Basil Bowdler

MPhil in Early Modern History, University of Cambridge | BA in History, University of Oxford

‘History is written not to revere the dead but to inspire the living; its our cultural bloodstream, the secret of who we are’

Current Research: Debating England’s National Interest in Print Culture under Dutch Rule, 1689-1702

Interests: 17^th Century Anglo-Dutch History | Political Culture & Communication | Public Politics | Art History

befb2@cam.ac.uk | @BasilBowdler 

Blog posts:

• International Commonwealths: Public Diplomacy in 17th Century Europe, 1 June 2021
• 8. A Pack of Playing Cards depicting the ‘Popish Plot’ (ca. 1679), 8 December 2020.