Act of 19th May 1649 to change England from a kingdom to a “Commonwealth and Free State.” National Archives, C204/9
Thursday 16th to Saturday 18th July, 2009 - Newcastle University
Keynote speakers:
- Dr. Sharon Achinstein (University of Oxford)
- Professor Paul Hamilton (Queen Mary, University of London)
- Professor Markku Peltonen (University of Helsinki)
- Dr. Phil Withington (University of Cambridge)
- Professor Blair Worden (Royal Holloway, University of London)
The history of republicanism in the long early modern period is a topic of the last sixty years. Almost completely unexamined before the publication of Zera Fink’s monograph The Classical Republicans (1945) the field has since expanded dramatically. Yet, despite the wealth of works, the focus of investigations into republican ideas between the sixteenth and early nineteenth centuries has been too narrowly defined and there are important issues and areas that remain insufficiently explored. More...
