• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Ian Archer , Alexandra Gajda , Steven Gunn , Lucy Wooding
• Timing: Thursdays at 17:00
• Organising department: Faculty of History

Thursday 15 October 2015

• 17:00 - The Elizabethan Church and the Antiquity of Parliament
  Dr Alexandra Gajda (Jesus College, Oxford University)

Thursday 22 October 2015

• 17:00 - Rethinking Diplomacy: Queen Henrietta Maria's journey to the Dutch Republic
  Dr Sara Wolfson (Canterbury Christ Church University)

Thursday 29 October 2015

• 17:00 - Philosophy and Commonwealth in Elizabethan England
  Dr Sophie Smith (Christ Church, Oxford University)

Thursday 5 November 2015

• 17:00 - Recollecting Scattered Fancies: Deliberate Ambiguity in the Army Officers' Remonstrance in November 1648
  Dr Sean Kelsey (University of Buckingham)

Thursday 12 November 2015

• 17:00 - James I and the Dissolution of the 1621 Parliament through Spanish eyes
  Dr Valentina Caldari (Balliol College, University of Oxford )

Thursday 19 November 2015

• 17:00 - Writing Petitions in Early Modern England
  Prof. Faramerz Dabhoiwala (Exeter College, University of Oxford)

Thursday 26 November 2015

• 17:00 - Sailors, Wages, and the Venture Economy of Early Modern Seafaring
  Dr Richard Blackemore (Merton College, University of Oxford)

Thursday 3 December 2015

• 17:00 - Reviews of Recent Work
  TBA

Thursday 21 January 2016

• 17:00 - ‘Aristocratic Patronage and the Settlement of New England’
  Dr Christopher Thompson (Univ. of Buckingham)

Thursday 28 January 2016

• 17:00 - ‘Sir Robert Cotton at Work: Scissors, Paste, and the Early Stuart Production of Tudor History’
  Dr Noah Millstone (Univ. of Bristol)

Thursday 4 February 2016

• 17:00 - ‘Conformity and Communion in the Elizabethan Parish’
  Dr Lucy Kaufman (Keble College)

Thursday 11 February 2016

• 17:00 - ‘Defending the Spanish Match in Early Stuart England’
  Emma Turnbull (Balliol College)

Thursday 18 February 2016

• 17:00 - ‘Why Everyone in Early Modern England was an Atheist’
  Prof Alec Ryrie (Univ. of Durham)

Thursday 25 February 2016

• 17:00 - ‘Reading his Way to Royalism? The Library, Politics, and Religion of Sir Thomas Myddelton, 1639-1666’
  Sarah Ward (St Catherine’s College)

Thursday 3 March 2016

• 17:00 - Graduate student presentations
  TBA

Thursday 10 March 2016

• 17:00 - Graduate student presentations
  TBA

Thursday 13 October 2016

• 17:00 - ‘How Modern are early modern Historians?’
  Peter Ghosh (St Anne’s College)

Thursday 20 October 2016

• 17:00 - ‘Time and the Revolution of 1688-9’
  Prof. Tony Claydon (Bangor University)

Thursday 27 October 2016

• 17:00 - ‘Defending English Ground: the Crisis of Lordship in early Tudor Northumberland’
  Prof. Steven Ellis (NUI Galway and Merton College)

Thursday 3 November 2016

• 17:00 - ‘“Painful Seamen”: Seafaring, Skill, and Craft in early modern England.’
  Dr Richard Blakemore (University of Reading)

Thursday 10 November 2016

• 17:00 - ‘Text, Truth and Tonality in Mid-Tudor Ballads’
  Dr Jenni Hyde (University of Lancaster)

Thursday 17 November 2016

• 17:00 - ‘A Prosopographical Study of English Schoolmasters c. 1500- c.1650’.
  Dr Emily Hansen (University of York)

Thursday 24 November 2016

• 17:00 - ‘“A Dog, a Butcher and a Puritan”: The Politics of Lent in Early Modern England’
  Prof. Chris Kyle (Syracuse University)

Thursday 1 December 2016

• 17:00 - Reviews of recent work
  Various Speakers

Thursday 19 January 2017

• 17:00 - Ned Ward and Laughter at the end of the Seventeenth Century
  Preparatory reading: Quentin Skinner, 'Why laughing mattered in the Renaissance', History of Political Thought, 22/3 (2001); Jan Bremner and Herman Roodenburg (eds), A Cultural History of Humour (1997), introduction.
  Dr Kate Davison (University of Oxford)

