Newton Key
History Dept.
600 Lincoln
Eastern Illinois University
Charleston, IL 61920
web: http://ux1.eiu.edu/~nekey
email: nekey at eiu.edu
office: 3725 Coleman Hall
office: 217-581-6360
- Summary - I have published on the political, religious, local, and cultural history of early modern England and Wales, and co-authored a best-selling text, Early Modern England (2nd ed., 2009). I wrote an undergraduate thesis at Brown on Norfolk agriculture, an M.Phil. thesis at Cambridge
on Norfolk smuggling, and a PhD thesis at Cornell on Welsh Marches politics and religion.
I have taught at Cornell, Trinity (TX), Harlaxton (UK), and Eastern Illinois (see my vita).
- Research Interests - I am currently examining how clergy across the Britannic archipelago used history to explain the revolutionary events of 1688; also, how local knowledge intersects with the national politics of late-Stuart scandal. My main project is on the political use of aristocratic households in the London cosmopolis, 1680s-1720s (for publications see my vita).
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Student Supervision Interests - I have directed M.A. theses and Honors undergraduate research on: the London Irish circa 1798, London and the slave trade circa 1700, London murderesses 1680s-1800, the seventeenth-century popular calendar celebrations, and Restoration localities. Do contact me if you are a student focusing on the British Isles between 1550 and 1800, or the British and Irish diaspora before 1700 (to contact, see my office page).
- Teaching interests - I teach undergraduate courses on the early modern world, early modern England, modern Britain and the British Empire, as well as researching and writing history. I teach graduate courses on early modern revolutions, early modern society, as well as historiography. I teach Irish history to both graduates and undergraduates (for courses, see my syllabi page).
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