This article examines two debates concerning the British Empire. It discusses, firstly, the relationship between ‘centre’ and ‘periphery’ in imperial-colonial studies, using the case study of the I...

This article examines two debates concerning the British Empire. It discusses, firstly, the relationship between ‘centre’ and ‘periphery’ in imperial-colonial studies, using the case study of the I...

This paper considers English debates about ancient constitutionalism alongside another Pocockian paradigm, the call for an archipelagic history of the British Isles. In thinking about early modern ...

A Question of Belief? Contesting Religion in Restoration England

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This article uses a late seventeenth-century county survey as a key to understand conceptions of county, national, and international identity. Previous historians of ‘Britain’ and its composite nat...

William Blundell (1620–1698) was a Lancashire Catholic and Cavalier whose extensive notebooks have, in recent years, proved a fruitful store of information

Theological Counsel in the Early Quaker Movement - Volume 74 Issue 1

Studies of seventeenth-century Britain have increasingly recognised a multiplicity of centrifugal and centripetal identities at play. The early Quaker movement witnessed a dramatic convergence of s...