Professor John Morrill joins us online to discuss his publication of the complete edition of Oliver Cromwell’s writings with Oxford University Press, which offers the most complete, the most scholarly, and the most user-friendly edition produced of the letters, writings and recorded speeches of Cromwell. Professor Morrill will discuss the worldwide library and archive searches and collaborations, along with the use of new technologies, involved in researching and producing this new edition.
Professor John Morrill is Professor Emeritus of British and Irish History at the University of Cambridge. Professor Morrill spent forty years teaching and researching in Cambridge, where he was Professor of British and Irish History and successively Tutor, Senior Tutor, and Vice Master of Selwyn College. As Vice President of the Royal Historical Society, Vice President for Public Engagement at the British Academy, and Chair of the Research Committee at the Arts and Humanities Research Board, he promoted historical scholarship and digital humanities. The author and editor of more 20 books and more than 100 essays principally on the period 1500-1750, he has continuously come back to the middle decades of the seventeenth and to the figure of Oliver Cromwell.
Where: Online via Zoom
Tickets: Free - BOOK HERE.
Date: Thursday 6 July