I began this blog when I was doing an MA in early modern history at Birkbeck. The MA is now done, but the blog has remained as an outlet for my interest in the early modern period. My current research interest is the life of the pamphleteer and preacher Henry Walker.
1 May 2013
The Perne and Ward Libraries is a new blog about the libraries at Peterhouse, Cambridge. The Perne is one of the secret wonders of Cambridge. Based around the bequest left to the college...
18 February 2013
Today is the anniversary of the birth of Edward Hyde, first Earl of Clarendon: adviser to Charles I and Lord Chancellor under Charles II, and author of the History of the Rebellion...
22 December 2012
Westminster Hall on the first day of the legal year circa 1750, when the hall was still a courtroom: The same view yesterday, the day after Parliament rose for the Christmas break: First...