Centre for the Study of Religion and Conflict and the Early Modern Periods present
Thirty Year's War - 400 Yea'rs On... Military history and the military revolution in the early 17th century

The conference marks the four hundredth anniversary of the beginning of the Thirty Years war in 1618, one of the most serious periods of war in Europe.
It was however a time when arguable the pace of change in military strategy, tactics and weaponry accelerated – a period called the Military revolution by some.
The speakers at the conference focus on a number of issues related to this change such as military commanders, moral dilemmas and massacres as well as medical practices, local militia forces, and Britain’s involvement in the war on the continent. These new perspectives will broaden and deepen our understanding of military change and developments in this tumultuous period.
- From: Wednesday 11 July 2018, 9 am
- To: Wednesday 11 July 2018, 5.30 pm
- Registration: 9 am - 9.30 am
- Location: Nottingham Trent University, Clifton Lane, Nottingham NG11 8NS,
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Event details
WORKSHOP PROGRAMME
09:00am – 09:30am | Registration and coffee | |
Conference opens 09:30am – 10.00am | Martyn Bennett, Nottingham Trent University WelcomeAndy Grainger British Council for Military History Presentation - Andy Grainger | |
10.00am - 11.30am Session One Room: CTLP 09/10 | Chair Richard Bullock Daniel P Franke Richard Bland College, William and Mary The Seventeenth-Century military revolution: A medieval Perspective David Blackmore An assessment of Sir Thomas Fairfax, cavalry commander. | |
11.30am - 1pm Room: CTLP 09/10 | Chair: Maxine Spry Bethany Marsh, University of Nottingham, The Long Parliament and the pan-European Protestant perspective on relief to ‘Irish’ refugees, 1641-1643Marsh Ismini Pells, University of Leicester, Holes in the head, imbecilic legs and a wolf in the arm: Civil War medical practice in British and European perspective David J Appleby, University of Nottingham, Fleshing out a massacre: Shelford House and the potentialities of the ‘Conflict warfare and memory’ project. | |
1pm - 2pm Room CTLP 05/06 | Lunch | |
Session Three 2pm - 3.30pm Room: CTLP 09/10 | Chair Laura Charles Steve Murdoch University of St Andrews Britain and the Thirty Years War: The Evolution of a Field of Study Mary Jacobs, University of Glasgow, ‘A Good name is above all riches’; Demobilised Manhood following the English Civil Wars. Katherine Zickermann, University of the highlands and Islands, Scottish Widows of the Thirty Years’ War | |
3.30pm - 3.45pm | Coffee/Tea | |
Session Four 3.45pm -5.00pm Room: CTLP 09/10 | Chair: Helen Gair Glenn Price, University of Keele, Roads, Routes and wagoneers – land transport in the British Civil Wars Peter Leadbetter, How the Trained Band system worked under the Early Stuarts. | |
17.00 to 17.15 Room: CTLP 09/10 | Conference Closes |
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Parking for external visitors is available on Clifton Campus. Please arrive via the main entrance where you will be directed by the gate staff.
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