Nick Poyntz : Curriculum Vitae

Education

2001: MA (Hons) Historical Tripos, Cambridge University: double first.

2009: MA (Hons) Comparative History of Early Modern Societies, Birkbeck College: distinction.

Publications

'A Most Learned, Conscientious and Devout Exercise: anti-Cromwellian satire in 1649', Cromwelliana, II, 4 (2007). (Open access pre-publication version available here).

'The attack on Lord Chandos: popular politics in Cirencester in 1642', Midland History, 35, 1 (2010). (Open access pre-publication version available here).

8 articles for 'History Tomorrow' column, History Today (2010).

Papers delivered

'"A Delicate, Dainty, Damnable Dialogue"?: The Pamphlet War Between John Taylor and Henry Walker Reconsidered’, Birkbeck Early Modern Society annual conference, July 2008.

'"To Have No Newes Is Good Newes": Newsbooks and Readers during the Early English Commonwealth, 1649–1650', SHARP annual conference, August 2010.

Academic prizes

Vellacott Historical Essay Prize, 1997 (Peterhouse, Cambridge).

John Whitgift senior scholarship, 2000 (Peterhouse, Cambridge).

Cromwell Association Essay Prize, 2006.

Midland History Essay Prize, proxime accessit, 2009.