EMH EarlyModernHistory

 His obituary notice can be found  here . Sadly, I never met him but send my condolences to his family and friends.

  12/07/2023 Call For Papers Download CFP in English Télécharger l’appel à communications “‘Nor thou nor thy religion dost controule, The amorousnesse of an harmonious Soule’: Rethinking Devotional Works and Practices in the British Isles  (16th-18th c.)”  *** (Scroll down for the French version) When John Donne published  Devotions upon Emergent Occasions  in 1624, he followed in the footsteps of a long tradition of devotional publications. Four hundred years later the concerns voiced by the English poet still resonate and invite one to think about the evolution and legacy of devotional works which have never ceased to appeal to both devout practitioners and lay readers alike. Such works convey the strong and complex nature of the relationship that the believer has with God. Indeed, devotion implies a series of religious observances, duties and actions, as well as a more inward-looking life, with a focus on keeping the soul in a disposition of piety and fervour...

  Wednesdays at 5:15pm Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall   18 Oct. Rachel Foxley (University of Reading) ‘Political Polarisation in the English Civil War: A Digital Humanities Approach’   25 Oct. Rosamund Oates (Manchester Metropolitan University) ‘Deafness in Early Modern England’   1 Nov. Roundtable on Jonah Miller,  Gender and Policing in Early Modern England  (2023), with the author, Amy Erickson, and Elizabeth Foyster   8 Nov. Michael Braddick (University of Sheffield) ‘Christopher Hill and the Crisis of Bourgeois Culture in the 1930s’   15 Nov. Xiang Wei (University of Cambridge) ‘Religion and Scottish Military Experience,  c. 1690–1763’   22 Nov. Anna French (University of Liverpool) ‘“Like Olive Shoots Around Your Table”: Locating the Early Modern Infant’   29 Nov. Hannah Yip (University of Manchester) ‘Precarity: An Early Modern History?’

I came across a very short piece on Lawrence Stone yesterday on this local history site  here  . It had one or two details about his mother, Mabel Reid, who was a housekeeper and matron at Godstowe Girls school and who died in 1978, that I had not known before. Stone himself apparently attended Downsend Preparatory School in Leatherhead before going on to Charterhouse.

Details of this post commencing in January, 2024 can be found  here  The closing date for applications is 16th October, 2023.

 Essex Society for Archaeology & History 2023 Archaeology & Local History Symposium Christ Church URC, New London Road, Chelmsford CM2 0AW Saturday, 4th November 2023 10.00a.m. – 4.00p.m. £10, including light sandwich lunch and coffee/tea ********************************************** PROGRAMME 10.00a.m. Registration 10.15a.m. President’s Opening remarks 10.20a.m. – 11.00a.m. James Alexander (ASE) ‘A Roman villa at Newhall, Harlow, and the discovery of an enigmatic object' 11.00a.m. – 11.30a.m. Coffee/tea 11.30a.m. – 12.15p.m. Adam Wightman (CAT) The former Essex County Hospital site, Colchester: Roman burial, settlement and industry west of the walled town 12.15p.m. – 1.00p.m. Paul Drury The Medieval floor tiles of East Anglia - focussing on Essex 1.00p.m. – 2.00p.m. LUNCH 2.00p.m. – 2.45p.m. Christopher Thompson (University of Buckingham) The County of Essex: the crisis of the late 1620s and the English revolution 2.45p.m. – 3.15p.m. Coffee/tea 3.15p.m. – 4.00p.m. David G...

  Young on Ward, 'The Trials of Charles I' Ward, Ian .  The Trials of Charles I . London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. 254 pp. $110.00 (cloth), ISBN  9781350024977 .$36.95 (paper), ISBN  9781350025141 .  Reviewed by  Michael B. Young (Illinois Wesleyan University (emeritus)) Published on  H-Albion (September, 2023) Commissioned by  Jeffrey R. Wigelsworth (Red Deer Polytechnic) Printable Version:   https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=59257 Ian Ward has written several books merging cultural history with legal and constitutional history. Here he turns his attention to the trials of Charles I—the metaphorical trials and tribulations of his early years on the throne, his actual trial before a revolutionary tribunal in 1649, and the repeated retrying of his case in subsequent literature. Readers eager to see if Ward has anything new to say about the actual trial will have to hold their breath for a while because the actual trial does not be...

