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 Antique though it may seem, this work is worth reading  here  to show what a clever student could do with largely printed works.

 There is a recent thesis on this subject now available via the CORE database. Worth reading  via the link here  .

  Lucy Wooding, University of Oxford   Saturday, April 12, 2025 “‘Accursed be he that first invented war’: Elizabethan drama and the wars of religion” Huntington Library 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA Roger’s Classroom 10:00 am – 12:00 noon (PT) Susan Amussen, University of California, Merced   Saturday, May 3, 2025 “Patriarchy as a Social System in Early Modern Britain” Huntington Library 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA Roger’s Classroom 10:00 am – 12:00 noon (PT)

  See the report here.

 Henry Reece's observations on the fall of the British Republic can be read on the World Turned Upside Down website  here  .

Jackie Eales's review of the books on spying by Stephen Alford and Nadine Akkerman and Peter Langman can be read  here   . Jane Ohlmeyer's views on the Irish Rebellion of 1641 to be found on The World Turned Upside Down website can be studies  here  .

 23rd October, 2024 The second of the two talks that appeared on The World Turned Upside Down website last Friday was by Ted Vallance of the University of Roehampton. He addressed the issue of  'The importance of radicalism in the 1640s', the text of which can be found  here  , and the associated question of how historians' perceptions have changed in recent decades. Recent work has suggested that such radical groups existed but did not possess a fixed identity or ideology. They were fluid groups interacting with other groups but did have direct and indirect influence in the period he was discussing. I have to say that found his analysis exceptionally challenging and interesting. It was never helpful to view the Levellers, for example, as the precursors of nineteenth and twentieth-century Socialists or Communists. The creation of intellectual and political genealogies of the kind sometimes favoured by early modern figures or by later historians like Christopher Hill ...

 Peter Lake (Vanderbilt University) is about to retire. He and Sandy Solomon have bought a house in the town of Hadleigh in Suffolk.

 Keith Livesey's assessment can be read  here  .

  Monday, 14 th October, 2024 It was inevitable, I suppose. Thirty seven years of computer use starting with an Amstrad 9512 and continuing with half a dozen laptops and on CD-Roms and DVD-Rs. That is without counting the thousands of files written and downloaded and a myriad of photographs. Sadly, I had not kept proper track of these resources having forgotten where many of them were saved, what names they had been given and how to find them. Having a number of external hard drives too has not helped very much. Once I had decided to embark on the task of collating all of this material, I invariably found that there were multiple files bearing the same name but with differing contents. They have to be distinguished anew. I have a feeling it will be a long winter. If I survive the challenge, I will let you know. Saturday, 19 th October, 2024 I have to confess that I succumbed to temptation last Tuesday morning whilst shopping. A copy of History Extra caught my eye: its contents cove...

  EMRC Seminar programme 2024-5   21 October 2024 :   Liesbeth Corens (Queen Mary), ‘English and/or Catholic: Binaries in the Archives of the Seventeenth Century’.   18 November 2024 : EMRC PhD Showcase. PhD students at any institution working on any aspect of the early modern world may give a short introduction to their project.  Sign up here .   16 December 2024 : Christopher Marsh (Queen Mary Belfast) and Angela McShane (Warwick), ‘Hit Songs of the Seventeenth Century: Introducing the 100 Ballads Project’.   17 February 2025 : Michael Bennett (Sheffield), ‘Merchant Houses, London Banks, and Plantation Development in the Ceded Islands, 1763-90’.   17 March 2025 : Lewis Wade (Leiden), ‘Crisis and Conflict in the Consulates: Rethinking the Institutional Foundations of French Mediterranean Commerce under Louis XIV’.   28 April 2025 : Tabitha Stanmore (Exeter), ‘The Fenland Witch Trials, 1645-47’.   12 May 2025 : Jane Eade (National Trust)...

  Thursdays at 5 pm, Oakeshott Room, Lincoln College; online on Teams   17 October          Dr Ian Archer  (Keble College) ‘Inside London’s Bridewell: Setting the Poor to Work, 1550-1700’ Joanna Innes, ‘Prisons for the poor: English bridewells, 1555-1800’ in F. Snyder and D. Hay (eds),  Labour, law and crime: a historical perspective  (1987), 42-122; Paul Griffiths,  Information, Institutions and Local Government in England, 1500-1700: Turning Inside  (Oxford, 2024), ch. 4.   24 October          Dr Arnold Hunt  (University of Durham) ‘Forging the Royal Signature in Early Modern England: Towards an Archaeology of the Rubber Stamp’ Laura Flannigan, ‘Signed, Stamped, and Sealed: Delivering Royal Justice in Early Sixteenth-Century England’,  Historical Research , 94 (2021), 267-81   31 October          D...

 

 

  Russian works on the English Revolution (from the Kondratenko thesis) 118. Aleksandrova, S. P. Revival of the right of the House of Commons to impeachment as an attempt to establish control over the executive branch Text. / S.P. Aleksandrova // Jurisprudence. -2005 .- No. 6. S. 180-195. 119. Barg, M '. A. Cromwell and his time Text. / M.A. Barg. M.: Publishing House of the State University.Ped.GIS, 1950.-221 p. 120. Batser, M. A. From narrative to theory. Anglo-American historiography of the English Revolution of the 17th century Text. / M. A. Batser // New and recent history. 1997. - No. 5. - S. 42-57. 121. Belzer, A. A. Local government in England under the Tudors Text. : abstract of diss. Cand. East. sciences. Samara, 2001 .-- 22 p. 122. Biryukovich, V.V. Absolute monarchy in France Text. / V.V. Biryukovich. JL, 1936 .-- 126 p. 123. Fighters, M. A. Forward, to Herodotus! Text. / M. A...

 

  Cambridge Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar   Michaelmas 2024   Wednesdays at 5:15pm Portrait Room, Christ’s College (except where noted)     23 October Noah Millstone (University of Birmingham) ‘Judging Books in Early Modern Europe’ *Followed by a drinks reception – all welcome*   30 October Emily Rhodes (Christ’s College) ‘Petitions, Mothers, and Community in Early Modern England and Wales’   6 November Krista Kesselring (Dalhousie University) ‘Using and Abusing the Law: Conspiracies and the Court of Star Chamber’ *Room change: Yusuf Hamied Court Seminar Room 2, Christ’s College*   13 November Misha Ewen (University of Sussex ) ‘Women and Slavery in Seventeenth-Century Barbados and England’   20 November Christian Owen (Trinity College) ‘All Deprived in One Blow? Paths Not Taken in the Early Elizabethan Reformation’   27 November Amanda Bevan and Oliver Finnegan (The National Archives) ‘Captors and Captures: Investigatin...