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Life-Cycles
This seminar will address issues relating to the life-cycle such as age, intergenerational relationships, parenthood, ageing, childhood and youth, from long-chronological and interdisciplinary perspectives.
Convenors: Dr Mary Clare Martin (University of Greenwich); m.c.h.martin@greenwich.ac.uk, Dr Ofra Koffman (King's College London); ofra.koffman@kcl.ac.uk, Dr Tim Reinke-Williams (Northampton), Dr Simon Sleight, (King’s College, London)
Venue: Gordon room (Senate House, South block, ground floor room 34)
Time: Tuesdays, 5.15 pm
We usually go for a drink and a meal afterwards. ALL WELCOME.
| 31 January | Jack Lord (SOAS) Children's Encounters with Empire, Modernity and Globalisation in Colonial Ghana, 1900-57 |
| 14 February | Emma Sadera (King’s College, London) 'Unnatural offenders': infanticide in the Old Bailey, 1674-1701 |
| 28 February | Dr Andrea Tanner (IHR, & Great Ormond Street Hospital) and Dr Susan Hawkins (Kingston University & Historic Hospitals Archive Project) A Childhood in Hospital: Multiple Admissions and Long Stay Patients in the pre- 1914 Children's Hospital |
| 13 March | Dr Rhodri Hayward (Queen Mary, University of London) Ulcers, cortisol and the remaking of modern Britain |
| 27 March | Professor Jackie Eales (University of Kent) Wives and Daughters: the Making of Clerical Dynasties in 17th Century England
The issue of clerical marriage remained contentious even after the Reformation, but by the early 17th century some notable clerical dynasties were in the making. The English reformed clergy self-consciously began to ad-vertise the importance of clerical wives and daughters as pious, respectable and educated role models for other women. How were these positive values about clerical marriage disseminated and how did the women in clerical families match up to these expectations? |
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| 12 June | Will Farrell (Birkbeck, University of London) Getting old and dying in eighteenth-century Spitalfields: a material culture approach
Skilled workers, such as the silk weavers of Spitalfields, had the early and middle years of their lives mapped out for them (at least in theory): apprenticeship, journeymen, perhaps master. But in a society without pension schemes, how did those that made it to old age live their lives and how did they prepare for death? This paper uses the records of the Weavers Company and the French Protestant Hospital to reconstruct this experience, focusing on the poorer members of the trade. It particularly concentrates on gifts of clothing and money made by both organisations and 50 inventories left by silk weavers at their deaths. |
| 26 June | Professor Lissa Paul (Brock University, Canada) Tba |
