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Hidden in Plain Sight: Looking at changes to the Richard III’s Book of Hours
On 22 August 1485, King Richard III was defeated at the Battle of Bosworth by Henry Tudor, who ascended the throne as Henry VII. Among the spoils seized by Tudor forces was Richard’s personal Book of Hours, Lambeth Palace Library MS 474, which likely came into the possession of Lady Margaret Beaufort, the new King’s […]
Church of England Record Society AGM
Dr Laura Mair presents ‘I hope to make something of him’: Character, care, and control in London's Ragged Schools (1850-1867). The London Ragged School Union (LRSU), which claimed to have taught over 400,000 children by 1884, is a standard fixture of histories of education, evangelicalism, and philanthropy. Evangelical in character, these schools sought to save […]
Professor Alison Shell (UCL): ‘Getting it Wrong in the Counter-Reformation: Religious Orders in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure’
Institute of Historical Research Seminar The tragicomedy Measure for Measure, which dramatizes the consequences of a clampdown on social immorality in Vienna, has long been recognised as indirectly commenting on the puritanism of Shakespeare's era. This paper argues that the play also speaks to Catholicism's internal reforms, especially through Shakespeare's representation of friars and nuns; […]
