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Saturday, April 20
Prayer Book and Revolution
Leading historians will discuss the significance of Christ Church MS 540, and its place in the Civil Wars and religious identity.
By Christ Church Library
Date and time
Saturday, April 20 · 10:30am - 8pm GMT+1
Location
Christ Church Upper Library
Saint Aldate's Oxford OX1 1DP
Refund Policy
Contact the organizer to request a refund.
Eventbrite's fee is nonrefundable.
Agenda
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Registration
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Session 1
Ken Fincham (University of Kent), ‘Charles I, Laud and the reformation of the British churches’ Richard Cust, (University of Birmingham) ‘Charles I and the Scottish Revolution
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Lunch
Lunch is not provided, but can be easily found in the city centre.
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Session 2
Will White (University of Hertfordshire) 'Prayer, preaching, and piety in Civil War England' Sarah Mortimer, (Christ Church, University of Oxford), 'Images, ideas and Anglican identity 1630-1660'
LAWRENCE STONE AND THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE GENTRY CONTROVERSY The controversy over the economic and social origins of the English Revolution was a topic that excited ferocious debate over sixty years ago. Historians of the calibre of R.H.Tawney and Hugh Trevor-Roper, J.P.Cooper, Christopher Hill and Lawrence Stone advanced radically different interpretations to explain the violent events of the 1640s and 1650s in the British Isles. American scholars, most famously of all, J.H.Hexter, like Willson Coates, Harold Hulme, Judith Shklar and Perez Zagorin also commented with varying degrees of sharpness on the issues at stake. But only one of the major participants, Lawrence Stone, offered an account of the historiography of the dispute, first of all in his introduction to the anthology of academic articles and documentary sources entitled Social Change and Revolution in England 1540-1640 which he edited in 1965 and then, in slightly revised form, in Chapter 2 of his work...
I am extremely sorry to report that Simon Healy, who worked for the History of Parliament Trust's 1604-1629 section for many years, has died. I remember him as a very cheerful and engaging conversationalist. My condolences go to his widow and their two children.
In the spring of 1967, Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper, then the Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford, wrote to me to ask if I would assist Dr Pearl in her work by transcribing Walter Yonge’s diaries held (in Additional Mss.18,777-18,780) in the Manuscript Department of the British Museum at that time. I agreed and it was settled that I would be paid £150 per volume by the History Faculty of the University. I duly transcribed the first of these volumes in 1967 and the remaining three by 1973. I was not her “assistant” in this task but undertook it myself. I did not, moreover, keep copies of the first three volumes. In mid-1975, I read in The Times Higher Education Supplement that she was preparing the Yonge volumes for publication. But nothing happened. By 1984, seventeen years after I had transcribed the first volume and eleven years after finishing the last one I was puzzled by this failure to proceed and, having asked several academic friends if they th...
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