Lightning Talks

This session will feature short (3 minute) presentations by first-year PhD students. Participants include:

• Alasdair McNeill (Birkbeck), ‘Women’s role in the development of the early modern English cheese trade’.
• Deguang Li (Newnham College, Cambridge), ‘Re-enchantment: Post-Enlightenment Apocalypses of Comet in 1811’.
• Susan Homewood (RHUL), ‘Music and Musicians in Regency Brighton: creativity, entrepreneurship and patronage in an English seaside leisure resort’.
• Julie Chamberlain (Leicester), ‘Women’s public lives in four Warwickshire urban centres, 1660-1740’.
• Beryl Prenen (Leiden), ‘The printed cause: continental Jacobite print networks and propagandistic discourse, 1688-1760’.
• Abigail Carr (Leicester), ‘How was the English wet nurse conceptualised and understood in the context of venereal transmission in the eighteenth century?’
• Andrew Steels (Warwick), ‘Merchants at the Margins: English Merchant Families in the Ottoman Levant, 1670-1730’.
• Holly Froggatt (Sheffield & Derbyshire RO), ‘Feminising the Archive and the Women of Derbyshire's Country Houses, c. 1700-1850’.
• Ana Paredes González (Vanvitelli and Madrid), ‘The Grand Tour of Music: the Westmorland Treasure’.
• Rebecca Capel (Warwick), Molly Pye (Leicester), ‘Young Women, Denominational Identity and Protestant Cultures of Courtship and Marriage in England, 1675-1800’.
• Ce Stevenson (Birkbeck, BL), ‘Re-evaluating the Status of Prints at the British Library’.

This seminar aims to create a welcoming space for discussion and debate, fostering a professional environment where diverse views and perspectives can be shared. You can find more on this via our seminar page on the IHR website.

This event is free to attend, but advance registration is required.

This will be a ‘hybrid’ seminar with a limited number of places available in person and a larger number of bookings for online attendance via Zoom. Those attending in person are asked to bring a Wi-Fi enabled laptop, tablet or phone.

The session will start at the slightly later time of 17:30.