Early Modern Britain Seminar

WEDNESDAYS at 17:00 in the Oakeshott Room, Lincoln College, and online via Microsoft Teams, except for Week 4 (7 February) which is online only.

If you are not already on the Early Modern Britain mailing list, please contact Ian Archer – mailto:ian.archer@history.ox.ac.uk – to be added to the list to receive the Teams link.

Please note that the day of the seminar has been temporarily moved to Wednesday this term (HT2024) to avoid a clash with the Ford Lectures in British History

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

Thursday 19 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

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 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

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 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

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 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

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 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

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 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

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 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

17:00 - Graduate student presentations
Various Speakers

Thursday 9 March 2017 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

17:00 - Graduate student presentations
Various Speakers

Thursday 12 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 19 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 26 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 2 November 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 9 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 16 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 23 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 25 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 1 February 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 8 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

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 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 22 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

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 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 18 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 25 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 1 November 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 15 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 22 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 17 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 24 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

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 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

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 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 14 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

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 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

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 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 7 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 17 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 24 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 31 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 7 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 14 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 21 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 5 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 23 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 30 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 6 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

Thursday 13 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

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 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

Thursday 27 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 5 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 12 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 15 October 2020 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

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 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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)