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 For Munro's assessment of Trevor-Roper's life and career follow the link  here  .

 

 

 Looking through some old files a few days ago I came across the late David Underdown's review of Clive Holmes's Book,  The Eastern Association in the English Civil War , in the Journal of Modern History (Volume 48 (1976), Pp.324-326). It was generally complimentary about Clive Holmes's scholarship in analysing the economic and social as well as the political fabric of the six counties that formed the Association after the start of the English Civil War. Holmes had brought out the differences between them very effectively. But there was one striking feature in his review: Underdown recognised the influence of the 2nd Earl of Warwick in the county of Essex but thought the Earl and his gentry allies had reinforced rather than created the widespread sympathy for the Long Parliament's cause. There was a danger that support for Parliament at lower levels of society might not be fully appreciated and that the civil war might be seen as a sort of aristocratic fronde in which P...

  30th September:  Convenor Dr Joan Redmond will be celebrating the publication of her monograph   Religion, Rebellion and Violence in Ireland, c1603-1649 . There will be a book launch and drinks reception at KCL on Wednesday 30th September from 6pm. Full details and the registration link can be found   here .    -   6th October:   Remembering Tom Freeman.   Tom Freeman, among his many other roles, was a convenor of the IHR’s Religious History of Britain seminar.  They are organising a half-day hybrid conference in his memory   on   Tuesday 6th October 1pm-6pm  in the Weston Room (Rolls Chapel), Maughan Library, KCL. To register in-person or online attendance please email   K.C.Fincham@kent.ac.uk .    -   10th October:  The Cromwell Association's annual Study Day will take place on Saturday 10th October at the Old Palace in Worcester and will be on the theme of 'Ending the Civil Wars' to mark ...

 The History Woman's blog has an interesting account of a recent conference relevant to the early modern period. It can be read  here  .

 A recording of this lecture can be found on Youtube. It is well worth watching (but no link can be provided here).

  The essays in ‘Virginia 1619’ and the 2nd Earl of Warwick Robert Rich was born in 1587 or 1588 and was the eldest son of the 3rd Lord Rich and his wife, Penelope, the sister of the 2nd Earl of Essex. Following King James VI of Scotland’s accession to the English throne in 1603, he became one of the Knights of the Order of the Bath in July of that year and, in August, 1618, when his father purchased the title to the Earldom of Warwick, the titular Lord Rich. When his father died in March, 1619, he succeeded to his title as the 2nd Earl of Warwick.i For reasons that are not entirely clear the authors of this volume of essays refer to him as “Warwick” at dates ranging from 1614 to 1618.ii His colonial aims in Virginia and Bermuda are described in a number of critical ways. In Virginia, his purposes were allegedly those of plunder, of exploiting the colony’s stock of cattle, lands and servants, of aiming to establish a ‘manorial’ structure comparable to that in Bermuda, and of using ...

  Religion, Rebellion and Violence by Dr. Joan Redmond Book Launch 30th September, 18:00, 8th Floor Open Space, Strand Building Join CEMS to celebrate the launch of Dr. Joan Redmond’s first monograph,   Religion, Rebellion and Violence in Ireland, c. 1603-1649   (Cambridge University Press). This book examines religious violence in seventeenth-century Ireland, focusing on the 1641 Rebellion. The book will be commented on by Prof. John Morrill, Prof. Laura Gowing (KCL), and Prof. Paul Readman (KCL). The event will be followed by a drinks reception. To attend, please sign up here:   https://www.tickettailor.com/events/centreforearlymodernstudies/2420615  

 Keith Livesey's blog, A Trumpet of Sedition, currently has some critical comments on the work of John Rees on the English Revolution. They can be seen  here  .

 The Past and Present Society has an invaluable blog available on its website. I was particularly interested to see the report by Olivia Formby on the conference held at Emmanuel College, Cambridge last April on this subject. It can be read  here  .

 There is an interesting article by Elizabeth Hines on this subject in the  Journal of Early Modern History . The abstract can be seen  here  . 

 Peter Gaunt is the recently retired Professor of History at the University of Chester. The World Turned Upside Down website has a trio of talks by him on these subjects which can be seen  here  .

  NEW : Volume 73:   Francis Slingsby (1611–1642) and the Jesuits ,   edited by Brian Mac Cuarta (September 2026) This new Camden volume highlights Jesuit involvement in conversion to Catholicism in the Caroline era. It draws on the experience of one young man, Francis Slinsgby, in Rome and Ireland. Themes include elite women as promotors of Catholic life in Wentworth’s Ireland; Jesuit efforts to liberate their protégé, imprisoned in Dublin; Slingsby’s friendship with the 3rd earl of Castlehaven; and travels in France with a visit to Loudun, scene of the celebrated exorcisms. First-hand testimonies illuminate the experience of students from the Stuart kingdoms in Catholic educational institutions in mid-seventeenth century Rome.

This exhibition is currently being advertised along with a day conference in March, 2027 which will be led by Dr Ismini Pells (Oxford University) and involve other experts. The Museum's webpage will provide further details shortly.

 Details of the call for papers can be found  here . The focus will be on the period 1642-1660.

 

 

 

 

 

 For a critical review of John Morrill's 2011 paper on Oliver Cromwell from a Trotskyite perspective go to Keith Livesey's blog  here  

 The Association of Latin American and Caribbean Historians is holding its conference in Gibraltar in the next few days. Details of its programme can be found  here  . 

 More details on this new book can be seen  here  .

 For details of this talk by Professor Hannah Bowling tomorrow evening follow the link  here  .

 

 

 There is a short video account of this event to be seen  here  Worth a look for his actions.

 The Harvard Law School has posted a report on this recent course on the web. It can be found  here  .

 It can be found on the academia.edu site. The time traveler's guide to Restoration Britain : a handbook for visitors to the seventeenth century : 1660-1700 Ian Mortimer 2017, Pegasus Books

The website of   The World Turned Upside Down  has a discussion by Professor Peter Gaunt on this the last battle in England in the Civil Wars. A transcription of the text is also available. 

 

 This book is now expected to be published in 2028.

  I want to make some points arising  from a few recent posts on your blog, A Trumpet of Sedition. I am sure your readers will (or should) be aware that I am not a Marxist of any kind, so obviously, I am starting from a very different position. The rise of 'revisionism' in the early to mid-1970s was not, in my view, a response to a range of 'Conservative' political impulses. Its criticisms of Whig and Marxist explanations of the origins of the events of the 1640s and 1650s in the British Isles arose from the weaknesses of the arguments of Tawney, Stone, Hill and others over the 'rise of the gentry': 'revisionism's' advocates were from a variety of political standpoints - Russell was then a Labour Party supporter before becoming a Liberal Democrat: John Morrill was not a Conservative and, in the early-1980s, was a Social Democratic Party member: Kevin Sharpe was no Conservative either nor, of course, was an American like Mark Kishlansky. But one of th...