Professor Lloyd Bowen
FSLW FRHS
Professor of Early Modern History
School of History, Archaeology and Religion
- Media commentator
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Overview
Research projects
- Law, Civil War and Gentry Faction in Seventeenth-Century Britain: The Trials of Edward Vaughan, c.1596-1661 (University of Wales Press, 2024).
- Early Modern Wales, c.1536-c.1689: Ambiguous Nationhood (University of Wales Press, 2022).
- (edited with Mark Soyle), Remembering the English Civil Wars (Routledge, 2021).
- Anatomy of a Duel in Jacobean England: Gentry Honour, Violence and the Law (Boydell & Brewer, 2021).
- John Poyer, The Civil Wars in Pembrokeshire and the British Revolutions (University of Wales Press, 2020)
- AHRC-funded project 'Welfare, Conflict and Memory, 1642-1710' (https://www.civilwarpetitions.ac.uk/).
- John and Jane Danyell: Representative Lives?
- Cultures of Popular Royalism, c.1637-1662.
Publication
2024
- Bowen, L. 2024. Genre, authorship and authenticity in the petitions of Civil War veterans and widows from north Wales and the Marches. In: Waddell, B. and Peacey, J. eds. The Power of Petitioning in Early Modern Britain. London: UCL Press, pp. 33-60.
- Bowen, L. 2024. Puritan networks and the publication of the 1630 Welsh Bible. The Library
2023
- Bowen, L. 2023. Faction, connection and politics in the Civil Wars: Pembrokeshire, 1640-1649. The English Historical Review 138(590-1), pp. 92-131. (10.1093/ehr/cead081)
- Bowen, L. 2023. The trials of Edward Vaughan: Law, civil war and gentry faction in seventeenth-century Britain, c.1596-1661. University of Wales Press.
2022
- Bowen, L. 2022. Early modern Wales, c.1536-1689. Rethinking the History of Wales Vol. 2. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
2021
- Bowen, L. and Stoyle, M. 2021. Remembering the English Civil Wars. Remembering the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds. London: Routledge.
- Bowen, L. 2021. History, politics and power: shaping the recent past in Civil War Pembrokeshire. In: Remembering the English Civil Wars. London: Routledge, pp. 60-80.
- Bowen, L. 2021. Anatomy of a duel in Jacobean England: gentry honour, violence and the law. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press.
- Bowen, L. 2021. Preaching and politics in the Welsh marches, 1643-63: The case of Alexander Griffiths. Historical Research 94(263), pp. 28-50. (10.1093/hisres/htaa035)
2020
- Bowen, L. 2020. John Poyer, the civil wars in Pembrokeshire and the British revolutions. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
- Bowen, L. 2020. Wales, 1587-1689. In: Coffey, J. ed. The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume I: The Post-Reformation Era, 1559-1689. The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 224-242.
2017
- Bowen, L. 2017. Structuring particularist publics: logistics, language and early modern Wales. Journal of British Studies 56(4), pp. 754-772. (10.1017/jbr.2017.118)
- Bowen, L. 2017. News networks in Early Modern Wales. History 102(349), pp. 24-44. (10.1111/1468-229X.12368)
- Bowen, L. 2017. "The Bedlam Academy": Royalist Oxford in Civil War news culture. Media History 23(2), pp. 199-217. (10.1080/13688804.2016.1270747)
2015
- Bowen, L. 2015. Revel, riot and rebellion: A sense of scale. Cultural and Social History 12(3), pp. 309-314. (10.1080/14780038.2015.1050878)
- Bowen, L. 2015. Information, language and political culture in Early Modern Wales. Past and Present 228(1), pp. 125-158. (10.1093/pastj/gtv024)
2014
- Bowen, L. 2014. The Battle of Britain: History and reformation in Early Modern Wales. In: O hAnnrachain, T. and Armstrong, R. eds. Christianities in the Early Modern Celtic World. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 135-150.
