EMH EarlyModernHistory

  Young on Ward, 'The Trials of Charles I' Ward, Ian . The Trials of Charles I . London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. 254 pp. $110.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781350024977 .$36.95 (paper), ISBN 9781350025141 . Reviewed by Michael B. Young (Illinois Wesleyan University (emeritus)) Published on H-Albion (September, 2023) Commissioned by Jeffrey R. Wigelsworth (Red Deer Polytechnic) Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=59257 Ian Ward has written several books merging cultural history with legal and constitutional history. Here he turns his attention to the trials of Charles I—the metaphorical trials and tribulations of his early years on the throne, his actual trial before a revolutionar...

  Negotiation in the Early Modern World Fri Oct 10, 2025 (multi-day event) In-Person Negotiation in the Early Modern World Sat Oct 11, 2025 (multi-day event) In-Person No 'rare phenomenon': Francis Williams, Edward Long, and the Art of Latin Verse Composition Mon Nov 10, 2025

  CEMS Seminar Series: Dr Emily Vine (Exeter), 'Birth, Death, and Domestic Religion in early modern London'. Wednesday 8 October, 2.30-4pm. Hybrid: Forum Seminar Room 5 and on Teams. Pasted.

  13 October Blair Worden, ‘History, the Playhouse, and the Fall of the Earl of Essex: The Literary Partnership of William Camden and Samuel Daniel’ 27 October Sean Bottomley, ‘Wardship in England, 1513-1642’ 10 November Clare Egan,  ‘Libel Performance and Legal Literacies in the Early Seventeenth-Century English Provinces 24 November Richard Hoyle, ‘ Harvest variability in the 1580s: volume and prices at the mills of the earl of Shrewsbury in Sheffield (Yorkshire), 1578-1588’ 8 December Jacob Deacon & Rob Runacres, panel on ‘ The Politics of Martial Education in Tudor and Stuart Britain’

I was rather surprised yesterday evening whilst browsing the internet to find a pdf. file containing the complete text of 'Insolent Proceedings'. the collection of essays published in 2024 in honour of Ann Hughes, on a Dutch website. I am not at all sure whether it should have been there. But I have alerted the two editors, Peter Lake and Jason Peacey, as well as Ann Hughes herself to its existence.

 Examines a selection of Charles I's people, exploring their aspirations and discontents, their engagement with kindred and colleagues, and central authority, in an age they recognized as 'troubled'. This book examines the lives and circumstances of a variety of English men and women in the decades before the English Civil War, and follows some of them to the Restoration. It introduces a selection of Charles I's people, some of them previously undocumented, and explores their aspirations and discontents, their engagement with their kindred, their colleagues and central authority. These were members of the clerical, professional and commercial classes or from the minor gentry and aristocratic fringe - the backbone of the political nation - engaged, in various ways, with military, governmental, ecclesiastical or commercial affairs. Most feature little in previous historical studies, but key moments in their lives are reconstructed here from scattered references or rare co...

 For this review in the New Statesman follow the link  here  .

  Let me begin with the transcription of Walter Yonge’s notes on proceedings in the House of Commons preserved in the Additional Mss. 18,777-18780 of the British Library. Hugh Trevor-Roper wrote to me in the spring of 1967 asking if I would transcribe the four volumes for Dr Pearl. I agreed and spoke to her in the Manuscript Room of what was then the British Museum. A fee of £150 per volume was arranged between us and I duly set to work. (I was not her employee or simple assistant.)  I did not find Yonge’s handwriting difficult to read but it took me about a week to master the symbols he used at the start of his volumes (e.g. Additional Ms.18,777 fol.1r). I finished the first volume later that year and, by 1973, had completed all four volumes in draft. I did not need instruction in how to do this nor were the diaries in code. On 12th September, 1975, the Times Higher Education Supplement published an interview with Dr Pearl in which it was stated that the “work i...

Last week, I was suprised to find a copy of this book in my local public library. I borrowed it and finished reading it this afternoon. It is highly interesting and a mature piece of writing which I enjoyed reading greatly.

 Message from Eilish Gregory We are delighted to announce that w e are holding a half-day conference on Tuesday 28 October  at the IHR to mark Nicholas Tyacke’s retirement this summer after 50 years as a seminar convenor – first with the Tudor-Stuart seminar and then with the Religious History of Britain seminar.   The speakers will be: Tom Cogswell, Richard Cust, Kenneth Fincham, Tom Freeman, Susan Hardman Moore, Arnold Hunt, Peter Lake, Katie Marshalek, Anthony Milton, David Starkey and Andrew Thrush.   Location: Wolfson NB01, 1pm-5pm, followed by drinks in the IHR common room.   If you plan to attend in person, please let Ken Fincham know ( K.C.Fincham@kent.ac.uk ), for catering reasons by Wednesday 22 October.   If you plan to attend online, please ask Ken ( K.C.Fincham@kent.ac.uk ) for the zoom link.  

  Welcome Event: Meet the Early Modernists Friday, October 3, 2025 10:30 AM 11:30 AM S2.38, Strand Building (map) Kick off the new academic year with a networking brunch for early modernists across King’s. We’ll hear about ongoing research from early modernists across the A&H faculty. View Event → Renaissance Skin Book Launch Thursday, October 23, 2025 5:00 PM 7:00 PM 8th Floor Open Space ...

