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  Gillett on Gregory, 'Catholics during the English Revolution, 1642-1660: Politics, Sequestration and Loyalty' by  H-Net Reviews Eilish Gregory.   Catholics during the English Revolution, 1642-1660: Politics, Sequestration and Loyalty.  Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 2021. 248 pp. $115.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-78327-594-6. Reviewed by  Christopher P. Gillett (The University of Scranton)  Published on  H-Albion (November, 2022)  Commissioned by  Jeffrey R. Wigelsworth (Red Deer Polytechnic) Printable Version:  https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=57696 Eilish Gregory’s  Catholics during the English Revolution, 1642–1660  offers the first book-length analysis of how the English Catholic laity attempted to navigate the penal laws, particularly the economic penalties of sequestration and compounding, during the mid-seventeenth century. Gregory situates her volume as part of an attempt to bridge a chronological ga...

 I have just heard that this conference due to be held at the Institute of Historical Research in London on Saturday, 26th November, 2022 is to be moved to a date between December, 2022 and February, 2022. 

 Earlier today, the ASLEF trades union announced that it would be holding strikes at twelve rail operating companies on Saturday, 26th November. This may create serious difficulties for historians hoping to travel to the conference on Christopher Hill's work, The World Turned Upside Down, published fifty years ago at the Institute of Historical Research in London on that day.  

  I was interested to read or rather to re-read Ann Talbot’s reflections from March, 2003 on Christopher Hill’s life and career. This assessment had two aspects, one political dealing with his trajectory as a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain and admirer of the former Soviet Union until his departure after the Hungarian uprising of 1956 and a second considering his historiographical legacy and its influence on and importance for later historical work. As one of his former postgraduate pupils, I ought to begin by saying that I always got on perfectly well with him in personal terms in the late-1960s and again when I last saw him and his wife, Bridget, at the Huntington Library in California in January, 1997. By then, of course, his corpus of work had been overtaken by the so-called ‘revisionist’ revolt of the 1970s and by the assault on his methods by figures like J.H.Hexter and Mark Kishlansky.   It is with the second of Ann Talbot’s arguments that I most concerne...

  Early Modern Britain Seminar Michaelmas Term 2022 Thursdays at 5pm in The Ship Street Centre, Jesus College (except weeks 3 and 5 in Habakkuk Room, Jesus College) and on Teams. Drinks in Lincoln College bar after the seminar.   Thursday 13 October  Dr Alexandra Gajda (Jesus College) and Dr George Southcombe (Sarah Lawrence College and Wadham College) ‘The English Witchcraft Statute of 1563 Revisited’ (This paper is dedicated to the memory of Clive Holmes)                Norman Jones, ‘Defining Superstitions: Treasonous Catholics and the Act Against Witchcraft of 1563’, in Charles          Carleton et al., eds,  States, Sovereigns, and Society  (1998), 187–203; Michael Devine, ‘Treasonous Catholic Magic and the 1563 Witchcraft Legislation: the English State’s Response to Catholic Conjuring in the Early Years of Elizabeth I’s reign’, in Marcus Harmes and...

  Clive Holmes Memorial Event Start date Sat, 29/10/2022 - 14:00 End date Sat, 29/10/2022 - 17:00 Lady Margaret Hall A Celebration of the Life and Work of Clive Holmes (1943-2022) A memorial event for  Dr Clive Holmes  will be held at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, on Saturday 29th October 2022 at 2pm, so that we can celebrate Clive's life, teaching, and scholarship.  Please find below a programme for the day which will take place in the Simpkins Lee Theatre: Welcome Frances Lannon  - Clive as a colleague and member of LMH * John Morrill  - Clive as a scholar of the English Civil Wars *   Eleanor Holmes   -  Schubert, Vier Impromptus, no. 3 * George Southcombe  - Clive as a scholar of early modern witchcraft * Grant Tapsell  - Clive as a tutor * Benjamin Thompson   and   Katy Cooper   -  Music from John Gay, The Beggar's Opera * Philip Holmes  - Clive as a family-man * Katy Cooper   -  Purce...