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Life-Cycles

This thematic seminar series addresses issues relating to the life-cycle including age and ageing, intergenerational relationships, parenthood, rites of passage, childhood and youth, looking across the world and different periods.

Chinese Family Hawaii

Venue: Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & Wolfson NB01, IHR
Time: Tuesdays 17:30
Convenors: Helen Esfandiary (KCL), Catherine Freeman (University of Greenwich), Dion Georgiou (University of Chichester), Mary Clare Martin (University of Greenwich), Catherine Rose (QMUL), Simon Sleight (KCL), Catherine Sloan (University of Oxford) and Claudia Soares (QMUL).

About the seminar

This thematic seminar series addresses issues relating to the life-cycle including age and ageing, intergenerational relationships, parenthood, rites of passage, childhood and youth. We are captive neither to chronology nor particular country, welcoming instead topics pertaining to any historical era or setting, and interdisciplinary perspectives. Our seminars offer a friendly and welcoming space for discussion for all, including postgraduates and early career scholars.

Seminar administrator: Catherine Freeman (University of Greenwich). Email c.g.q.freeman@gre.ac.uk

Follow the Life-Cycles seminar on twitter: @IHR_LifeCycles

Term 1 - Autumn 2022

Occupations and Social Mobility through Marriage in the Eighteenth Century

Jeannette Holt (Royal Holloway)

Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

“There was no goodnight hug or kiss”: The Foundling Hospital and the Feeling of Family, 1900–1950

Claire Phillips (Open University)

Online- via Zoom

'to prevent the Ruine of her poore Children': Petitioning mothers in early modern England

Emily Rhodes (University of Cambridge )

Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

Women, Craft and Identity: Intergenerational Representations of Lacemakers

Wendy Wiertz (University of Huddersfield )

Online- via Zoom

Transportation, tokens and family ties: the separation of labouring people in early-nineteenth century Britain and New South Wales.

Caitlin Adams (University of Cambridge )

Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

Term 2- Winter 2023

“Cheerful obedience to duty” Moral, patriotic and imperialist messages given and received in Birmingham and Worcestershire elementary schools 1880- 1902.

Ruth Falstead (Newman University)

Online- via Zoom

Taking it to Heart: grief, shock and illness in Alice Thornton's books

Jo Edge (University of Edinburgh)

Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

A Home from Home? Children and Social Care in Victorian and Edwardian Britain

Claudia Soares (University of Newcastle)

Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & UCL IOE C3.12

POSTPONED Inquest’s 40th anniversary

Naomi Oppenheim ()

Road Building in the UK over the last 50 years: the influence of campaigning

Helen Baczkowska (writer and ecologist), John Stewart (Campaign for Better Transport), Rebecca Lush (Transport Action Network)

Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

CANCELLED Young V & A

Kirsty Sullivan ()

Term 3- Spring/Summer 2023

Young V & A Learning

Kirsty Sullivan ()

Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

Too old for liberation? Older women’s experiences of feminism during the long 1970s

Honor Morris (King’s College London)

Online- via Zoom

The Leafy Tree: The Lindsay Family and Siblinghood in Australia

Cat Gay (University of Melbourne), Thea Gardiner (University of Melbourne)

Room S3.05, Strand Building, KCL Strand Campus, The Strand, third floor

The Moral Dangers to Which the Young Are Exposed’: Youth Leisure and the Problem of the Urban Night in Post-War Britain

Sarah Kenny ((University of Birmingham)

Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

Age, sexuality, and politics in the Inner London Education Authority, 1983-1987

Amy Gower (University of Reading/University of Bristol)

Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU