It is almost twenty-five years since the publication of two landmark studies of state and society in early modern Britain: Michael Braddick’s State Formation (Cambridge, 2000) and Steve Hindle’s The State and Social Change (Palgrave, 2000). These texts have shaped a generation of scholarship on politics, society, law, and power in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

This conference asks where this scholarship is now and where it might be going next. It brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars with specialisms ranging from law and literature to politics and social relations. We will discuss the latest developments in the field and begin to craft a new research agenda for the future.

Speakers include Professor Jason Peacey (UCL), Dr Laura Flannigan (Oxford), and Dr Brodie Waddell (Birkbeck). The conference will feature a roundtable led by Dr Richard Bell (Birmingham), Dr Elly Robson (Oxford), and Dr Hillary Taylor (Padua), and closing remarks from Professor Michael Braddick (Oxford).

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