2013
- Bowen, L. 2013. Royalism, print, and the clergy in Britain, 1639-1640 and 1642. Historical Journal 56(2), pp. 297-319. (10.1017/S0018246X13000125)
2012
- Bowen, L. 2012. Fashioning communities: the county in early modern Wales. In: Eales, J. and Hopper, A. eds. The County Community in Seventeenth-Century England and Wales. Explorations in Local and Regional History Vol. 5. Hatfield, Hertfordshire: University of Hertfordshire Press, pp. 77-99.
2011
- Bowen, L. 2011. The seeds and fruits of revolution: The Erbery family and religious radicalism in seventeenth-century Glamorgan. Welsh History Review 25(3), pp. 346-373.
- Bowen, L. 2011. Reviling regicides: The King killers in popular culture, 1649-1662. Cromwelliana II(8), pp. 36-50.
2010
- Bowen, L. and Healey, S. 2010. Biographical and constituency entries (c. 90,000 words). In: Thrush, A. and Ferris, J. F. eds. The House of Commons, 1604-1629 (6 Volume Set). The History of Parliament Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
- Bowen, L. 2010. Seditious speech and popular royalism, 1649-60. In: McElligott, J. and Smith, D. L. eds. Royalists and Royalism during the Interregnum. Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 44-66.
- Bowen, L. 2010. Thomas Erbury: an early seventeenth-century ironmaster. Llafur -Aberystwyth- 10(3), pp. 9-17.
2009
- Bowen, L. 2009. Oliver Cromwell (alias Williams) and Wales. In: Little, P. ed. Oliver Cromwell: New Perspectives.. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 168-194.
2007
- Bowen, L. 2007. Dismantling prerogative government: The Council in the Marches and the Long Parliament. English Historical Review CXXII(499), pp. 1258-1286. (10.1093/ehr/cem325)
- Bowen, L. 2007. The politics of the principality: Wales, c.1603-1642. Studies in Welsh History Vol. 27. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
2006
- Bowen, L. 2006. Family and society in early Stuart Glamorgan: the household accounts of Sir Thomas Aubrey of Llantrithyd, c.1565-1641. Publications of the South Wales Record Society Vol. 19. Cardiff: South Wales Record Society.
2004
- Bowen, L. 2004. Representations of Wales and the Welsh during the civil wars and Interregnum. Historical Research 77(197), pp. 358-376. (10.1111/j.1468-2281.2004.00214.x)
2003
- Bowen, L. 2003. Wales at Westminster: parliament, principality and pressure groups, 1542-1601. Parliamentary History 22(2), pp. 107-120. (10.1111/j.1750-0206.2003.tb00611.x)
Articles
- Bowen, L. 2024. Puritan networks and the publication of the 1630 Welsh Bible. The Library
- Bowen, L. 2023. Faction, connection and politics in the Civil Wars: Pembrokeshire, 1640-1649. The English Historical Review 138(590-1), pp. 92-131. (10.1093/ehr/cead081)
- Bowen, L. 2021. Preaching and politics in the Welsh marches, 1643-63: The case of Alexander Griffiths. Historical Research 94(263), pp. 28-50. (10.1093/hisres/htaa035)
- Bowen, L. 2017. Structuring particularist publics: logistics, language and early modern Wales. Journal of British Studies 56(4), pp. 754-772. (10.1017/jbr.2017.118)
- Bowen, L. 2017. News networks in Early Modern Wales. History 102(349), pp. 24-44. (10.1111/1468-229X.12368)
- Bowen, L. 2017. "The Bedlam Academy": Royalist Oxford in Civil War news culture. Media History 23(2), pp. 199-217. (10.1080/13688804.2016.1270747)
- Bowen, L. 2015. Revel, riot and rebellion: A sense of scale. Cultural and Social History 12(3), pp. 309-314. (10.1080/14780038.2015.1050878)
- Bowen, L. 2015. Information, language and political culture in Early Modern Wales. Past and Present 228(1), pp. 125-158. (10.1093/pastj/gtv024)
- Bowen, L. 2013. Royalism, print, and the clergy in Britain, 1639-1640 and 1642. Historical Journal 56(2), pp. 297-319. (10.1017/S0018246X13000125)
- Bowen, L. 2011. The seeds and fruits of revolution: The Erbery family and religious radicalism in seventeenth-century Glamorgan. Welsh History Review 25(3), pp. 346-373.
