Browsing History (Scholarly Publications) by Subject "British History"
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Climate, disease and society in late-medieval Ireland
(2020)Palaeoclimatic data are used to track the significant changes in atmospheric circulation patterns and weather conditions that affected Ireland between 1000 and 1500CE. How these climatic developments and associated shifts ... -
Defiant Mourning: Public Funerals as Funeral Demonstrations in the Chartist Movement
(2018)The popular radical movement that developed in Great Britain after the Napoleonic wars under the leadership of Henry Hunt made the mass-platform its main – and most striking – means of action in the fight for parliamentary ... -
A Diversity of Passions and Humours: Early Anti-Methodist Literature as a Disguise for Heterodoxy
(2017)This article explores the way in which early anti-Methodist literature was utilised as a disguise for heterodoxy. It draws particular attention to Thomas Whiston, an Anglican divine, who published a polemic in 1740, entitled ... -
Edward Hart: Bricklayer, Theologian and Nonjuring Martyr
(2021)This paper explores the neglected manuscripts and publications of Edward Hart, an early eighteenth-century Nonjuring bricklayer, whose determination to promote his cause ultimately led to his death. By discussing Hart’s ... -
''The Faithful Remnant of the True Church of England': Susanna Hopton and the Politico-Theology of the Nonjuring Schism'
(2021)Susanna Hopton (1627-1709) is best known for her devotional literature, and her association with the Anglican clergyman and poet, Thomas Traherne (1636-1674). Significantly less scholarly attention, however, has been devoted ... -
Food and Power in Sixteenth-Century Ireland: Studying Household Accounts from Dublin Castle
(2022)Studying the food practices of one vast and prominent Irish household reveals a com plex history of consumption, status, and power in sixteenth-century Europe. This article is a close analysis of the little studied but ... -
The Geraldines and Medieval Ireland: The Making of a Myth
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The Reception of Thomas Delaune's Plea for the Non-Conformists in England and America, 1684-1870
(2022)In a 1683 sermon, Benjamin Calamy, an Anglican priest, claimed that the separation of Dissenters from the Church of England was unjustifiable. Thomas Delaune, a London Baptist schoolmaster, responded in A Plea for the ... -
'The Scum of Controversy': Recantation Sermons in the Churches of England and Ireland, 1673-1779
(2022)Recent studies of Anglicanism during the “long” eighteenth century have illuminated the fundamental role played by sermons, both as evangelistic and political tools. Virtually no scholarly attention, however, has been ...