News and Announcements
We have now launched Stuarts Online: an educational website derived out of our work on The Stuart Successions Project. Please have a look, and let us know what you think.
Congratulations to our project PhD student, Anna-Marie Linnell, who submitted her dissertation, ‘Writing the Royal Consort in Stuart England’, in the summer of 2016 and was passed without corrections.
Congratulations to our project PhD student Joseph Hone, who has moved to the University of Cambridge as a research fellow at Magdalene College. Joseph completed his dissertation early in 2016 and is now revising it for publication as a book.
Congratulations to our Postdoctoral Research Associate, John West, who was recently appointed Assistant Professor in Early Modern Literature and Drama (1580-1680) at the University of Nottingham. John will be taking up the post in January 2016.
A new blog post from Andrew McRae on the joys and possibilities of collaborative research.
Paulina Kewes will be giving a paper entitled '"The Idol of State Innovators and Republicans": Robert Persons's Conference About the Next Succession (1595) in Stuart Britain' at the conference Dynasty and Dynasticism, 1400-1700, at Somerville College, Oxford, 16-17 March 2016. This conference is organized by the Jagiellonians Project.
The Stuart Succesion Project launch event took place at Jesus College, Oxford, on 22 October 2015.
Check out the new education section on our website, with a range of sample texts, objects, biographies, and more.
Paulina Kewes delivered a paper on 'A Jacobean Hamlet? Literature and the Politics of the Stuart Succession' and the Huntington Library on 8 September 2015.
We are delighted to announce that Stuart Successions has been awarded funding by the AHRC for a follow-on project: Fresh Approaches to the Understanding of Seventeenth-Century History and Literature. The project will focus on engagement with schools and sixth-form education. More details will be announced in due course.
We can now announce that the anthology of succession literature edited by Andrew McRae and John west will be published by Manchester University Press.
New blog post from Anna-Marie Linnell on aspects of the royal memo, from the seventeenth century to the present day.
Stuart Successions in the news! Joseph Hone's archival research on Isaac Newton's role in designing Queen Anne's coronation medal has been featured by the BBC. Read his blog post about the discovery here and the full press release here
The edited volume Literature of the Stuart Successions, edited by Paulina Kewes and Andrew McRae, will be published by Oxford University Press. A list of contributors and provisional contents can be found here.
A prototype of the Stuart Successions Database is now live! Read more about the prototype on our database page, and access the interface here.
New blog post by John West on the proceedings of the Stuart Successions Colloquium.
Our Stuart Successions Project colloquium was held at Jesus College, Oxford, on Friday 27 September and Saturday 28 September. Members of the project team and others presented their research on aspects of succession across the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
New blog post on succession literature at the Restoration.
New blog post on the accession of Charles I.