Department of History

Research seminars and conferences - History

Our research seminars take place through term time and all students and academics with an interest in the topics are welcome. Some of our seminars are also open to the public - see below for details.

We currently have six regular seminar series. Drinks and refreshments are served at our live events. Upcoming seminars are listed toward the bottom of the page.

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History research seminars

Our History research seminars explore a range of specialist topics with faculty staff and visiting lecturers. For details, please contact the convenor, Dr Alex Henry. Please email Alex to be added to the group.

Local history seminars

These public seminars on local and regional history are run by Dr Richard Gaunt on select Saturdays from October to March. There is a cover charge of £5 per seminar and refreshments are served.

For details, visit the local history seminars page.

 

History PG work-in-progress seminars

These seminars, run by postgraduates for postgraduates on selected Wednesdays during term time, facilitate interdisciplinary discussion, enable shared learning, and provide a supportive and friendly environment for those in the early stages of their research to hone presentation skills and test developing ideas. 

Follow @UoNHistory_PGs for updates.

Contemporary history and politics seminars

This seminar series is run by postgraduate researchers in history and politics and takes place on selected Fridays during term time. All postgraduates and staff with an interest in political history are welcome to join.

Follow @uon_chaps for updates.

 

Global and colonial history seminars

This is an online public seminar series run by the Department of History, convened by Dr Arun Kumar. All undergraduate and postgraduate students, academic staff, and the general public are welcome.

These seminars offer an opportunity for guest speakers and University of Nottingham academics to present and discuss their history research within this field. 

Please email Dr Kumar for details.

Medieval research seminars

Meet fellow medievalists from across the Faculty of Arts and beyond with these interdisciplinary seminars. A chance to share your research and discover what other people are working on in related fields. 

To sign up to the mailing list or for further information please contact Jasmin Higgs or Eleanor Cox.

View upcoming sessions during term time on the Department of Classics and Archaeology seminars page

 

Upcoming research seminars

Details of seminars for the new term will soon be available

Other events

News and events in the Department of History

Upcoming conferences

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Past conferences

See our past conferences

 

Past seminars

Spring 2023

History Research Seminar 25 January - Impact and Knowledge Exchange Session

Date
Wednesday 25 January 2023
Location:
A02 Humanities Building
Description
History research seminars with resident and visiting guest speakers.

History Postgraduate Work in Progress seminar - 25 January

Date
Wednesday 25 January 2023
Location:
Machicado Suite, Willoughby Hall
Description
History postgraduate WIP seminar

Contemporary History and Politics Seminar - 3 February

Date
Friday 3 February 2023
Location:
Humanities A01
Description
Seminars in History and Politics.

History Postgraduate Work in Progress seminar - 8 February

Date
Wednesday 8 February 2023
Location:
Machicado Suite, Willoughby Hall
Description
Seminars organised by history postgraduates

Contemporary History and Politics Seminar - 17 February

Date
Friday 17 February 2023
Location:
Humanities A01
Description
Seminars in History and Politics.

History Research Seminar 1 March - Impact and Knowledge Exchange Session

Date
Wednesday 1 March 2023
Location:
A27 Humanities
Description
History research seminars with resident and visiting guest speakers.

Contemporary History and Politics Seminar - 3 March

Date
Friday 3 March 2023
Location:
Humanities A01
Description
Seminars in History and Politics.

History Postgraduate Work in Progress seminar - 8 March

History Postgraduate Work in Progress seminar  - 8 March
Date
Wednesday 8 March 2023
Location:
Machicado Suite, Willoughby Hall
Description
Seminars organised by history postgraduates

History Research Seminar 15 March - Impact and Knowledge Exchange Session

Date
Wednesday 15 March 2023
Location:
A27 Humanities
Description
History research seminars with resident and visiting guest speakers.

