EMH EarlyModernHistory

  Monday 11 November, 5:30pm London time; at the IHR, Wolfson NB01, and on zoom: Kathleen Commons (Sheffield), '“Precluded from your dominion”: law, citizenship, and migration in early modern England c.1540-c.1625'. Despite the fact that there was no “immigration system” in early modern England, migrants were subject to significant “internal” borders. This paper will explore the substantial body of law - common law, statute, and prerogative instruments - the governed migrants in England. This paper will also examine the responses of migrants and subjects to legal restrictions and possibilities. Exploring legal sources and texts sheds important new light on the experiences of early modern migrants to England. At the same time, reconstructing the legal status of migrants enables us to better recover rights and responsibilities that adhered to English subjects.  Book Here:   https://www.history.ac.uk/events/precluded-your-dominion-law-citizenship-and-migration-early-modern-england

  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.

 

 For an entertaining and illuminating piece by David Scott of the History of Parliament follow the link  here  .

There is an interesting discussion on this project between Richard Marsh and Ismini Pells (University of Oxford) to be found on The World Turned Upside Down website  here  . 

  'The Material Culture of Wills' - CALL FOR TRANSCRIBERS, and a Seminar Outline for tutors   'The Material Culture of Wills: England 1540-1790'   is a Leverhulme-funded research project based at The University of Exeter and The National Archives. We're at an exciting point in our research: we've just launched our  Zooniverse   site and are now looking for a large number of volunteers to help us check and correct automatically-generated transcriptions of 25,000 wills.    To get involved all you need to do is visit our ‘Zooniverse’ website, where you will be shown handwritten lines from an early modern will, alongside a transcription of the line which has been automatically-generated by our Handwritten Text Recognition model. If there are transcription errors you will be asked to correct them, before you move on to a new line from another will. Volunteers can correct as many lines as they like, fitting in transcription around other commitments, perhaps correcting