Please join us for this term’s EMRC / SWW seminars:
23 January, Lightning talks from Reading History PhD students:
Graham Moore, ‘”To mingle mercy with justice”: pardons, reprieves, and acquittals in 17th century pirate trials’
and Luke Walters, ‘”I will not be my own murderer”: the scandalous trial of Captain Kidd’.
6 February, Phillipa Hellawell (The National Archives), ‘Commercial Experiments and West African Knowledge in the early eighteenth-century Royal African Company’
20 February, Lucy Underwood (Warwick), ‘The original (British) priest-harbourer: English Catholics, St Alban and the British past’
6 March, Rachel Foxley (Reading) ‘Political Polarisation in the English Civil War: a Digital Humanities analysis’
All seminars are on Mondays at 1pm on Zoom. Please sign up to our mailing list or email emrc@reading.ac.uk for the link.