Michael van cleave Alexander, biographer of Sir Richard Weston, Earl of Portland has died
His obituary notice can be found here . Sadly, I never met him but send my condolences to his family and friends.
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Cfp extended : devotional works in the British Isles 1500-1799 (pasted)
12/07/2023 Call For Papers Download CFP in English Télécharger l’appel à communications “‘Nor thou nor thy religion dost controule, The amorousnesse of an harmonious Soule’: Rethinking Devotional Works and Practices in the British Isles (16th-18th c.)” *** (Scroll down for the French version) When John Donne published Devotions upon Emergent Occasions in 1624, he followed in the footsteps of a long tradition of devotional publications. Four hundred years later the concerns voiced by the English poet still resonate and invite one to think about the evolution and legacy of devotional works which have never ceased to appeal to both devout practitioners and lay readers alike. Such works convey the strong and complex nature of the relationship that the believer has with God. Indeed, devotion implies a series of religious observances, duties and actions, as well as a more inward-looking life, with a focus on keeping the soul in a disposition of piety and fervour...
University of Cambridge's Early Modern British and Irish History seminar programme for the next term (pasted)
Wednesdays at 5:15pm Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall 18 Oct. Rachel Foxley (University of Reading) ‘Political Polarisation in the English Civil War: A Digital Humanities Approach’ 25 Oct. Rosamund Oates (Manchester Metropolitan University) ‘Deafness in Early Modern England’ 1 Nov. Roundtable on Jonah Miller, Gender and Policing in Early Modern England (2023), with the author, Amy Erickson, and Elizabeth Foyster 8 Nov. Michael Braddick (University of Sheffield) ‘Christopher Hill and the Crisis of Bourgeois Culture in the 1930s’ 15 Nov. Xiang Wei (University of Cambridge) ‘Religion and Scottish Military Experience, c. 1690–1763’ 22 Nov. Anna French (University of Liverpool) ‘“Like Olive Shoots Around Your Table”: Locating the Early Modern Infant’ 29 Nov. Hannah Yip (University of Manchester) ‘Precarity: An Early Modern History?’
Lawrence Stone and the Epsom and Newell History Explorer
I came across a very short piece on Lawrence Stone yesterday on this local history site here . It had one or two details about his mother, Mabel Reid, who was a housekeeper and matron at Godstowe Girls school and who died in 1978, that I had not known before. Stone himself apparently attended Downsend Preparatory School in Leatherhead before going on to Charterhouse.
Lectureship in Early Modern History at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge
Details of this post commencing in January, 2024 can be found here The closing date for applications is 16th October, 2023.
ESAH Symposium in Chelmsford on 4th November, 2023 (pasted)
Essex Society for Archaeology & History 2023 Archaeology & Local History Symposium Christ Church URC, New London Road, Chelmsford CM2 0AW Saturday, 4th November 2023 10.00a.m. – 4.00p.m. £10, including light sandwich lunch and coffee/tea ********************************************** PROGRAMME 10.00a.m. Registration 10.15a.m. President’s Opening remarks 10.20a.m. – 11.00a.m. James Alexander (ASE) ‘A Roman villa at Newhall, Harlow, and the discovery of an enigmatic object' 11.00a.m. – 11.30a.m. Coffee/tea 11.30a.m. – 12.15p.m. Adam Wightman (CAT) The former Essex County Hospital site, Colchester: Roman burial, settlement and industry west of the walled town 12.15p.m. – 1.00p.m. Paul Drury The Medieval floor tiles of East Anglia - focussing on Essex 1.00p.m. – 2.00p.m. LUNCH 2.00p.m. – 2.45p.m. Christopher Thompson (University of Buckingham) The County of Essex: the crisis of the late 1620s and the English revolution 2.45p.m. – 3.15p.m. Coffee/tea 3.15p.m. – 4.00p.m. David G...
Michael Young's H-Albion review (pasted) of Ian Ward's book, The Trials of Charles I
Young on Ward, 'The Trials of Charles I' Ward, Ian . The Trials of Charles I . London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. 254 pp. $110.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781350024977 .$36.95 (paper), ISBN 9781350025141 . Reviewed by Michael B. Young (Illinois Wesleyan University (emeritus)) Published on H-Albion (September, 2023) Commissioned by Jeffrey R. Wigelsworth (Red Deer Polytechnic) Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=59257 Ian Ward has written several books merging cultural history with legal and constitutional history. Here he turns his attention to the trials of Charles I—the metaphorical trials and tribulations of his early years on the throne, his actual trial before a revolutionary tribunal in 1649, and the repeated retrying of his case in subsequent literature. Readers eager to see if Ward has anything new to say about the actual trial will have to hold their breath for a while because the actual trial does not be...