Writing the History of Parliament in Early Modern England - colloquium programme announced

The History of Parliament is supporting a one-day colloquium, organised by Paul Cavill and Alexandra Gajda through the Centre for Early Modern British and Irish History, to be held on Saturday 20 April, at the Ship Street Centre, Jesus College, Oxford.

It is still possible to register for the colloquium. If you are interested, please contact Paul Cavill at p.r.cavill@leeds.ac.uk.

The programme has now been announced: 

9.00­–9.30 Registration and refreshments

9.30–9.45 Welcome

9.45–10.45 Panel 1 Chair: Dr Hannah Smith (St Hilda’s College, Oxford)

Dr Paul Cavill (Leeds) and Dr Alexandra Gajda (Jesus College, Oxford), ‘How Ancient was the “Ancient Constitution”?’

Prof. Scott Lucas (Citadel), ‘The King’s Reformation or Parliament’s Reformation?: Writing the History of the Reformation Parliament in Edward Hall’s Chronicle

10.45–11.00 Coffee break

11.00–12.30 Panel 2 Chair: Prof. Alan Cromartie (Reading)

Dr Paulina Kewes (Jesus College, Oxford), ‘Parliament and the Succession in Elizabethan England’

Dr Ian Archer (Keble College, Oxford), ‘Holinshed’s Parliaments’

Dr Andy Boyle (St John’s College, Oxford), ‘The English Constitution of Samuel Daniel and His Readers’

12.301.00 Discussion of morning’s papers: chair Alan Cromartie

1.00–2.00 Lunch: served in Hall

2.00–3.30 Panel 3 Chair: Dr Clive Holmes (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford)

Prof. Pauline Croft (Royal Holloway), ‘Sir Robert Cecil, Antiquarianism, and Parliaments’

Mr Simon Healy (History of Parliament), ‘The Significance (and Insignificance) of Precedent in Early Stuart Parliaments’

Dr Noah Millstone (Harvard), ‘The Politic History of Early Stuart Parliaments’

3.30–3.45 Tea break

3.45–4.45 Panel 4 Chair: Prof. Blair Worden (St Edmund Hall, Oxford)

Dr Jason Peacey (University College London), ‘“That Memorable Parliament”: Medieval History in Parliamentarian Polemic, 1641–2’

Dr Paul Seaward (History of Parliament), ‘History, Precedent, and the Structures of Institutional Memory in the House of Commons, 1547–1660’

4.45–5.30 Review by Blair Worden and discussion: chair Clive Holmes