IHR Diary

Monday 15 March 2010

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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

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Tuesday 16 March 2010

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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

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Wednesday 17 March 2010

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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

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Thursday 18 March 2010

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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

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Friday 19 March 2010

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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

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Saturday 20 March 2010

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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

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