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Steven Hindle, Huntington Library

2:00: The Social Topography of a Rural Community in Early Modern England

Noon: Lunch with faculty interested in humanities research development (please rsvp for lunch)

Steven Hindle is the W.M. Keck Foundation Director of Research at the Huntington Library. He is the author of The State and Social Change in Early Modern England (Palgrave, 2000) and  On the Parish?: The Micro-Politics of Poor Relief in Rural England, c.1550-1750, published by Oxford University Press in 2004, and re-issued in paperback in 2009. He is also the co-editor (with Paul Griffiths and Adam Fox) of The Experience of Authority in Early Modern England (Macmillan, 1996); and (with Alex Shepard and John Walter) of the festschrift for Keith Wrightson entitled Remaking English Society: Social Relations and Social Change in Early Modern England (Boydell, 2013). He also contributed a substantial introduction to an edition (prepared with Heather Falvey) of the Layston-with-Buntingford Parish Memorandum Book, c.1607-1750, which was published by the Hertfordshire Record Society in 2004. Since 2004 he has completed the research for his next project, a monographic study provisionally entitled 'The Social Topography of a Rural Community: The Warwickshire Parish of Chilvers Coton, c.1600-1730', for which he was awarded a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship in 2010. The first fruits of this research appeared in 2011 with a study of domestic service at Arbury Hall during the period 1670-1710; and in 2013 with an analysis of the recruitment and remuneration of agricultural labor in the parish. Since 2008, he has also published a number of articles and papers, including one on the harvest crisis of the late 1640s; another on representations of the Midland Rising of 1607; a third on beating the bounds of the parish in early modern England; a fourth on an exceptionally well-documented violent affray in Elizabethan Nantwich (Cheshire); and fifth on the representation of harvest labor in an eighteenth century landscape painting.

Co-Sponsored by the Group for the Study of Early Cultures, the Department of History, and the Humanities Commons