IHR Diary
Monday 15 March 2010
| Time | Event | Room |
|---|---|---|
| 14:00-16:30 | IHR booking | Pollard Room |
| 14:30-16:30 | IHR booking | Low Countries Room |
| 17:00 | Socialist History Seminar
John Charlton
Don't You Hear the H Bombs Thunder; Youth & Politics on Tyneside in the late 1950s and early 1960s Please note: this session takes place in G22/26 (Ground floor Senate House, South block) |
G22/26 |
| 17:00 | European History 1500-1800 Seminar
James Arnold (Birkbeck) Serious fun: The politics of amusement in post-Revolutionary Paris |
Low Countries Room |
| 17:15 | Music in Britain Seminar
Aidan Thomson (Queen's University Belfast) National opera in Britain, 1902: new schemes, new works Please note: this takes place in Stewart House, room ST275 |
ST 275 |
| 17:15 | Sport and Leisure History Seminar
Russell Holden (In the Zone Sport and Politics Consultancy)
Never Forget You're Welsh: The Role of Sport as a Political Device in Post-Devolution Wales |
Ecclesiastical History Room |
| 19:00-22:00 | Friends of the IHR Film evening A special talk by IHR Director Professor Miles Taylor to accompany a screening of the film ‘Mrs Brown’ | Wolfson and Pollard Room |
Tuesday 16 March 2010
| Time | Event | Room |
|---|---|---|
| 10:00-12:00 | IHR booking | Pollard Room |
| 11:00-13:00 | Palaeography course (Dr Jenny Stratford) | Low Countries Room |
| 12.00-13.30 | IHR booking | Germany Room |
| 14:30-16:30 | Private booking | Wolfson Room |
| 17:00 | Military History Seminar
Manuel Bollag (KCL) For Whom? For What? French Servicemen in the Indochina War, 1945-54. Experience and Memory |
Germany Room |
| 17:00 | London Group of Historical Geographers Seminar
James Nicholls (Bath Spa University) The pub and the people: drinking spaces and UK alcohol policy, past and present |
Wolfson Room |
| 17:30 | Archives and Society Seminar
Helen Wakely (Archivist & Julianne Simpson, Rare Books Librarian, Wellcome Library)
The secret ingredient: Hunting early modern recipes and their context in print and manuscript |
Ecclesiastical History Room |
| 17:30 | Christian Missions in Global History Seminar
Emily Manktelow (King's College, London)
Rev. Simpson's ‘Improper Liberties’: Moral Scrutiny and Missionary Children in the South Seas Mission of the LMS |
Pollard Room |
| 18:00 | International History Seminar
Dr John Fisher (UWE) The Diplomatic Career of William James Garnett, 1902 to 1920 |
Low Countries Room |
| 19:00-20:30 | London Society for Medieval Studies
Roberta Gilchrist (University of Reading) Heirlooms and ancient objects: connecting the lifecycles of medieval people and things |
Wolfson Room |
Wednesday 17 March 2010
| Time | Event | Room |
|---|---|---|
| 9.30-16.30 | Private booking | Wolfson Room |
| 10:30-16:30 | PhD VIVA | Spain and Portugal Room |
| 11:00-16:00 | MA CCBH | Germany Room |
| 11:30-14:30 | Private booking | Low Countries Room |
| 14:00-16:00 | Private booking | Pollard Room |
| 17:00 | History of Political Ideas Seminar
Luc Foisneau (CNRS, EHESS, Paris) Arendt, Hobson and Hobbes on Imperialism and the State Room ST 274, Stewart House, second floor |
ST 274 |
| 17:00 | Contemporary British History Seminar
Charles More (U of Gloucestershire) '....without the oil, both the United Kingdom and Western Europe are lost': Government, Oil and the Suez Crisis in 1956 |
Wolfson Room |
| 17:15 | Modern Religious History Seminar
Chris Fountain (Open University) ‘No mere playing at soldiers’: The development of the London Diocesan Church Lads' Brigade from the 1890s until the outbreak of the First World War |
Pollard Room |
| 17:30 | Earlier Middle Ages Seminar
Andrea Augenti (University of Ravenna) Rome and Ravenna in the Early Middle Ages: An Archaeological Perspective |
Ecclesiastical History Room |
| 17:30 | Rethinking Modern Europe Seminar
Richard Overy (Exeter) and Richard Vinen (KCL)
Britain through a European prism Chair: Helen Jones |
Germany Room |
Thursday 18 March 2010
| Time | Event | Room |
|---|---|---|
| 15:00-17:00 | Colonial Science and Its Histories | Pollard Room |
| 16:00-17:30 | Private booking | Low Countries Room |
| 17:30 | Society, Culture and Belief, 1500-1800 Seminar
Dr Caroline Warman (Jesus College, Oxford) 'Ouie difficile a expliquer': Diderot and the difficulty of explaining hearing from the 'Lettre sur les sourds et muets' (1751) to the 'Elements de physiologie' (c.1780) |
Ecclesiastical History Room |
| 17:30 | Postgraduate Seminar
Rebecca Conway (Manchester) Modern England is Rapidly Blackpooling Itself: J.B. Priestley, Blackpool and Englishness |
Low Countries Room |
| 17:30 | Reconfiguring the British: Nation, Empire, World 1600-1900 Seminar
A roundtable on What difference does gender make to empire? Jo McDonagh (KCL), Sonya Rose (Michigan), John Tosh (Roehampton) |
Wolfson Room |
| 17:30 | American History Seminar
David Brown (Manchester) ‘The Poor and Loafering Class of Whites are about on a Par with the Slaves’: Slave-Poor White Relations in the Old South |
Pollard Room |
Friday 19 March 2010
| Time | Event | Room |
|---|---|---|
| 10:30-16:15 | One day symposium, hosted by the University of Kent;
From the Northern Seas to the Atlantic:
Cities, Ecology and Exchange, 1600-1800
Dr Leos Muller's paper
( The Swedish East India Company and Britain, 1731-1813) will now form part of this one day symposium entitled: From the Northern Seas to the Atlantic: Cities, Ecology and Exchange, 1600-1800 For full programme, registration (£12) and further details contact d.j.ormrod@kent.ac.uk. The symposium will finish at 4p.m. and there will be no evening session of the Economic and Social History of the Pre-Modern World Seminar |
Pollard Room |
| 11:00-16:30 | Private booking | Low Countries Room |
| 12:00-17:00 | Private booking | Wolfson Room |
| 13:00-16:00 | IHR booking | Spain and Portugal Room |
| 16:30-18:30 | Editing Byzantine texts | Pollard Room |
| 17:00 | Low Countries History Seminar
Rudolf Dekker and Arianne Baggerman (Erasmus University Rotterdam) Reading and writing together: the childhood diary as a form of communication |
Low Countries Room |
| 17:30 | Late Medieval Seminar
Rowena E. Archer (Oxford) Alice Chaucer, Duchess of Suffolk (d.1475) and her Books |
Ecclesiastical History Room |
| 17:30 | History of Gardens and Landscapes Seminar
Dr Jane Bradney The Villa Garden, 1790-c1870 |
Wolfson Room |
Saturday 20 March 2010
| Time | Event | Room |
|---|---|---|
| 12:30-16:30 | Private booking | Pollard Room |
| 13:00-16:30 | Private booking | Low Countries Room |
| 14:00 | Education in the Long 18th Century Seminar
Clare Barlow (King's College, London)
Reading, Development and the Bluestocking Circle |
Germany Room |