Lloyd Bowen
Biographic Data
| ID | 1059913 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lloyd Bowen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lloyd |
| FAMILY NAME | Bowen |
| SIGNATURE | BOWEN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3458-4740 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Revisiting the Origins of the ‘Roundhead’ in 1641
This article revisits the contested origins of the political label ‘Roundhead’ during the English Revolution, challenging the conventional view that the term originated spontaneously during the Westminster tumults of December 1641. While historians have generally relied upon John Rushworth’s later account of David Hyde denouncing parliamentary crowds as ‘round-headed dogs’, this study demonstrates that the contemporary evidence is more ambiguous.…
The Lord’s Battle
Faction, Connection and Politics in the Civil Wars
This article considers the roles of faction and connections between centre and periphery as structuring elements of local politics during the civil wars of the mid-seventeenth century. It explores these issues through an examination of Pembrokeshire in south-west Wales. Using a considerable amount of previously unexamined printed and manuscript material, it argues that established but largely ignored factional alignments informed a good deal of t…
Preaching and politics in the Welsh Marches, 1643-63
This article considers the nature and development of episcopalian identities and attitudes during the mid-seventeenth century by examining the case of Alexander Griffith. Griffith has been known to historians as an unbending 'Anglican', an exemplar of obdurate royalism and a man who was in the vanguard of resistance to the puritan experiments in Wales during the 1640s and 1650s. However, the discovery of Griffith's sermon book in the Folger Shake…
The Common Freedom of the People
Michael Braddick’s excellent biography of John Lilburne deals with a remarkable life lived through a remarkable time. Lilburne came from gentry stock in the north of England and was apprenticed to the London clothier Thomas Hewson, who had connections in the London puritan underground. At the beginning of the Scottish troubles, Lilburne went to the Low Countries and was likely to have been involved in illicit printing against the Caroline regime.…
The Bedlam Academy
This article explores the polemical presentation of Oxford, the royalist capital between 1642 and 1646, in parliamentarian newsbooks. It argues that the novel seriality of the form offered opportunities for constructing political identities and identifying enemies through strategies of repetition and echoing within and across parliamentarian news media. Discussion of Oxford in these news titles suggests ways in which seriality helped establish an…
Structuring Particularist Publics
This article examines how early modern publics were shaped partly by dynamics of linguistic difference and physical distance. Taking Wales as its focus, it argues that barriers to communication have yet to be considered sufficiently in a literature which presents English language metropolitan discourses as normative. Particularist publics that drew upon different cultural heritages and employed different communicative practices to those prevailin…
News Networks in Early Modern Wales
This article addresses the neglected topic of gentry news culture in early modern Wales. It argues that the Welsh gentry accessed and consumed news in much the same way as their English counterparts, but with subtle and important differences. Examining the circulation of news as part of the culture of gentry sociability, the article examines the ways in which news followed networks of family and friendship, highlighting in particular the role of …
An Industrious Mind
Sir Simonds D’Ewes is known to historians primarily through two texts: his Autobiography, edited by J.O. Halliwell in 1845, and his ‘journal’, which constitutes our fullest account of the momentous first years of the Long Parliament. As this impressive biography demonstrates, however, his archive is far more extensive and worthy of much greater scrutiny than it has hitherto received. The Autobiography and parliamentary journal comprise only five …
The Royalist Republic
The Royalist Republic: Literature, Politics, and Religion in the Anglo-Dutch Public Sphere, 1639–1660. Helmer J. Helmers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xvi + 326 pp. $99. - Volume 69 Issue 4
Revel, Riot and Rebellion
This article considers the ways in which the question of scale: parish, county, regional and national, operated in David Underdown’s Revel, Riot and Rebellion. It is suggested that Underdown mixed the parish-based approaches of Keith Wrightson and the regional model of the Annales school with his own interest in national politics. These methodological influences helped underwrite and structure the book’s narrative in which older models of local c…
Information, Language and Political Culture in Early Modern Wales
Recent research into the politics and political culture of early modern England has focused particularly on three interrelated areas: the nature and development of the public sphere, the circulation of news and political information, and the growth and influence of political print.1 The general trajectory of scholarship in each of these domains has been to challenge older revisionist ideas about the hierarchical and broadly consensual nature of e…
David Underdown, Royalist Conspirators and the Character of English Politics
This article discusses David Underdown's first major publication, Royalist Conspiracy in England, 1649–60 (1960). This volume is located in its historiographical context, and it is suggested that commentators have overlooked the potential influence of the Tory historian Sir Keith Feiling on this work, alongside the better known perspectives of Underdown's supervisor, Christopher Hill. Underdown's critical view of royalist conspiracy in this book …
Royalism, Print, and the Clergy in Britain, 1639–1640 and 1642
Charles I and his clerical supporters are often said to have been wary of print and public discussion, only entering the public sphere reluctantly and to comparatively little effect during the political crisis of 1642. This article challenges such views by focusing on the neglected role of official forms of print such as proclamations, declarations, and state prayers and their promulgation in the nation's churches. It traces the ways in which the…
