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Contemporary British History

Convenors: Rodney Lowe (Bristol); Richard Roberts (CCBH, IHR); Pat Thane (CCBH, IHR)

Venue: Wolfson Room, IHR

Time: Wednesday, 5.00pm

Spring Term 2010
20 January	Andy Beckett (author of When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the 1970s) Re-thinking the British 1970s: towards a new perspective on an orphan decade
3 February	Laurence Black (Durham) Tories and Hunters: Swinton College in the Making of Conservative Identities
17 February	Lord Hurd of Westwell and Edward Young ' Choose your Weapons'. British Foreign Secretaries and their arguments, 1809-2009. (To mark the launch of their book on this topic)
3 March	Duncan Campbell-Smith (official historian of the Post Office) Post Office Reform - a perennial of British history Joint session with British History 1815-1945 Seminar
17 March	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'

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Summer Term 2010
28 April	Alastair Reid (Girton College, Cambridge) The Tide of Democracy: Shipyard Workers and Social Relations in Britain A History & Policy event, launching his book of this title.
12 May	Liza Filby (Warwick) 'Doing God': Religious Conventions and Political Values in British Politics c. 1979-present.
26 May	Marika Sherwood (Black and Asian Studies Association) Black Political Activism in Britain, 1900-1965

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