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Living with water and flood in medieval and early modern Hull (2023)
Journal Article
Mcdonagh, B., Worthen, H., Mottram, S., & Buxton-Hill, S. (in press). Living with water and flood in medieval and early modern Hull. Environment and History,

This paper explores Hull's histories of living with water and flood in the period between the foundation of the town in the 1260s and c. 1700, examining how the inhabitants, Corporation and Commissioners of Sewers managed and governed water in order... Read More about Living with water and flood in medieval and early modern Hull.

Learning histories, participatory methods and creative engagement for climate resilience (2023)
Journal Article
McDonagh, B., Brookes, E., Smith, K., Worthen, H., Coulthard, T., Hughes, G., …Chamberlain, J. (2023). Learning histories, participatory methods and creative engagement for climate resilience. Journal of Historical Geography, 82, 91-97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2023.09.002

The potential of place-based, historically-informed approaches to drive climate action has not yet been adequately interrogated. Recent scholarly work has focussed on climate communication and the role of arts and humanities-led storytelling in engag... Read More about Learning histories, participatory methods and creative engagement for climate resilience.

Deluge and disease: plague, the poetry of flooding, and the history of health inequalities in Andrew Marvell’s Hull (2022)
Journal Article
Mottram, S. (2023). Deluge and disease: plague, the poetry of flooding, and the history of health inequalities in Andrew Marvell’s Hull. Seventeenth Century, https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117X.2022.2142656

This article redresses a predominant focus on London among historians of health inequalities by turning to the port town of Kingston upon Hull and offering the first demographic analysis of burial records from Hull’s ‘great plague’ of 1637–38. The ar... Read More about Deluge and disease: plague, the poetry of flooding, and the history of health inequalities in Andrew Marvell’s Hull.

“A most excellent medicine”: Malaria, Mithridate, and the death of Andrew Marvell (2021)
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Mottram, S. (2021). “A most excellent medicine”: Malaria, Mithridate, and the death of Andrew Marvell. Seventeenth Century, 36(4), 653-679. https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117X.2021.1901240

The poet Andrew Marvell (1621–78) died suffering from vivax malaria, a common disease in the seventeenth century, endemic in estuary regions of eastern England. This article explores Marvell’s death alongside the literature and history of malaria and... Read More about “A most excellent medicine”: Malaria, Mithridate, and the death of Andrew Marvell.

The religious geography of Marvell’s “An Horatian Ode”: popery, presbytery, and parti-coloured picts (2018)
Journal Article
Mottram, S. (2018). The religious geography of Marvell’s “An Horatian Ode”: popery, presbytery, and parti-coloured picts. Seventeenth Century, 33(4), 441-461. https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117X.2018.1484636

Marvell’s “Ode” (1650) is an English poem about a British problem – a problem further problematized by religion. The “Ode” lauds Cromwell’s Irish and Scottish campaigns, but English responses to these “colonial” wars were in reality complicated by pr... Read More about The religious geography of Marvell’s “An Horatian Ode”: popery, presbytery, and parti-coloured picts.

“With guiltles blood oft stained”: Spenser’s Ruines of Time and the Saints of St. Albans (2018)
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Mottram, S. (2018). “With guiltles blood oft stained”: Spenser’s Ruines of Time and the Saints of St. Albans. Spenser studies, 31(1), 533-556. https://doi.org/10.1086/694442

Alban is conspicuously absent from Spenser’s Ruines of Time. Although Camden writes that Verulamium was “famous for […] bringing foorth Alban,” Spenser’s Verlame is silent on Alban and again departs from Camden to claim Verulamium had been built on t... Read More about “With guiltles blood oft stained”: Spenser’s Ruines of Time and the Saints of St. Albans.

Reading the rhetoric of nationhood in two reformation pamphlets by Richard Morison and Nicholas Bodrugan (2005)
Journal Article
Mottram, S. (2005). Reading the rhetoric of nationhood in two reformation pamphlets by Richard Morison and Nicholas Bodrugan. Renaissance Studies, 19(4), 523-540. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-4658.2005.00116.x

This article seeks to redress a contemporary critical trend amongst social historians concerned to date the dawn of nationalism on our Western political horizons from the twilight period of empire at the end of the eighteenth century. It does so by e... Read More about Reading the rhetoric of nationhood in two reformation pamphlets by Richard Morison and Nicholas Bodrugan.

Imagining England in Richard Morison's pamphlets against the Pilgrimage of Grace (1536) (2005)
Journal Article
Mottram, S. (2005). Imagining England in Richard Morison's pamphlets against the Pilgrimage of Grace (1536). Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 36, 41-67. https://doi.org/10.1353/cjm.2005.0004

This article contests the assumptions of the social historians Foucault, Anderson, Gellner, and Habermas, all of whom date the origins of nationhood in Western Europe to the eighteenth century, and argue that nationhood superseded empire at this time... Read More about Imagining England in Richard Morison's pamphlets against the Pilgrimage of Grace (1536).