- Bowen, L. 2011. Reviling regicides: The King killers in popular culture, 1649-1662. Cromwelliana II(8), pp. 36-50.
- Bowen, L. 2010. Thomas Erbury: an early seventeenth-century ironmaster. Llafur -Aberystwyth- 10(3), pp. 9-17.
- Bowen, L. 2007. Dismantling prerogative government: The Council in the Marches and the Long Parliament. English Historical Review CXXII(499), pp. 1258-1286. (10.1093/ehr/cem325)
- Bowen, L. 2004. Representations of Wales and the Welsh during the civil wars and Interregnum. Historical Research 77(197), pp. 358-376. (10.1111/j.1468-2281.2004.00214.x)
- Bowen, L. 2003. Wales at Westminster: parliament, principality and pressure groups, 1542-1601. Parliamentary History 22(2), pp. 107-120. (10.1111/j.1750-0206.2003.tb00611.x)
Book sections
- Bowen, L. 2024. Genre, authorship and authenticity in the petitions of Civil War veterans and widows from north Wales and the Marches. In: Waddell, B. and Peacey, J. eds. The Power of Petitioning in Early Modern Britain. London: UCL Press, pp. 33-60.
- Bowen, L. 2021. History, politics and power: shaping the recent past in Civil War Pembrokeshire. In: Remembering the English Civil Wars. London: Routledge, pp. 60-80.
- Bowen, L. 2020. Wales, 1587-1689. In: Coffey, J. ed. The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume I: The Post-Reformation Era, 1559-1689. The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 224-242.
- Bowen, L. 2014. The Battle of Britain: History and reformation in Early Modern Wales. In: O hAnnrachain, T. and Armstrong, R. eds. Christianities in the Early Modern Celtic World. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 135-150.
- Bowen, L. 2012. Fashioning communities: the county in early modern Wales. In: Eales, J. and Hopper, A. eds. The County Community in Seventeenth-Century England and Wales. Explorations in Local and Regional History Vol. 5. Hatfield, Hertfordshire: University of Hertfordshire Press, pp. 77-99.
- Bowen, L. and Healey, S. 2010. Biographical and constituency entries (c. 90,000 words). In: Thrush, A. and Ferris, J. F. eds. The House of Commons, 1604-1629 (6 Volume Set). The History of Parliament Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
- Bowen, L. 2010. Seditious speech and popular royalism, 1649-60. In: McElligott, J. and Smith, D. L. eds. Royalists and Royalism during the Interregnum. Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 44-66.
- Bowen, L. 2009. Oliver Cromwell (alias Williams) and Wales. In: Little, P. ed. Oliver Cromwell: New Perspectives.. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 168-194.
Books
- Bowen, L. 2023. The trials of Edward Vaughan: Law, civil war and gentry faction in seventeenth-century Britain, c.1596-1661. University of Wales Press.
- Bowen, L. 2022. Early modern Wales, c.1536-1689. Rethinking the History of Wales Vol. 2. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
- Bowen, L. and Stoyle, M. 2021. Remembering the English Civil Wars. Remembering the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds. London: Routledge.
- Bowen, L. 2021. Anatomy of a duel in Jacobean England: gentry honour, violence and the law. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press.
- Bowen, L. 2020. John Poyer, the civil wars in Pembrokeshire and the British revolutions. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
- Bowen, L. 2007. The politics of the principality: Wales, c.1603-1642. Studies in Welsh History Vol. 27. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
- Bowen, L. 2006. Family and society in early Stuart Glamorgan: the household accounts of Sir Thomas Aubrey of Llantrithyd, c.1565-1641. Publications of the South Wales Record Society Vol. 19. Cardiff: South Wales Record Society.
