1. God, Duty and
Community in English Economic Life, 1660-1720: 13 (Studies in Early Modern
Cultural, Political and Social History) by Brodie Waddell has been published by
Boydell & Brewer. A review copy has been given to me by them. Brodie’s
blog can be found at http://manyheadedmonster.wordpress.com/
2.
Perspectives on English Revolutionary Republicanism Dirk Wiemann
(Author), Gaby Mahlberg (Author) Published by Ashgate.
3. The
history after Hobsbawm conference speeches etc have been published at
http://historyafterhobsbawm.wordpress.com/. Recordings of plenary lectures by
Gareth Stedman Jones, Chris Wickham, Maxine Berg, Rana Mitter, Peter Bailey,
Catherine Hall, and Geoff Eley. Can be found at the Backdoor Broadcasting
Corporation website http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/
4. My next
blog article will be a critical review of Selina Todd’s The People: The Rise
and Fall of the Working Class, 1910-2010.
5. Friday 23
May: Birkbeck Early Modern Society presents a lecture by Dr Angela McShane, V&A, ‘How Happy’s
the State where no Discord is Breeding?’: the Politipop of Seventeenth Century
England.
6. Ashgate
publishing has just released this important book called Royalists at War in
Scotland and Ireland, 16381650 by Barry Robertson. It is clear from even a
cursory look this is a much needed piece of research on an underwritten about
subject. A review of this book will appear in the not too distant future.
7. Landlords
and Tenants in Britain, 1440-1660: Tawney's Agrarian Problem Revisited (People,
Markets, Goods: Economies and Societies in History)Jane Whittle (Editor) sorry
for the late plug fro this excellent collection of essays. In the not too
distant future I will commence some work at the R H Tawney archive held at the
London School of Economics
8. Tom Reilly
has produced a follow up book to his previously entitled book Cromwell An
Honourable Enermy. His new book is somewhat controversially called Cromwell Was Framed (Ireland 1649) ISBN
978-1-78279-516-2 April 2014. Chronos Books (An imprint of John Hunt
Publishing) the debate has already begun.
