Forthcoming Tudor-Stuart seminars at the Institute of Historical Research (pasted notice)

 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. 
The rest of the autumn term schedule is below. Hybrid seminars are in the IHR at Wolfson NB01 and on zoom; and all will begin at 5:30pm London time.

25 November (hybrid). Elvira Tamus (Cambridge), '‘Envoys in London: Connecting English interests and anti-Habsburg diplomacy in the context of European geopolitics, 1528-1540’; and Dr María Grove-Gordillo (Seville), '‘Cross-border links: the reach of the London Livery Companies in Spain (16th century)’.

9 December (hybrid). Claire McNulty (Trinity College Dublin), ‘Agency, Authority, and Power before the Edinburgh Courts, 1560-1660’.
 
Please register for all sessions here: https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/tudor-stuart-history

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