House rules

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

2. Other information • disability@herts.ac.uk or 01707 284454 • Studynet – Module Information – has all the information you need, including how to access journal articles • http://katrinanavickas.weebly.com/study-guide-and-essential-tips.html

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 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 p.321 – ‘Henry VIII was: • The principal architect of religious policy • Not the plaything of factions • 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’.

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)