Sarah Ward Clavier's Outputs (13)

Reading his way to royalism? Sir Thomas Myddelton, side-changing and loyalty in England and Wales, 1639-1666 (2024)
Journal Article

Civil War allegiance has long been a preoccupation of early modern British historians. They have weighed geographical, religious, political, and pragmatic reasons for British people to choose sides in 1642. Just as important is a change of allegiance... Read More about Reading his way to royalism? Sir Thomas Myddelton, side-changing and loyalty in England and Wales, 1639-1666.

Postmistresses and the state, 1660–1715 (2024)
Journal Article

Women’s place in the post-Restoration Post Office has been overlooked in the existing literature on the mail, 1660-1715. Historians and historical geographers have explored the bureaucratic and administrative history of the Post; the expansion of pos... Read More about Postmistresses and the state, 1660–1715.

Loss and survival: The Episcopalian spiritual vocation, 1646-62 (2023)
Journal Article

This article outlines a forthcoming project on the episcopalian spiritual vocation in the period c.1640 to 1662. It explains the rationale for the project and its place within the historiography. The article argues that seventeenth-century clergy may... Read More about Loss and survival: The Episcopalian spiritual vocation, 1646-62.

Wales and the news, 1640–1800 (2023)
Book Chapter

Despite the absence of a regular Welsh print newspaper until the nineteenth century, there was a deep and abiding interest in the news and the press from at least the early seventeenth century. Correspondence collections, including those of the Wynns... Read More about Wales and the news, 1640–1800.

Religion and the seventeenth-century press (2023)
Book Chapter

Religion was as ubiquitous in the early modern press as it was in early modern consciousness. Perhaps because of this, religion is rarely the headline in studies of the press. There has been minimal exploration of religion for its own sake in studies... Read More about Religion and the seventeenth-century press.

Introduction: Books and manuscripts in Wales (2022)
Journal Article

This introduction outlines the research context from which this special number arises. It opens with a discussion of the interdisciplinary conference ‘Reading, Writing and Collecting: Books and Manuscripts in Wales, 1450–1850’ and our rationale in ou... Read More about Introduction: Books and manuscripts in Wales.

Royalism, Religion, and Revolution: North-East Wales, 1640-1688 (2021)
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God's vigilant watchmen: The words of Episcopalian Clergy in Wales, 1646-1660 (2021)
Book Chapter

The Restoration episcopacy and the Interregnum: Autobiography, suffering, and professions of faith (2020)
Book Chapter

Accounting for lives: Autobiography and biography in the accounts of Sir Thomas Myddelton, 1642–1666 (2019)
Journal Article

This article significantly adds to the literature on the value of financial accounts, demonstrating their worth as both an autobiographical and biographical source. It argues that elite accounts can be seen both as a biography of the master, and an a... Read More about Accounting for lives: Autobiography and biography in the accounts of Sir Thomas Myddelton, 1642–1666.

'Horrid rebellion' and 'holie cheate': Royalist gentry responses to interregnum government in North-East Wales, 1646-1660 (2018)
Journal Article

This article significantly adds to works on Interregnum religion and government by considering the response to that period of a conservative, rather than a radical, region and social group. It examines the reaction of the royalist, religiously conser... Read More about 'Horrid rebellion' and 'holie cheate': Royalist gentry responses to interregnum government in North-East Wales, 1646-1660.

‘Round-head knaves’: The Ballad of Wrexham and the subversive political culture of Interregnum north-east Wales (2018)
Journal Article

© 2017 Institute of Historical Research. This article broadens ballad studies to encompass a regional perspective and significantly adds to the literature on Welsh royalism. It argues that the ballad author sought to destabilize the newly established... Read More about ‘Round-head knaves’: The Ballad of Wrexham and the subversive political culture of Interregnum north-east Wales.

"God Almighty sanctifie thes afflictive providences to us": The life-writing of Robert Salusbury of Henllan (2017)
Journal Article