Labnet: Conf. Ann: 1649 and the Execution of King Charles - One Day Conference, London, 7 Febr 2009

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From: David Renton davidkrenton at googlemail.com

London Socialist Historians Group

One Day Conference 

1649 and the Execution of King Charles

To be held at the Institute of Historical Research
Senate House, Malet St. London WC1
>From 9.30am, Saturday 7 February 2009

30 January 1649, when King Charles 1st was beheaded, was the day when the Commonwealth of Oliver Cromwell, the foundation of modern Parliamentary democracy, came into effective being. It was a revolutionary moment and it brought onto the historical stage
people, ideas and movements that went well beyond anything that Cromwell and the senior leadership of the New Model Army had in mind. Brian Manning in his seminal book on 1649 notes that this was a year when popular mobilisations did not happen. There was no popular uprising to mark the Commonwealth, no popular protest at the execution of the King. There was however an Army revolt at Burford, also celebrating its anniversary this year, which was brutally put down by Cromwell. 1649 was also the year when Cromwell landed in Dublin to initiate brutal episodes in Ireland. This conference will look at the liberties and democratic practices ushered in by 1649 and at those who wanted to take them further. 
Keynote speakers confirmed so far include
Geoffrey Robertson QC (author, The Tyrannicide Brief)
Geoff Kennedy (author, Diggers, Levellers and Agrarian Capitalism)
John Rees (author, A Rebel's Guide to Milton, forthcoming)
Norah Carlin (author, The Causes of the English Civil War)
with
Martyn Everett, Ariel Hessayon, Claudia Guli, Ángel Alloza, Jerome de Groot, Alan Marshall, Alejandro Doering De Rio and John Seed 

REGISTRATION: The cost is £10 or £5 concession
Send to: LSHG, 38 Mitchley Rd London N17 9HG 
Cheques payable to 'London Socialist Historians Group'
For further information contact the organisers at conference2009 at londonsocialisthistorians.org or call 07803 167 266
Find out more about the LSHG at www.londonsocialisthistorians.org 

David Renton
for the London Socialist Historians Group


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