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Modern British History (formerly British History 1815-1945)

Convenors: Professor Sally Alexander (Goldsmiths), Dr Kate Bradley (Kent), Professor Matthew Cragoe (University of Sussex), Dr David Feldman (Birkbeck), Dr Helen McCarthy (Queen Mary), Dr Roland Quinault (Institute of Historical Research), Dr Paul Readman (King's College), Professor Pat Thane (CCBH at KCL), Professor Michael Thompson (IHR), Professor Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck).

Venue: Bedford Room G37, Senate House, unless otherwise stated

Time: Thursday, 5.00pm

Spring Term 2012
12 January

Matthew Cragoe (Sussex)


'The Life and times of the cockney sportsman': non-elite shooting in London and beyond, c 1800-1872
26 January

Anne Logan (Kent)


Policy Transfer in an Imperial Context: Britain's Colonial Penal Advisory Committees, 1937-1947
9 February

Matthew Kelly (Southampton) 


Improvement and Incarceration: the Strange Case of Nineteenth-Century Dartmoor
23 February

Lucinda Matthews-Jones (Swansea)


Sunday preaching in the People's Park: Oxford House Heads and the Performance of Religious Masculinity in the East End of London, 1880-1900
8 March

Emily Robinson (Nottingham) 


Progress and Progressivism, 1888-1914
29 March

Mark Freeman (Glasgow)


An advanced type of democracy? Governing adult education in 1920s England

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