Just under a month to go to get in proposals for the LRS Conference at the National Civil War Centre in Newark. Please share! #cfp #earlymodern royalhistsoc.org/calendar/the...

We're back! Building on the success of our inaugural conference last year, we are delighted to announce its return with the new theme: Beyond the Battlefield🗡️ The conference will take place at the University of Exeter on 2-3 September. Deadline for abstracts is 22 May. Please circulate widely!

Just under a month to go to get in proposals for the LRS Conference at the National Civil War Centre in Newark. Please share! #cfp #earlymodern royalhistsoc.org/calendar/the...

Call for Papers: Revolt of the Provinces? A Conference at the National Civil War Centre in Newark exploring the local impact and legacies of the ‘English’ Civil War(s). Organised by The Lincoln Record Society. Please share! #cfp #earlymodern royalhistsoc.org/calendar/the...

#earlymodern #17thC I'm not on here often, but...my first ever history article is out! It's about the goings-on in 17th C Ashton-under-Lyne. I've been passionate about 17th C history for decades, but it's not my official academic field so I'm very excited :) www.tandfonline.com/eprint/MZICG...

Call for Papers: Revolt of the Provinces? A Conference at the National Civil War Centre in Newark exploring the local impact and legacies of the ‘English’ Civil War(s). Organised by The Lincoln Record Society. Please share! #cfp #earlymodern royalhistsoc.org/calendar/the...

Cromwell Association Research Grants are now available for non-affiliated researchers and post-graduate students researching aspects of Cromwell or the wider history of the 17th Century. For more details of how to apply see olivercromwell.org/wordpress/th.... Deadline: end of April 2026.

Hey! #EarlyModern #SkyStorians: what else do you tell first-years to get them at ease with reading early modern texts? Other than: it's going to be fine; and it's really healthy for you to deal with the lack of immediate transfer of content for a bit.

Updated CfP: Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern 1500-1850 conference: ‘A Continent in Conversation’ @ Aberystwyth University, 11-12 June 2026. Please do check out and share our #CfP. Deadline: 27 February 2026. #Earlymodern #Communication #History

Happy New Year from the IHR Tudor & Stuart seminar! We will be back at the IHR a week today: Monday 19 January, 5:30pm, in-person at the IHR, and on zoom: Holly Brewer (Maryland) @earlymodjustice.bsky.social & Elizabeth Hines (Johns Hopkins): ‘How to Steal the Spanish Silver Fleet’. All welcome!

The ‘puritan’ MP Bulstrode Whitelocke went home on 24 December 1651 to be ‘merry’ with family and friends ‘in this time of Christmas’. It’s not clear if he broke off his celebrations to attend the House of Commons on 25 Dec.

Many congratulations to my colleagues in the Forms of Labour project team on the publication of their new monograph! 🗃️👏🎉 Brilliantly, The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England is available open access: www.cambridge.org/core/books/e... news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

Our collection, Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court: Writing Communities, is being launched! Come and join us (in person at Middle Temple Library or online) at 6.15pm on Tuesday 9 Sept. Email [email protected] for more details. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

OOOOOOOOH, news of our third Jenny Wormald Lecture has dropped just in time for the weekend. Are you excited? See more information below: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scottish-h...

Just over two weeks before our CfP closes! Remember to submit your abstracts before Friday 5th September ⚔️

Known as "Smasher Dowsing", William Dowsing was a Puritan iconoclast who 'purged' over 200 churches and Cambridge colleges during the first English Civil War. We've mapped his visits onto a browsable Google Map to give a sense of the scale of his 'work'... earlofmanchesters.co.uk/smashing-chu...

CALL FOR PAPERS!!! The MEMRN Committee are delighted to share the call for papers for our second annual Winter Conference: Fragmented Worlds, Shared Histories. Please share widely! Sponsored by @chase-dtp.bsky.social

New: 'The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541)' bit.ly/4mtRQgS The Society's latest Camden volume of primary sources presents the 115 holograph letters of Margaret Tudor. This new edition, by Helen Newsome-Chandler, is an unprecedented epistolary archive 1/2 #Skystorians

📣Call for Papers 📣 I am delighted to announce that 'Speech/less in the Early Modern World' will be held 23 April 2026 at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge. Please share far and wide and do consider submitting a proposal! 🙊 Link to PDF version: bit.ly/4lZz80R

Read about some of our findings on Thornton and her four manuscripts in this @ukri.org post on our #AHRC funded project: www.ukri.org/news/ahrc-pr...

In a new guest article for article for #HistParl, Dr Jonathan Fitzgibbons explores the status of the 'Other House' during Oliver Cromwell's rule, and 1650s experience of House of Lords reform. historyofparliament.com/2025/03/25/o...

New blog for @HistParl - does Oliver Cromwell’s ‘Other House’ offer some lessons for those looking to reform the House of Lords? historyofparliament.com/2025/03/25/o...

My article on Oliver Cromwell’s voice and the various editions of his writings and speeches is out now in the latest issue of Seventeenth Century doi.org/10.1080/0268...

My article on Oliver Cromwell’s voice and the various editions of his writings and speeches is out now in the latest issue of Seventeenth Century doi.org/10.1080/0268...

But why is he so bitter?

If you’re in Newark on 13 Feb, come and hear about Charles I and why he wasn’t all that bad (maybe) palacenewark.com/whats-on/ins...

12th century depiction of a ‘hairy star’, thought to be Halley’s Comet - engraved in the west front of Crowland Abbey

Cromwell was here, probably! Great to finally visit Crowland Abbey today - highly recommended!

My latest article, available for free in The Seventeenth Century, exploring the merits and potential limitations of the various editions of Oliver Cromwell’s writings and letters (plus a little bit of Bulstrode W) doi.org/10.1080/0268...

My latest article, available for free in The Seventeenth Century, exploring the merits and potential limitations of the various editions of Oliver Cromwell’s writings and letters (plus a little bit of Bulstrode W) doi.org/10.1080/0268...