Thursday 26 January 2017

• 17:00 - The Country conquers it self” - The Idea of Conquest and the English Civil War
  Preparatory reading: John Pocock, The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law: a reissue with a retrospect, (1987); Quentin Skinner, Visions of Politics, (2002), Vol. 3, Ch. 8 (‘History and Ideology in the English Revolution’); Johann Sommerville, ‘History and Theory: the Norman Conquest in Early Stuart Political Thought’, Political Studies, 34 (1986), 249‐261.
  Jonas Pollex (University of Oxford)

Thursday 2 February 2017

• 17:00 - My Authority is Absolute”: Mapping the Political Landscape of Later Stuart Cornwall and South-West Wales
  Preparatory reading: D.W. Hayton, The House of Commons, 1690-1715: Introductory Survey (2002), pp. 124-31, 137-40; A.H. Dodd, Studies in Stuart Wales (1952), ch. 5.
  James Harris (University of Oxford)

Thursday 9 February 2017

• 17:00 - Charles I's most loyal subject: Thomas Harrison and the Sin of Uzzah
  Preparatory reading: ‘The trial of Thomas Harrison,’ in Cobbett’s Complete Collection of State Trials, vol. 3 (1809), 1369-82; Noel Malcolm, ‘Thomas Harrison and his “Ark of Studies”: An Episode in the History of the Organization of Knowledge’, Seventeenth Century, 19 (2004), 196-232; .David Cressy, Charles I and the People of England (Oxford, 2015), pp. 177-209 (‘Importunate Petitioners’); 2 Samuel 6: 1-7 or 1 Chronicles 13: 7-11.
  Prof David Cressy (Claremont Graduate University and Christ Church)

Thursday 16 February 2017

• 17:00 - Loyalist Catholicism Reconsidered: Sir Thomas Tresham and the Elizabethan regime in the 1580s
  Preparatory reading:S. Kaushik, 'Resistance, loyalty and recusant politics: Sir Thomas Tresham and the Elizabethan state’ , Midland History 21 (1996), 37-72; E. Rose, Cases of Conscience: alternatives open to recusants and Puritans under Elizabeth I and James I (1975) esp. ch. 4; G. Kilroy, Edmund Campion: a scholarly Life (2015), esp. chs. 6, 9, & 11.
  Katie McKeogh (University of Oxford)

Thursday 23 February 2017

• 17:00 - Sir John Holt: Courts, Corporations and the Crafting of the Constitutional Landscape after 1688
  Preparatory reading: P. Halliday, Dismembering the Body Politic: Partisan Politics in England's Towns 1650-1730 (1998), esp. ch. 8; H. Nenner, By Colour of Law, Legal Culture and Constitutional Politics in England, 1660-1689 (1977); P. Hamburger, ‘Revolution and Judicial Review: Chief Justice Holt's Opinion in City of London v. Wood’, Columbia Law Review, 94 (1994), 2091-2153.
  George Artley (University of Oxford)

Thursday 2 March 2017

• 17:00 - Graduate student presentations
  Various Speakers

Thursday 9 March 2017

• 17:00 - Graduate student presentations
  Various Speakers

Thursday 12 October 2017

• 17:00 - ‘The Curious Case of the Cross-Dressing Catholic: Revelry and Resistance in Jacobean Lancashire’
  Dr Jonathan Healey (OUDCE)

Thursday 19 October 2017

• 17:00 - ‘Archbishop Laud and the Corporation of Wimborne Minster, 1636-1639’
  Charles Cornish-Dale (Lincoln College)

Thursday 26 October 2017

• 17:00 - ‘The Scribal Legacies of Katherine Gell 1645-1730’
  Prof. Ann Hughes (Keele University)

Thursday 2 November 2017

• 17:00 - ‘“Holy Harmony”: Puritans and Popular Song in seventeenth-century England’
  Dr Angela McShane (Wellcome Collection)

Thursday 9 November 2017

• 17:00 - ‘Work and Social Relations in England, 1500-1640’
  Prof. Andy Wood (Durham University)

Thursday 16 November 2017

• 17:00 - ‘Sir Thomas Roe: Memory, Transculturality, and the Incorporated Self’
  Prof. Nandini Das (University of Liverpool)

Thursday 23 November 2017

• 17:00 - ‘Space, Place, and Experiences of Service: evidence from the church court depositions of early modern England’
  Dr Charmian Mansell (University of Exeter and TORCH)

Thursday 30 November 2017

• 17:00 - The False Scots Urchin and his Dearest Sister: James, Elizabeth and Factional Politics in Scotland, 1583-1584’
  Dr Steven Reid (University of Glasgow)

Thursday 18 January 2018

• 17:00 - Remembering and Forgetting Recantation in the English Reformation
  Dr Ceri Law (Univ. of Cambridge)

Thursday 25 January 2018

• 17:00 - ‘“To Move the First Day of Term”: Strategies, Practices and a Seventeenth-Century Microhistory’
  Prof. Jason Peacey (UCL)

Thursday 1 February 2018

• 17:00 - ‘Long Reformation in the Far North: Kirk and Culture in Early Modern Orkney’
  Prof. Peter Marshall (Warwick Univ.)

