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Peter Laslett interviewed by Keith Wrightson (IHR website)

 For this improtant and interesting interview, follow the link  here  .

Thorndon Hall, south of Brentwood in Essex: the main home of the Petre family after c.1580 until post-1700

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The IHR's interviews with historians

 This website contains transcripts of interviews with senior early modern historians like Hugh Trevor-Roper, Geoffrey Elton, Peter Laslett, Christopher Hill, Lawrence Stone, D.C.Coleman and A.G.Dickens. The transcripts appear to have been machine-generated and are not always accurate but are worth reading all the same.

Anne Laurence on The Wars of the Three Kingdoms

  The Wars of the Three Kingdoms reviewed Anne Laurence,  The Wars of the Three Kingdoms (Open University, 2007)         Anne Laurence is an historian with a long and distinguished career. Originally an undergraduate at York University, she undertook her doctoral research at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Christopher Hill. Her thesis on ‘Parliamentary Army Chaplains, 1642-1651’ was subsequently published. Since then, she has won recognition for her work on the lives of early modern women and, more recently, on women investors in the early eighteenth-century financial revolution. [1]   Her long-term commitment to the Open University, where she now holds a chair, led to the composition of this work for its A200 course, Exploring History: Medieval to Modern, 1400-1900: it is primarily a teaching text carefully integrated with that course’s accompanying Anthology, Visual Sources Book, Course Guide and DVD. [2]   ...

Forthcoming seminar on 17th November on 'Women waging law in Early Modern Ireland'

 For details of this seminar paper to be given by Dr Patterson of Trinity College, Dublin, follow the link  here  .

Retirement at Vanderbilt for Peter Lake

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  Photo by Sandy Solomon