British History in the 17th-century seminar programme for the autumn at the Institute of Historical Research (pasted)

 

Thursday 8th October - Book launch of Joan Redmond's (KCL) Religion, Rebellion and Violence in Ireland, c.1603-1649, in conversation with Alan Ford (Nottingham) and John Walter (Essex)
 
Thursday 22nd October - Ed Legon (QMUL), ''The Rare Loyal Weaver': Making Cloth, Dissent and Resistance after the Restoration'
 
Thursday 5th November - Brendan Kane (Connecticut) and Peadar O Muircheartaigh (Edinburgh), 'An Early Modern Gaelic Atlantic? Centre and Periphery in Irish Political Thought, c.1600-1840'
 
Thursday 19th November - Olivia Bennison (Oxford), 'Objects that moved people: mobility aids in the Seventeenth Century'
 
Thursday 3rd December - Teoni Passereau (Bristol), ''We should no longer expect anything from this side': Franco-English diplomatic relations between Charles II and Louix XIV, 1660-75'
 
Thursday 17th December - Tom Leng (Sheffield), 'Violence, Passion and the Early Levant Company'.

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