Thursday 8 February 2018

• 17:00 - ‘Procuring “Local Knowledge”. The Library of the First Count of Gondomar in the context of his Diplomacy’
  Ernesto Oyarbide Magana (Wolfson College)

Thursday 15 February 2018

• 17:00 - ‘Political Dialogue, Exchange and Propaganda, c. 1461-1537’
  Wesley Correa (Corpus Christi College)

Thursday 22 February 2018

• 17:00 - ‘The Reformation of the Generations: Age, Ancestry, and Memory in England c. 1500-1700’: Discussion of the James Ford Lectures in British History
  Prof. Alexandra Walsham (University of Cambridge)

Thursday 11 October 2018

• 17:00 - ‘Inventing the English Bible in the reign of Henry VIII’
  Dr Lucy Wooding (Lincoln College)

Thursday 18 October 2018

• 17:00 - ‘Three Coronations and a Union: 1567, 1590 and 1603’
  Prof Jane Dawson (Univ. of Edinburgh)

Thursday 25 October 2018

• 17:00 - ‘The Face of Tyranny: Richard III after Shakespeare’
  Dr Jitka Stollova (Jesus College)

Thursday 1 November 2018

• 17:00 - ‘Antiquarian Curiosities or Priceless Treasures? The Uses of Carved Stones in Early Modern History’
  Dr Kelsey Jackson Williams (Univ. of Stirling)

Thursday 8 November 2018

• 17:00 - ‘Sheriffs at the Exchequer: The Reform of Shrieval Revenue Collection from 1530-1550’
  Jonathan McGovern (Univ. of York)

Thursday 15 November 2018

• 17:00 - ‘Charity, Debt and Social Control in England’s Early Modern Prisons’
  Dr Richard Bell (Keble College)

Thursday 22 November 2018

• 17:00 - ) ‘Preaching in the Early Jacobean Chapel Royal: Critiquing a New Regime’ & ‘“But nowe adayes I see fewe hunt the harte as he ought to be hunted”: The Social and Economic Contexts to Changes in Hunting in Seventeenth-Century England’
  Christopher Gausden (Jesus College)

Thursday 29 November 2018

• 17:00 - ‘Sadler Saddled: Reconciliation and Recrimination in a Restoration Parish’
  Dr Edward Legon (Historic Royal Palaces)

Thursday 17 January 2019

• 17:00 - ‘The Human Costs of the Civil Wars’
  Prof. Andrew Hopper (Univ. of Leicester)

Thursday 24 January 2019

• 17:00 - ‘“The Prince Elector is going from hence to London, I imagine for no good”: The Elector Palatine, Parliament, and the Civil War c.1638-1644’
  Thomas Pert (Lincoln College)

Thursday 31 January 2019

• 17:00 - ‘Two Interesting Episodes from the Embassy of William Harborne to the Ottoman Empire’ AND ‘A principle of “Natural Justice”: Sir William Petty and the “Royal Absolutist” Case for Excise’
  Joel Butler (Wadham College), Matthew Ward (Kellogg College)

Thursday 7 February 2019

• 17:00 - ‘The Carmen of London and Stereotypes of the Labouring Poor’
  Dr Ian Archer (Keble College)

Thursday 14 February 2019

• 17:00 - ‘“As you know the storie of Storie”: Loyalty & Religion at Common Law, 1571-1608’ AND ‘Preaching, Royalism, and Episcopalian “Conformity” in Interregnum England’
  Michael Heimos (St Cross College), William White (St Anne’s College)

Thursday 21 February 2019

• 17:00 - “'For their owne singuler lucre”: Perceptions of Strangers as an Economic Threat in London and at the English Court, c. 1450-1558’ AND ‘Conflict and Collaboration: The Spanish Ambassadors in the Elizabethan Court’
  Emily Glassford (Lincoln College), Heather McTaggart (Lincoln College)

Thursday 28 February 2019

• 17:00 - Graduate student transfer of status presentations
  Various Speakers

Thursday 7 March 2019

• 17:00 - Graduate student transfer of status presentations
  Various Speakers

Thursday 17 October 2019

• 17:00 - Self-censorship in Early Modern Britain
  Dr Jon Parkin (St Hugh's College, Oxford)

