Our first seminar update of the new term… At our latest Parliaments, Politics and People seminar, Dr Jonathan Fitzgibbons made a strident attack on what is still one of the key texts for historians studying the last days of the Cromwellian Protectorate, John Towill Rutt’s edited version of The Diary of Thomas Burton Esq. The diary records parliamentary proceedings – such as speeches or committee … Continue reading Parliaments, Politics and People seminar: Jonathan Fitzgibbons (Cambridge) ‘Concord or Discord?: The Third Protectorate Parliament and the Pitfalls of J.T. Rutt’s edition of Thomas Burton’s Diary’