Britain at Home and Abroad

This seminar was formed from the merger of the Modern British History seminar and the Reconfiguring the British: Nation, Empire, World 1600-1900 seminar.

Venue: Online- via Zoom.
Time: Thursdays, 17.30
Convenors: Charlotte Riley (Southampton), Natalie Thomlinson (Reading), Lise Butler (City) Mark Condos (KCL), Sundeep Lidher (KCL), Kit Kowol (KCL), Anna Maguire (UCL) and Colm Murphy (QMUL).

About the seminar

This seminar was formed from the merger of the Modern British History seminar and the Reconfiguring the British: Nation, Empire, World 1600-1900 seminar.

‘Britain at Home and Abroad since c. 1800’ covers all aspects of modern British history – social, cultural, political and economic; we are interested in domestic history, as well as histories of empire and decolonisation, and transnational and comparative histories involving Britain.

Term 1- Autumn 2022

06 oct 2022

PhD Student Session

IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

20 oct 2022

Thresholds of Tolerance: British Race Politics and Policy in European Context, 1945-1980

Chris Hilliard (Sydney)

Online- via Teams

03 nov 2022

POSTPONED Book launch: Creating the People's War: Civil defence communities in Second World War Britain

Jessica Hammett (Bristol), Lucy Noakes (Essex), Cait Beaumont (London South Bank)

IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

17 nov 2022

Settlers at the End of Empire: Race and the Politics of Migration in the United Kingdom, South Africa and Rhodesia, 1939-1994

Jean Smith (KCL)

Online- via Teams

01 dec 2022

Imperial Incarceration: Detention without Trial in the making of British Colonial Africa

Michael Lobban (LSE)

IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

Term 2- Winter 2023

19 jan 2023

Book launch and roundtable for Creating the People's War : Civil Defence Communities in Second World War Britain

Jessica Hammett (University of Bristol), Caitriona Beaumont (London South Bank), Matthew Grant (University of Essex)

IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

16 feb 2023

POSTPONED A Nation of Petitioners: Petitions and Petitioning in the United Kingdom, 1780–1918

Henry Miller (Durham University)

16 mar 2023

CANCELLED "Let me tell you how I see it…’: White women, race, and welfare on two Birmingham council estates in the 1980s"

Jess White (Liverpool)

30 mar 2023

Cosmopolitan Women: Epistolary Labour, ‘Family’ and ‘Friendship’ in the Lives of the Beck Women in London and Aligarh, c.1880-1936

Ellen Smith (Leicester)

Online- via Teams

Britain at Home and Abroad

About the seminar

Term 1- Autumn 2022

PhD Student Session

Thresholds of Tolerance: British Race Politics and Policy in European Context, 1945-1980

POSTPONED Book launch: Creating the People's War: Civil defence communities in Second World War Britain

Settlers at the End of Empire: Race and the Politics of Migration in the United Kingdom, South Africa and Rhodesia, 1939-1994

Imperial Incarceration: Detention without Trial in the making of British Colonial Africa

Term 2- Winter 2023

Book launch and roundtable for Creating the People's War : Civil Defence Communities in Second World War Britain

POSTPONED A Nation of Petitioners: Petitions and Petitioning in the United Kingdom, 1780–1918

CANCELLED "Let me tell you how I see it…’: White women, race, and welfare on two Birmingham council estates in the 1980s"

Cosmopolitan Women: Epistolary Labour, ‘Family’ and ‘Friendship’ in the Lives of the Beck Women in London and Aligarh, c.1880-1936

Related Content

British History Collections

UK Parliamentary History Collections

Migration History Collections

Follow Britain at Home and Abroad on Twitter

Britain at Home and Abroad

About the seminar

Term 1- Autumn 2022

PhD Student Session

Thresholds of Tolerance: British Race Politics and Policy in European Context, 1945-1980

*POSTPONED* Book launch: Creating the People's War: Civil defence communities in Second World War Britain

Settlers at the End of Empire: Race and the Politics of Migration in the United Kingdom, South Africa and Rhodesia, 1939-1994

Imperial Incarceration: Detention without Trial in the making of British Colonial Africa

Term 2- Winter 2023

Book launch and roundtable for Creating the People's War : Civil Defence Communities in Second World War Britain

*POSTPONED* A Nation of Petitioners: Petitions and Petitioning in the United Kingdom, 1780–1918

*CANCELLED* "Let me tell you how I see it…’: White women, race, and welfare on two Birmingham council estates in the 1980s"

Cosmopolitan Women: Epistolary Labour, ‘Family’ and ‘Friendship’ in the Lives of the Beck Women in London and Aligarh, c.1880-1936

Related Content

British History Collections

UK Parliamentary History Collections

Migration History Collections

Follow Britain at Home and Abroad on Twitter

POSTPONED Book launch: Creating the People's War: Civil defence communities in Second World War Britain

POSTPONED A Nation of Petitioners: Petitions and Petitioning in the United Kingdom, 1780–1918

CANCELLED "Let me tell you how I see it…’: White women, race, and welfare on two Birmingham council estates in the 1980s"