Thursday 24 October 2019

• 17:00 - Locating Freedom in the Urban British Atlantic, 1660-1760
  Dr Andrew Wells (Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg, Greifswald)

Thursday 31 October 2019

• 17:00 - 1603: a Jagged Succession
  Professor Susan Doran (Jesus College)

Thursday 7 November 2019

• 17:00 - Global Trade and the Shaping of the English Constitution
  Dr Will Pettigrew (University of Lancaster)

Thursday 14 November 2019

• 17:00 - Officers and Authority in early modern England
  Jonah Miller (King's College, London)

Thursday 21 November 2019

• 17:00 - The Birth of an Idea: Oliver Cromwell and the Theory of Checks and Balances
  Professor Blair Worden (St Edmund Hall)

Thursday 28 November 2019

• 17:00 - Was Henry VII a Strategist?
  Dr John Currin (Independent Researcher)

Thursday 5 December 2019

• 17:00 - Female Credit and Office-Holding in the Early Modern English Parish
  Alice Blackwood (Linacre College)

Thursday 23 January 2020

• 17:00 - Women’s Work in early modern England: Approaches and Issues
  Professor Jane Whittle (University of Exeter)

Thursday 30 January 2020

• 17:00 - Hans Holbein the Younger and the Court of Henry VIII
  Dr Elizabeth Goldring (University of Warwick)

Thursday 6 February 2020

• 17:00 - “Our scene is London”: Dramaturgical and Jurisdictional Space in A Warning for Fair Women
  Lucy Clarke (Jesus College)
• 17:00 - Fractures and Fractals: Piecing together the Suffering Christ
  Ryan Asquez (Keble College)

Thursday 13 February 2020

• 17:00 - “Freily” telling “my mynde”: Truth-telling, the Female Voice, and Contested Histories in Covenanted Scotland
  Professor Laura Stewart (University of York)

Thursday 20 February 2020

• 17:00 - Restoration Clerics and the Religious Diversity of the Ottoman World: The Life and Times of Dr John Covel, 1670-77
  Charles Beirouti (New College)
• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Hayley Ross (St John's College)

Thursday 27 February 2020

• 17:00 - The Reconstruction of the Church of England after 1660
  Dr Andrew Foster (University of Kent)

Thursday 5 March 2020

• 17:00 - Graduate student transfer of status presentations
  Various Speakers

Thursday 12 March 2020

• 17:00 - Graduate student transfer of status presentations
  Various Speakers

Thursday 15 October 2020

• 17:00 - ‘The “Oath of Association” of 1569: Protestants and the State in early Elizabethan England’
  If you are not already on the Early Modern Britain mailing list, please contact Ian Archer ian.archer@history.ox.ac.uk to be added to the list to receive the link
  Dr Alexandra Gajda (Jesus College, Oxford University)

Thursday 22 October 2020

• 17:00 - ‘“I cannot go on, yea, but I must never go back”: Zachary Crofton, the Restoration Church of England and the Dilemmas of Early Nonconformity, 1662–1665’
  If you are not already on the Early Modern Britain mailing list, please contact Ian Archer ian.archer@history.ox.ac.uk to be added to the list to receive the link
  Dr Elliot Vernon (Lincoln's Inn)

Thursday 29 October 2020

• 17:00 - ‘Restoring Stonehenge to the Danes: Walter Charleton, Charles II and the Politics of Ritual Inauguration’
  If you are not already on the Early Modern Britain mailing list, please contact Ian Archer ian.archer@history.ox.ac.uk to be added to the list to receive the link
  Professor Alastair Bellany (Rutgers University)

Thursday 5 November 2020

• 17:00 - ‘Imagined Islands, Ghost Rivers, and Unknown Continents: Richard Hakluyt and the limits of Elizabethan geographical discourse’
  If you are not already on the Early Modern Britain mailing list, please contact Ian Archer ian.archer@history.ox.ac.uk to be added to the list to receive the link
  Dr Anders Ingram (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography)

Thursday 12 November 2020

• 17:00 - ‘Accidental Death in Sixteenth-Century England: Landscape and Industry’
  If you are not already on the Early Modern Britain mailing list, please contact Ian Archer ian.archer@history.ox.ac.uk to be added to the list to receive the link
  Professor Steven Gunn (Merton College, University of Oxford)

Thursday 19 November 2020

• 17:00 - ‘Dueling Parliaments in the Marian Civil Wars’
  If you are not already on the Early Modern Britain mailing list, please contact Ian Archer ian.archer@history.ox.ac.uk to be added to the list to receive the link
  Professor Catherine Chou (Grinnell College)

