across the period. The works of Anthony Fletcher, John Morrill and the late Clive Holmes testify to its impact. In historiographical terms, it was highly significant in the late-1960s and 1970s even though its influence has now faded. At that time, I was sceptical partly because this argumen...

  Lawrence Stone’s papers Back in the autumn of 2007, I made an enquiry about the location of the late Lawrence Stone’s papers on the discussion page of the H-Albion site. I was prompted to do so by my curiosity about the sources for a number of statistical claims made in his 1965 book, The Crisis of the Aristocracy 1558-1641. There were, for example, no printed or unprinted sources cited for his calculations on the landed incomes and manorial holdings of the peerage or on their profits from office. In a work making such important assertions this struck me as decidedly odd. I had thought that his historical papers might have been deposited in the library of Princeton University or in the holdings of the Shelby Cullom Davis Center of which he had been head until his retírement in 1990. I was wrong in this supposition. In the event, I received two partially informative replies. Dror Warrman replied on 7th September, 2007 to the effect that: After Lawrence Stone died, I spent a week ...

There are currently two early modern teaching vacancies in London which may be of interest to you, and we would be grateful if you could pass on the details to anyone else who might be interested. The first is an Associate Lecturer in History (Heresy) post at Goldsmiths (closes 17th July):  https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DBA556/associate-lecturer-in-history-heresy    The second is a Lecturer in Early Modern History Education post at KCL (closes 19th July):  https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/070725-lecturer-in-early-modern-history-education  

  2023 Academic Job Boot Camp July 7, 2023 Boot Camp , Careers , ECR , Event , Events , Jobs Academic Job Boot Camp – Wednesday 13 September 2023, online event. History UK is pleased to be running the Academic Job Boot Camp again this year. All early career historians are encouraged to apply, with preference being given to those who have already completed or submitted their PhDs. Are you thinking about applying for your first lectureship in history? Submitting applications and never hearing back? Wishing you could have a ‘test run’ for job applications and interviews? The Academic Job Boot Camp is a free half-day event for early career historians, sponsored by History UK and supported by History Lab Plus. It will help you to structure your academic CV, hone your cover letter, rehearse your job presentation, and undergo a mock interview, as well as demystifying some of the processes around academic recruitment. The experience, feedback,...

  Early Modern Research Centre  <lfs14e@reading.ac.uk> Fri, 7 Jul at 10:26 Dear everyone,   I hope this finds you all well. The following workshop may be of interest to PhD students and early career scholars – please circulate the details to anyone you know who might like to attend.   This Postdoctoral Application Workshop will take place at the University of Reading, 14:00-17:00 on 25 July 2023, hosted by Dr Richard Blakemore, Dr Benjamin Bland, Dr Apurba Chatterjee, Dr Natalie Thomlinson, and Prof. Emily West (all from the Department of History). Lunch will be provided from 13:00. We are grateful to the South West and Wales Doctoral Training Partnership for their support.   At the workshop we will introduce participants to the various schemes available, consider how to write a good postdoctoral application, and offer advice from current postdoctoral fellows. Participants will also have the opportunity to discuss and receive feedback on their project idea...

  The Cromwell Association Study Day 2023 Huntingdon Library, Princes Street, Huntingdon, PE29 3PA, Saturday 14 th  October 2023 The Cromwell Association with the History of Parliament Trust Parliament, politics and people: the History of Parliament, House of Commons 1640-1660 The definitive history of the House of Commons from 1640-1660 will be published this year. Edited by Stephen K. Roberts, this monumental nine-volume set comprises detailed biographies of over 1800 MPs and studies of over 320 constituencies, and is the result of over twenty-five years of effort by a small team of professional historians. It is an extraordinary achievement which the Study Day will celebrate. All of the speakers are part of the team that researched and produced the text, and will cover some interesting general themes of the period, as well as aspects specific to Cromwell. Huntingdon Library is the home of the Cromwell Collection and the library of the Association. It is in the centre of Hun...