Early Modern British History Seminar at Oxford University: Michaelmas term programme 2024 (pasted)

 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         Dr Catherine Jenkinson (Pembroke College) ‘The Tower of London as Torture Site and Tourist Attraction’

John Langbein, Torture and the Law of Proof: Europe and England in the Ancien Régime (1977/2006); Elizabeth Hanson, ‘Torture and Truth in Renaissance England’, Representations, 34 (1991), 53-84

                            Helena Rutkowksa (St Hugh’s College) ‘Uncovering History in the Drafts of William Camden's Annals’

Patrick Collinson, This England: Essays on the English Nation and Commonwealth in the Sixteenth Century (Manchester, 2011), 270-286; Daniel R. Woolf, The Idea of History in Early Stuart England: Erudition, Ideology, and the 'light of Truth' from the Accession of James I to the Civil War (Toronto, 1990), 116-125.

7 November      Dr Felicity Heal (Jesus College) ‘“The Case of Thomas Coo Truly Stated”: Legal Practice, Petitioning and Prisons in Jacobean England’

Chris Brooks, Pettyfoggers and Vipers of the Commonwealth: the Lower Branch of the Legal Profession in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 1986), 19-27, 139-43; MollyMurray, ‘Measured Sentences: Forming Literature in the early modern Prison’, Huntington Library Quarterly, 7:2 (2009), 147-67 

14 November    Dr Lucy Clarke (University of Sheffield) ‘The Fragility and Friability of “legality” in early modern England: a Practice-based Approach to Law-mindedness’

Jonathan Healey, ‘The Fray on the Meadow: Violence and a Moment of Government in Early Tudor England’, History Workshop Journal 85 (2018), 5-25; Paul Griffiths, ‘Punishing Words: Insults and Injuries, 1525-1700’, in McShane, Angela, and Walker, Garthine, eds, The extraordinary and the everyday in early modern England: essays in celebration of the work of Bernard Capp (2010)

21 November    Dr Samuel Zeitlin (University College London) ‘Francis Bacon and Stuart Foreign Policy, 1621-1626’

Stephen Alford, All His Spies: The Secret World of Robert Cecil (2024); Noah Millstone, ‘Seeing Like a Statesman in Early Stuart England’, Past and Present, 223:1 (2014), 77-127; Conrad Russell, ‘The Foreign Policy Debate in the House of Commons in 1621’, Historical Journal, 20:2 (1977), 289-309; S.G. Zeitlin, ‘Francis Bacon on peace and the 1604 Treaty of London’, History of Political Thought, 41:3 (2020), 487-504.

28 November    Prof. Cathy Shrank (University of Sheffield) ‘“An oare in every paper boat”: Thomas Lodge, Professional Writing and Rivalries in Elizabethan London’

Arthur F. Kinney, ‘O vita! misero longa, foelici brevis: Thomas Lodge’s Struggle for Felicity’, in his Humanist Poetics: Thought, Rhetoric and Fiction in Sixteenth-Century England (1986), 363-424

5 December       Prof. Steven Gunn (Merton College) ‘Writing An Accidental History of Tudor England’

Steven Gunn, Tomasz Gromelski, ‘Sport and Recreation in sixteenth-century England: the evidence of accidental deaths’, in A. Schattner and R. von Mallinckrodt (eds), Sports and Physical Exercise in Early Modern Culture (Farnham, 2016), 49-64; eidem, ‘Coroners’ Inquest Juries in Sixteenth-Century England’, Continuity and Change, 37 (2022), 365-88; ‘Firearms Accidents in Sixteenth-Century England’, Arms and Armour, 20(2) (2023), 149-59

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