Connecting Centre & Locality: Political Communication in England c.1550–1750

Jennifer Wells discusses, "The Parliamentarians’ Predicament: Adaption and Uneasy Alliances in Interregnum Scotland and Ireland". Wells is an academic from Brown University. This talk was included in the session titled, ”State Formation, Local Networks, and Local Knowledge”.

Rachel Weil discusses, "The News Out of Newgate after the 1715 Jacobite Rebellion". Weil is Professor of History at Cornell University. This talk was included in the session titled, ”Sites of Communication”.

Steve Hindle welcomes participants and attendees to the “Connecting Centre & Locality: Political Communication in England c.1550–1750”, held at The Huntington Library on May 20–21, 2016. Hindle is the W. M. Keck Foundation Director of Research at The Huntington.

Chris Kyle and Jason Peacey deliver the opening remarks to the conference. Kyle is Associate Professor of History at Syracuse University. Peacey is Professor and Department Head of History at the University College London.

Noah Millstone discusses, "The Communications Infrastructure of the Early Stuart State". Millstone is a Lecturer in History 1400–1700, at Bristol University. This talk was included in the session titled, ”Communications and the Early Modern State”.

Thomas Cogswell discusses, "A Manifestation of the Injustice and Disorders: The Canterbury Elections, 1626". Cogswell is Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside. This talk was included in the session titled, ”Communications and the Early Modern State”.

Chris Kyle discusses, "Roast Duck and Pig Entrails: Political Impotence and the Problem of Lent in Early Modern England". Kyle is Associate Professor of History at Syracuse University. This talk was included in the session titled, ”Local Agency and National Politics”.

Ann Hughes discusses, "Diligent Enquiries and Perfect Accounts:Central Initiatives and Local Agency in the English Civil War". Hughes is Professor of Early Modern History at Keele University. This talk was included in the session titled, ”Local Agency and National Politics”.

Dan Beaver reads John Walter's essay, "Swearing a Nation: Parliament, Print, and the Infrastructure of Subscription in the Protestation, 1641-1642". Walter is Professor of History at the University off Essex. This talk was included in the session titled, ”State Formation, Local Networks, and Local Knowledge”.

Lindsay O'Neill discusses, "New Correspondents: Connecting the Centre and Locality via Letter, 1600-1700". O'Neill is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Southern California. This talk was included in the session titled, ”Communication Networks and Information Exchange”.

Steve Hindle reads Michael Braddick’s essay, "The Tranquility of the Commonwealth in My Little Sphere: John Lilburne, the Engagement, and Provincial Politics in the Early 1650s". Braddick is Professor of History at the University of Sheffield. This talk was included in the session titled, ”Centre and Locality in Radical Politics”.

Jason Peacey discusses, "‘Written according to my usual way’: Communicating between Centre and Locality and the Rise of the Agent in Seventeenth-Century England". Peacey is Professor and Department Head of History at the University College London. This talk was included in the session titled, ”Communication Networks and Information Exchange”.