History Research Seminar 22 March

Date
Wednesday 22 March 2023
Location:
A27 Humanities
Description
History research seminars with resident and visiting guest speakers.
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Autumn 2022

History Postgraduate Work in Progress seminars 5 October- Tools for Research

Date
Wednesday 5 October 2022
Location:
Machicado Suite, Willoughby Hall
Description
History postgraduate WIP seminar

Feminist Pioneers? Nottingham Women in Protest and Politics, c.1789-1848

Date
Saturday 8 October 2022
Location:
A18 Lenton Grove
Description
Seminars in History and Politics.

History Research Seminar 12 October- Dr Spencer Mawby and Dr Jonathan Kwan

History Research Seminar 12 October- Dr Spencer Mawby and Dr Jonathan Kwan
Date
Wednesday 12 October 2022
Location:
A22 Humanities Building
Description
This seminar will see the talks "The Closest Surveillance: State Monitoring of Anticolonial Activism in Britain during the Cold War" and "Implementing the Dualist Constitution: Austria-Hungary, 1867-1879"

Contemporary Political History Seminar 14 October- Leonie Bausch

Date
Friday 14 October 2022
Location:
Humanities A01
Description
Seminars in History and Politics.

History Research Seminar 19 October- Dr Per Rolandsson and Dr Richard Hornsey

History Research Seminar 19 October- Dr Per Rolandsson and Dr Richard Hornsey
Date
Wednesday 19 October 2022
Location:
A22 Humanities Building
Description
This seminar will see the talks "Living in or for the Moment: Journalistic conceptions of Synchronicity in the Interwar Period" and "Go Along with the Loco. and See Cadbury's Cocoa!': Factory Tourism in Interwar England"

History Postgraduate Work in Progress seminars 19 October- Guide to Conferences

Date
Wednesday 19 October 2022
Location:
Machicado Suite, Willoughby Hall
Description
History postgraduate WIP seminar

Medieval Postgraduate Research Seminar 20 Oct 2022

Date
Thursday 20 October 2022
Location:
A03 Humanities Building
Description
Medieval Postgraduate Seminar Series

History Research Seminar 26 October- Dr Anna Rich-Abad and Dr David Appleby

Date
Wednesday 26 October 2022
Location:
A22 Humanities Building
Description
This seminar will see the talks "Benedictus' Summer's Night Dream: The Journey of a Jew from Barcelona to Chios (1391-1404)" and ""Members of One Another's Miseries": The Culture and Politics of War Relief in Seventeenth-Century Staffordshire"

Contemporary History and Politics Seminar 28 October - Danielle La Scala

Date
Friday 28 October 2022
Location:
Humanities A01
Description
Seminars in History and Politics.

History Research Seminar 02 November - Impact & Knowledge Exchange Session

Date
Wednesday 2 November 2022
Location:
A22 Humanities Building
Description
Introduction: Exploring Opportunities for Knowledge Exchange and Impact
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Spring 2022

Local History Seminar - 8 January

Date
Saturday 8 January 2022
Location:
Lenton Grove A18
Description
Public seminar series on local history topics.

Contemporary Political History Seminar 28 January

Date
Friday 28 January 2022
Location:
Microsoft Teams
Description
Seminars organised by postgraduate researchers in History and Politics.

Global and Colonial History Seminar 7 February

Date
Monday 7 February 2022
Location:
Online
Description
New online seminar series

Contemporary Political History Seminar 11 February

Date
Friday 11 February 2022
Location:
Humanities A01
Description
Seminars organised by postgraduate researchers in History and Politics.

Local History Seminar - 12 February

Date
Saturday 12 February 2022
Location:
Humanities A03
Description
Public seminar series on local history topics.

History PG Work-in-Progress Seminar 16 February

Date
Wednesday 16 February 2022
Location:
Humanities Building A21
Description
History PG work-in-progress seminars return in-person this semester.

History research seminar 23 February

Date
Wednesday 23 February 2022
Location:
Machicado Suite Willoughby Hall
Description
Seminar series organised by the Department of History.

Contemporary Political History Seminar 25 February

Date
Friday 25 February 2022
Location:
Lenton Grove
Description
Seminars organised by postgraduate researchers in History and Politics.

