PublicsParticipationProgramme

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THURSDAY, 3 JULY
14:30
Arrival, registration and welcome
14:45 – 16:15
Session 1. Anglo-Scottish publics
John Walter, Essex
Covenanting Citizens? The protestation oath &
University
popular politics in mid-seventeenth century England
Laura Stewart, Birkbeck Creating and containing publics: Covenanted Scotland
Jason Peacey, UCL
Anglo-Scottish publics and the rethinking of British
union, 1640-1660
16:15 – 16:30
Short break
16:30 – 17:30
Session 2. Mobilizing publics
Peter Lake, Vanderbilt
Exorcism and the mobilization of publics in postMichael Questier, QMUL Reformation England
17:30 – 18:00
Tea break: room 102
18:00 – 19:00
KEYNOTE LECTURE: Malet Street B35
Tim Harris, Brown University, Rhode Island, USA
Political communication and popular political engagement in the three
kingdoms: Was there such a thing as ‘British public opinion’?
19:00
Wine reception: Malet Street B04
Hosted by the Dept of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck
20:30
Dinner
Own arrangements
FRIDAY, 4 JULY
10:15 – 11:15
Session 3. Performing publics
Eamon Darcy, TCD
Drinking of healths, gestures and Irish popular politics
in the seventeenth century
Clare Egan,
Libel performance in the communities of early modern
Southampton University
South West England: Texts in context
11:15 – 11:45
Tea break: room 102
11:45 – 12:45
Session 4. Public and Private
Alex Barber, Durham
‘There is a whisper that Mr Greenshields will find
University
grace by some means’. Private and public in the trial of
Henry Sacheverell
Suzanne Trill, Edinburgh Records of Resistance: Anne, Lady Halkett's 'private'
University
meditations on public proclamations, c. 1685-1699
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12:45 – 13:45
Buffet lunch: room 102
13:45 – 14:45
Session 5. Language, government and participation
Lloyd Bowen, Cardiff
Language, government, and publics in early modern
University
Wales
Bernadette Cunningham, Local politics and the state in Connacht, 1540-1640 :
Royal Irish Academy
interpreting the Irish evidence
14:45 – 15:00
Short break
15:00 – 16:30
Session 6. Pulpits and preachers
Andrew Hadfield, Sussex John Ponet and the people
University
Arnold Hunt, British
Preaching and public opinion in Early Modern London
Library
Alasdair Raffe,
Parochial participation: the settling of ministers in the
Edinburgh University
Church of Scotland, 1690-1712
16:30 – 17:00
Tea break: room 102
17:00 – 18:00
Round table: ‘British’ publics?
Led by Michael Questier and Peter Lake
Comment by Tim Harris
18:30
The Lord John Russell, Marchmont Street
This conference was made possible by the generous support of the Birkbeck Institute of the
Humanities and the Department of History, Classics, and Archaeology, Birkbeck.
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