Thursday 26 November 2020

• 17:00 - ‘Edward Sherburne Builds a Career in Early Stuart England, or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Trust Ned’
  If you are not already on the Early Modern Britain mailing list, please contact Ian Archer ian.archer@history.ox.ac.uk to be added to the list to receive the link
  Professor Rupali Mishra (Auburn University)

Thursday 3 December 2020

• 17:00 - ‘Disabling Lord Purbeck: Adultery, Witchcraft and the State’
  If you are not already on the Early Modern Britain mailing list, please contact Ian Archer ian.archer@history.ox.ac.uk to be added to the list to receive the link
  Professor Thomas Cogswell (University of California, Riverside)

Thursday 21 January 2021

• 17:00 - Anxious Patriarchs? Male Complaints of Spousal Abuse in Tudor England
  Dr Martin Ingram (Brasenose College, Oxford)

Thursday 28 January 2021

• 17:00 - Consent in Apprenticeship Indentures
  Dr Sonia Tycko (St Peter's College and RAI, Oxford)

Thursday 4 February 2021

• 17:00 - John Mill’s Chapel Lectures in Early Enlightenment Oxford: Between Textual Criticism and Apologetics
  Natasha Bailey (New College, Oxford)
• 17:00 - Erasmus and the Religious Orders of England: the case of Merton Priory
  Tim Wade (New College, Oxford)

Thursday 11 February 2021

• 17:00 - The King's Justice: Local Issues in the Royal Council Courts of Tudor England
  Dr Laura Flannigan (Christ Church, Oxford)

Thursday 18 February 2021

• 17:00 - “[A]n exempler to the rest”: The Marian Church in Counter-Reformation Europe
  Dr Fred Smith (Clare College, Cambridge)

Thursday 25 February 2021

• 17:00 - Ireland, Empire, and the Early Modern World: Discussion of the James Ford Lectures in British History
  Professor Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin)

Thursday 4 March 2021

• 17:00 - Graduate student transfer of status presentations
  Various Speakers

Thursday 11 March 2021

• 17:00 - Graduate student transfer of status presentations
  Various Speakers

Thursday 14 October 2021

• 17:00 - Martial Culture and Martial Practice in early modern London
  Dr Ian Archer (Keble College)

Thursday 21 October 2021

• 17:00 - Harmony and Quiet in the Parish: Legal Pluralism and Early Modern England
  Dr Dom Birch (King's College London)

Thursday 28 October 2021

• 17:00 - Venice and the Polemical Works of James VI & I
  Dr Eloise Davies (Pembroke College, Oxford)

Thursday 4 November 2021

• 17:00 - Early Stuart Sociability after Colonialism
  Dr Lauren Working (English Faculty, Oxford)

Thursday 11 November 2021

• 17:00 - Speaking in Hands: Deafness, Sign Language and Preaching in Early Modern England
  Dr Rosamund Oates (Manchester Metropolitan University)

Thursday 18 November 2021

• 17:00 - A New Edition of Cromwell: Why? How? What?
  Professor John Morrill (Selwyn College, Cambridge)

Thursday 25 November 2021

• 17:00 - Peace in the City: War, Peace, Commerce and the Treaty of London
  Dr Alexandra Gajda (Jesus College, Oxford University)

Thursday 2 December 2021

• 17:00 - The Performance of Sanctity: Religious Symbolism and Tudor Royal Pageantry
  Dr Lucy Wooding (Lincoln College, Oxford)

Thursday 20 January 2022

• 17:00 - Parliaments in Early Modern Europe’s Political Culture
  Dr Paul Seward (History of Parliament)
• 17:00 - Parliaments in Early Modern Europe’s Political Imagination
  Professor Paulina Kewes (Jesus College, Oxford)

Thursday 27 January 2022

• 17:00 - “Learning the arte of piracy”: The Welsh Gentry and early modern British Expansionism
  Dr Sadie Jarrett (Queen's College, Oxford)

Thursday 3 February 2022

• 17:00 - The Readmission of the Jews and the Power of the Civil Magistrate in the 1650s
  Hannah Lee (St Edmund Hall, Oxford)
• 17:00 - "Tempora mutantur": Royalists in Places of Education during the Rump Parliament
  Alex Beeton (New College, Oxford)

Thursday 10 February 2022

• 17:00 - “A late and sad example”: Issues of Peace and War, and the Political Life, on the Caroline Stage
  Professor Peter Lake (Vanderbilt University)

Thursday 17 February 2022

• 17:00 - New Heuristic Approaches to the Liturgy: Changing Worship Practices in the reign of Henry VIII
  This seminar is in hybrid format
  Aude de Mézerac-Zanetti (Université de Lille)

