very excited to give my first undergraduate lecture this morning on popular politics - with plenty of talk about petitioning and monopolies

What a lovely, heartwarming surprise: I’ve been nominated for the Excellent Personal Tutoring award in the 2023 Student Choice Awards UCL 🥹

And Dr Ellen Paterson on 'Anti-Monopoly Petitioning in the Parliament of 1621', which won our Essay Prize in 2022. See 👇 for info on taking part in this year's Prize. The submission deadline is 2 October, so there's still time! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/1… 🧵3/3

really excited to be officially starting today in my new role as CMRS Career Development Fellow in Early Modern History at Keble College Oxford!

lovely start to the day to see my Parliamentary History essay prize piece published open access today. Give it a read for anti-monopoly petitioning in the Parliament of 1621! doi.org/10.1111/1750-0… Parliamentary History

Out now is Dr Ellen Paterson's prize winning study of anti-monopoly petitioning in the #Parliament of 1621, addressing #rhetoric, accusations of #corruption and the blurring of economics and politics. It's free! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/17… #twitterstorians History Of Parliament Royal Stuart Society

How did economic and political complaints combine in petitions to the Jacobean parliaments? Ellen Paterson's (Dr Ellen Paterson) article is the latest addition to the #PowerOfPetitioning annotated bibliography: petitioning.history.ac.uk/blog/2019/05/p…

next tuesday! terrible puns, gorgeous art, and one unfortunate pickpocket.

now that the contract is officially signed, I’m delighted to announce that my monograph ‘Bloodsuckers of the Commonwealth: Monopolies, Petitioning, and the Public Sphere in Early Modern England’ is now under contract with MUP! Manchester University Press

had a fantastic time presenting a paper on industrial interests and petitioning in the Long Parliament at the history of Parliament yesterday for the Parliament and Revolutionary Britain colloquium. Great discussion and fantastic papers throughout the day!

Delighted to have got my copy of The Power of Petitioning in Early Modern Britain today Brodie Waddell Jason Peacey - can’t wait to read!

Our winner in 2022 was Dr Ellen Paterson, and you can read her fantastic work below! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/17… 🧵2/2

Only one week until the deadline! History Of Parliament The Georgian Lords TheVictorianCommons Wiley Humanities

❗️CALL FOR PAPERS❗️ We are seeking abstracts on topics relating to early modern scandal and corruption! Please consider submitting to present at our conference, 'Corruption and Scandal in the Early Modern World, 1500-1800', at Institute of Historical Research on 5th and 6th June 2025!

excited to be presenting some new research next week at the IHR’s parliaments, politics and people seminar - see here for more info! History Of Parliament historyofparliament.com/2025/03/04/pet…

At next Tuesday’s Parliaments, Politics and People seminar Ellen Paterson will be discussing petitioning and parliamentary memory in the Long Parliament (1640-1642). Find out more about Ellen's paper and how to join the hybrid seminar on our website: ow.ly/TlS950VaqMt

delighted to have received book proofs today and that Bloodsuckers of the Commonwealth will be available soon!

It was great to see such a turnout over the last two days at the “Corruption and Scandal in the Early Modern World, 1500-1800” conference which Amilia Gillies and I organised. A huge thanks to the Institute of Historical Research for hosting us, and also to CHASE DTP, CourtStudies for their help!