History PG Work-in-Progress Seminar 2 March

Date
Wednesday 2 March 2022
Location:
Humanities Building A21
Description
History PG work-in-progress seminars return in-person this semester.

Contemporary Political History Seminar 11 March

Date
Friday 11 March 2022
Location:
Humanities Building A21
Description
Seminars organised by postgraduate researchers in History and Politics.
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Autumn 2021

Local History Seminar - 9 October

Date
Saturday 9 October 2021
Location:
Humanities A03
Description
Public seminar series on local history topics.

History Research Seminar - 13 October

Date
Wednesday 13 October 2021
Location:
Online
Description
History Research Seminars running online for the autumn semester

History PG Work-in-Progress Seminar 13 October

Date
Wednesday 13 October 2021
Location:
Machicado Suite
Description
History PG work-in-progress seminars return in-person this semester.

Global and Colonial History Seminar 18 October

Date
Monday 18 October 2021
Location:
Online
Description
New online seminar series

Contemporary Political History Seminar 22 October

Date
Friday 22 October 2021
Location:
Humanities A03
Description
Seminars organised by postgraduate researchers in History and Politics.

History Research Seminar - 27 October

Date
Wednesday 27 October 2021
Location:
Online
Description
History Research Seminars running online for the autumn semester

History PG Work-in-Progress Seminar 27 October

Date
Wednesday 27 October 2021
Location:
Machicado Suite
Description
History PG work-in-progress seminars return in-person this semester.

Global and Colonial History Seminar 1 November

Date
Monday 1 November 2021
Location:
Online
Description
New online seminar series

History PG Work-in-Progress Seminar 10 November

Date
Wednesday 10 November 2021
Location:
Machicado Suite
Description
History PG work-in-progress seminars return in-person this semester.

Contemporary Political History Seminar 12 November

Date
Friday 12 November 2021
Location:
Microsoft Teams
Description
Seminars organised by postgraduate researchers in History and Politics.
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Spring 2021

History Research Seminar - 5 May

Date
Wednesday 5 May 2021
Location:
Online
Description
History Research Seminars running online for the spring-summer semesters

Contemporary Political History Seminar 20 May

Contemporary Political History Seminar 20 May
Date
Thursday 20 May 2021
Location:
Online Webinar
Description
Seminars organised by History and Politics postgraduates - running online

Contemporary Political History Seminar 24 June

Contemporary Political History Seminar 24 June
Date
Thursday 24 June 2021
Location:
Online Webinar
Description
Seminars organised by History and Politics postgraduates - running online
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Autumn 2020

History Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar 30 Sept

Date
Wednesday 30 September 2020
Description
Seminars organised by History Postgraduates - now running online

History Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar 14 October

Date
Wednesday 14 October 2020
Description
Seminars organised by History Postgraduates - now running online

History Research Seminar - 21 October

Date
Wednesday 21 October 2020
Description
History Research Seminars will be running online for the Autumn 2020 Semester

History Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar 28 October

Date
Wednesday 28 October 2020
Description
Seminars organised by History Postgraduates - now running online

History Research Seminar - 11 November

Date
Wednesday 11 November 2020
Description
History Research Seminars will be running online for the Autumn 2020 Semester

History Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar 11 November

Date
Wednesday 11 November 2020
Description
Seminars organised by History Postgraduates - now running online

History Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar 25 November

Date
Wednesday 25 November 2020
Description
Seminars organised by History Postgraduates - now running online

History Research Seminar - 2 December

Date
Wednesday 2 December 2020
Description
History Research Seminars will be running online for the Autumn 2020 Semester

History Research Seminar - 9 December

Date
Wednesday 9 December 2020
Description
History Research Seminars will be running online for the Autumn 2020 Semester

History Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar 9 December

Date
Wednesday 9 December 2020
Description
Seminars organised by History Postgraduates - now running online
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Spring 2020