Thursday 24 February 2022

• 17:00 - “A commonwealth is not fit for us, because we are not fit for a commonwealth”: Trimming and Republicanism in the Restoration Crisis
  This seminar is in hybrid format
  Christopher Barbour-Mercer (St Catherine's College, Oxford)
• 17:00 - "Justifying the Gospel Ministry" – Lord Robartes on Preaching, Ordination, and the Restoration Settlement
  This seminar is in hybrid format
  Sophie Aldred (Worcester College, Oxford)

Thursday 3 March 2022

• 17:00 - Prisoners and Religion in the Tower of London, 1547-1625
  This seminar is in hybrid format
  Catherine Jenkinson (Lincoln College, Oxford)
• 17:00 - A Land So Distressed Without War’: Economic Crisis, the Commission for Trade, and Anti-Monopoly Petitioning c. 1622-1624
  This seminar is in hybrid format
  Ellen Paterson (Lincoln College, Oxford)

Thursday 10 March 2022

• 17:00 - DPhil student transfer of status presentations
  This seminar is in hybrid format
  Eric Beach (Wolfson), Oscar Patton (Merton), Helena Rutkowska (St Hugh's)

Thursday 13 October 2022

• 17:00 - The English Witchcraft Statute of 1563 Revisited (This paper is dedicated to the memory of Clive Holmes)
  Dr Alexandra Gajda (Jesus College), Dr George Southcombe (Sarah Lawrence College and Wadham College)

Thursday 20 October 2022

• 17:00 - “At my humble sute bestowed”: Agents and Agency in the Representation of Women in sixteenth-century University Portraiture
  Anna Clark (St John's College)

Thursday 27 October 2022

• 17:00 - Catholic Activity, Anti-Popery, and the Parliament of 1624
  Please note that this seminar will be in the Habakkuk Room at Jesus College
  Katie Marshalek (Vanderbilt University (speaking online))

Thursday 3 November 2022

• 17:00 - Assessing the Middling Sort: Material Culture and Early Modern Urban Cultural Activity
  Dr Tara Hamling (University of Birmingham), Professor Catherine Richardson (University of Kent)

Thursday 10 November 2022

• 17:00 - The Economy of Intoxicants in Early Modern England
  Please note that this seminar will be in the Habakkuk Room at Jesus College
  Professor Phil Withington (University of Sheffield)

Thursday 17 November 2022

• 17:00 - “The Churches Cordiall in her fainting fitts”: the Scribal Practices and Public Activism of Walter Boothby, London Merchant, in the English Revolution
  Professor Ann Hughes (Keele University)

Thursday 24 November 2022

• 17:00 - What’s in a Name? The Naming of English Merchant Ships from the Thirteenth to Nineteenth Century
  Professor Peter Solar (Vrije Universiteit, Brussels)

Thursday 1 December 2022

• 17:00 - Writing Tudor England
  Dr Lucy Wooding (Lincoln College)

Thursday 19 January 2023

• 17:00 - The Prosecution of Heresy in the Henrician Reformation
  Dr Paul Cavill (Pembroke College, Cambridge)

Thursday 26 January 2023

• 17:00 - Diplomatic Culture and Diplomatic Communication in the Tudor Period
  Dr Tracey Sowerby (The Europaeum)

Thursday 2 February 2023

• 17:00 - England's Second Reformation, Royalist Moral Theology, and the Rise of Christian Epicureanism, 1642-1660
  Jacob Chatterjee (Balliol College)
• 17:00 - Williamite Land Grants, Court Patronage and the Law, 1689-1702
  Stuart Parks (St Cross College, Oxford)

Thursday 9 February 2023

• 17:00 - The Release of Lord Darnley: a new perspective
  Victoria Smith (Worcester College)
• 17:00 - Women, Family, and Memories of the Marian Exile
  Please note the speaker will be online only
  Laura Roberts (Magdalen College)

Thursday 16 February 2023

• 17:00 - Mediocrity and Magnificence in King Charles II’s Representation in Colonial Contexts (1660-85)
  Joanna Smith (Lincoln)
• 17:00 - Episcopal Conservatism and the Implementation of the Henrician Reformation
  Yicen Liu (St Cross)

Thursday 23 February 2023

• 17:00 - Charles II: Conformity, Toleration and the Supremacy
  Professor Ken Fincham (University of Kent at Canterbury)

Thursday 2 March 2023

• 17:00 - A Pre-History of the Bank of England, 1553-1694
  Raphael Ades (Christ Church College, Oxford)
• 17:00 - The Spirit of the Martyrs Revived’: Quaker Uses of History in the Later Seventeenth Century
  Matthew Leech-Gerrard (New College, Oxford)

