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One of the puzzles I face most days concerns what is going on in early modern history in English-speaking countries beyond these shores. I have a reasonable understanding of the seminar papers being offered here and of the conferences being or about to be held. Most of the websites of relevance are known to me and I am, broadly speaking, aware of the names of historians working in the areas I am interested in. Google alerts and social media help to fill in the gaps. Where I am much less well informed arises from the activities of early modern historians in north America, in Australia and New Zealand. Despite having some regular contacts on the other side of the Atlantic, I have to work hard to search the myriad history departments and learned societies of the U.S.A. and Canada. Oddly enough, this does not appear to be so large an issue with countries in Europe where I conduct regular searches for publications and theses, conferences and seminars of potential interest. It would be good ...

 

 

 For a series of talks by Michael Braddick on these topics, follow the link  here  . 

 Professor Fissel's important article on this subject can be read  here  via this link. 

 This account in Time magazine can be read  here  . The colony was already in serious trouble because of the policies of Sir Edwin Sandys and the two Ferrar brothers, John and Nicholas. 

 I am afraid I had missed the news about this reading and discussion group run by Stockholm University since the start of this year. But its webpage can be found  here   . It appears to be accessible by zoom . 

 This article can be accessed  here   I am looking forward to reading her future publications.

 For this very helpful resource follow the link  here  .

 For a tribute to her and her work at Oxford, follow the link  here  .

 

  Lecture, Barnard's Inn Hall, Wednesday, 5 Jun 2024 - 18:00 Witch-Hunting in European and World History Professor Ronald Hutton Divinity Part of: Magic, the Supernatural, and the Lost Gods of Europe Add to my list Have a Question? No Registration Required  https://app.sli.do/event/t8V7ZAmskFgtRb5mJRVcbM This lecture confronts the worldwide phenomenon of the persecution of suspected witches, now a serious, contemporary problem condemned by the UN in 2021. It will show what has been unusual about Europe in this global pattern, and why the notorious early modern witch hunts there commenced and ended. Professor Ronald Hutton Professor of Divinity Professor Hutton is Professor of History at the University of Bristol. He took degrees at Cambridge and then Oxford Universities, 

  Susan Myra Kingsbury and the Records of the Virginia Company of London A century or more after Susan Myra Kingsbury completed her work on the surviving records of the Virginia Company of London up until 1625, her edition of its papers remains fundamental to modern historical research. Its four volumes are regularly cited in the most up-to-date articles and books. These were the product of her studies in archives held in the United States and in the United Kingdom, the latter of which she visited in the summer and the subsequent autumn of 1904. Her thesis was published in 1905 and the subsequent volumes of records in 1906, 1933 and 1935. One puzzling feature of her work can, however, be found. In 1905 and again in 1906, Kingsbury maintained that she had examined 78 of the relevant papers in the Ferrar family’s archive in Magdalene College, Cambridge and 66 of the documents deposited in the Duke of Manchester’s papers in the Public Record Office in Chancery Lane. London. The remai...