History in the UK National Curriculum
In response to recent discussions in the UK about the history national curriculum in schools, Cultural and Social History invited several historians to comment on the issues. Their responses to our questions have been interleaved and lightly edited
The English Revolution, c.1590–1720
People and Parliament
A Concise History of Wales
Journal Article A Concise History of Wales Get access A Concise History of Wales, by Geraint H. Jenkins ( Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2007; pp. 345. £40; pb. £14.99). L. Bowen L. Bowen University of Cardiff Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXIV, Issue 509, August 2009, Pages 990–992, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cep161 Published: 01 August 2009
Obituary
Dismantling Prerogative Government
This article re-examines one aspect of the celebrated parliamentary reform programme of 1641-2 which was designed to address Charles I's abuse of his prerogative powers during the Personal Rule. It focuses on the opposition to the Council in the Marches of Wales and revises the traditional picture of an undifferentiated and uniform attack on prerogative government by the Commons. Rather, this essay uncovers a more complex mixture of sectional int…
Rediscovering Difference
This article considers some of the ways in which the ‘New British History’ has influenced the study of the civil wars in Britain and Ireland during the mid‐seventeenth century. It examines the genesis and influence of the ‘three kingdoms’ model for civil war studies and the ways in which this has privileged a statist interpretation of the conflicts, often glossing over the cultural and ethnic subdivisions which influenced and inflected the course…
Edward de Vere (1550-1604)
Representations of Wales and the Welsh during the civil wars and Interregnum
This article examines how Wales and the Welsh were represented in the pamphlet literature of the civil war and early Interregnum. It considers the historical construction of the Welsh image in English minds, and traces how this image came to be politicized by Welsh support for Charles I during the sixteen-forties. An examination of the public controversies surrounding the state-sponsored evangelization programme in Wales during the early sixteen-…
Wales at Westminster
This article attempts to address an inconsistency of modern historiography regarding the legacy of Wales's union with England in the mid-sixteenth century.The discrepancy concerns the participation of Welshmen in the new parliamentary and administrative roles afforded by the union.The Henrician statutes which united Wales with England remodelled Welsh justice and administration, bringing Wales into line with English practice.Justices of the peace…
Royalism, Print, and the Clergy in Britain, 1639–1640 and 1642
Charles I and his clerical supporters are often said to have been wary of print and public discussion, only entering the public sphere reluctantly and to comparatively little effect during the political crisis of 1642. This article challenges such views by focusing on the neglected role of official forms of print such as proclamations, declarations, and state prayers and their promulgation in the nation's churches. It traces the ways in which the…
History in the UK National Curriculum
In response to recent discussions in the UK about the history national curriculum in schools, Cultural and Social History invited several historians to comment on the issues. Their responses to our questions have been interleaved and lightly edited
Wales at Westminster
This article attempts to address an inconsistency of modern historiography regarding the legacy of Wales's union with England in the mid-sixteenth century.The discrepancy concerns the participation of Welshmen in the new parliamentary and administrative roles afforded by the union.The Henrician statutes which united Wales with England remodelled Welsh justice and administration, bringing Wales into line with English practice.Justices of the peace…
Representations of Wales and the Welsh during the civil wars and Interregnum
This article examines how Wales and the Welsh were represented in the pamphlet literature of the civil war and early Interregnum. It considers the historical construction of the Welsh image in English minds, and traces how this image came to be politicized by Welsh support for Charles I during the sixteen-forties. An examination of the public controversies surrounding the state-sponsored evangelization programme in Wales during the early sixteen-…
Rediscovering Difference
This article considers some of the ways in which the ‘New British History’ has influenced the study of the civil wars in Britain and Ireland during the mid‐seventeenth century. It examines the genesis and influence of the ‘three kingdoms’ model for civil war studies and the ways in which this has privileged a statist interpretation of the conflicts, often glossing over the cultural and ethnic subdivisions which influenced and inflected the course…
Edward de Vere (1550-1604)
Obituary
Dismantling Prerogative Government
This article re-examines one aspect of the celebrated parliamentary reform programme of 1641-2 which was designed to address Charles I's abuse of his prerogative powers during the Personal Rule. It focuses on the opposition to the Council in the Marches of Wales and revises the traditional picture of an undifferentiated and uniform attack on prerogative government by the Commons. Rather, this essay uncovers a more complex mixture of sectional int…
People and Parliament
A Concise History of Wales
Journal Article A Concise History of Wales Get access A Concise History of Wales, by Geraint H. Jenkins ( Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2007; pp. 345. £40; pb. £14.99). L. Bowen L. Bowen University of Cardiff Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXIV, Issue 509, August 2009, Pages 990–992, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cep161 Published: 01 August 2009
The English Revolution, c.1590–1720
History in the UK National Curriculum
