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Books

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Royalist Newark, 1642-1646: Sieges and Siege Works (Helion, August 2024), ISBN 978-1-804515-48-8

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'A Very Gallant Gentleman': Colonel Francis Thornhagh (1617-1648) and the Nottinghamshire Horse (Helion, May 2022) ISBN 1915070341

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‘These Uncertaine tymes’: Newark and the Civilian Experience of Civil Wars, 1640-1660 (Nottinghamshire County Council, August 2009) ISBN 978-0-902751-62-0 [Winner of the 2010 Alan Ball Local History Prize]

 

Sermons and Stocking Frames: The History of Methodism in Ruddington and its links with the Framework Knitters (Loughborough, 1993, Reprinted 1995)

 

Book Chapters

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Chapter entitled 'Colonel Francis Thornhagh, OliverCromwell and the Battle of Preston, 1648' in Charles Singleton (ed.), 1648 and all that: The Scottish invasions of England, 1648 and 1651 (Helion, 2023) ISBN 978-1-804514-64-4

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Chapter entitled 'Controlling disease in a civil-war garrison town: Military discipline or civil duty? The surviving evidence for Newark upon Trent, 1642-1646' in  David Appleby & Andrew Hopper (eds),Battle- scarred: Mortality, medical care and military welfare in the British Civil Wars (MUP, 2018) ISBN 978-1-5261-2480-7

 

Chapter entitled ‘When Women Preach and Cobblers Pray: The Religious Experience of Nottinghamshire, 1640-1660’ in Martyn Bennett (ed.), Society, Religion and culture in Seventeenth-Century Nottinghamshire, ( 2005) ISBN 0-7734-6054-4

 

William Bagshawe (1628-1702), John Billingsley the elder (1625-1683), John Bingham (1613-1689), Thomas Palmer (fl. 1644-1667), William Reynolds (1625-1698), John Whitlock (1625-1708), New Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, OUP 2004)

 

Chapter entitled “Bunny and the English Civil Wars, 1642-1660’ in Bill Bennett, Janet Eastgate, Christopher Paul and Alan Wain (eds.), Bunny Images of the Past (Bunny, Nottingham 2000)

 

Internet Publications, Blogs and Podcasts

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'Typhus in Early Modern Warfare', https://helionbooks.wordpress.com/2025/01/17/typhus-in-early-modern-warfare/

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'Living through civil war seiges in Newark - the Civilian experience', World Turned Upside Down (2024)

 https://www.worldturnedupsidedown.co.uk/podcast/living-through-civil-war-sieges-newark/​

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Newark on Trent and the British Civil Wars, (2011) 

http://www.ournottinghamshire.org.uk/page_id__330_path__0p31p38p50p.aspx

 

From Puritanism to Nonconformity in Seventeenth Century Nottinghamshire  (2012)

http://www.nottsheritagegateway.org.uk/themes/nonconformity.htm

 

Audiovisual Materials Podcast at University of Warwick Knowledge centre on ‘Newark and the Civil Wars’ (2012)

https://warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/podcasts/upload/stuart_jennings_these_uncertaine_tymes.mp3

 

Newark and the experience of the English Civil Wars, talk about research broadcast, BBC Radio Nottingham John Holmes afternoon show. (August 2009)

 

Journal Articles.

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Life in a garrisoned town: Newark, 1642-1646; A bolthole and a bastion for Lincolnshire royalists, Comwelliana, series III, 9 (2020), 40-54

 

Nottinghamshire 1646; Plague, Disruption of Trade and Commerce and the Cancelling of the Goose Fair in the County Town of Nottingham, Midland History, 43 No.2 (Autumn 2018) 171-186

 

The Anatomy of a Civil War Plague in a Rural Parish, East Stoke, Nottinghamshire, 1646, Midland History, 40 No. 2, (Autumn 2015), 201–219

 

'Hidden Voices: Newark and the Civilian Experience of the Civil War', East Midlnds History and Heritage, 1 (June 2015), 
 

The Third and Final Siege of Newark (1645-1646) and the Impact of the Scottish Army upon Nottinghamshire and the adjacent Counties, Midland History, 37, No.2 (Fall 2012)

 

‘A Miserable, stinking, infected town’: Pestilence, Plague and Death in a Civil War Garrison, Newark, 1640-1649, Midland History, XXVIII (2003)

 

'Gon Forth of the Land': The Emigration of Nottinghamshire Quakers to the New World, 1660-1700, Quaker History, 91 (Fall 2002)

 

Colonel Isham Parkyns: Nottinghamshire’s Forgotten Royalist, Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 104 (2000)

 

‘Ruddington Methodism and the Framework Knitters’, Heritage: Journal of the East Midlands Wesley Historical Society, Vol. 5 No. 4 (1998)

 

With Martyn Bennett & Martin Whyld, ‘Two Military Account Books for the Civil War in Nottinghamshire’, Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 100 (1996)

 

‘The 1669 Ecclesiastical Returns for Nottinghamshire: A Reassessment of the Strength of Protestant Nonconformity’, Transactions of the Thoroton Society, XCIX (1995)

 

‘The Archdeacon’s Court and the Parishioners of Ruddington, 1566-1642’, Ruddington Local History Newsletter, 108-112 (1995/96)

 

Conference Proceedings

 

Jennings, Stuart B., 'Controlling Endemic Disease in a Civil War Town:

Military Discipline or Civic Duty?  The Surviving Evidence for Newark Upon Trent, 1642-1646' at Mortality, care and Military Welfare During the British Civil Wars, Launch of New National Civil War Centre, Newark, 7-8 August 2015

 

Jennings, Stuart B. ‘When Women Preach and Cobblers Pray’: The Religious Experience of the County of Nottinghamshire during the Civil Wars and Interregnum, In Centre for Seventeenth-Century Studies 7th International Conference, University of Durham, Durham, 21-21 July 1997

 

Book Reviews

Review in Church History (Fall 2002) of Christine Trevett, Quaker Women Prophets in England and Wales, 1650-1700 (Studies in Women and Religion, Edwin Mellen Press, 2000), 71, pp 417-418

 

Review in Church History (Spring 2004) of Mark A. Nolls (ed.), God and Mammon: Protestants, Money and the Market, 1790-1860 (OUP, 2002), 73, pp 226-228

 

Review in Church History (Spring 2010) of Jane E. Calvert, Quaker Constitutionalism and the Political Thought of John Dickinson (CUP, 2009), 79, pp 477-479

 

Review in Church History (Summer 2011) of Edel Bhreathnach, Joseph MacMaham and John McCafferty (eds.), The Irish Franciscans, 1534-1990, ((Dublin, Four Courts, 2009), 80, pp 687-689

 

Review in Church History (Spring 2014) of Geoffrey Plank, John Woolman’s Path to the Peaceful Kingdom: A Quaker In the British Empire, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012)

 

Guide Book Contributions

‘Newark and the English Civil War’ in A Guide to Sconce and Devon Park (Newark, 2010)

 

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