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David Smith, Charles I: martyr or tyrant? (talk to the Essex Branch of the Historical Association earlier this month)

This talk is now available on Youtube via the link here

Watching Fiona Pogson's talk yesterday evening on Thomas Wentworth and the Council of the North in the 1630s

For her talk to the Bolton Branch of the Historical Association, go to twitter and look at https://twitter.com/BoltonHistory/status/1480109476179066882

Britain in Revolution 1637-1660 seminar programme (University of Oxford) Hilary Term 2022 (pasted)

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Fiona Pogson's talk tonight on 'Presidency, Power and Pestilence: Thomas Wentworth's government of the North in the 1630s'

The Historical Asociation's Bolton Branch is advertising her talk for 7.30 p.m. tonigh (10th January) on its website. It should be available to watch on-line. Historical Association Bolton Branch @BoltonHistory · Jan 9 ICYMI: A reminder that our first lecture of 2022 will take place on Monday 10th January. Dr Fiona Pogson will be discussing Presidency, Power and Pestilence: Thomas Wentworth's government of the North in the 1630s.

Early modern history seminar programme for the next term at the University of Reading (pasted)

January 18: Ceri Sullivan (Cardiff) ‘Keeping or Violating the Cooperative Principle, in Conversations between God and George Herbert’ February 1: Alan Marshall (Bath Spa) ‘Oliver Cromwell and the Secret Arts of Government’ February 15: David Parry (Exeter) ‘Salvation from Nothing: King Lear’s Redemption of Tragedy and Luther’s Hidden God’ March 1: Tabitha Stanmore (Bristol) ‘Finding the Baseline: Habitat and Biodiversity in Early Modern England’. March 15: Sarah Ward (UWE) ‘Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Post-Mistresses, Post-Wenches and Other Seventeenth-Century Women of the Post’

David Smith (Cambridge University) on Charles I - Martyr or Tyrant (Essex Branch of the Historical Association) 2.30 p.m. 8th January, 2022

January Meeting 2.30pm Saturday 8th January 2022 King Charles I – Martyr or Tyrant by Dr David Smith Cambridge University. On Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89012164046 Meeting ID: 890 1216 4046 The lecture will investigate the personality, beliefs and policies of Charles I,

Tudor-Stuart seminar at the Institute of Historical Research: January to March, 2022 programme

17 January 2022. '"Letters of no importance?" Elizabeth Bourne (1549-1599) and the violence of the archive'. Daniel Starza Smith (KCL) and Leah Veronese (Balliol). 31 January 2022. 'Administrative Architecture: Locating the Exchequer in Mid-Tudor Government'. Kristy Wright (York) Conciliar Connections: Prosopography in the Mid-Tudor Privy Council: Connor Huddlestone (Bristol). 14 February 2022. '"A land so distressed without war': economic crisis, the commission for trade, and anti-monopoly petitioning in Jacobean England (c1622-1624)'. Ellen Paterson (Lincoln College, Oxford) TBC. Simon Healy. 28 February 2022. 'Global Cheshire? The Moretons of Moreton Hall and their Worlds'. Peter Lake (Vanderbilt) 14 March 2022. 'Closed Archive, Virtual Rooms: negotiating the Middling Culture project through the pandemic'. Tara Hamling (Birmingham) and Catherine Richardson (Kent).