In response to recent discussions in the UK about the history national curriculum in schools, Cultural and Social History invited several historians to comment on the issues. Their responses to our questions have been interleaved and lightly edited
David Underdown, Royalist Conspirators and the Character of English Politics
This article discusses David Underdown's first major publication, Royalist Conspiracy in England, 1649–60 (1960). This volume is located in its historiographical context, and it is suggested that commentators have overlooked the potential influence of the Tory historian Sir Keith Feiling on this work, alongside the better known perspectives of Underdown's supervisor, Christopher Hill. Underdown's critical view of royalist conspiracy in this book …
Royalism, Print, and the Clergy in Britain, 1639–1640 and 1642
Charles I and his clerical supporters are often said to have been wary of print and public discussion, only entering the public sphere reluctantly and to comparatively little effect during the political crisis of 1642. This article challenges such views by focusing on the neglected role of official forms of print such as proclamations, declarations, and state prayers and their promulgation in the nation's churches. It traces the ways in which the…
Revel, Riot and Rebellion
This article considers the ways in which the question of scale: parish, county, regional and national, operated in David Underdown’s Revel, Riot and Rebellion. It is suggested that Underdown mixed the parish-based approaches of Keith Wrightson and the regional model of the Annales school with his own interest in national politics. These methodological influences helped underwrite and structure the book’s narrative in which older models of local c…
Information, Language and Political Culture in Early Modern Wales
Recent research into the politics and political culture of early modern England has focused particularly on three interrelated areas: the nature and development of the public sphere, the circulation of news and political information, and the growth and influence of political print.1 The general trajectory of scholarship in each of these domains has been to challenge older revisionist ideas about the hierarchical and broadly consensual nature of e…
The Royalist Republic
The Royalist Republic: Literature, Politics, and Religion in the Anglo-Dutch Public Sphere, 1639–1660. Helmer J. Helmers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xvi + 326 pp. $99. - Volume 69 Issue 4
The Bedlam Academy
This article explores the polemical presentation of Oxford, the royalist capital between 1642 and 1646, in parliamentarian newsbooks. It argues that the novel seriality of the form offered opportunities for constructing political identities and identifying enemies through strategies of repetition and echoing within and across parliamentarian news media. Discussion of Oxford in these news titles suggests ways in which seriality helped establish an…
Structuring Particularist Publics
This article examines how early modern publics were shaped partly by dynamics of linguistic difference and physical distance. Taking Wales as its focus, it argues that barriers to communication have yet to be considered sufficiently in a literature which presents English language metropolitan discourses as normative. Particularist publics that drew upon different cultural heritages and employed different communicative practices to those prevailin…
News Networks in Early Modern Wales
This article addresses the neglected topic of gentry news culture in early modern Wales. It argues that the Welsh gentry accessed and consumed news in much the same way as their English counterparts, but with subtle and important differences. Examining the circulation of news as part of the culture of gentry sociability, the article examines the ways in which news followed networks of family and friendship, highlighting in particular the role of …
An Industrious Mind
Sir Simonds D’Ewes is known to historians primarily through two texts: his Autobiography, edited by J.O. Halliwell in 1845, and his ‘journal’, which constitutes our fullest account of the momentous first years of the Long Parliament. As this impressive biography demonstrates, however, his archive is far more extensive and worthy of much greater scrutiny than it has hitherto received. The Autobiography and parliamentary journal comprise only five …
The Common Freedom of the People
Michael Braddick’s excellent biography of John Lilburne deals with a remarkable life lived through a remarkable time. Lilburne came from gentry stock in the north of England and was apprenticed to the London clothier Thomas Hewson, who had connections in the London puritan underground. At the beginning of the Scottish troubles, Lilburne went to the Low Countries and was likely to have been involved in illicit printing against the Caroline regime.…
Preaching and politics in the Welsh Marches, 1643-63
This article considers the nature and development of episcopalian identities and attitudes during the mid-seventeenth century by examining the case of Alexander Griffith. Griffith has been known to historians as an unbending 'Anglican', an exemplar of obdurate royalism and a man who was in the vanguard of resistance to the puritan experiments in Wales during the 1640s and 1650s. However, the discovery of Griffith's sermon book in the Folger Shake…
Faction, Connection and Politics in the Civil Wars
This article considers the roles of faction and connections between centre and periphery as structuring elements of local politics during the civil wars of the mid-seventeenth century. It explores these issues through an examination of Pembrokeshire in south-west Wales. Using a considerable amount of previously unexamined printed and manuscript material, it argues that established but largely ignored factional alignments informed a good deal of t…
Revisiting the Origins of the ‘Roundhead’ in 1641
This article revisits the contested origins of the political label ‘Roundhead’ during the English Revolution, challenging the conventional view that the term originated spontaneously during the Westminster tumults of December 1641. While historians have generally relied upon John Rushworth’s later account of David Hyde denouncing parliamentary crowds as ‘round-headed dogs’, this study demonstrates that the contemporary evidence is more ambiguous.…
The Lord’s Battle
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