IHR diary
Monday 06/02/2012
Bloomsbury Room G35 | 14:30-16:30 | IHR meeting |
Room ST276 |
17:00 | Disability History Seminar Vicky Long (Glasgow Caledonian University) Illness or disability? Conceptualising the long-stay patient in post-war mental health services Venue: Room ST276, Stewart House, 2nd floor |
Holden Room 103 |
17:00 | European History 1500-1800 Dr Stephen Brogan (IHR) ‘Marc Bloch and the royal touch revisited’ Venue: Holden Room 103, Senate House, South block, 1st floor |
Room ST274/5 |
17:00 | Imperial and World History Toby Green (KCL) will discuss his new book on the early history of the African slave trade: The Rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa, 1300-1589 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012) With responses from José Lingna Nafafe and Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias PF (Birmingham) Venue: Room ST274/5, Stewart House, 2nd floor |
Bloomsbury Room G35 |
17:15 | Sport and Leisure History Dr David Day (Manchester Metropolitan University) 'A Man Cannot See His Own Faults': British Professional Trainers and the 1912 Olympics Venue: Bloomsbury Room G35, Senate House, South block, Ground floor |
Gordon Room G34 |
17:30 | Socialist History Merilyn Moos From the personal to the political. Researching the German KPD 1929-37 Venue: Gordon Room G34, Senate House, South block, Ground floor |
Tuesday 07/02/2012
Bedford Room G37 | 10:00-13:00 | IHR meeting |
Opposite the Paeleography room 4th floor | 11:00-13:00 | IHR meeting |
Bedford Room G37 | 14:30-16:00 | IHR meeting |
Holden Room 103 |
17:00 | The Religious History of Britain 1500-1800 Tom McCoog, SJ (Fordham University) The knock on the door: An English Jesuit observes the suppression of the Society of Jesus (1773) Please note: this session has been moved to room 103, Senate House, South block, 1st floor |
Room STB7 |
17:15 | British Maritime History Daniel Spence (Sheffield Hallam University) Venue: this session has been moved to room STB7, Stewart House, Basement |
Room ST275 |
17:30 | Archives and Society Julian Pooley (Surrey History Centre) Private Minds, Public Collections: Exploring the Public Use of Mental Health Records Venue: Room ST275, Stewart House, 2nd floor |
Court Room |
17:30 | Latin American History José Antonio Sánchez Román (Universidad Complutense, Spain) Taxation and Society in Twentieth Century Argentina Venue: Court Room, Senate House, South block, 1st floor |
Athlone Room 102 | 18:00 | International History Seminar Dr John Fisher (UWE) Britain and Abyssinia: the forward view, c1800 to 1875 Venue: Athlone Room 102, Senate House, South block, 1st floor |
Room S261 |
19:00 | London Society for Medieval Studies Professor Adrian Bell (University of Reading) This meeting will be preceded by our Annual General Meeting at 18:30 Venue for both meetings: Room S261 Senate House, South block, 2nd floor |
Wednesday 08/02/2012
Bloomsbury Room G35 | 10:30-12:30 | IHR meeting |
Room STB7 | 14:00-16:00 | IHR meeting |
Court Room |
17:15 | British History in the Long Eighteenth Century Stephen Duane Dean jr (King’s College London) ‘Rusty old Queen Anne’s many suitors’: Firearms and inter-communal violence in Armagh, 1783-1790 Venue: Court Room, Senate House, South block, 1st floor |
Athlone Room 102 |
17:30 | Earlier Middle Ages Ali Bonner (Hughes Hall, Cambridge) The context and implications of the manuscript transmission of Pelagius's Ad Demetriadem (Chair: Alan Thacker) Venue: Athlone Room 102, Senate House, South block, 1st floor |
Torrington Room 104 |
17:30 | Histories of Home Helen Clifford, Ellen Filor, Margot Finn and Kate Smith (University of Warwick) Domestic subjects: the East India Company at home, 1757-1857 Torrington Room 104, Senate House, South block, 1st floor |
Room STB5 |
17:30 | Modern Italian History Catharine Rossi (Edinburgh College of Art) Designing Craft and Crafting Design in Post-War Italy: Furniture in Milan and Brianza in the 1950s Chair: John Foot Venue: Room STB5 Stewart House, basement |
Thursday 09/02/2012
Gordon Room G34 |
17:30 | American History Seminar William Pettigrew (Kent) Freedom’s Debt: Politics and the Development of American Slavery, 1672-1712 Chair: Erik Mathisen Venue: Gordon Room G34, Senate House, South block, Ground floor |
Court Room |
17:30 | European History 1150-1550 Matthew Ross (UCL) The papal chapel and cultural life at the late 13th century Curia Venue: Court Room, Senate House, South block, 1st floor |
ST274 |
17:30 | Film History Henry K. Miller (Birkbeck, University of London) Where We Came In: How Film Came to be 'Taken Seriously' in the 1920s and 1930s Venue: Room ST274, Stewart House, 2nd floor |
Friday 10/02/2012
Torrington Room 104 |
17:00 | Low Countries History Christophe Declercq (Imperial College) Belgian refugee workers in Britain during World War I Venue: Torrington Room 104, Senate House, South block, 1st floor |
Holden Room 103 |
17:30 | Late Medieval Seminar Samantha Sagui (Fordham) The Hue and Cry in English Towns Venue: Holden Room 103, Senate House, South block, 1st floor |
The Court Room |
17:30 | The History of Gardens & Landscapes Professor Kristof Fatsar (Corvinus University, Budapest) Hungarians in Wonderland: Late 18th and Early 19thC Hungarian Travellers on British Gardens and Landscapes Venue: Court Room, Senate House, South block, 1st floor |
Holden Room 103 |
17:30 | Late Medieval Seminar Samantha Sagui (Fordham) The Hue and Cry in English Towns Venue: Holden Room 103, Senate House, South block, 1st floor |
Saturday 11/02/2012
Woburn Room G22 | 10:00-16:00 | Private meeting |