  Term 1- Autumn 2023 13 oct 2023 When was the 'industrious revolution'? Product innovation, textiles, and the fate of homespun John Styles (University of Hertfordshire) Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB02 ,   Basement ,   IHR ,   Senate House ,   Malet Street ,   London WC1E 7HU 27 oct 2023 Costs of Court Use and Appeal to Justice in the Ottoman Empire Bogac Ergene (University of Vermont) Online- via Zoom 10 nov 2023 Bias, competition and credibility: the case of Galileo Galilei Anna-Luna Post (Cambridge) Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB02 ,   Basement ,   IHR ,   Senate House ,   Malet Street ,   London WC1E 7HU 24 nov 2023 Exchanging material for spiritual wealth: the Misericordia’s businesses in Portugal and its overseas empire (1500-1700) Lisbeth Rodrigues (Lisbon School of Economics & Management) ,   Isabel do Guimaraes Saa (University of Minho ) Online- via Zoom 08 dec 2023 Dutch tr...

  Autumn Term 2023: 3 October (online):  Christy Wang (Oxford): 'Edward Reynolds, Reformed Conformist turned Puritan'. 17 October (IHR Pollard N301):  Daniel Virgili (Queen Mary, University of London): 'Departures, Crossings, Landings and Early Modern Catholic Mobility: English Journeys to and from Rome in the later 16 th  Century'. 31 October (online):  Xiang Wei (Cambridge): 'The Kirk, the Army, and the State: the Military Origin of a "Civil Religion" in Scotland, 1715-c. 1745'. 14 November (Woburn Suite, Senate House,  in conjunction with the Friends of Dr Williams' Library Annual Lecture Series ):  Peter Lake (Vanderbilt): 'The "moderate" Puritanism of Samuel Ward of Ipswich'. 28 November (online):  Oscar Patton (Oxford): '"A Byrd flew over the cuckoo's nest": the Problem of the Chapel Royal in Post-Reformation England'. 12 December  (please note that this takes place at 17:00 at Lambeth Palace Library) :...

Clare Jackson (Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge) is writing a biography of King James VI and I. It is due to be published in 2025, I understand. But she will be giving a talk on this subject in Ireland in November of this year.  Ireland under James VI & I - an illustrated talk by Professor Clare Jackson Saturday, 11 November 2023, 3.30pm FARMLEIGH HOUSE & ESTATE An illustrated talk by Professor Clare Jackson (Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge) €16 from  https://tinyurl.com/4bv5zyjy

  Tobacco Gifts and Sales by the 2nd Earl of Warwick and Sir Nathaniel Rich in 1623-1625 The significance of gift-giving in societies stretching as far back as the period of classical antiquity has long been appreciated by scholars. Normally, records of such gifts even in the early modern period are rare and, when they survive, often incomplete. Fortunately, one detailed account of the disposal of tobacco on the part of Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick, and his second cousin, Sir Nathaniel Rich, does survive for the two years up to January, 1625. Just over 7,000 lbs of tobacco were held by them in a cellar in Old Jewry in London. It is not clear where this tobacco came from but it is likely that the bulk, if not all, of it had originated from the shares of land they owned in Bermuda. Some of this tobacco was taken by the two men for their own personal use. The first entry in this account noted that they had jointly taken 16 lbs. Later entries indicate that 9 lbs was removed to Leez...

 For the obituary of this historian of Tudor and Stuart Ireland, follow the link  here  .

  Ed Simon’s review of Jonathan Healey’s book, The Blazing World (Los Angeles Review of Books. August 31, 2023) Every now and then, Google’s alert system turns up unexpected results. Yesterday was a case in point when I was made aware of Ed Simon’s review of Jonathan Healey’s relatively new work, The Blazing World: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution (1972). Echoes of that seventeenth-century world in songs and poetry can still be heard according to Simon even though its theological disputes, puzzling political arrangements and problematic scientific theories remain difficult to explain to modern readers. Nonetheless, as Healey explained and Simon agreed, this world had been transformed by 1700 by the growth of trade and consumption, the development of political parties and the press, the appearance of coffee houses, concert halls and theatres. But it had its obverse side too in the spread of liberal scientific positivism and religious pluralism, in the growth of coloniali...