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In perspective
The periodical, Red Pepper, is not my usual reading matter but, at the end of last month, it carried a laudatory review by John Rees of Norah Carlin’s book on petitioning by civilian and military radicals in the final months of 1648. Rees thought it made a notable contribution to the understanding of “the role of ordinary people in the climax of the English Revolution.” Radicals in the New Model Army and across the country sent a wave of petitions to the Long Parliament demanding justice against King Charles I, that “man of blood”, and for a fundamental transformation of the English state. He links this petitioning campaign to the role of the Leveller movement in organising its ‘large petition’ of 11 th September, 1648, which inspired in part, at least, some of the subsequent petitions and forced the army’s commanders into action at Pride’s Purge and the trial of the King that followed. He also has observations on essays by David Como and Clive Holmes which bear on the issues th...
Mark Hailwood, Time-telling, time-use and time-discipline in Pre-industrial England (9 November seminar paper)
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
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.