Posted in books, civil war, england, historiography, london, seventeenth century, tagged birkbeck, conference on 17 June 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’ve had a paper accepted for the Birkbeck Early Modern Society conference in July. The full programme can be found here. My paper will be on the pamphlet war that took place between John Taylor and Henry Walker in the summer of 1641. This dispute is quite a celebrated one, not least because of the [...]
Posted in england, london, seventeenth century, tagged builders, diary, foreigners, guild, monopoly, pepys, workmen on 27 May 2008 | No Comments »
I’ve recently bought a bit of a wreck of a house - structurally it’s fine, but there’s very little by way of a kitchen and the decor is straight out of a 1970s B&B. We’re re-doing most of it ourselves but there are various bits that will need builders. All the redecorating has reminded me [...]
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 [...]
Posted in england, london, seventeenth century, tagged history, literature, middle temple, play, shakespeare, staging, theatre, twelfth night on 17 April 2008 | No Comments »
A quick post for now: I was at Middle Temple last weekend for the wedding of two of my friends. Appropriately, it was the twelfth night of the month, since Middle Temple Hall is the first recorded venue for a performance of Twelfth Night. The diary of the law student John Manningham records that on [...]
Posted in books, britain, civil war, england, london, seventeenth century, tagged april fool on 1 April 2008 | 3 Comments »
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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