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Obituary: John Bossy (1933-2015)
By Fred Smith | @Fred_E_Smith ‘John Bossy, where are you when we need you?’ So wrote Christopher Haigh over a decade ago, expressing the need for ‘big ideas’ to ‘shake up the field’ of early-modern English Catholicism, just as John Bossy had done twenty-five years previously.[1] His words have never rung so true. It was with…
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Remember, remember…
By Harriet Lyon @HarrietLyon On 5 November 1605, Guy Fawkes, one of a number of Catholic conspirators against the Protestant king of Scotland and England James VI and I, was caught emerging from a vault beneath the Houses of Parliament that had been stacked with barrels containing almost a ton of gunpowder. The scheme having…
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The emotional impact of war
A perspective from the early medieval west, c.841AD By Robert Evans @R_AH_Evans This week we remember the human cost of military conflict. We think not only of the millions killed and wounded but also about the unseen impact of war on human minds and emotions. The psychological and emotional costs of war are far better known…
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EEBO, the RSA, and #proquestgate – the open resource debate
By Tom Smith and Alex Wakelam @A_Wakelam Something strange happened last month for members of the Renaissance Society of America (RSA). On Wednesday the 28th October members of the 61-year-old historical society were informed that one of the major benefits of membership –subscription to the research tool EEBO (Early English Books Online) – had been cancelled. The…
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Head Shaving during Ireland’s War of Independence
By Conor Heffernan Troops storm into the house and forcibly evicting those inside. Screams of terror emanate from the house, growing louder and louder with each moment. Soon the house will be set on fire. In the melee that ensues, troops single out a woman known for collaborating with the enemy. Held down at gunpoint,…
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