IHR Tudor and Stuart Seminar
@tudorstuartseminar.bsky.social
Seminars on British history c. 1500-1650. 5.30pm on Mondays at the IHR, London, and online. All welcome!
Join out mailing list: tudorstuart.seminar@gmail.com
Join out mailing list: tudorstuart.seminar@gmail.com
Update: all of this term's sessions can now be booked at the link below.
And a correction to the title of next Monday's paper, which is:
'Treasure Islands: Charles I, the English Empire, War, Death, and a Map'.
All welcome, we hope to see you there!
And a correction to the title of next Monday's paper, which is:
'Treasure Islands: Charles I, the English Empire, War, Death, and a Map'.
All welcome, we hope to see you there!
January 13, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Update: all of this term's sessions can now be booked at the link below.
And a correction to the title of next Monday's paper, which is:
'Treasure Islands: Charles I, the English Empire, War, Death, and a Map'.
All welcome, we hope to see you there!
And a correction to the title of next Monday's paper, which is:
'Treasure Islands: Charles I, the English Empire, War, Death, and a Map'.
All welcome, we hope to see you there!
Oh, very sorry! Will correct in future posts.
January 12, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Oh, very sorry! Will correct in future posts.
16 March: Mark Wilson, ‘Certein Newes before Parliament: Foreign Policy, Parliament and Propaganda in 1576’
AND
Elvira Tamus @elviratamus.bsky.social, ‘Envoys in London: Connecting English interests and anti-Habsburg diplomacy in the context of European geopolitics, 1528-1540’.
AND
Elvira Tamus @elviratamus.bsky.social, ‘Envoys in London: Connecting English interests and anti-Habsburg diplomacy in the context of European geopolitics, 1528-1540’.
January 12, 2026 at 4:56 PM
16 March: Mark Wilson, ‘Certein Newes before Parliament: Foreign Policy, Parliament and Propaganda in 1576’
AND
Elvira Tamus @elviratamus.bsky.social, ‘Envoys in London: Connecting English interests and anti-Habsburg diplomacy in the context of European geopolitics, 1528-1540’.
AND
Elvira Tamus @elviratamus.bsky.social, ‘Envoys in London: Connecting English interests and anti-Habsburg diplomacy in the context of European geopolitics, 1528-1540’.
16 February: Daniel Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social, ‘Law and Litigation in the reign of Elizabeth I: new descriptions, new perspectives’.
2 March: Tim Reinke-Williams, ‘Xenophobia and Masculinity in English Jestbooks, c.1600-40’.
2 March: Tim Reinke-Williams, ‘Xenophobia and Masculinity in English Jestbooks, c.1600-40’.
January 12, 2026 at 4:56 PM
16 February: Daniel Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social, ‘Law and Litigation in the reign of Elizabeth I: new descriptions, new perspectives’.
2 March: Tim Reinke-Williams, ‘Xenophobia and Masculinity in English Jestbooks, c.1600-40’.
2 March: Tim Reinke-Williams, ‘Xenophobia and Masculinity in English Jestbooks, c.1600-40’.
The rest of our programme for the term is:
2 February: Sam Zeitin, ‘"The Wicked daily doe enlarge their Bands": Francis Bacon's Translation of Certaine Psalmes, 1624-1625’.
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2 February: Sam Zeitin, ‘"The Wicked daily doe enlarge their Bands": Francis Bacon's Translation of Certaine Psalmes, 1624-1625’.
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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!
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!
January 12, 2026 at 4:56 PM
The rest of our programme for the term is:
2 February: Sam Zeitin, ‘"The Wicked daily doe enlarge their Bands": Francis Bacon's Translation of Certaine Psalmes, 1624-1625’.
(cont.)
2 February: Sam Zeitin, ‘"The Wicked daily doe enlarge their Bands": Francis Bacon's Translation of Certaine Psalmes, 1624-1625’.
(cont.)
... and the Western Design. This research shows that early imperial strategy crossed boundaries between states in unexpected ways.
