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  Associate Professorship of Early Modern European History at University of Oxford - Jobs.ac.uk Jobs.ac.uk Discover an exciting academic career path as a Associate Professorship of Early Modern European History at jobs.ac.uk . Don't miss out on this job ...      Pasted from Google, Closing date for applications; 4th January, 2027. 

  Call for Papers: Parliaments Estates & Representation - Special Issue Parliaments and the Sea The sea is an increasingly important part of political life and has shaped empires, economies, and navies. Environments change, economies collapse, maritime security measures expand, trade and commerce abound, and contested sovereignty over boundaries all raise external questions that governments cannot resolve with executive action alone. Maritime history and parliamentary history have largely developed apart; this special issue aims to bring those two fields together. The sea is a defining context for legislative practice, political culture, and constitutional change. We invite contributions that examine how assemblies, from the earliest medieval assemblies to early modern legislatures, engaged with the sea, and how maritime concerns shaped developments of assemblies themselves. We are especially interested in how maritime issues become policy and governance issues .  We would...

Last month's edition of  The Literary Review  had two pieces of interest to early modern historians. The first was by Peter Marshall, Professor of history at the University of Warwick, on Andrew Johnston's study of William Paget (1505/6-1563) during the last  years of Henry VIII's reign and those of his children, Edward VI and Mary I. Paget was evidently an able administrator and diplomat handling Henry's correspondence and military preoccupations during the 1540s. Marshall found Johnston's scepticism about the claims that Paget assisted his allies, Edward Seymóur, Earl of Hertford, and Sir Anthony Denny, in tampering with Henry  VIII's will refreshing but was more doubtful about the Edwardian Protectorate as consonant with the late King's wishes. Paget seems to have been flexible enough on matters of religion to serve both Edward VI and Mary. Even so, he was one of those who "smoothed Henry VIII's path rather than stood in his way." The second...

I have been thinking about the planned conference at the Institute of Historical Research to be held next July on the subject of the English Revolution. I have no doubt that it will be an extremely interesting event with plenty of new analytical ideas being discussed. But I was and still am puzzled by the references in the notice for this conference to the work of the late Conrad Russell. The issue of the problems arising from the existence of 'multiple monarchies' was already well known well before he began writing on the subject. H.G.Koenigsberger's work is a case in point. Similarly, both C.V.Wedgwood and Hugh Trevor-Roper had considered the impact of the Scots on the events in England in the 1640s long in advance of the 1980s. Trevor-Roper's essay on 'The Union of Britain in the Seventeenth Century' now to be most easily found in his volume on 'Religion, the Reformation and Social Change' dealt directly with the issues faced by the Stuarts in ruling ...

Mark Stoyle (University of Southampton) has an interesting piece on the BBC dealing with concerns in Exeter about witchcraft. It can be read  here  .    

 

 

 

 

 

 David Appleby's interesting account of this expedition can be read  here  .

My review of this book has just appeared in the Transactions of The Essex Society for Archaeology and History (4th Series, Volume 15 (2024), Pp.154-155. 

  What was revolutionary about the English revolution?  Tuesday, 20 and Wednesday, 21 July 2027 Institute of Historical Research  Opening keynote Professor David Como (Stanford) Closing address Professor Emerita Ann Hughes (Keele) Speakers Sophie Aldred (Jesus College, Oxford); Sam Fullerton (North Texas) Will White (Birmingham Newman); Waseem Ahmed (UCL) Alex Beeton (History of Parliament); Ellen Paterson (Keele) Michael Bennett (Sheffield); Elizabeth Hines (Johns Hopkins) Courtney MacPhee (Stanford) Commentators   Kate Peters (Murray Edwards, Cambridge); John Walter (Essex)   Generously supported by:  The Elizabeth and Conrad Russell Fund Anglo-California/Stansky Fund for British Studies (Department of History, Stanford University)  The causes and consequences of the civil wars of the 1640s are amongst the most heavily contested and intensively studied periods in the history of these islands...

 Kathryn Marshalek's important thesis on this subject can now be seen and read on the webpage of Vanderbilt University's Library. It is in her copyright but can be downloaded  here  . It really is an important piece of work.

  Early Modern Britain Seminar, Michaelmas Term 2026 Thursdays at 5 pm, Oakeshott Room, Lincoln College; online on Teams (please email ian.archer@history.ox.ac.uk) 15 October Prof. Lucy Wooding (Lincoln College) ‘“Sinceritie in these daies was sure borne to be sad”: Religion, Dissimulation and Elizabethan Drama’ Jeffrey Knapp, ‘Preachers and Players in Shakespeare’s England’, Representations 44 (1993), 29-59; Kilian Schindler, Religious Dissimulation and Early Modern Drama: The Limits of Toleration (2023), Introduction 22 October Rev Dr Brian Mac Cuarta (Campion Hall) ‘Irish wheat for London’s food crisis, 1630-1631’ Paul Slack, ‘Books of Orders: the making of English social policy 1577-1631’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society , 5th ser. 30 (1980), 1-22; Norman Gras, The evolution of the English corn market from the twelfth to the eighteenth century (Cambridge MA, 1915), 77-86; Raymond Gillespie, ‘Harvest crises in early seventeenth-century Ireland...

My historiographical report today is going to be rather short. I haven't found anything very interesting on the internet today, but I did come across a couple of photographs of Peter Lake and Richard Cust on Sandy Solomon's Facebook page. She's the wife of Peter Lake, and apparently they've had Richard Cust to stay a few days ago with them in Suffolk as their guest, and there are a couple of photographs of Richard and Peter walking Sandy Solomon and Peter Lake's dog, really quite attractive, actually, in the way.      The other thing I've been thinking about is really how to treat the teleology in Conrad Russell's work, The Fall of the British Monarchies. Russell set himself up, certainly from the mid-1970s, as the apostle of criticism, as far as Whig and Marxist history was concerned. But, if you look at these accounts, say, of the short Parliament of April and May 1640, you can see there are all sorts of pointers to the future outcome of allegiance during ...

Waseem Ahmed is a postgraduate student at University College, London and has discussed this topic  here  on The World turned upside down website. If interested, his political stance has been criticised by Keith Livesey on his blog, A Trumpet of Sedition, on 7th October.

 Details of this work (in French) can be found  here  .