Dr Vivienne Larminie

Current Research

Assistant Editor Commons 1640-1660

History of Parliament Research

Having arrived at History of Parliament in 2006, I worked on the House of Commons 1640-1660; from January 2018 until my retirement in July 2022 I was assistant editor.  A geographical focus on south central England, entailed working on, among others, Nathaniel Fiennes and John Selden, memorialists Edmund Ludlowe and Bulstrode Whitelocke, Speaker William Lenthall, and Philip Herbert, 4th earl of Pembroke, and his circle.  Particular interests included religious issues in Parliament and the European travel and connections of MPs.  

Research and Publications

Local, national and international history have been interwoven in my research.  Longstanding projects take in 17th century Oxford, refugees and migrants, Anglo-Swiss relations, and early modern Switzerland.  Since January 2021 I have been honorary editor of the Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland.

My publications include:

- over 100 biographies and other entries for Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

- ‘Anglo-Swiss relations in the Seventeenth Century: Religion, Refuge and Relief’, in D. Stienforth and C. Rozier eds., Britain and its Neighbours: Cultural Contacts and Exchanges in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Routledge, 2021), 158–74

- ‘Herbert Saladin (1627–1710) and the earls of Pembroke: Genevan Huguenots and the English nobility’, Huguenot Society Journal xxx. No. 3 (2019), 15–25

- ‘The Herbert Connection, the French Church and Westminster Politics, 1643–1661’, in Vivienne Larminie ed., Huguenot Networks 1560-1780: The Interactions and Impact of a Protestant Minority in Europe (Routledge: New York and Abingdon, 2017)

- ‘Johann Heinrich Hummel, the Peningtons and the London godly community: Anglo-Swiss networks 1634-1674’, History of Reformed Pietism ii.2 (2016) https://www.studiesinpuritanism.org/archive-1

- ‘The Fell Era 1658-1686’, in Ian Gadd ed., The History of Oxford University Press vol. 1 (OUP: Oxford, 2013)

- ‘Exile, integration and European perspectives: Huguenots in the Pays de Vaud’, in D. J. B. Trim ed., The Huguenots: History and Memory in Transnational Context (Brill: Leiden and Boston, 2011)

- ‘The Jacobean diplomatic fraternity and the protestant cause: Sir Isaac Wake and the view from Savoy’, English Historical Review cxxi (2006)

- ‘La vie religieuse en pays de Vaud et le contexte européen’ in F. Flouck, P.-R Monbaron, M. Stubenvoll and D. Tosato-Rigo eds., De L’Ours à la Cocarde: régime bernois et révolution en pays de Vaud (1536-1798) (Payot: Lausanne, 1998)

- Wealth, Kinship and Culture: the seventeenth century Newdigates of Arbury and their world (Boydell and Brewer for Royal Historical Society, 1995)