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Contemporary British History

The Contemporary British History seminar seeks to explore all aspects the recent past of the British Isles from a historical point of view.

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Time: Wednesdays, 17:30
Convenors: Prof Caitríona Beaumont (LSBU), Dr Kieran Connell (Queen’s University Belfast), Dr Dan Frost (Mile End Institute, Queen Mary), Dr Helen Glew (University of Westminster), Prof Pat Thane (Birkbeck) and Dr George Gosling (University of Wolverhampton).

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Term 1 - Autumn 2023

CANCELLED Book Talk – Now that’s what I call History: Perforating the 1980s

Race, gender, and deindustrialisation in Britain

Jessica White (University of Liverpool)

Online- via Zoom

Book Talk – Colonized by Humanity: Caribbean London and the Politics of Integration at the End of Empire

Rob Waters (Queen Mary University of London)

IHR Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

Unchartered waters: the end of the typing pool, the desktop computer revolution and women’s office work in 1980s and 1990s Britain

Helen Glew (University of Westminster)

Online- via Zoom

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