Local history seminar - Nottingham cemeteries/conscientious objectors, 11 January 2020

Date
Saturday 11 January 2020
Description
Local history seminar with speakers on Nottingham cemeteries, and conscientious objectors in the First World War

History Postgraduate Work in Progress seminar, 15 January

Date
Wednesday 15 January 2020
Description
History Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar, 15 January 2020

History Postgraduate Work in Progress seminar, 29 January

Date
Wednesday 29 January 2020
Description
History Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar, 29 January 2020

History Research Seminar - 5 February

Date
Wednesday 5 February 2020
Description
History Research Seminar, 5 February 2020

Local history seminar - urbanisation in Nottingham, 8 February 2020

Date
Saturday 8 February 2020
Description
Local history seminar with the Nottingham City Archaeologist, Scott Lomax

History Postgraduate Work in Progress seminar, 12 February

Date
Wednesday 12 February 2020
Description
History Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar, 12 February 2020

History Research Seminar - 19 February

Date
Wednesday 19 February 2020
Description
History Research Seminar 19 February 2020

History Research Seminar - 26 February

Date
Wednesday 26 February 2020
Description
History Research Seminar February 2020

History Postgraduate Work in Progress seminar, 04 March

Date
Wednesday 4 March 2020
Description
History Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar, 04 March 2020

History Research Seminar - 11 March

Date
Wednesday 11 March 2020
Description
History Research Seminar 2020

Local history seminar - Civil War petitions CANCELLED

Date
Saturday 14 March 2020
Description
Local history seminar featuring David Appleby on Civil War petitions CANCELLED

History Postgraduate Work in Progress seminar, 18 March

Date
Wednesday 18 March 2020
Description
*Event cancelled due to coronavirus* History Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar, 18 March 2020

History Research Seminar - 25 March

Date
Wednesday 25 March 2020
Description
?*Event cancelled due to coronavirus* History Research Seminar 2020

History Postgraduate Work in Progress online seminar 6 May

Date
Wednesday 6 May 2020
Description
PG History Work in Progress seminars have moved online

History Postgraduate Work in Progress online seminar 20 May

Date
Wednesday 20 May 2020
Description
Seminars organised by History Postgraduates - now running online

History Postgraduate Work in Progress online seminar 3 June

Date
Wednesday 3 June 2020
Description
Seminars organised by History Postgraduates - now running online

History Postgraduate Work in Progress online seminar 17 June

Date
Wednesday 17 June 2020
Description
Seminars organised by History Postgraduates - now running online

History Postgraduate Work in Progress online seminar 1 July

Date
Wednesday 1 July 2020
Description
Seminars organised by History Postgraduates - now running online

History Postgraduate Work in Progress online seminar 15 July

Date
Wednesday 15 July 2020
Description
Seminars organised by History Postgraduates - now running online
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Autumn 2019

History Research Seminar

Date
Wednesday 9 October 2019
Description
Papers by Richard Bates on 'Florence Nightingale and the Ideology of Home' and Sascha Auerbach on '"A Kidnapper of Young Pigs": Race, Labour Control and the Overseer State in the British Caribbean and Southeast Asia 1838-1913'

Local history seminar - Revd Henry Meriton and Lutterworth church - 12 October 2019

Date
Saturday 12 October 2019
Description
The history of Reverend Henry Meriton and his beautification of Lutterworth church

History Postgraduate Work in Progress seminar, 16 October

Date
Wednesday 16 October 2019
Description
History Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar, 16 October 2019

History Research Seminar

Date
Wednesday 23 October 2019
Description
Papers by Jamie Smith on 'Medieval Diplomacy: Earl Tostig of Northumbria's Relations with Scotland, 1055-66', and by Philippa Stazicker on 'Religious Objects and Private Devotional Space: Ownership of Alabaster Heads of John the Baptist in Late Medieval England'.

History Research Seminar

Date
Wednesday 30 October 2019
Description
Papers by Rian Thum on 'Islamic China from Perso-Arabic sources', and by Odila Schroeder 'How to Sound Patriotic: Collaboration Anthems in Japanese-Occupied Beijing, 1938'.

