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Institute of Historical Research Seminar The tragicomedy Measure for Measure, which dramatizes the consequences of a clampdown on social immorality in Vienna, has long been recognised as indirectly commenting on the puritanism of Shakespeare's era. This paper argues that the play also speaks to Catholicism's internal reforms, especially through Shakespeare's representation of friars and nuns; […]

Dr Laura Mair presents ‘I hope to make something of him’: Character, care, and control in London's Ragged Schools (1850-1867). The London Ragged School Union (LRSU), which claimed to have taught over 400,000 children by 1884, is a standard fixture of histories of education, evangelicalism, and philanthropy. Evangelical in character, these schools sought to save […]