Reading and Politics in Early Modern England: The Mental World of a Seventeenth-Century Gentleman. By Geoff Baker. Politics, Culture, and Society in Early Modern Britain. Edited by, Ann Hughes, Anthony Milton, and Peter Lake. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010. Distributed by Palgrave Macmillan. Pp. xiv+236. $89.95.

2012 ◽  
Vol 84 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-185
Author(s):  
Peter Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
Modern Britain ◽  
Early Modern Britain

Science, Instruments, and Guilds in Early-Modern Britain

2005 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 392-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larry Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
Instrument Making ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Modern Britain ◽  
International Demand ◽  
Early Modern Britain

AbstractThe emergence of instrument-making trades in early-modern England tested the power of established guilds. From the seventeenth century, instrument makers were able to exploit growing markets for scientific apparatus and attempted to exploit connections with the Royal Society. Given the growth in both local and international demand, and in new methods of manufacture, instrument makers were frequently able to evade the diminishing power of guilds to police the efforts of the makers.

scholarly journals Assimilation Aborted: Henry Clerk and the Limits of Anglo-Scottish Integration in the Age of Union

2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith M. Brown ◽  
Allan Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
Historical Reconstruction ◽  
Migration Experience ◽  
Modern Britain ◽  
Excellent Candidate ◽  
Early Modern Britain ◽  
New Location

This article deploys micro-historical analysis to understand an example of abortive diaspora among Scots who failed to make it as immigrants in early modern England. Henry Clerk was the son of a middle-ranking Midlothian baronet who made a doomed effort to build a new life for himself in London between 1698 and 1702. A series of dozens of surviving letters between Clerk and his family members in Scotland allow us to trace his migration experience in unusual detail. This evidence makes his case an excellent candidate for micro-historical reconstruction, and in undertaking such an exercise this article seeks to ask what the nature and circumstances of his failure can tell us about the wider process of migrant assimilation in early modern Britain, as well as the challenges confronted by individuals seeking to make a new life in a new location.

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