Institute of Historical Research: Religious History of Britain seminar programme for autumn 2023 (pasted)

 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 16th 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):  John Craig (Simon Fraser): 'Reformation and Revenge in Tudor London'.

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