A talk by Dr Adrian Ailes and Dr Katy Mair (TNA)

Thursday, 8 March 2012, 2pm
Talks Room, The National Archives, Kew Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU (tel: 020 876 3444)

The talk is free.  You do not need a reader’s ticket but you should pick up a talks ticket on the day for entrance.  General visitor details and a map are on http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/visit/where.htm .

Fri 16 Dec: The Barry Coward Memorial Lecture. Prof. John Morrill, ‘What do we really know about Oliver Cromwell?’, Malet St B35, followed by Xmas party in G15.

Fri 20 Jan: Dr Emma Smith, ‘Reading Shakespeare’s First Folio (1623)’, room tbc.

Fri 24 Feb: Dr Matthew Shaw, ‘Early modern time: the case of the French Republican Calendar’, room tbc.

Fri 23 March: Dr Laura Jacobs, ‘Writing about Blindness in Early Modern England: the case of John Milton (1608-1674)’, room tbc.

Fri 27 April: Dr Helen Smith, ‘Materialising the book: print and practice in Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises’, room tbc.

Fri 25 May: Dr Alice Hunt, ‘Oliver Cromwell and the rituals of the Republic’, room tbc.

Membership can be obtained at any of our events and remains unaffected by inflation — £5!

The End of the Old World Order, 1530 to 1650
Dr Simon Thurley
Monday, 10 October 2011 – 6:00pm
Museum of London

The Reformation and the Civil War, two events a century apart, created an astonishing originality and independence in English Building.

This is a part of the lecture series From Architectural Periphery to the World’s Engine House: English Building from the Reformation to the First World War.

In this series of lectures Simon Thurley continues his investigation into the history of building in England. Starting with the shattering events of the Suppression of the Monasteries and the Civil War he moves on to look at the architectural consensus that briefly reigned in the mid eighteenth century before it dissolved in the white heat of the Industrial Revolution. Economic and technological change then drove English building in remarkable new directions for over 150 years. This period was ended by another shattering event, but this time of global proportions – the First World War. This extraordinary chronicle is not just history of architecture, but the history of an ascendant civilization.

Literature and Politics in Seventeenth Century London
Dr Anna Beer
Wednesday, 12 October 2011 – 6:00pm
Museum of London

The contrasting, but interconnected, experiences of two writers: Sir Walter Ralegh and John Milton.

Ralegh was a prisoner in the Tower of London between 1603 and 1616, where he wrote a number of works including the monumental (and unfinished) The History of the World.

Milton spent most of his working life in the City of London, whether as a prolific writer of political pamphlets or hiding in fear of his life at the Restoration of Charles II.

The lecture will illuminate the London communities that radicalised each man and reveal the networks that enabled their political thinking to reach its audience, set against the backdrop of a wider transformation in political culture; the move from manuscript to print and the explosion of publications when censorship was relaxed in 1640.

What can we learn from this interplay between politics and print as we experience our own internet revolution?

This lecture is being held in association with the Fulbright Commission

The Rise of Consensus, 1650 to 1760
Dr Simon Thurley
Wednesday, 2 November 2011 – 6:00pm
Museum of London

Opened up to the world once more England drank in influences and ideas from abroad which were to infuse English building with widely held ideas and values.

This is a part of the lecture series From Architectural Periphery to the World’s Engine House: English Building from the Reformation to the First World War.

In this lecture series Simon Thurley continues his investigation into the history of building in England. Starting with the shattering events of the Suppression of the Monasteries and the Civil War he moves on to look at the architectural consensus that briefly reigned in the mid eighteenth century before it dissolved in the white heat of the Industrial Revolution. Economic and technological change then drove English building in remarkable new directions for over 150 years. This period was ended by another shattering event, but this time of global proportions – the First World War. This extraordinary chronicle is not just history of architecture, but the history of an ascendant civilization.

Thanks to Robin Rowles for these!

Venue: Rooms as announced in the programme.
Time: Friday, 5.30pm

Autumn Term 2011

14 October
Tom Penn, Henry VII: Governing in the French Fashion?
Gordon Room (G34), South block, ground floor

21 October
Justin Colson (IHR), Friends, Neighbours and Strangers: Witnesses to Documents in Late Medieval London
Court Room, South block, first floor

28 October
Simon Payling (History of Parliament),
‘He that shuld haue the wynn shuld haue the synn’: the career, character and afterlife of Ralph, Lord Cromwell
Gordon Room (G34), South block, ground floor

4 November
Scott Jenkins (Swansea), Criminal Scholars in Late Medieval Oxford
STB7, Stewart House, basement

11 November
Laura Tompkins (St. Andrews), Alice Perrers and the Goldsmiths’ Mistery
Gordon Room (G34), South block, ground floor

18 November
Chris Given-Wilson (St. Andrews), Henry of Bolingbroke in England and France, 1390 to 1399
Gordon Room (G34), South block, ground floor

25 November
Andrew Spencer (Cambridge), Resurrecting Aunt Sally? In search of bastard feudalism in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries
Torrington Room (104), South block, first floor

2 December
Gordon McKelvie (Winchester), The Statutes of Livery, 1390 to 1530
Gordon Room (G34), South block, ground floor

9 December
Samantha Sagui (Fordham), The Hue and Cry in English Towns
ST273, Stewart House, second floor

Venue: As announced below
Time: Tuesday, 5.00pm

Autumn Term 2011

4 October
Mark Parry (Oundle school), Episcopal responses to anti-Arminianism in the parliaments of 1624-9
Venue: Room ST275, Stewart House, 2nd floor

