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Helps scholars to examine historical press censorship in England.
This title draws together around 500 texts, reaching across 140
years from the rigours of the Elizabethan Star Chamber Decree to
the publication of "Cato's Letters", which famously advanced
principles of free speech.
Helps scholars to examine historical press censorship in England.
This title draws together around 500 texts, reaching across 140
years from the rigours of the Elizabethan Star Chamber Decree to
the publication of "Cato's Letters", which famously advanced
principles of free speech.
Helps scholars to examine historical press censorship in England.
This title draws together around 500 texts, reaching across 140
years from the rigours of the Elizabethan Star Chamber Decree to
the publication of "Cato's Letters", which famously advanced
principles of free speech.
Helps scholars to examine historical press censorship in England.
This title draws together around 500 texts, reaching across 140
years from the rigours of the Elizabethan Star Chamber Decree to
the publication of "Cato's Letters", which famously advanced
principles of free speech.
Between the years 1677 and 1691 the Puritan minister Roger Morrice
compiled an astonishingly detailed record of public affairs in
Britain. Running to almost a million words his 'Entring Book'
provides a unique record of late seventeenth-century political and
religious history. It charts the rise of British party politics,
and the transformation of Puritanism into 'Whiggery' and Dissent.
It provides a wealth of information on social and cultural history,
as well as the relationships between the three Stuart kingdoms. All
the essays in this volume have been inspired by the key concerns of
the Entring Book: the palpable sense of the fear and foreboding in
the 1680s; the long shadow cast by the mid-century civil war; the
profound effect on Englishmen of events on the continent; and the
anxieties and opportunities caused by a socially diffuse culture of
news and information. In so doing they give a vivid sense of what
it was like to live in England in the years before the Revolution
and help to explain why that Revolution took place when it did, and
why it took the particular form that it did. These chapters provide
fresh and insightful perspectives on religion, politics and culture
from established and emerging scholars on three continents. Taken
together they offer a valuable introduction to the world of Roger
Morrice, and will be an essential companion to the scholarly
edition of the Entring Book.
This collection of essays illustrates various pressures and
concerns-both practical and theoretical-related to the study of
print culture. Procedural difficulties range from doubts about the
reliability of digitized resources to concerns with the limiting
parameters of 'national' book history.
This collection of essays illustrates various pressures and
concerns-both practical and theoretical-related to the study of
print culture. Procedural difficulties range from doubts about the
reliability of digitized resources to concerns with the limiting
parameters of 'national' book history.
What was it like to live under the English Republic and, later,
Cromwell's Protectorate, if one supported the defeated Stuarts and
yearned for the day when Charles II would once again set foot in
England? This book tells the story of the traumatic decade of the
1650s (or, 'the Interregnum', from the Latin meaning 'between the
reign of the kings') from the vantage point of those who lost the
Civil Wars. It describes how these men and women negotiated the
difficult choices they faced: to compromise, collaborate, or
resist. It brings together essays by established and emerging
historians and literary scholars in Britain, Europe, the United
States and Australia. The essays sketch the difficulties,
complexities, and nuances of the Royalist experience during the
Commonwealth and Protectorate, looking at women, religion,
print-culture, literature, the politics of exile, and the nature
and extent of royalist networks in England. -- .
A study of the content and methods of royalist propaganda via
newsbooks in the crucial period following the end of the first
civil war. This is a study of a remarkable set of royalist
newsbooks produced in conditions of strict secrecy in London during
the late 1640s. It uses these flimsy, ephemeral sheets of paper to
rethink the nature of both royalism and Civil War allegiance.
Royalism, Print and Censorship in Revolutionary England moves
beyond the simple and simplistic dichotomies of 'absolutism' versus
'constitutionalism'. In doing so, it offers a nuanced, innovative
and exciting visionof a strangely neglected aspect of the Civil
Wars. Print has always been seen as a radical, destabilizing force:
an agent of social change and revolution. Royalism, Print and
Censorship in Revolutionary England demonstrates, bycontrast, how
lively, vibrant and exciting the use of print as an agent of
conservatism could be. It seeks to rescue the history of polemic in
1640s and 1650s England from an undue preoccupation with the
factional squabbles of leading politicians. In doing so, it offers
a fundamental reappraisal of the theory and practice of censorship
in early-modern England, and of the way in which we should approach
the history of books and print-culture. JASON McELLIGOTT is the
J.P.R. Lyell Research Fellow in the History of the Early Modern
Printed Book at Merton College, Oxford.
On 23 February 1820 a group of radicals were arrested in Cato
Street off the Edgware Road in London. They were within sixty
minutes of setting out to assassinate the British cabinet. Five of
the conspirators were subsequently executed and another five were
transported for life to Australia. The plotters were a mixture of
English, Scots and Irish tradesmen, and one was a black Jamaican.
They were motivated by a desire to avenge the 'Peterloo' massacre
and intended to declare a republic, which they believed would
encourage popular risings in London and across Britain. This volume
of essays uses contemporary reports by Home Office spies and
informers to assess the seriousness of the conspiracy. It traces
the practical and intellectual origins of the plotters' willingness
to use violence; describes the links between Irish and British
radicals who were willing to take up arms; makes a contribution to
early black history in Britain; examines the European context to
events, and follows the lives and careers of those plotters exiled
to Australia. A significant contribution to our understanding of a
particularly turbulent period of British history, these
well-written essays will find an appreciative audience among
undergraduates, graduate students and scholars of British and Irish
history and literature, black history, and the related fields of
intelligence history and Strategic Studies. -- .
Much ink has been spent on accounts of the English Civil Wars of
the mid-seventeenth century, yet royalism has been largely
neglected. This 2007 volume of essays by leading scholars in the
field seeks to fill that significant gap in our understanding by
focusing on those who took up arms for the king. The royalists
described were not reactionary, absolutist extremists but
pragmatic, moderate men who were not so different in temperament or
background from the vast majority of those who decided to side
with, or were forced by circumstances to side with, Parliament and
its army. The essays force us to think beyond the simplistic
dichotomy between royalist 'absolutists' and 'constitutionalists'
and suggest instead that allegiances were much more fluid and
contingent than has hitherto been recognized. This is a major
contribution to the political and intellectual history of the Civil
Wars and of early modern England more generally.
Much ink has been spent on accounts of the English Civil Wars of
the mid-seventeenth century, yet royalism has been largely
neglected. This volume of essays by leading scholars in the field
seeks to fill that significant gap in our understanding by focusing
on those who took up arms for the king. The royalists described
were not reactionary, absolutist extremists but pragmatic, moderate
men who were not so different in temperament or background from the
vast majority of those who decided to side with, or were forced by
circumstances to side with, Parliament and its army. The essays
force us to think beyond the simplistic dichotomy between royalist
'absolutists' and 'constitutionalists' and suggest instead that
allegiances were much more fluid and contingent than has hitherto
been recognized. This is a major contribution to the political and
intellectual history of the Civil Wars and of early modern England
more generally.
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