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I was awarded my Ph.D. at Keele University in March 2012. My thesis, “The Representations of Royalists and Royalism in the Press, c. 1637-1646”, was interdisciplinary in nature and execution. It examined a broad range of newsbooks and pamphlets that were printed during the Civil War and analysed the strategies that were used by pamphleteers to construct a royalist cause. My thesis was influenced by recent work on ethnicity and print culture during the 1640s and argued that royalism essentially aimed to project itself as a patriotic English cause, despite its inherent and unavoidable inconsistencies.
I am currently revisiting and revising my doctoral research in preparation for a series of articles which will explore issues ranging from royalist textual space to the gender identities of the stereotypical cavalier. My findings in my main research have also spawned a secondary project which investigates the presence of royalists in British folklore and their relationship with the supernatural throughout the ages.
I have taught English and History in both higher and secondary education since 2009. I have taught modules on early modern Europe, the history of warfare and historical skills at Keele University. In 2011 I was appointed to be a teacher of history at Newcastle under Lyme School, where I taught key stage three, GCSE and A Level courses. I taught modules on the British Civil Wars and Victorian Britain at the University of Gloucestershire in 2012. My teaching practice has been primarily based within secondary education in recent years. I was awarded a PGCE and full QTS by Keele University in June 2014.
Supervisors: Ian Atherton and Ann Hughes
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'earthely lord and naturel countrey', he also argued that the printing of works such as John Foxe... more 'earthely lord and naturel countrey', he also argued that the printing of works such as John Foxe's 1563 Book of Martyrs enabled images of war to become entwined with Protestant images of the Anti-Christ, and thereby promote the concept of a chivalrous Protestant knight. 12 This imagery came to be extended to mariners through books which embraced and glorified the adventures of English privateers, such as Richard Hakluyt's The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiqves and Discoveries of the English Nation of 1589. Alongside these developments in the concepts of chivalry and honour, James revealed that the rise of Humanism during the sixteenth century promoted a 'composite' form of honour in which it was possible for non-military men to have honourable status. 13 In effect, James' work implied that there was a split emerging in the concept of chivalry by the early seventeenth century, and this potentially raises some issues in relation to the Royalism of the Civil Wars. Since they either failed in, or were unable to champion, 'causes… Martiall', both James I, and ultimately Charles I throughout most of the 1630s, tried to distance themselves from the image of the chivalrous warrior-knight. 14 Indeed, James I came to be referred to as 'Jacobus Pacificus' by Sir Henry Neville, and Thomas Carew wrote
This draft paper further develops scholarship on 1640s print culture. It points out that the sieg... more This draft paper further develops scholarship on 1640s print culture. It points out that the siege of Gloucester was a major news item, attracting considerable attention in contemporary newsbooks, and then proceeds to analyse reporting strategies. This paper raises issues regarding reading and readership and explores how editors attempted to engage their audiences. What emerges from this study is that gender identities were vital in news reportage and that royalism lost credibility in the press as a result of the King’s failure to capture Gloucester.
In recent years there has been a surge of interest in both royalism and print culture during the ... more In recent years there has been a surge of interest in both royalism and print culture during the middle of the seventeenth century. Royalist print and its subversive nature during the 1650s have been of particular interest. Much research has been conducted on the production, circulation, readership, politics and messages of royalist newsbooks and pamphlets printed in the years following Charles I’s execution.
This paper aims to build on these interests by focusing on the key royalist newsbooks of the first civil war, such as Mercurius Aulicus. The underpinning concept of this paper is that royalist newsbooks between 1643 and 1646 offer a different view of the royalist cause which needs to be considered. An exploration of the physicality, characteristics and themes of royalist newsbooks forms the basis of this work, with the intention of developing new insights into the nature and identity of royalism. The suggestion is that royalist newsbooks relied on their physical features to assert their authority, and that they attempted to control meaning in order to align the king’s cause with an English identity.
'earthely lord and naturel countrey', he also argued that the printing of works such as John Foxe... more 'earthely lord and naturel countrey', he also argued that the printing of works such as John Foxe's 1563 Book of Martyrs enabled images of war to become entwined with Protestant images of the Anti-Christ, and thereby promote the concept of a chivalrous Protestant knight. 12 This imagery came to be extended to mariners through books which embraced and glorified the adventures of English privateers, such as Richard Hakluyt's The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiqves and Discoveries of the English Nation of 1589. Alongside these developments in the concepts of chivalry and honour, James revealed that the rise of Humanism during the sixteenth century promoted a 'composite' form of honour in which it was possible for non-military men to have honourable status. 13 In effect, James' work implied that there was a split emerging in the concept of chivalry by the early seventeenth century, and this potentially raises some issues in relation to the Royalism of the Civil Wars. Since they either failed in, or were unable to champion, 'causes… Martiall', both James I, and ultimately Charles I throughout most of the 1630s, tried to distance themselves from the image of the chivalrous warrior-knight. 14 Indeed, James I came to be referred to as 'Jacobus Pacificus' by Sir Henry Neville, and Thomas Carew wrote
This draft paper further develops scholarship on 1640s print culture. It points out that the sieg... more This draft paper further develops scholarship on 1640s print culture. It points out that the siege of Gloucester was a major news item, attracting considerable attention in contemporary newsbooks, and then proceeds to analyse reporting strategies. This paper raises issues regarding reading and readership and explores how editors attempted to engage their audiences. What emerges from this study is that gender identities were vital in news reportage and that royalism lost credibility in the press as a result of the King’s failure to capture Gloucester.
In recent years there has been a surge of interest in both royalism and print culture during the ... more In recent years there has been a surge of interest in both royalism and print culture during the middle of the seventeenth century. Royalist print and its subversive nature during the 1650s have been of particular interest. Much research has been conducted on the production, circulation, readership, politics and messages of royalist newsbooks and pamphlets printed in the years following Charles I’s execution.
This paper aims to build on these interests by focusing on the key royalist newsbooks of the first civil war, such as Mercurius Aulicus. The underpinning concept of this paper is that royalist newsbooks between 1643 and 1646 offer a different view of the royalist cause which needs to be considered. An exploration of the physicality, characteristics and themes of royalist newsbooks forms the basis of this work, with the intention of developing new insights into the nature and identity of royalism. The suggestion is that royalist newsbooks relied on their physical features to assert their authority, and that they attempted to control meaning in order to align the king’s cause with an English identity.