Thursday 9 March 2023

• 17:00 - “The Understanding of a Man”: Reason and Religious Politics in Nathaniel Culverwell, George Rust and Henry Hallywell’s writings (c.1641-1671)
  Please note this last session is in the Ship Street Centre
  Samuel Head (Wolfson College, Oxford)
• 17:00 - Firearms Accidents in Sixteenth-Century England
  Steven Gunn (Merton College, Oxford)

Thursday 12 October 2023

• 17:00 - Masters and Servants: Divinity and Masculinity in Early Modern England
  Dr Leif Dixon (Regent's Park College, Oxford)

Thursday 19 October 2023

• 17:00 - A study in failure: the Bishops’ Bible and the Elizabethan Church
  Dr Harry Spillane (Peterhouse, Cambridge)

Thursday 26 October 2023

• 17:00 - Subjects concealed within wives: statute and crime in the Star Chamber, 1558-1603’
  Chloe Ingersent (Oriel College, Oxford)
• 17:00 - ‘‘Firstly printed under the name of the reformed English Church": Reformation writings between England and the Holy Roman Empire, 1547-1603
  Kate Shore (Lincoln College, Oxford)

Thursday 2 November 2023

• 17:00 - Being English in Rome: national identity and global Catholicism
  Dr Lucy Underwood (Warwick University)

Thursday 9 November 2023

• 17:00 - "He carried, secretly a knotted string": Catholic sailors on English Protestant ships fighting Spain (1568–1595)
  Dr Andrii Pastushenko (Simon Kuznets Kharkiv National University of Economics)
• 17:00 - Little cities: Experiencing and imagining the early modern military camp
  Dr Emily Rowe (KCL and Bodleian Library, Oxford)

Thursday 16 November 2023

• 17:00 - Conflict, Welfare and Memory: Outcomes of the Civil War Petitions Project
  Professor Andrew Hopper and Dr Ismini Pells (Kellogg College, Oxford)

Thursday 23 November 2023

• 17:00 - Intertextual Whiggism: Political Aphorisms, Textual Appropriation, and Political Thought, 1570-1800
  Professor Mark Goldie (Churchill College, Cambridge)

Thursday 30 November 2023

• 17:00 - "A Byrd flew over the cuckoo’s nest": the problem of the Chapel Royal in post-Reformation England
  Oscar Patton (Merton College, Oxford)
• 17:00 - William Perkins and the constraints of reform in late Elizabethan England
  Eric Beach (Wolfson College, Oxford)

Wednesday 17 January 2024

• 17:00 - Royal Justice and the Court of Requests: from Thesis to Book
  Dr Laura Flanagan (St John's College, Oxford)

Wednesday 24 January 2024

• 17:00 - Lollards, Londoners, and Lutherans, in the Shaping of William Tyndale
  Dr Andrew Hope (Independent)

Wednesday 31 January 2024

• 17:00 - Healing, (Re)settling, and Empire in Interregnum England
  Dr William White (University of Hertfordshire)

Wednesday 7 February 2024

• 17:00 - Katherine Parr’s Lamentation of a Sinner (1547), Cranmer’s Homilies, and the Production of the Book of Common Prayer
  PLEASE NOTE, THIS SEMINAR IS ONLINE ONLY
  Professor Micheline White (Carleton University)

Wednesday 14 February 2024

• 11:30 - The Reformation and the Image: Picturing Popery in Stephen Batman’s 'A Christall Glasse of Christian Reformation' (1569)
  Dr Adam Morton (Newcastle University)

Wednesday 21 February 2024

• 17:00 - Discussion of Professor Alec Ryrie’s Ford Lectures – ‘The World’s Reformation’
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 28 February 2024

• 17:00 - Marginalised or Mobilised: Two Differing Examples of Veteran Disability in Seventeenth-Century Britain
  Olivia Bennison (St Edmund Hall, Oxford)
• 17:00 - In Defence of Astrology: the Importance of Astrology in Early Tudor Society (1485-1558)
  Anna Simms (Lincoln College, Oxford)

Wednesday 6 March 2024

• 17:00 - Making Sense of Sir Humphrey Gilbert: Glory, Notoriety and the History of Elizabethan Expansionism
  Professor Rory Rapple (University of Notre Dame)

Thursday 17 October 2024

• 17:00 - Inside London’s Bridewell: Setting the Poor to Work, 1550-1700
  Dr Ian Archer (Keble College)

Thursday 24 October 2024

• 17:00 - Forging the Royal Signature in Early Modern England
  Dr Arnold Hunt (University of Durham)

