Workshop – The British-Dutch World in the Age of Elizabeth of Bohemia
Friday, 21 April 2017, New Seminar Room, St John’s House, 69 South Street.
9.15-10.15
Welcome by Catherine Stihler MEP & Rector of the University
Miranda Lewis – Cultures of Knowledge: EMLO (Early Modern Letters Online), with a focus on WEMLO (Women’s Early Modern Letters Online) and Elizabeth of Bohemia
10.15-10.30 Coffee Break
10.30-12.00 – Chair: Steve Murdoch
Andrew R Little – The British-Dutch Maritime World in the Age of the Two Republics
Graeme Millen – Serve or Stand Down? British Regiments in the Netherlands 1648-1688
12.00-13.30 Buffet Lunch
13.30- 15.00 – Chair: Nadine Akkerman
Marika Keblusek – Curious Collections: Art and luxury objects at the Dutch Courts of Elizabeth of Bohemia
Esther Mijers – Education as Agency in the Scottish-Dutch World
15.00-15.15 Coffee Break
15.30-17.15 – Chair: Andrew Pettegree
Kirsty Rolfe – Remembering and Rewriting the ‘Palatine Cause’ in 1658-1660
Arthur der Weduwen – Britain and the Dutch newspaper trade in the seventeenth century
Round Table: The Age of Elizabeth – all speakers. Chair: Roger Mason
17.45 – ISHR Wine reception in the Undercroft.
19.00 dinner, Zizzi’s Italian Restaurant