Dear friends and colleagues,

This week we are pleased to be joined by Patrick Graham (PhD Student in History, UChicago) to discuss his paper titled “The Compter’s Commonwealth: Commercial Taxation and the Institutionalization of Public Debt in 17th-century England”. We will meet at the usual time, day, and place: Wednesday, November 29 from 4:30 – 6 pm in Pick Hall 105 (CISSR). The paper may be found below.

(William Turner. The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16 October 1834, 1835, The Cleveland Museum of Art)