EMH EarlyModernHistory

 https://www.worldturnedupsidedown.co.uk/transcripts/killing-the-new-model-army-the-fate-of-cromwells-old-soldiers-1660-1685/

 (Pasted from The Oxford Historian. Trinity Term 2025) It’s hard to believe that it’s fourteen years since I was appointed Regius Chair of History, and it has been a huge honour to be the first woman to hold the post, in either Oxford or Cambridge. When I arrived, I happened to be the only woman Statutory Chair at the time, and the minute taker and I were often the only women in committee meetings. There were no images of women in the entire building, and one of my first jobs was to oversee the hanging of the pictures of all my predecessors up the stairs to my office. It is hard now to remember how much has changed. Did I really hear it argued, at the first Governing Body meeting I ever attended at Oxford, and as the only woman in the room, that wives should not be allowed to come to guest nights, as it would ‘lower the tone’? And, twenty years later at another college, did a Fellow seriously claim that it was rational...

 

 

 

 https://www.worldturnedupsidedown.co.uk/podcast/the-second-battle-of-newbury-27th-october-1644/

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Atft0sfMNz8

I should very much like to be able to find a comprehensive list of early modern historians working on the 16th and 17th centuries in these two countries. That would include Ph.D. candidates too. Does such a list exist and, if so, where may I find it?

For information on this event, go to https://www.tickettailor.com/events/thestuarthistoryfestival  

 Professor Alison Rowlands (University of Essex) is, I see, one of the major figures involved in organising the Tendring Witchcraft Heritage Trail in the county of Essex. Sites in Manningtree, St Osyth, Harwich and Walton-on-the-Naze all feature in the trail.

 https://geopolicraticus.wordpress.com/2010/08/01/the-world-turned-right-side-up/