January 12, 2026 at 4:47 PM
... and the Western Design. This research shows that early imperial strategy crossed boundaries between states in unexpected ways.
... followed one specific set of instructions, obtained by Prince Charles and the Duke of Buckingham in Spain in 1623. We propose that they facilitated ventures including Buckingham and Gustavus Adolphus's treaty for a new West India Company, Piet Heyn's capture of the Spanish silver fleet, ...
January 12, 2026 at 4:47 PM
... followed one specific set of instructions, obtained by Prince Charles and the Duke of Buckingham in Spain in 1623. We propose that they facilitated ventures including Buckingham and Gustavus Adolphus's treaty for a new West India Company, Piet Heyn's capture of the Spanish silver fleet, ...
NB online booking is not available yet but will be very soon here.
Abstract: What do you do if you want to steal the Spanish silver fleet, find a gold mine, and take over Jamaica? This paper argues that a variety of imperial projects in the seventeenth century, previously thought unconnected, ...
Abstract: What do you do if you want to steal the Spanish silver fleet, find a gold mine, and take over Jamaica? This paper argues that a variety of imperial projects in the seventeenth century, previously thought unconnected, ...
Tudor & Stuart History
Seminar
www.history.ac.uk
January 12, 2026 at 4:47 PM
NB online booking is not available yet but will be very soon here.
Abstract: What do you do if you want to steal the Spanish silver fleet, find a gold mine, and take over Jamaica? This paper argues that a variety of imperial projects in the seventeenth century, previously thought unconnected, ...
Abstract: What do you do if you want to steal the Spanish silver fleet, find a gold mine, and take over Jamaica? This paper argues that a variety of imperial projects in the seventeenth century, previously thought unconnected, ...
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!
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!
January 12, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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!
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!
As we can assume that the mills had a monopoly of grinding grain in the town, we can use the mill accounts to estimate the volume of grain passing through the town’s markets and being consumed in the town and so we can generate indirect figures of the scale of the harvest shortfall in these years.
November 24, 2025 at 12:15 PM
As we can assume that the mills had a monopoly of grinding grain in the town, we can use the mill accounts to estimate the volume of grain passing through the town’s markets and being consumed in the town and so we can generate indirect figures of the scale of the harvest shortfall in these years.
... including the identity of their customers and their profitability to the earl. But it will be shown how the data can be used to generate figures for weekly, monthly and yearly volumes of grain passing through the mills. This gives us a new way of looking at the crisis of 1585-7 in the North....
November 24, 2025 at 12:15 PM
... including the identity of their customers and their profitability to the earl. But it will be shown how the data can be used to generate figures for weekly, monthly and yearly volumes of grain passing through the mills. This gives us a new way of looking at the crisis of 1585-7 in the North....
... obscure.
The discovery of a decade’s worth of continuous mill accounts from the earl of Shrewsbury’s corn mills at Sheffield therefore opens up the subject. These yield just short of 17,000 individual transactions. The paper will describe a number of aspects of the mills, ...
The discovery of a decade’s worth of continuous mill accounts from the earl of Shrewsbury’s corn mills at Sheffield therefore opens up the subject. These yield just short of 17,000 individual transactions. The paper will describe a number of aspects of the mills, ...
November 24, 2025 at 12:15 PM
... obscure.
The discovery of a decade’s worth of continuous mill accounts from the earl of Shrewsbury’s corn mills at Sheffield therefore opens up the subject. These yield just short of 17,000 individual transactions. The paper will describe a number of aspects of the mills, ...
The discovery of a decade’s worth of continuous mill accounts from the earl of Shrewsbury’s corn mills at Sheffield therefore opens up the subject. These yield just short of 17,000 individual transactions. The paper will describe a number of aspects of the mills, ...
Grain mills are something of a mystery in early modern England. A great deal is known about medieval mills, manorial accounts having formed a rich source for medieval economic historians such as Holt and Langdon. But there are no equivalents in early modern England and mills are correspondingly ...
