Posted in scotland, seventeenth century, tagged 1680s, burning, charles ii, edinburgh, effigy, pope, protest, student, whig on 21 June 2008 | No Comments »
I’m reading Tim Harris’s wonderful Restoration at the moment, and I just came across a lovely anecdote of some students in Edinburgh plotting to burn an effigy of the pope after a night down the pub.1
There happened to be hanging up in the pub a copper plate showing an engraving of the pope being burned [...]
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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, civil war, england, historiography, review, scotland, seventeenth century, wales, tagged 1640s, book, books, britain, charles i, civil wars, early modern, england, god's fury england's fire, historiography, history, ireland, john pym, michael braddick, oliver cromwell, religion, review, scotland, wales on 28 March 2008 | 3 Comments »
God’s Fury, England’s Fire. A New History of the English Civil Wars.
by Michael Braddick.
London: Penguin Books, 2008.
In the summer of 1642, the bookseller Nathaniel Butter [DNB] put on sale a quarto pamphlet about a strange fish caught at Woolwich. A relation of a terrible monster [EEBO] told the story of a fish shaped like a [...]
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Posted in britain, civil war, england, review, scotland, seventeenth century, tagged 1640, 1641, 1642, civil war, england, english, john adamson, jsa adamson, nobility, noble revolt, peerage, review on 12 July 2007 | 6 Comments »
So, my first post. I haven’t actually started the Masters yet - that has to wait until October - but I thought I’d get into the habit of forcing myself to write, and to collect my thoughts. I’m going to start with a review of John Adamson’s recent book on the politics of the build-up [...]
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