1. House rules Turn your mobile phone off. You must prepare for seminars by reading the set readings. Respect each other’s contributions in seminars: don’t dominate discussion, but don’t stay silent either! Remember email etiquette when contacting tutors

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3. G. W. Bernard, ‘The Making of Religious Policy, 1533-1546: Henry VIII and the Search for the Middle Way’, Historical Journal, 41: 2 (1998), 321-49 What are the key words used in the article? Where do you find the historian’s main argument? What is his main argument? What ideas or arguments is the historian arguing against?

4. How to make notes from journal articles: reading log Article: G. W. Bernard, ‘The Making of Religious Policy, 1533-1546: Henry VIII and the Search for the Middle Way’, Historical Journal, 41: 2 (1998), 321-49 p.321 – ‘Henry VIII was: 1.The principal architect of religious policy 2.Not the plaything of factions 3.Religious policy did not fluctuate between reform and reaction. p.321 – ‘John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments... has so influenced most historians’ – reform was the work of Cromwell or Anne Boleyn or Cranmer... And that the kind was simply prisoner of his own advisors’. My questions and ideas = main argument = centres on Henry’s role = what previous historians argued and why i.e. Based on a book by John Foxe – what date?? – look up John Foxe briefly on Oxford Dictionary National Biography – Acts and Monuments was published 1563

5. Next week READ: John Walter and Keith Wrightson, ‘Dearth and the Social Order in Early Modern England’, Past and Present, 71 (1976), 22-42. Think about the following questions in preparation for seminar discussion: What was the significance of authority and deference in early modern England? How did English society hold together in the face of extreme inequalities of wealth? What changed in this period? Additional reading: -John Walter, ‘Grain Riots and Popular Attitudes to the Law’, in John Brewer and John Styles, eds, An Ungovernable People: the English and their Law in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (London, 1980), reprinted in John Walter, Crowds and Popular Politics in Early Modern England (Manchester 2006) -E.P. Thompson, ‘Plebeian Society, Plebeian Culture’, Journal of Social History, 7: 4 (1974) -Keith Wrightson, ‘The Social Order of Early Modern England’, in L. Bonfield et al, eds, The World We Have Gained: Histories of Population and Social Structure (Oxford, 1986)