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Elizabeth Ludlow: The Exile’s Wife
As I am doing my research on the English republican exiles in Europe, I notice more and more what an important role was played by their wives. In particular the regicide Edmund Ludlow (1617-92), who...
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The Archive Closes for Lunch
If you want to do research in Switzerland, you better learn to get up early. I always thought I was an early riser, but compared to the average Swiss person I’m clearly a sleepy head. Arriving at the...
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How I got to The English Republican Exiles in Europe
The cover image shows a coaching inn in Augsburg. The cover image has been selected, the proofs are done, and my new book on The English Republican Exiles in Europe During the Restoration is finally...
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A coaching inn in Augsburg
Choosing a cover image for a book is tricky, especially on an early modern subject. Ideally, the image should relate both to the title and contents of the book and be available on one of the standard...
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Defending the English Revolution in the German Lands
A German translation of Marchamont Nedham’s True state of the case of the Commonwealth (1654). In his study of the contemporary reception of the English Revolution in the German-speaking lands of...
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Beyond the Old White Men: Women in English Republicanism
‘The history of old white men is on its way out’, a friend of mine and I agreed on a recent Zoom call. He is working on seventeenth-century English royalist thought, I’m working on republicanism....
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Hunting the regicides in America – Robert Harris’s Act of Oblivion
Robert Harris’ bestselling novel, now also available in paperback. The Act of Indemnity and Oblivion passed after the Restoration of the Stuarts to the English throne in 1660 was a general act of...
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WS: Edmund Ludlow – The Memoirs of a Regicide in Exile
Date: 2 July 2024, 10.30-17.00h, Newcastle University Armstrong Building ARMB.2.50 This workshop focuses on the English republican Edmund Ludlow (1617-92) as seen through his memoir of the British...
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Whose Voice?
Edmund Ludlow (1617-92), frontispiece of the 1698 edition of his Memoirs. (Image in the public domain.) The ‘Voyce from the Watch Tower’ is a fascinating text with many layers – a text the republican...
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