- Bowen, L. 2013. Royalism, print, and the clergy in Britain, 1639-1640 and 1642. Historical Journal 56(2), pp. 297-319. (10.1017/S0018246X13000125)
- Bowen, L. 2012. Fashioning communities: the county in early modern Wales. In: Eales, J. and Hopper, A. eds. The County Community in Seventeenth-Century England and Wales. Explorations in Local and Regional History Vol. 5. Hatfield, Hertfordshire: University of Hertfordshire Press, pp. 77-99.
- Bowen, L. 2011. The seeds and fruits of revolution: The Erbery family and religious radicalism in seventeenth-century Glamorgan. Welsh History Review 25(3), pp. 346-373.
- Bowen, L. 2011. Reviling regicides: The King killers in popular culture, 1649-1662. Cromwelliana II(8), pp. 36-50.
- Bowen, L. and Healey, S. 2010. Biographical and constituency entries (c. 90,000 words). In: Thrush, A. and Ferris, J. F. eds. The House of Commons, 1604-1629 (6 Volume Set). The History of Parliament Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
- Bowen, L. 2010. Seditious speech and popular royalism, 1649-60. In: McElligott, J. and Smith, D. L. eds. Royalists and Royalism during the Interregnum. Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 44-66.
- Bowen, L. 2010. Thomas Erbury: an early seventeenth-century ironmaster. Llafur -Aberystwyth- 10(3), pp. 9-17.
- Bowen, L. 2009. Oliver Cromwell (alias Williams) and Wales. In: Little, P. ed. Oliver Cromwell: New Perspectives.. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 168-194.
- Bowen, L. 2007. Dismantling prerogative government: The Council in the Marches and the Long Parliament. English Historical Review CXXII(499), pp. 1258-1286. (10.1093/ehr/cem325)
- Bowen, L. 2007. The politics of the principality: Wales, c.1603-1642. Studies in Welsh History Vol. 27. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
- Bowen, L. 2006. Family and society in early Stuart Glamorgan: the household accounts of Sir Thomas Aubrey of Llantrithyd, c.1565-1641. Publications of the South Wales Record Society Vol. 19. Cardiff: South Wales Record Society.
- Bowen, L. 2004. Representations of Wales and the Welsh during the civil wars and Interregnum. Historical Research 77(197), pp. 358-376. (10.1111/j.1468-2281.2004.00214.x)
- Bowen, L. 2003. Wales at Westminster: parliament, principality and pressure groups, 1542-1601. Parliamentary History 22(2), pp. 107-120. (10.1111/j.1750-0206.2003.tb00611.x)
Teaching
Part one undergraduate
- Renaissance, Reformation and Revolution (HS1117)
- History in Practice (HS1119)
Part two undergraduate
- The British Civil Wars and Revolution, c.1637-49 (HS6214) Year 2
- The Information Revolution in Early Modern Britain (HS6315) Year 3
I also teach on the History MA.
I am happy to supervise suitably qualified research students in relevant aspects of early modern British and Welsh political, cultural, religious and social history.
Biography
Education and qualifications
BA Exeter; MA, PhD Cardiff.
Honours and awards
- 1,500m Swimming Badge
Professional memberships
Fellow, Royal Historical Society
Fellow, Learned Society of Wales
Supervisions
I am very happy to supervise postgraduate students who are interested in early modern Welsh and British history. I specialise in the following areas:-
- Early Modern Welsh History (c.1450-1700)
- The Civil Wars (1642-1660)
- Royalism and Royalist Cultures
- Gentry Culture in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
- Early Modern Parliamentary History
- Early Modern Popular Politics and Communication
- Petitioning and Representation
Contact Details
BowenL@cardiff.ac.uk
+44 29208 76284
John Percival Building, Room 4.39, Colum Drive, Cardiff, CF10 3EU
+44 29208 76284
John Percival Building, Room 4.39, Colum Drive, Cardiff, CF10 3EU
Research themes
Specialisms
- 17th century
- 16th century