November 24, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Grain mills are something of a mystery in early modern England. A great deal is known about medieval mills, manorial accounts having formed a rich source for medieval economic historians such as Holt and Langdon. But there are no equivalents in early modern England and mills are correspondingly ...
Just a reminder about our seminar tonight:
Richard Hoyle (Reading): 'Harvest variability in the 1580s: volume and prices at the mills of the earl of Shrewsbury in Sheffield (Yorkshire), 1578-1588'
Book here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
All welcome, in-person or online.
Abstract below.
Richard Hoyle (Reading): 'Harvest variability in the 1580s: volume and prices at the mills of the earl of Shrewsbury in Sheffield (Yorkshire), 1578-1588'
Book here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
All welcome, in-person or online.
Abstract below.
Harvest variability in the 1580s: volume and prices at the mills of the earl of Shrewsbury in Sheffield (Yorkshire), 1578-1588
www.history.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Just a reminder about our seminar tonight:
Richard Hoyle (Reading): 'Harvest variability in the 1580s: volume and prices at the mills of the earl of Shrewsbury in Sheffield (Yorkshire), 1578-1588'
Book here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
All welcome, in-person or online.
Abstract below.
Richard Hoyle (Reading): 'Harvest variability in the 1580s: volume and prices at the mills of the earl of Shrewsbury in Sheffield (Yorkshire), 1578-1588'
Book here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
All welcome, in-person or online.
Abstract below.
especially on their treatments of the fall of Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, in 1599-1601, an event that exercises them not only in itself but as a symptom of a wider crisis of politics and society.
October 12, 2025 at 7:49 PM
especially on their treatments of the fall of Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, in 1599-1601, an event that exercises them not only in itself but as a symptom of a wider crisis of politics and society.
Abstract: Because the historian William Camden is studied by historians, and the poet and dramatist Samuel Daniel by literary critics, the intimate literary partnership between them has been missed. A grasp of it gives us fresh perspectives on the writings of both men, ...
October 12, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Abstract: Because the historian William Camden is studied by historians, and the poet and dramatist Samuel Daniel by literary critics, the intimate literary partnership between them has been missed. A grasp of it gives us fresh perspectives on the writings of both men, ...
A reminder about our seminar tomorrow:
Blair Worden (Oxford): 'History, The Playhouse, and the Fall of the Earl of Essex: The Literary Partnership of William Camden and Samuel Daniel'.
5.30pm, all welcome, book to attend either online or in person here:
Blair Worden (Oxford): 'History, The Playhouse, and the Fall of the Earl of Essex: The Literary Partnership of William Camden and Samuel Daniel'.
5.30pm, all welcome, book to attend either online or in person here:
History, The Playhouse, and the Fall of the Earl of Essex: The Literary Partnership of William Camden and Samuel Daniel
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October 12, 2025 at 7:48 PM
A reminder about our seminar tomorrow:
Blair Worden (Oxford): 'History, The Playhouse, and the Fall of the Earl of Essex: The Literary Partnership of William Camden and Samuel Daniel'.
5.30pm, all welcome, book to attend either online or in person here:
Blair Worden (Oxford): 'History, The Playhouse, and the Fall of the Earl of Essex: The Literary Partnership of William Camden and Samuel Daniel'.
5.30pm, all welcome, book to attend either online or in person here:
Just a reminder about our first seminar of the new academic year TODAY at 5.30. You can still book to attend in-person or online at the link below. All welcome!
The IHR Tudor and Stuart seminar has joined Bluesky! Please follow and RT!
Our programme for the year is starting NEXT WEEK on Monday 29 September with Alison Knight @aeknight.bsky.social speaking on 'Certificates of Religion: Early Modern Belief on Paper'.
Online and in-person, 5.30pm
Book here:
Our programme for the year is starting NEXT WEEK on Monday 29 September with Alison Knight @aeknight.bsky.social speaking on 'Certificates of Religion: Early Modern Belief on Paper'.
