IHR seminars > Contemporary British History
Contemporary British History
Convenors: Vernon Bogdanor (KCL); Rodney Lowe (Cabinet Office/Bristol); Richard Roberts (CCBH at KCL); Pat Thane (CCBH at KCL)
Venue: Wolfson Room, IHR
Time: Wednesday, 5.00pm
| 20 October | Prof. Richard Vinen (KCL) Gap Years? National Service, 1945-1963 |
| 3 November | Jad Adams (Visiting Research Fellow, SAS) Saint Gandhi: English Responses to the Rebel, 1940-2010 |
| 17 November | Bob Morris (Constitution Unit, UCL) Church and State, 1921-2010: the future of Church establishment in Britain |
| 1 December | Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska (U of Illinois, Chicago) Managing the Body. Beauty, Health and Fitness in Britain, 1880s-1939. Launching her new book of this name (OUP) |
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| 12 January | Anthony Seldon (Wellington School) Title tbc Introducing his newly published book about Gordon Brown. |
| 26 January | Kath Sherit (CCBH at KCL) Letting women serve at sea: equality debates in the Royal Navy, 1974-1990
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| 9 February | Prof. Simon Gunn (Leicester) Traffic and Freedom: the Politics of Driving in 1960s Britain
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| 23 February | Alison Gilmour (Glasgow/IHR) Title tbc
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| 9 March | John Welshman (Lancaster) Time, Funding and Social Science: The British Birth Cohort Surveys of 1946 and 1958
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| 23 March | Rodney Lowe (Bristol/Cabinet Office) Why study administrative history when there are many attractive alternatives?
Celebrating the publication of his official history of the civil service, Vol 1. |
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| 18 May | Patricia Clavin (Jesus College, Oxford) Title tbc.
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