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Conference on Memories of the British Revolutions at Rouen (3rd September, 2024: pasted)

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Healey and Hutton talk in Gloucester on the English Civil War on 17th September (pasted)

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Thomas Plume's manuscript collections

 Helen Kemp's 2017 University of Essex Ph.D.thesis on this subject is exceptionally interesting and can be read  here  . Very illuminating indeed.

University of Buckingham History Festival programme for 13th September next (pasted): early modern lectures only

  Vinson Lecture Theatre Programme 10:00-11:00 Robert Cecil: Statesman and Spymaster of Tudor and Stuart England STEPHEN ALFORD examines the life and times of  Robert Cecil, statesman and spymaster, who lived through a dramatic and threatening period in English history.  11:30-12:30 Regime Change: From Tudors to Stuarts SUSAN DORAN  offers a vivid account of a dramatic, defining moment in the nation’s history – the final years of the reign of Elizabeth I and the accession of James I & VI.   Lunch 12:30-14:00 14:00-15:00 Britain’s Revolutionary Republic ALICE HUNT looks at the Britain that emerged following the Civil Wars and the trial  and execution of Charles I in January 1649.

Notions of Privacy at Early Modern European Courts (pasted book launch notice) 22 August, 2024

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The Early Modern Stage between the Baroque and the Englightenment 21-22 September, 2024 (University of York)

 The programme and abstracts of the papers to be given can be found  here  .

An invitation from the NACBS (pasted)

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Religion, Reformation and Society in Essex conference on 12th October, 2024

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Claire Jowitt, The Last Voyage of the Gloucester 1682 (Plume Lecture 28 September, 2024) (pasted)

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Early Modern or Modern History job at Princeton

 Details of this job currently awaiting applications can be found  here  .

Graduate workshop for the early modern period next autumn (Cambridge University call for papers)

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My review of Michael Jarvis's book on Bermuda 1609-1684

 My review in The English Historical Review's new edition can be read  here  .

Conference on Preachers, Hearers, Readers and Scribes in October, 2024

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