Hello to those of you who are new followers because of my responses to my denomination's synod! You need to know, though, that I am mainly on here for 17th C stuff and am usually a lurker. You might find me less interesting than you thought, so no offense if you unfollow 😀!

Oooooh!!! ***An online talk on Sir Henry Vane*** (and, it would seem, a film in the works...!). It's tomorrow (Monday - 11.00am US EST, so 4.00pm for my UK friends), and it's free, but you need to register. The timing doesn't work for me, but this is great to see!!

Does the UK firm, Jeremy Mills Publishing, still exist? If so do any of you have up-to-date contact details? The only contact method on the website is an email address that is no longer valid. Trying to get hold of J. T. Cliffe's 'Stuart Yorkshire' jeremymillspublishing.co.uk

There have been some fabulous matchups in the Euros for those of us who are 17th C nerds as well as football fans. The final would have been a 17th C cracker either way, but thrilled to bits that it will now be England vs Spain 😀!! Come on, England!!

A splendidly persuasive article in The TLS on Milton's Sonnet VIII ('Captain or Colonel, or Knight in Arms...'), taking up a suggestion in Campbell/Corns that the focus is not Royalist attackers but Parliamentarian encroachments on Londoners' liberties. the-tls.co.uk/literature-by-…

Looking forward greatly to this - thankful to be able to join over Zoom.

Outstanding article alert!! ned with a little hat on has had his work on Sir Thomas Fairfax published in The Seventeenth Century. It's superb, and it's available on open access. "Sir Thomas Fairfax and the Politics of Pain." tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Early modern historians: what are best resources on 16th & 17th C witch hunts/trials in Scotland? (Asking for a friend - honest!)

Well now, Grok, based on my posts, which 17th century historical figure do I most resemble?

Well, I gave in and did the Grok thing-based on my posts, which 17th C figure do I most resemble? I got John Selden. Goodness me, Grok is quite the flatterer! Can't hold a candle to his vast learning, and we're in a different place theologically, but I'm rather chuffed!

17th C people - Forbidden Desire. Point re Mediterranean vs N. Europe taken but it felt like an exhaustive exercise in missing the broader point (until the last chapter, sort of). As a non-expert in this field, what should I read as a supplement/corrective esp. re 17th C England?

To all my 17th C historian friends in England who can make it to Newark on Thursday: a reminder that Edward Stockley's talk on Sir Thomas Fairfax is coming up, and it will be brilliant!!

I am used to sophomoric promulgations of heresy from American evangelicals (Nestorianism at the moment), but who on earth were the theological illiterates who wrote/authorized straight up functional modalism for the The Church of England's celebrations of the Council of Nicaea?!?!

17th C historians, how were the assessments for these 3 levies calculated? I'm researching a clergyman who paid £5 for the 1620 clergy Palatinate 'loan', over £6 in 1639 for the Scottish war (these seem steep!) and then £1 6s 8d for 3 years (1634-36) for the repair of St Paul’s.