  1. If one looks at the late Conrad Russell's corpus of works post-1975, it is possible to see that, deeply embedded within it, there is a degree of subscription to a teleological explanation of the English Civil War, e.g. about incipient support for royalism. pre-1642. I noticed this some time ago and found myself asked not to write about it. 2. One of the key economic and social changes in Anglo-Welsh society before 1640 is the strengthened position of landowners, whether peers or gentry. This goes back to the work of W.R.Emerson and helps to account for the failure of the post-1646 regimes to consolidate themselves in power. The 'revolution' took place against one of the key economic developments of the period. 3. As a corollary to point 2, there is good evidence to show that the tenantry of landowners out in the counties were linked not just to their landlords but also amongst and between themselves, hence the coherence of the landed interests before, during...

  Thu 09 Oct '25 12:30pm - 2pm: EMECC Welcome Event and Book Talk, From the Margins to the Centre in Seventeenth-Century England: Essays in Honour of Bernard Capp Thu 30 Oct '25 12:30pm - 2pm: Lunchtime Seminar: Sara Beam (University of Victoria) Christianity, Pain and the Decline of Torture in Seventeenth-Century Europe Thu 06 Nov '25 12:30pm - 2pm: Joint GHCC-EMECC event - Edmond Smith (University of Manchester) 'Ruthless: A New History of Britain's Rise to Wealth and Power'

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I have been looking unsuccessfully  today for the personal papers of the historian, Gerald Aylmer, but have only found thos deposited in the Borthwick Institute at the University of York. These deal with his period in the Department of History at that university. But there must be others somewhere covering his time at the University of Manchester and as an undergraduate, postgraduate and Master of a College at the University of Oxford. If anyone knows where they can be found, please let me know.

  S.R.Gardiner’s anticipation of the ‘county community’ hypothesis-Christopher Thompson Several decades ago, Alan Everitt argued in his study of the county of Kent that its rulers formed a community of their own, that this community was distinct from that of other counties and that, when its leaders spoke of their ‘country’ they meant Kent rather than England. It was in reaction to the demands of the King and his Privy Council that the community of Kent shaped its political and religious responses and that this form of localism helped to explain the antecedents and outbreak of the English Civil War or Revolution. There is no doubt about the stimulus that this hypothesis gave to the investigation of county histories across the period. The works of Anthony Fletcher, John Morrill and the late Clive Holmes testify to its impact. In historiographical terms, it was highly significant in the late-1960s and 1970s, even though its influence has now faded. At that time, I was s...

  Graduate Student Fellowships in Early America, Early Modern Europe, Atlantic World Submitted by Jason Sharples on 09/19/2025 - 1:37pm Announcement Type Fellowship Date September 16, 2025 - November 15, 2025 Location FL United States Florida Atlantic University and the Huntington Library offer three Collaborative Short-Term Fellowships for  Ph.D. dissertation research in their complementary holdings. Each fellow receives $6,000 to cover travel expenses: $2,500 from Florida Atlantic and $3,500 from the Huntington. The two months of research time is split between Florida Atlantic's Weiner Spirit of America Collection (Boca Raton, FL) and the Huntington Library (San Marino, CA) . The overlap in holdings is strongest in the English Civil War the Glorious Revolution the European Enlightenment the American Revolution the U.S. Early Republic Although the Weiner Spirit of America Collection is tailored for Anglo-American political philosophy, previous fellows have also su...

  David Underdown on Cressy, ‘England on Edge: Crisis and Revolution, 1640-1642.’ H-Albion (November, 2007) The late David Underdown was one of a distinguished cohort of Oxford-educated historians who made his postgraduate career in the United States of America. His works covered the fortunes of the Royalists in the period after the English Revolution of the 1640s, the causes and consequences of Pride’s Purge of the Long Parliament in 1648, the experiences of the county of Somerset and of the free-born people of England in this tumultuous time. Late in his career, he was drawn by his second wife, Susan Amussen, into reflecting upon the issues of gender which had attracted much more historiographical attention after 1970. In many ways, he was well equipped to reflect on the work of another early modern historian, David Cressy, originally from Cambridge, also living and working in the United States, on the collapse of the Caroline regime in the years between 1640 and 1642 in his book...

 

 https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/kings-maritime-history-seminars-religion-radicalism-and-the-late-interregnum-navy  here   .

I was due to give a talk last week on the Reformations in Essex and borrowed a work by B.Foley (Notes on Some Catholic Confessors in the County of Essex .... in Reformation and Penal Times) published by the Essex Recusant Society in 1963. Unfortunately, I caught a touch of influenza and was thus unable to deliver my talk. But one thing did strike me very forcibly about Foley's observations useful though they were in the sense of identifying recusant families in the later Tudor and early Stuart periods, namely the lack of context for his analysis. There is no doubt that, in 1558 when Queen Mary died, England and Wales were very largely Catholic in their religious affiliations. Protestants in Essex and elsewhere were very much in a minority and had been persecuted by the State and the Catholic Church for their beliefs. Of this persecution, not a word appeared in Foley's work. Nor indeed was anything said about the Wars of Religion in France between 1562 and 1598 when attempts wer...

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  Rodriguez on Gibbs, 'Lordship, State Formation and Local Authority in Late Medieval and Early Modern England' Gibbs, Spike . Lordship, State Formation and Local Authority in Late Medieval and Early Modern England . : Cambridge University Press, 2023. xii + 279 pp. $110.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781009311830. Reviewed by Jeremy M. Rodriguez (University of Central Florida) Published on H-Albion (April, 2025) Commissioned by Jeffrey R. Wigelsworth (Red Deer Polytechnic) Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=60898 Alex “Spike” Gibbs investigates the manorial officeholding in late medieval and early modern England. He seeks to answer five questions in his book, ultimately seeking to pr...