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Jon Fitzgibbons
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Lecturer in Early Modern History. British Civil Wars, Oliver Cromwell and the memoirs of Bulstrode Whitelocke. British Academy Mid-Career Fellow, 2025-26
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Many congratulations to my colleagues in the Forms of Labour project team on the publication of their new monograph! 🗃️👏🎉

Brilliantly, The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England is available open access:

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A woman’s place was not in the home: New book challenges assumptions about women’s work in early modern history
New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England’s national economy before 1700. Far from being the unpaid homemakers and housewives of traditional historic...
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October 9, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Our collection, Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court: Writing Communities, is being launched! Come and join us (in person at Middle Temple Library or online) at 6.15pm on Tuesday 9 Sept. Email [email protected] for more details. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court
This collection of essays presents recent research on the Inns of Court and their place in the literary and cultural spaces of the early modern world.
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September 1, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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OOOOOOOOH, news of our third Jenny Wormald Lecture has dropped just in time for the weekend. Are you excited? See more information below:

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Scottish Historical Review Trust: The 3rd Annual Jenny Wormald Lecture
Professor Elizabeth Ewan (University Of Guelph): 'Feuding in the Streets? Gender, Crime, and Conflict in Scottish Towns, c. 1500-1600'
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August 29, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Just over two weeks before our CfP closes! Remember to submit your abstracts before Friday 5th September ⚔️
earlymodernwar.bsky.social Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World Conference @earlymodernwar.bsky.social · Jul 7
We are thrilled to announce that the Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World Conference, with a keynote address by Professor Mark Stoyle, will be held on 30-31 October at the University of Exeter.

Please help us spread the world, and consider submitting a proposal!🗡️
Call for papers for the Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World Conference, taking place at the University of Exeter on 30-31 October. We are exploring early modern conflict in all its forms. We particularly seek to unpack the interactions between the more traditional aspects of conflict, such as the political, tactical and strategic, with the more human side of it, including sociocultural approaches that explore experiences, representations and impacts of violence. As such, we particularly welcome proposals that look beyond purely military history and break chronological, geographical and disciplinary boundaries. We welcome proposals for individual papers of up to 20 minutes, or full panels of three to four papers, on any aspect of conflict, war and violence in the early modern period. Speakers might consider, but are not limited to, the following themes: Physical, tactical, operational and strategic aspects of warfare. Martial identities, values and motivations. Notions of gender, race, class and religion. Remembering, (re)imagining and representing violence and/or conflict. The experience of violence, its impact and the everyday at war. Popular allegiance in early modern conflict. Maritime violence and naval warfare. The bureaucracy of conflict, finance and the law. Abstracts of up to 300 words, along with a biographical note, should be sent to earlymodernwar@gmail.com by Friday 5th September.
August 19, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Known as "Smasher Dowsing", William Dowsing was a Puritan iconoclast who 'purged' over 200 churches and Cambridge colleges during the first English Civil War. We've mapped his visits onto a browsable Google Map to give a sense of the scale of his 'work'... earlofmanchesters.co.uk/smashing-chu...
August 14, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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CALL FOR PAPERS!!! The MEMRN Committee are delighted to share the call for papers for our second annual Winter Conference: Fragmented Worlds, Shared Histories.

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We, the committee of the CHASE Medieval and Early Modern Research Network (MEMRN), are overjoyed to announce the return of our Winter Conference this year between the 14th and 16th November. Join us at the University of East Anglia and online for three exciting days of workshops, papers, social events, and adventure through the historic cathedral city of Norwich. We welcome papers on a range of topics within medieval and early modern studies for this interdisciplinary conference, including: * History and politics * Philosophy and theology * Literature, drama, performance culture and music * Latin and vernacular languages * Art history, architecture and archaeology * Manuscript studies and book history For this year's conference, we particularly encourage papers engaging with marginalised histories and communities, global intercultural contact and exchange, or conflict and diplomacy. We invite abstracts of up to 250 words for individual research papers of twenty minutes in length (or 700 words for a panel of three people presenting on a particular subject or sub-theme). The CHASE MEMRN conference remains open to all UK and overseas postgraduates. This includes independent scholars who are unaffiliated at this time. When submitting your abstract, please include your institution (if applicable) and, if from a CHASE-affiliated university institution, whether or not you are directly funded by CHASE. All proposals should be emailed to chasememrn@gmail.com by Friday 12th September with the subject line 'Conference Paper Submission' and your name. Priority will be given to those available to present in-person, but remote presentation applications will also be considered. Please feel free to contact the MEMRN team via email or social media DM with any questions you may have. We look forward to welcoming you to Norwich as part of this proudly CHASE-funded event.
August 5, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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New: 'The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541)' bit.ly/4mtRQgS

The Society's latest Camden volume of primary sources presents the 115 holograph letters of Margaret Tudor. This new edition, by Helen Newsome-Chandler, is an unprecedented epistolary archive 1/2 #Skystorians
The Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots: new Camden volume published - RHS
The Society is very pleased to announced publication of its latest Camden series volume: The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541), edited by Helen Newsome-Chandler. This vol...
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August 6, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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📣Call for Papers 📣

I am delighted to announce that 'Speech/less in the Early Modern World' will be held 23 April 2026 at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge.

Please share far and wide and do consider submitting a proposal! 🙊

Link to PDF version: bit.ly/4lZz80R
August 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Read about some of our findings on Thornton and her four manuscripts in this @ukri.org post on our #AHRC funded project:
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AHRC project sheds light on the life of 17th century memoirist
Research into a manuscript discovered at Durham Cathedral has provided fresh insights on the life of writer and memoirist Alice Thornton thanks to AHRC funding.
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August 7, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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In a new guest article for article for #HistParl, Dr Jonathan Fitzgibbons explores the status of the 'Other House' during Oliver Cromwell's rule, and 1650s experience of House of Lords reform.

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Oliver Cromwell’s ‘Other House’ and the perils of Lords ‘reform’ - The History of Parliament
His wishes were answered in March 1657 when MPs presented Cromwell with a new written constitution, The Humble Petition and Advice, which created an ‘Other
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March 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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New blog for @HistParl - does Oliver Cromwell’s ‘Other House’ offer some lessons for those looking to reform the House of Lords? historyofparliament.com/2025/03/25/o...
Oliver Cromwell’s ‘Other House’ and the perils of Lords ‘reform’ - The History of Parliament
His wishes were answered in March 1657 when MPs presented Cromwell with a new written constitution, The Humble Petition and Advice, which created an ‘Other
historyofparliament.com
March 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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My article on Oliver Cromwell’s voice and the various editions of his writings and speeches is out now in the latest issue of Seventeenth Century doi.org/10.1080/0268...
Oliver Cromwell’s voice
The past two centuries have witnessed the publication of no fewer than three editions of Oliver Cromwell’s writings and utterances. All have approached the problem of recovering and presenting Crom...
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February 28, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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My article on Oliver Cromwell’s voice and the various editions of his writings and speeches is out now in the latest issue of Seventeenth Century doi.org/10.1080/0268...
Oliver Cromwell’s voice
The past two centuries have witnessed the publication of no fewer than three editions of Oliver Cromwell’s writings and utterances. All have approached the problem of recovering and presenting Crom...
doi.org
February 28, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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But why is he so bitter?
February 14, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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If you’re in Newark on 13 Feb, come and hear about Charles I and why he wasn’t all that bad (maybe) palacenewark.com/whats-on/ins...
Instances - Palace Theatre, Newark
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February 5, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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12th century depiction of a ‘hairy star’, thought to be Halley’s Comet - engraved in the west front of Crowland Abbey
January 18, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Cromwell was here, probably! Great to finally visit Crowland Abbey today - highly recommended!
Crowland Abbey, west front
January 17, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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My latest article, available for free in The Seventeenth Century, exploring the merits and potential limitations of the various editions of Oliver Cromwell’s writings and letters (plus a little bit of Bulstrode W) doi.org/10.1080/0268...
Oliver Cromwell’s voice
The past two centuries have witnessed the publication of no fewer than three editions of Oliver Cromwell’s writings and utterances. All have approached the problem of recovering and presenting Crom...
doi.org
January 10, 2025 at 7:24 PM
jrrfitzgibbons.bsky.social
My latest article, available for free in The Seventeenth Century, exploring the merits and potential limitations of the various editions of Oliver Cromwell’s writings and letters (plus a little bit of Bulstrode W) doi.org/10.1080/0268...
Oliver Cromwell’s voice
The past two centuries have witnessed the publication of no fewer than three editions of Oliver Cromwell’s writings and utterances. All have approached the problem of recovering and presenting Crom...
doi.org
January 10, 2025 at 7:24 PM