The History Lab
Previous seminars 2005/6
2005 seminars
| Date | Description |
| 13 October | History Lab launch evening |
| 11 May | Kate Bradley (CCBH/IHR)
'Crime may be rare but naughtiness is universal'; Perceptions of juvenile delinquency in Britain 1900-1960 |
| 25 May | Nichola Clayton, (Sheffield) The Policy Which Dare Not Speak its Name: The Republican Party and the Issue of Confiscation in 1867 |
| 10 November | Panel: Gemma Betros (Cambridge) Religious communities in Revolutionary France and Kate Harvey, (Cambridge) Godly Ministry in London in the Era of the Civil War |
| 24 November | Julie Lokis (RHUL) Fashioning death: The power of mourning attire in Rachilde’s La Jongleuse |
| 8 December | Jessica Luktin (RHUL) The Goldsmiths of London – suppliers to the court of Edward III, 1360-1377 |
Spring Term 2006
| Date | Description |
| 19 January | Amelia Yeates (Birmingham) French novels, lemons and lumps of sugar: Ruskin's visualisations of Women Readers |
| 2 February | Vanessa Chambers (CCBH/IHR) War, popular belief and British society in the twentieth century |
| 16 February | Damien Valdez (Cambridge) The Matriarchal Imagination: A German Debate, 1900-1933 |
| 2 March | Helen McCarthy (CCBH/IHR) 'The People Have Spoken: Constructions of 'public opinion' in Britain and the Peace Ballot of 1934-5' |
| 16 March | Emma Robinson (Royal Holloway) 'There is a science to travel which is perfected only with time and experience.' Women and the etiquette of the steam train and ocean liner, 1870 to 1940. |
Summer Term 2006
| Date | Description |
| 27 April | Michael Passmore (CCBH/IHR) Oh, Minister! How Islington's Controversial Packington Estate Came to be Built in the 1960s |
| 11 May | Melissa Hollander (York) and Jennie Jordan (Nottingham Trent) - panel
Fatherhood in Early Modern Britain |
| 25 May | Nichola Clayton, (Sheffield) The Policy Which Dare Not Speak its Name: The Republican Party and the Issue of Confiscation in 1867 |
| 8 June | Leonie Hannan (RHUL) 'Emanations of our selves'. Women's Letter Writing in the Late Seventeenth Century |
| 22 June | David Sarias (Sheffield) 'We must quit using our hearts'. The Conservative Movement and the Southernization of Richard Nixon |