EMH EarlyModernHistory

 Mark Hailwood's highly interesting paper on this subject given to an on-line Institute of Historical Research seminar last Monday can be seen here https:// us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/s473 HziLHHK01npURmPTqzABYivY67Z1rbVYU0XMmkvfkXhYWzkGH5r5L4rZ9qpi.0GSKXgF8tsUJ-4cQ … Passcode: ^3g?J9g+ Well worth watching.

 

  Emily Rose and the first Africans in British North America I was reading James Horn’s book, 1619 Jamestown and the Forging of American Democracy, published in 2018, two days ago when I came across his footnote 4 in Chapter 3 of his work. The last work he cited was “E.M.Rose, “The Conflicted Politics of Slavery: The First Africans in British North America,” which was due to appear in Virginia 1619 , edited by Paul Musselwhite, James Horn and Peter Mancall. But, if one turns to the work in question, which was published in 2019, no such essay can be found there. There is no explanation for this omission which, in fairness to Emily Rose and prospective readers of the latter volume, might have been expected.

 

 

  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 Causes of the English Revolution 1529-1642 , published in 1972. It is...