Online and in-person, 5.30pm
Book here:
Certificates of Religion: Early Modern Belief on Paper
www.history.ac.uk
September 29, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Just a reminder about our first seminar of the new academic year TODAY at 5.30. You can still book to attend in-person or online at the link below. All welcome!
8 December Jacob Deacon & Rob Runacres, panel on ‘The Politics of Martial Education in Tudor and Stuart Britain’.
All welcome!
All welcome!
September 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
8 December Jacob Deacon & Rob Runacres, panel on ‘The Politics of Martial Education in Tudor and Stuart Britain’.
All welcome!
All welcome!
10 November Clare Egan, ‘Libel Performance and Legal Literacies in the Early Seventeenth-Century English Provinces'
24 November Richard Hoyle, ‘Harvest variability in the 1580s: volume and prices at the mills of the earl of Shrewsbury in Sheffield (Yorkshire), 1578-1588’
24 November Richard Hoyle, ‘Harvest variability in the 1580s: volume and prices at the mills of the earl of Shrewsbury in Sheffield (Yorkshire), 1578-1588’
September 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
10 November Clare Egan, ‘Libel Performance and Legal Literacies in the Early Seventeenth-Century English Provinces'
24 November Richard Hoyle, ‘Harvest variability in the 1580s: volume and prices at the mills of the earl of Shrewsbury in Sheffield (Yorkshire), 1578-1588’
24 November Richard Hoyle, ‘Harvest variability in the 1580s: volume and prices at the mills of the earl of Shrewsbury in Sheffield (Yorkshire), 1578-1588’
The rest of the term looks like this (all sessions now bookable at the link below):
13 October Blair Worden, ‘History, the Playhouse, and the Fall of the Earl of Essex: The Literary Partnership of William Camden and Samuel Daniel’
27 October Sean Bottomley, ‘Wardship in England, 1513-1642’
13 October Blair Worden, ‘History, the Playhouse, and the Fall of the Earl of Essex: The Literary Partnership of William Camden and Samuel Daniel’
27 October Sean Bottomley, ‘Wardship in England, 1513-1642’
Tudor & Stuart History
Seminar
www.history.ac.uk
September 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The rest of the term looks like this (all sessions now bookable at the link below):
13 October Blair Worden, ‘History, the Playhouse, and the Fall of the Earl of Essex: The Literary Partnership of William Camden and Samuel Daniel’
27 October Sean Bottomley, ‘Wardship in England, 1513-1642’
13 October Blair Worden, ‘History, the Playhouse, and the Fall of the Earl of Essex: The Literary Partnership of William Camden and Samuel Daniel’
27 October Sean Bottomley, ‘Wardship in England, 1513-1642’
The IHR Tudor and Stuart seminar has joined Bluesky! Please follow and RT!
Our programme for the year is starting NEXT WEEK on Monday 29 September with Alison Knight @aeknight.bsky.social speaking on 'Certificates of Religion: Early Modern Belief on Paper'.
Online and in-person, 5.30pm
Book here:
Our programme for the year is starting NEXT WEEK on Monday 29 September with Alison Knight @aeknight.bsky.social speaking on 'Certificates of Religion: Early Modern Belief on Paper'.
Online and in-person, 5.30pm
Book here:
Certificates of Religion: Early Modern Belief on Paper
www.history.ac.uk
September 22, 2025 at 1:06 PM
The IHR Tudor and Stuart seminar has joined Bluesky! Please follow and RT!
Our programme for the year is starting NEXT WEEK on Monday 29 September with Alison Knight @aeknight.bsky.social speaking on 'Certificates of Religion: Early Modern Belief on Paper'.
Online and in-person, 5.30pm
Book here:
Our programme for the year is starting NEXT WEEK on Monday 29 September with Alison Knight @aeknight.bsky.social speaking on 'Certificates of Religion: Early Modern Belief on Paper'.
Online and in-person, 5.30pm
Book here: