2023-2024
October 6, 2023
Steve Hindle, Washington University in St. Louis
“Social Reproduction in an Industrializing Village, c. 1680–1780”
November 15, 2023
Vanessa Wilkie, Huntington Library
Special Book Event: Women of Influence: The Spectacular Rise of Alice Spencer in Tudor England
December 2, 2023
Rachel Weil, Cornell University
“The Murder of Thomas Brown, and other Tales of Prisoners seeking Reform in London’s Fleet Prison”
January 20, 2024
Holly Brewer, University of Maryland
“Creating a fashion for slavery in the English court(s)”
April 6, 2024
James Daybell, Plymouth University
“Letters, Emotions and the Experience of Separation in the Early Modern World”
2022-2023
October 1, 2022
Andy Wood, Durham University
“Work and Social Relations in Early Modern England”
October 22, 2022
Kevin Dawson, University of California, Merced
“Waterscapes and Wet Bodies: Beach Culture in Atlantic Africa and the Diaspora, 1444-1888”
January 28, 2023
Abigail Swingen, Texas Tech University
“Taxation, Popular Politics, and the State in Late Stuart England”
March 4, 2023
Catherine Richardson, University of Kent
“Material Practices, Varied Locations: The Surprisingly Elaborate Cultures of the Early Modern English Middling Sort”
May 6, 2023
Michelle Brock, Washington & Lee University
“‘Much witcherie up and downe our land’: witch-hunting in Covenanted Scotland”
2021-2022
Saturday, February 5, 2022
Karin Amundsen, Huntington Fellow
“From Brass I Will Bring Gold: Metals, Mad Exchanges, and the Dissolution of the Virginia Company”
Huntington Library
Saturday, February 26, 2022
Deborah Valenze, Barnard College
“Malthus and the Noble Savage: Categories of Human Difference and Population History.”
Huntington Library
Saturday, March 19, 2022
Paul D. Halliday, University of Virginia
“Mixing Media, Enclosing Spaces: Law’s Containers, in England and Empire.”
Online
RESCHEDULED
Catherine Richardson, University of Kent
2020-2021
Saturday, October 31, 2020
Jonathan Eacott, University of California Riverside
“Elephant and Castle:Pachyderm Politics in Early Modern England”
Online
Saturday, December 5, 2020
Amy Watson, University of Alabama
“A Patriot Colony: Party Politics in the Origins of Georgia, 1729-1743”
Online
Saturday, March 27, 2021
Chris Kyle, Syracuse University
“The Visible State: Proclamations in Early Modern England”
Online
Saturday, April 10, 2021
James Davey, University of Exeter
“A Tale of Two Sailors: Loyalism and Sedition in Britain’s Age of Revolution”
Online
Canceled
Catherine Richardson, University of Kent, Mary Robertson Fellow at the Huntington Library
2019-2020
Saturday, September 28, 2019
Nicholas Popper, College of William and Mary
“The Specter of the State: Archives and Political Practice in Early Modern Britain”
Huntington Library
Saturday, October 26, 2019
Amy Froide, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
“Eighteenth-Century England’s Charitable Corporation: A Cautionary Tale of Microlending, Financial Fraud, and Government Bailouts”
Huntington Library
Saturday, January 18, 2020
Diarmaid MacCulloch, University of Oxford
Mary Robertson Fellow in Tudor History at the Huntington Library
“Matters Overlooked: Straightening Out the Story of the English Reformation”
Huntington Library
Saturday, February 22, 2020
Andrea McKenzie, University of Victoria
“Secret Writing and the Popish Plot: Deciphering the Shorthand of Sir George Treby and Bishop William Lloyd, c.1678-1688”
Huntington Library
Saturday, March 14, 2020
Chris Kyle, Syracuse University
“The Visible State: Proclamations in Early Modern England”
Canceled (COVID)
Saturday, April 4, 2020
Amy Watson, University of Southern California
“A Patriot Colony: Party Politics in the Origins of Georgia, 1729-43”
Canceled (COVID)
2018-2019
Saturday, September 22, 2018
Naomi Tadmor, Lancaster University
“The settlement of the poor and the fiscal-military state c. 1660-1780”
Huntington Library
Saturday, October 20, 2018
Vanessa Wilkie, Huntington Library
“Reading Images: The Heraldic and Emblematic Manuscript Culture of Early Modern England”
Huntington Library
Saturday, November 10, 2018
Kevin Siena, Trent University
“Plague, Memory, and the Plebeian Body in the Long 18th Century”
Huntington Library
Saturday, December 1, 2018
Steven Pincus, University of Chicago
“Thinking the Empire Whole: An Agenda for the History of the British Empire to 1784”
Huntington Library
Saturday, January 26, 2019
Diarmaid MacCulloch, University of Oxford
EVENT CANCELED
Saturday, February 23, 2019
Will Cavert, University of St. Thomas
“The Great Hedgehog Massacre: Vermin Bounties and the State in Early Modern England”
Huntington Library
Saturday, March 30, 2019
Lori Anne Ferrell, Claremont Graduate University
“How The Parker Society Got Its Name: the invention of ‘Anglicanism’ in 19th c. Britain”
Huntington Library
2017-2018
Saturday, October 21, 2017
Susannah Ottaway, Carleton College
“A ‘Failure Ludicrous in Its Completeness’? Putting the Right Spin on the Workhouse”
Huntington Library
Saturday, November 11, 2017
Lisa Cody, Claremont McKenna College
“The Problem with Marriage in the Long Eighteenth Century”
Huntington Library
Saturday, January 27, 2018
Leah Astbury, University of Cambridge
“‘Multiplying in the World’: Fertility and the Early Modern English Home”
Huntington Library
Saturday, February 17, 2018
James Delbourgo, Rutgers University
“The Origins of Public Museums: Hans Sloane’s Collections and Creation of the British Museum”
Huntington Library
Saturday, April 21, 2018
Markku Peltonen, University of Helsinki
“The Republican Moment of the English Revolution”
Huntington Library
Saturday, June 2, 2018
Alexandra Walsham, University of Cambridge
“Blood and Trees: Ancestry and Genealogy in England’s Long Reformation”
Huntington Library
2016-2017
Saturday, October 1, 2016
Margo Todd, University of Pennsylvania
“‘Ane holpe to Chrystis puir’: Relieving the Destitute in an Early Modern Scottish Town”
Huntington Library
Saturday, October 29, 2016
Ted McCormick, Concordia University
“Multitudes before Population: Demographic Thinking in Tudor England”
Huntington Library
Saturday, December 10, 2016
Philip J. Stern, Duke University
“Empire, Incorporated: Companies, Colonialism, and the Early Modernity of the Modern British World”
Huntington Library
Saturday, February 18, 2017
Keith D. Pluymers, Howard E. and Susanne C. Jessen Postdoctoral Instructor in the Humanities, Caltech
“Constructing Scarcity: The Political Ecology of Wood in Early Modern Ireland”
Huntington Library
Saturday, March 11, 2017
Greg Walker, University of Edinburgh
“Complaining about the We[a]ther: John Heywood, Thomas More, and Henry VIII’s Reformation Parliament”
Huntington Library
Saturday, April 1, 2017
Tawny Paul, Exeter University
“Accounting for Failure: The Debtor’s Prison and the Decayed Tradesman in Eighteenth-Century Britain”
Huntington Library
2015-2016
Saturday, September 26, 2015
Alex Shepard, University of Glasgow
“Minding their own Business: Married Women and Credit in Early Eighteenth-Century London”
Huntington Library
Friday, October 2, 2015
Mesrob Vartavarian, University of Southern California
“Reorienting Global History: Lecture in Memoriam Sir Christopher A. Bayly”
Huntington Library
Saturday, October 31, 2015
Felicity Heal, University of Oxford
“The Only Anglican in Essex? Richard Stonley–Embezzlement and Belief in Elizabethan England?”
Huntington Library
Saturday, January 16, 2016
Katherine Grandjean, Wellesley College
“Paper Pilgrims: Letter Writing and Communication in the Early Modern British World”
Lindsay O’Neill, University of Southern California
“Paper Pilgrims: Letter Writing and Communication in the Early Modern British World”
Huntington Library
Saturday, March 26, 2016
Norman Jones, Utah State University
“Unraveling Lord Burghley’s Religion”
Huntington Library
Saturday, April 9, 2016
Amanda Herbert, Christopher Newport University
“In Quest After Health: Spa Cures in the British Atlantic, 1600-1800”
Huntington Library
2014-2015
Saturday, September 13, 2014
Susan Brigden, University of Oxford
“Reading Romance at the Court of Henry VIII”
Huntington Library
Saturday, October 25, 2014
Tim Harris, Brown University
“Was there such a thing as ‘British public opinion’ in the 17th Century?”
Huntington Library
Saturday, November 22, 2014
Matthew Kadane, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
“Pentecost Barker and the Path to Enlightenment”
Huntington Library
Monday, December 15, 2014
Steve Pincus, Yale University
“The Stamp Act in Global Context”
Huntington Library
Saturday, February 7, 2015
Sears McGee, University of California, Santa Barbara
“The Merry Wives of D’Ewes: Sex and Two Single Puritan Girls in Early Stuart England”
Huntington Library
Saturday, March 21, 2015
Brent Sirota, North Carolina State University
“Robert Nelson’s Festivals and Fasts and the Problem of Sacrilege in Eighteenth Century England”
Huntington Library
Saturday, April 11, 2015
Amanda Vickery, Queen Mary, University of London
“Sartorial Conformity & the Moral Politics of Fashion in 18th century England”
Huntington Library
2013-2014
Saturday, September 7, 2013
Isaac Stephens, Saginaw Valley State University, Michigan
“Playing the Martyr and Martyrologist: Thomas Swadlin in Stuart London”
Huntington Library
October 26, 2013
David Cressy, Ohio State University
“Trouble with Gypsies in Tudor England”
Huntington Library
Friday-Saturday, February 14-15, 2014
Program in Tudor History in Honor of Mary Robertson
Steven Gunn, Merton College, Oxford
“Work, Leisure, and Accidental Death in Tudor England”
Neil Younger, University of Essex
“The Confessional State and the Political Nation in Elizabethan England”
Alison Wiggins, University of Glasgow
“Bess of Hardwick’s Letters From Script to Screen (Or, the opportunities and implications of editing women’s letters online)”
Huntington Library
April 12, 2014
Rupali Mishra, Auburn University
“Corporate Espionage: The East Indies Ambitions of Charles I”
Huntington Library
2012-2013
Saturday, September 8, 2012
Krista Kesselring, Dalhousie University
“‘That Saucie Paradox’: The Politics of Duelling in Early Modern England”
Huntington Library
October 27, 2012
Derek Hirst, Washington University, St. Louis
“Imperial instincts in later seventeenth century England”
Huntington Library
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Eleanor Hubbard, Princeton University
“Staging Conflict: Sailors, Pirates, and Merchants in the Early Seventeenth Century”
Huntington Library
February 23, 2013
Jennifer Andersen, Cal State San Bernardino
“Red Herrings in Nashe Criticism: Patronage, Copia, and Generic Play”
Huntington Library
Saturday, April 6, 2013
Christopher Brooks, University of Durham
“Through the looking glass: law and revolution in England 1640-1660”
Huntington Library
2011-2012
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Steve Hindle, Huntington Library
“Work, Reward and Labor Discipline in late Seventeenth Century England”
Huntington Library
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Karen Britland, University of Wisconsin
“Elizabeth Cary, family networks, and the publication of The Tragedy of Mariam“
Huntington Library
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Heather James, USC
“Bison Hamlet”
Huntington Library
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Ian Archer, Oxford
“Networks of Charity in Elizabethan England”
Huntington Library
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Barbara Donagan, Huntington Library
“Kin, friends, and others: civil war and the social commonwealth”
Huntington Library
Saturday, April 7, 2012
Noah Millstone, Harvard
“Manuscript Circulation and Parliament: Rethinking the Political Texts of the Early Stuart Era”
Huntington Library
2010-2011
Saturday, September 25, 2011
Eric Carlson, Gustavus Adolphus College
“The Seven Deadly Sins in the English Post-Reformation”
Huntington Library
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Laura Gowing, King’s College, University of London
“The Manner of Submission: Gender, Gesture and Demeanour in Early Modern London”
Huntington Library
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Chris Kyle, Syracuse University
“Let’s kill all the lawyers: Parliamentary Management and the Fall of Lord Chancellor Bacon”
Huntington Library
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Linda Levy Peck, George Washington University
“The Three Sisters: Marriage, Money, Mobility, and Agency in Late Seventeenth-Century England”
Huntington Library
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Debora Shuger, University of California, Los Angeles
“The girls of Little Gidding: a forgotten masterpiece of radical feminism”
Huntington Library
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Michael Questier, Queen Mary, University of London
Huntington Library
2009-2010
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Paul Hammer, University of Colorado
“The Popish Plot of 1601 (by ‘the darling of the puritans’)”
Saturday, October 31, 2009
One Day Symposium: “1688”
Organizer: Steven Pincus, Yale University
Panelists:
Robert Brenner, UCLA
John Brewer, Caltech
David Como, Stanford University
Rachel Weil, Cornell University
John Wills, USC
Songs from the 1689 London Popery Collection
Jeanne McDougall, USC and Adam Knight Gilbert, USC
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Lindsay O’Neill, USC
“Speaking Letters, Stirring News and the Wider British World, 1660-1760”
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Susan Amussen, University of California, Merced
“Restoring Miranda: Gender and the Early Modern Atlantic World”
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Alistair Bellany, Rutgers University
“Adonis, Ganymede and the Duke of Fuckingham: Art, Sex and Libel in the 1620s”
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Cyndia Clegg, Pepperdine University
“Star Chamber Secrets”
2008-2009
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Rebecca Lemon, USC
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Keith Wrightson, Yale University
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Shannon McSheffrey, Concordia University
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Paul Hammer, University of Colorado
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Julia Merritt, University of Nottingham
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Amy Froide, University of Maryland, Baltimore
2007-2008
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Ann Hughes, University of Keele
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Barbara Shapiro, University of California, Berkeley
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Joseph Block, Cal Poly Pomona
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Frances Dolan, University of California, Davis
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Eric Carlson, Gustavus Adolphus
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Polly Ha, Cambridge/USC
2006-2007
September 16, 2006
Peter Lake, Vanderbilt University
November 4, 2006
Stefania Tutino, University of California, Santa Barbara
January 20, 2007
Anthony Parr, University of the Western Cape
February 10, 2007
Alexandra Walsham, University of Exeter
April 21, 2007
Cynthia Herrup, University of Southern California
May 5, 2007
David Armitage, Harvard University
2005-2006
Saturday, September 10, 2005
“Cultures of War in Early Modern Britain: A Conference Honoring Barbara Donagan”
Jason Peacey, Institute for Historical Research
David Cressy, Ohio State University
Paul Hammer, University of St. Andrews
Ian Gentles, York University
Mark Kishlansky, Harvard University
Saturday, November 19, 2005
David Como, Stanford University
Saturday, January 21, 2006
Paul Seaver, Stanford University
Saturday, February 18, 2006
Deborah Harkness, USC
Saturday, April 29, 2006
Kenneth Fincham, University of Kent, Canterbury
Saturday, May 20, 2006
Thomas Cogswell, University of California, Riverside
2003-2004
September 20, 2003
Paulina Kewes, Jesus College, Oxford
“History and Civic Pageantry in Renaissance England”
October 18, 2003
David Cressy, The Ohio State University
“The Lambeth Disturbances, or the Insurrection of May 1640”
November 15, 2003
Jean Howard, Columbia University
“Staging Commercial London at the Royal Exchange: Drama and Society in Elizabethan and Jacobean London”
November 15, 2003
Sears McGee, University of California, Santa Barbara
“Sir Simonds D’Ewes and ‘The Poitovin Cholick’: Persecution, Toleration, and the Mind of a Puritan Member of the Long Parliament”
January 17, 2004
Anita Guerrini, University of California, Santa Barbara
February 14, 2004
Keith Wrightson, Yale University
March 6, 2004
David Hall, Harvard University
“The Past and Future of Puritan Studies”
April 17, 2004
Ann Hughes, University of Keele
May 15, 2004
Steven Pincus, University of Chicago