18 October
Richard Foster (Oxford University), Excommunication and the civil magistrate: Anglican ideas about spiritual jurisdiction, c. 1640-60
Venue: Room ST275, Stewart House, 2nd floor

1 November
Joel Halcomb (Cambridge University), Baptism and communion: puritan communities in conflict and cooperation 1636-59
Venue: Room ST275, Stewart House, 2nd floor

15 November
Ceri Law (Cambridge University), Edwardian Cambridge and the public promotion of Protestantism
Venue: Room ST275, Stewart House, 2nd floor

29 November
Thomas S. Freeman (Cambridge University), One survived: Katherine Parr and heresy hunting in the court of Henry VIII
Venue: Room STB5, Stewart House, Basement

13 December
Victor Houliston (University of the Witswatersrand), Robert Persons’s correspondence network: Persecution and politics?
Venue: Holden Room 103, Senate House, South block, 1st floor

Convenors: Surekha Davies (Birkbeck College, London), Laura Gowing (King’s College London), Kate Hodgkin (University of East London), and Michael Hunter (Birkbeck College, London)
Venue: Athlone Room (102), Senate House, Ground floor

Time: Thursday, 5.30pm

The programme for the academic year 2010-11 is on the theme of Truth and Credit

Autumn Term 2011

20 October
Koji Yamamoto (University of Edinburgh), Reformation and the distrust of the projector in the Hartlib Circle

3 November
Mark Hailwood (University of Exeter/IHR), The Honest Tradesman’s Honour: occupational identity and credit relations in 17th-century England
Please note: this session takes place in Stewart House, Basement STB7

17 November
Florence Grant (King’s College London), Trading on others credit: imitation, copying and plagiarism in the business of 18th-century science

15 December
Miruna Achim (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico City), Debate, public truth and natural knowledge in 18th-century Mexico

Venue: Announced below
Time: Friday, 5.00pm

Autumn Term 2011

21 October
Michiel van Groesen (Amsterdam), The Making of Dutch Brazil, c. 1560-1760
Venue: Room ST276, 2nd floor Stewart House

4 November
Maartje van Gelder (Amsterdam), Between the Dutch Republic and North Africa: The intermediary roles of Dutch converts to Islam
Venue: Torrington Room 104, Senate House, South block, 1st floor

18 November
Henk van Nierop (Amsterdam), Romeyn de Hooghe and the pamphlet war of 1690
Venue: ST274, 2nd floor Stewart House

2 December
Inger Leemans (VU Amsterdam), The exchange as beehive: the nature of economics and the economics of nature in the Netherlands, circa 1700
This is a joint event with Low Countries History and The Economic and Social History of the Pre-Modern World, 1500-1800 seminar
Venue: Torrington Room 104, Senate House, South block, 1st floor

Venue: Court Room, Senate House, South block, first floor
Time: Monday, 5.15pm

Autumn Term 2011

10 October
Andrew Hadfield (Sussex), Race, religion and the social fabric on the Irish frontier: Edmund Spenser and the politics of family life in late Elizabethan Munster

24 October
Cathryn Enis (Reading), Creating a presence: the earls of Warwick and Leicester in Elizabethan Warwickshire

7 November
Charles Drummond (Cambridge), Haunted by Cromwell? Continuities and discontinuities in anti-Standing Army rhetoric in seventeenth century Britain

AND

John Collins (Univ. of Virginia), The punishment of soldiers during the reign of James II

21 November
Rory Rapple (Notre Dame), High Stakes Gambling: the politics of the late Elizabethan succession and Ireland

Venue: Rooms as announced by each session.
Time: Wednesday, 5.15pm

Website: Seminar Group Homepage

Autumn Term 2011

5 October
Julian Hoppit (University College London), Rethinking the interests of eighteenth-century Britain
Court room, Senate House, South block, first floor

19 October
Francis Boorman (IHR), Chancery Lane: politics, space and the built environment, c.1760-1815
Court room, Senate House, South block, first floor

2 November
Pecha Kucha! Three minute seminars
(Early career researchers present their research)
Senate room, Senate House, South block, first floor

16 November
Emma Griffin (University of East Anglia), Sex and illegitimacy during the long eighteenth century: evidence from working-class autobiographies
Court room, Senate House, South block, first floor

30 November
Richard Ward (Sheffield), Print culture and punishment: the Murder Act of 1752
ST274/5, Stewart House, second floor

14 December
Katrina Navickas (University of Hertfordshire), Space, place, and popular politics in northern England, 1789-1848
Court room, Senate House, South block, first floor

Venue: listed below
Time: Thursday, 5.15pm

In the absence of an IHR tearoom, members of the seminar are invited to gather at the RADA cafe on Malet Street from 4.30pm before each seminar. Following the seminars, everyone will be invited to come along for drinks in a local bar and then for dinner.

Autumn Term 2011

13 October
Gabriel Glickman (Hertford College, Oxford), Christian Reunion, the Anglo-French alliance and the English Catholic imagination 1660-1672
Venue: Bedford Room G37, Senate House, South block, Ground floor

27 October
Kathrin Zickermann (St Andrews / IHR), Scottish merchant families in the early modern period
Venue: Bedford Room G37, Senate House, South block, Ground floor

10 November
Joel Halcomb (Cambridge), The Savoy assembly of 1658: England’s last Puritan church settlement
Venue: Senate/Jessel Room, Senate House, South block, 1st floor

24 November
Ariel Hessayon (Goldsmiths), Jacob Boehme’s writings during the English revolution and afterwards: their publication, dissemination and influence
Venue: Torrington Room 104, Senate House, South block, 1st floor

8 December
Alex Barber (Durham), Scribal news in the age of print
Venue: Torrington Room 104, Senate House, South block, 1st floor