Posted in books, britain, civil war, england, historiography, ireland, scotland, seventeenth century, tagged 1640s, 1650s, books, civil war, england, historiography, history, ireland, oliver cromwell, scotland on 5 June 2008 | No Comments »
Skimming through the Palgrave catalogue, I’ve noticed a couple of books that will be out in December that may be of interest.
The first is a collection edited by John Adamson on the English civil wars. The contributors and essays are:
- Introduction - High Roads and Blind Alleys: The English Civil war and its Historiography: John [...]
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Posted in books, britain, digital history, england, london, seventeenth century, tagged dispute, early modern, geography, google earth, google maps, london, maps, plotting, spatial on 18 April 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’ve recently been trying to map the geography of a pamphlet dispute: where were the authors based, where were their publishers based, where were their books sold? This can restore an often missing dimension - the physical space in which books were written, published and read. In this case, in doing so I’ve been able [...]
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Posted in books, britain, eighteenth century, england, holland, review, tagged early modern, history, seventeenth century, book, review, dutch, going dutch, holland, lisa jardine on 7 April 2008 | 1 Comment »
There was a devastating review by Peter Conrad of Lisa Jardine’s new book on the influence of Holland on early modern English culture in the Observer this weekend . Noel Malcolm in the Telegraph had a slightly softer critique.
However, others seem to have liked Going Dutch better. Peter Ackroyd in the Times and Keith Thomas [...]
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Posted in books, britain, england, historiography, seventeenth century, tagged cambridge, library, vandalism, kenyon, stuart constitution, marginalia, ul, university, cambridge university library, graffiti on 5 April 2008 | 2 Comments »
I have a slightly mixed attitude to graffiti in books. On the one hand, it drives me to distraction when I borrow a library book in which the text has been repeatedly underlined, highlighted or commented on. The worst is finding a book where every single sentence has been underlined. Here’s a good example from [...]
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A couple of days ago, while searching for something else, I found a pamphlet on EEBO called The Character of a Cavaliere, or a Warning Piece to Round-Heads. The woodcut on the right - which seems to have been recycled in a few pamphlets of the early 1640s - shows the eponymous cavalier. Printed in [...]
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