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Books

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

‘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

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

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

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.

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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