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 Andrew Hopper will be giving a talk on this subject in Banbury tomorrow evening. For more details follow the link  here  .

  I watched this on-line discussion of Hill's corpus of works from the late-1930s until the 1990s last night with some discomfort. In a personal sense I ought to say that I always got on perfectly well with Christopher Hill although I disagreed with his work, approach and methods.       First of all, Hill's influence reached its apogee in 1972 with the publication of his book, The World Turned Upside Down. This was mainly true outside Oxford University but not within it where other figures - Hugh Trevor-Roper, J.P.Cooper, Keith Thomas and Donald Pennington - were significant. It was already clear from the work being done by John Morrill, Kevin Sharpe and Blair Worden in the university that an entirely new approach was being formulated to the events of the early to middle Stuart period. Hill (like Lawrence Stone) appeared to me to have been completely oblivious to this developing shift in focus let alone to the work of Conrad Russell in London. (Hill private...

 

  Call for Papers, Reformation Studies Colloquium April 15-17, 2026, University College London We warmly invite papers from advanced postgraduate students as well as early career researchers and established scholars. We welcome papers on any aspect of your research related to Reformation studies, broadly defined. This includes, but is not limited to, papers on any and all confessions or denominations; local, regional, national or global contexts; the pre- and post-history of the Reformations; and papers that touch upon the process or experience of Reformation. Interdisciplinary papers are also welcome, incorporating insights from disciplines such as Archaeology, Art History, History, Literary Studies, Material Culture Studies, Musicology, and Theology. The Colloquium will be hosted by University College London’s Department of History as part of the UCL200 bicentennial celebrations.  In tune with UCL’s embrace, ever since its founding, of diversity and pluralism, ...

 For this highly interesting piece of work on the Many-Headed Monster blog follow the link  here  .

 Details of this advertised post can be found  here   . Please check the dates for applications to be submitted.

 Early Modern Research Centre Research Seminars autumn 2025 Seminars will take place on Mondays at 13:00-14:00 (UK time) on   13 October: Berta Cano Echevarria (Universidad de Valladolid), ‘The Tapestry behind the Ambassadors: A Closer Look at the Somerset House Conference Painting’.

  Cambridge Workshop for the Early Modern Period Michaelmas Termcard The Workshop for the Early Modern Period (WEMP) provides a forum for graduate students to present research on any aspect of early modern history. The meetings will be held at 5-6:30 pm (UK Time) in Seminar Room 3, Christ’s College, Cambridge, unless otherwise specified. The link to join the virtual meetings will be circulated to the workshop mailing list. To be added to the mailing list, please follow this link: https://lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/info/history-emhgw . For any queries, please do not hesitate to contact the convenors at camwemp2024@gmail.com. 20 October- Spaces and Material Culture Sophia Feist (Cambridge): Mapping Technical Knowledge across Sixteenth-Century German Tailors’ Workshops Francis Taylor (York):  Engines of divine art': The Material and Metaphoric Culture of Weeding Tools in Early Modern England 3 November- Science and Philosophy of the ...

 

 

  LAWRENCE STONE AND THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE GENTRY CONTROVERSY The controversy over the economic and social origins of the English Revolution was a topic that excited ferocious debate over sixty years ago. Historians of the calibre of R.H.Tawney and Hugh Trevor-Roper, J.P.Cooper, Christopher Hill and Lawrence Stone advanced radically different interpretations to explain the violent events of the 1640s and 1650s in the British Isles. American scholars, most famously of all, J.H.Hexter, like Willson Coates, Harold Hulme, Judith Shklar and Perez Zagorin also commented with varying degrees of sharpness on the issues at stake. But only one of the major participants, Lawrence Stone, offered an account of the historiography of the dispute, first of all in his introduction to the anthology of academic articles and documentary sources entitled Social Change and Revolution in England 1540-1640 which he edited in 1965 and then, in slightly revised form, in Chapter 2 of his work...

 The programme for this seminar can be read  here  . Important papers to be delivered.

Darren Oldridge (University of Worcester) will be giving a talk on this subject at The Hive in Worcester on 31st October. For the details see  here  .

 Details of this event and the programme of talks can be found  here  .

  Michaelmas Term   22 October                                Paul Cavill (Cambridge) The Two Swords: Spiritual and Temporal Jurisdiction in Henrician England   29 October                                Lucy Havard (Cambridge) ‘Improving’ the Garden and the Natural Knowledge of Early Modern Householders, 1600–1750   5 November                              Imogen Peck (Birmingham) Family Archives in England, 1650–1838: Manuscripts, Memory, and the Making of History   12 November      ...

 I found this thesis on the  Persee  website. It can be downloaded and read  here  .