Thursday 31 October 2024

• 17:00 - Uncovering History in the Drafts of William Camden's Annals
  Helena Rutkowksa (St Hugh's College)
• 17:00 - The Tower of London as Torture Site and Tourist Attraction
  Dr Catherine Jenkinson (Pembroke College)

Thursday 7 November 2024

• 17:00 - “The Case of Thomas Coo Truly Stated”: Legal Practice, Petitioning and Prisons in Jacobean England
  Dr Felicity Heal (Jesus College)

Thursday 14 November 2024

• 17:00 - The Fragility and Friability of “legality” in early modern England: a Practice-based Approach to Law-mindedness
  Dr Lucy Clarke (University of Sheffield)

Thursday 21 November 2024

• 17:00 - Francis Bacon and Stuart Foreign Policy, 1621-1626
  Dr Samuel Zeitlin (University College London)

Thursday 28 November 2024

• 17:00 - “An oare in every paper boat”: Thomas Lodge, Professional Writing and Rivalries in Elizabethan London
  Professor Cathy Shrank (University of Sheffield)

Thursday 5 December 2024

• 17:00 - Writing An Accidental History of Tudor England
  Professor Steven Gunn (Merton College)

Thursday 23 January 2025

• 17:00 - Recordkeepers and the Early Modern Information State: The John Poyntz Case
  Dr Alex Beeton (History of Parliament)

Thursday 30 January 2025

• 17:30 - Enfranchisement and the Rights of Freeborn Englishmen, c.1500-1800
  This meeting will start at 17:30 and will be held online only
  Professor Steve Hindle (Washington University St Louis)

Thursday 6 February 2025

• 17:00 - “Looke from Adam”: Genesis, History, and Religious Community in early modern England, 1590-1660
  Samuel Head (Wolfson College, Oxford)
• 17:00 - “Honor and deceit”: The Warres of Cyrus, Classical Persia, and Elizabethan Politics
  Ebrahim Hanifehpour (Lincoln College, Oxford)

Thursday 13 February 2025

• 17:00 - Regulatory Failure and the Moral Antecedents of Public Banking in England, 1559-1642
  Raphael Adès (Christ Church, Oxford)
• 17:00 - Seventeenth-Century Foxe? Samuel Clarke and Presbyterian Historiography
  Matthew Leech-Gerrard (New College, Oxford)

Thursday 20 February 2025

• 17:00 - Katherine Parr’s Lamentation of a Sinner (1547), Cranmer’s Homilies, and the Production of the Book of Common Prayer
  Professor Micheline White (Carleton University)

Thursday 27 February 2025

• 17:00 - English Politics and the Colonial Revolutions of 1689
  Dr Gabriel Glickman (Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge)

Thursday 6 March 2025

• 17:00 - Library Access in Early-Modern Europe: English and Scottish Scholars Abroad and the Limits of Knowledge Exchange
  Dr John-Mark Philo (University of East Anglia and Bodleian Library)

Thursday 13 March 2025

• 17:00 - First year graduate presentations
  TBA

Thursday 16 October 2025

• 17:00 - Prosperity, Petitions, and Parliament: Peace, Union and Economic Debate in Early Jacobean England
  Dr Alexandra Gajda (Jesus College), Dr Ellen Paterson (Keble College)

Thursday 23 October 2025

• 17:00 - Early Modern Selfhood Revisited: the Case of Feminism
  Dr Hannah Dawson (KCL)

Thursday 30 October 2025

• 17:00 - Sailing upon Storied Seas: The Maritime Environment in Seafarers’ Writings, 1650-1750
  Dr Richard Blakemore (University of Reading)

Thursday 6 November 2025

• 17:00 - “The thing is no Goblin; but the very party we talk on”: Self-fashioning and Mobility Aids in seventeenth-century Britain
  Olivia Bennison (St Edmund Hall, Oxford)

Thursday 13 November 2025

• 17:00 - Rethinking the 1650s
  Professor Michael Braddick (All Souls College)

Thursday 20 November 2025

• 17:00 - Captured Consent: Contract Labor in English Charity, Colonization, and War, 1600–1700
  Dr Sonia Tycko (University of Edinburgh), In discussion with Professor Giuseppe Marcocci (Exeter College)

Thursday 27 November 2025

• 17:00 - William Sancroft’s Jest-Book; or, what did a seventeenth-century archbishop find funny?
  Dr Tim Reinke-Williams (University of Northampton)

Thursday 4 December 2025

• 17:00 - Writing James VI and I
  Professor Clare Jackson (Trinity Hall, Cambridge)