The History Lab
Previous seminars 2007/8
Autumn term 2007
| Date | Description |
| 4 October | Michael Townsend (Birkbeck) The Plague and the planets: the origins of the astrological causes of the Black Death CANCELLED |
| 18 October | Kathrin Pieren (IHR) The "craze for Anglo-Jewish history" in the late 19thc: negotiating Jewish identity through artefacts and history writing |
| 1 November | Mary Salinsky (IHR) Narrative and Nation: Writing British National History in the 20th Century. |
| 15 November | John Clarke (Dublin) 'Responsibility without power': Britain and the United Nations during the Cyprus crisis of 1974 |
| 29 November | Chris Moran (Warwick) The Riddle of the Frogman: The Crabb Affair and Cultures of Secrecy in Britain 1956-2007 |
Spring term 2008
| Date | Description |
| 17 January | Marc Calvini-LeFebvre (Goldsmiths)
'Women! Your Country Needs You!': Feminism and the Gendering of Citizenship in Great War Britain |
| 31 January | Hannah Newton (Exeter) Tending the Tender: Caring for the Sick Child in England, 1580-1720 |
| 14 February | Henry Miller (Queen Mary)
Demonising Drink, Selling Sobriety: the temperance movement and visual propaganda in Victorian Britain |
| 28 February | Katharina Rietzler (UCL) Intellectual networks during the "Twenty Years' Crisis": the impact of American philanthropy on interwar idealism |
| 13 March | Monica Stensland (Oxford) Peace or no peace? Habsburg Low Countries propaganda and debate in the run-up to the Twelve-Year Truce of 1609 |
Summer term 2008
| Date | Description |
| 17 April | Helen Yallop (KCL)
Prolonging life in eighteenth-century England: issues of mind and matter |
| 8 May | Daniel Stedman Jones (University of Pennsylvania)
"Distilling the Frenzy": the Transatlantic Origins and Development of Economic Strategy in the US and the UK, 1945-81 |
| 29 May | Paul Moore (Birkbeck)
"Hypocrisy, thy name is England": Britain's Boer War Concentration Camps in Nazi Propaganda, 1938-1945 |
| 5 June | Denise Guthrie (Essex)
Sex, Civilization, and the Punishment of Women in England, 1750-1868 |
| 12 June | Jodi Burkett (York University)
Maintaining British Greatness: The early anti-nuclear movement and ideas of Britishness |