The History Lab
Previous seminars 2006/7
Autumn term 2006
| Date | Description |
| 12 October | Joseph Maslen (Manchester) Revising the British History of the Thirties: Margot Kettle's 'Recollections of a Younger World' |
| 19 October | Liza Filby (IHR) Two Nations, One Church? Faith in the City - The Church of England report on Thatcher's Britain. Please note: this seminar will take place in room NG15, North Block of Senate House) |
| 9 November | Felicia Yapp (Cambridge) Civil Internment Camps of the Japanese in British Asia during WWII |
| 23 November | Andrew Steadman (Kingston) Turning a blind eye and the other cheek: Isolationist and pacifist alternatives to Chamberlain's policy of appeasement, 1936-39 |
| 7 December | David Sarias (Sheffield) 'We must quit using our hearts'. The Conservative Movement and the Southernization of Richard Nixon Please note: this paper was postponed from June 2006 |
Spring term 2007
| Date | Description |
| 18 January | Andrew Fearnley (Cambridge) Problems of Personalities and Race in mid-twentieth century American psychiatry PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES THIS SESSION HAS BEEN CANCELLED |
| 1 February | Chris Knowles (IHR) Germany under British Occupation: as portrayed in Humphrey Jennings film 'A Defeated People'. (The seminar will include a showing of the 18 minute official film on life in British Occupied Germany, made by the Crown Film Unit and directed by Humphrey Jennings, "Britain's most remarkable maker of official films" - Angus Calder in The Myth of the Blitz) |
| 8 February | Laura Beers (Harvard/IHR) Impacts and Influences: Labour's media policy and public opinion of the party in the 1930s Note: this seminar will be held in room NG15 (North Block) |
| 1 March | Helen Glew (IHR) 'My husband was a brute and a drunkard and I left him owing to his habits': Women's (working) lives, marital breakdown and the marriage bar in the General Post Office, 1918-1939 |
| 15 March | Daniel Laqua (UCL) Promoting 'la Libre Pensée Internationale': Transnational Campaigning and its National Dimensions, from the 1880s to the 1930s |
Summer term 2007
| Date | Description |
| 3 May | Alexandra Bamji (Cambridge) Witches, Exorcists and the Inquisition: Regulating Belief in Seventeenth-Century Venice |
| 17 May | Fiona Groenhout (Western Australia) Better mad than bad: British demarcations of acceptable princely conduct in early twentieth century India CANCELLED |
| 31 May | Peter Illing (Cambridge) Revolutionaries, Reactionaries and Royalists: Resistance to Joseph II's Reforms in Brussels, 1780-1790 |
| 14 June | Lucinda Matthews-Jones (Manchester) Centres of Brightness: Religion, Gender and the University Settlement Movement, 1880-1914 |
| 28 June | Matthew White (Hertfordshire) 'Rogues of the meaner sort'? Old Bailey executions and the crowd in the early nineteenth century |