Acknowledgements

This volume emerges from a conference on the court of Star Chamber and its records held at Durham University in July 2019. Based on papers given at or arising from the event, the chapters gathered here represent only a portion of the work-in-progress then discussed. As such, we wish to thank all the participants at the event for their contributions, which have fed into this volume in a variety of ways. We want to single out in particular Helen Good, who made available the results of some of her prodigious work on the Elizabethan Star Chamber, a project to make its records more accessible to researchers not just in the academy but also well beyond. We wish to thank, too, the funders who made the event possible and so enjoyable. The co-organizers were able to draw upon the generosity of Durham University’s Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. We also thank Steve Hindle, W. M. Keck Foundation Director of Research at the Huntington Library, who not only presented material from his own ongoing research but also secured funding for our reception and conference dinner from the Huntington, with an eye to increasing awareness of the Library’s own rich store of materials related to Star Chamber. To IMEMS, SSHRC and the Huntington, our thanks.

We also wish to thank Melissa Glass for her work on copyediting, as well as Julie Spraggon at the Institute of Historical Research, Kerry Whitston at the University of London Press and Robert Davies for their assistance in seeing this collection through to publication. We are especially pleased to be able to publish with the IHR/ULP partnership for Open Access scholarship and are grateful for their support.

14 January 2021