History Postgraduate Work in Progress seminar, 6 November

Date
Wednesday 6 November 2019
Description
History Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar, 6 November 2019

Local History Seminar 9 November 2019

Date
Saturday 9 November 2019

History Research Seminar

Date
Wednesday 13 November 2019
Description
Paper by Antonella Liuzzo Scorpo on 'Emotions, Political Communication and History-Writing in Medieval Iberia'.

History Postgraduate Work in Progress seminar, 20 November

Date
Wednesday 20 November 2019
Description
History Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar, 20 November 2019

History Research Seminar

Date
Wednesday 27 November 2019
Description
Paper by Eloise Davies on 'The significance of the Venetian Interdict controversy for English political thought'.

History Postgraduate Work in Progress seminar, 4 December

Date
Wednesday 4 December 2019
Description
History Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar, 4 December 2019

History Postgraduate Work in Progress seminar, 11 December

Date
Wednesday 11 December 2019
Description
History Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar, 11 December 2019

Local history seminar - Sutton Bonington PoW camp - 14 December 2019

Date
Saturday 14 December 2019
Description
John Beckett on the use of Sutton Bonington as a PoW camp in the First World War
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Spring 2019
6 Feb 19

Urban Lifestyle Magazines, Crime and Self-Help in Crisis-Era New York City, 1969-1985

Automobility and the City in Twentieth Century Japan and Britain: Conclusions

Joe Merton

Sue Townsend

20 Feb 19

Mary Crymble Makes a Mint? Women, Work and Wealth in 18th century Jamaica

Italian Orientals...beyond East and West

Sheryllynne Haggerty

David Robinson

27 Feb 19

1958-1968: National Decline, Meritocracy and the Technocrats in Post-War Britain

Powellism and Post-War British Politics: Enoch Powell’s Doctrine of Rights and Responsibilities

David Civil

Joe Himsworth

20 Mar 19

Freely telling her mind: the female voice and Covenanter polemic in early modern Scotland

Laura Stewart (University of York)

03 Apr 19

Atto of Vercelli’s Polipticum quod appellatur Perpendiculum: A Key Source for the History of Post-Carolingian Italy

Giacomo Vignodelli (University of Bologna)

 
Autumn 2018
03 Oct 18

The Peregrinations of an Englishman in Germany - Robert Beale (b. 1541, d, 1601)

Fleshing out a massacre: Shelford House and the definition of the “righteous dead”, 1645-1999

David Gehring

Dave Appleby

17 Oct 18

Encounters in occupied Germany, 1945-1949

Neither rural nor urban. Factory settlements and their workforce in Central Russia, 1880-1914

Karen Adler

Jon Rowson

31 Oct 18

The Contingent Experience of Ageing and Loss in Managing Hearing and Deafness in British culture c. 1850-1950

Prof. Karen Sayer (Leeds Trinity) and Prof. Graeme Gooday (Leeds)

14 Nov 18

The Origins of the Russian Provisional Government and the Politics of the February 1917 Revolution

Prof. Semion Lyandres (University of Notre Dame)

29 Nov 18

True blue: the connotations of a colour in the late Middle Ages

The King and the Late Medieval English Taxpayer

Matthew Ward

Gwil Dodd

5 Dec 18

“A mutually advantageous relationship between the two countries”: Anglo-Brazilian relations in the anos de chumbo, 1968-1974

"He has risen!" The Valley of the Fallen and the Exhumation of Franco

Jane-Marie Collins

Gareth Stockey

 
Spring 2018
07 Feb 18

‘This Sylvan Prince’: James I, Hunting, and the Politics of Sociability

Double Monasteries for Men and Women in the Eastern Church

Tom Rose

Liudmyla Sharipova,

21 Feb 18

Hospitals and Canon Law in the Middle Ages: The Problem of Charities for a Church in the World

Sethina Watson (York)

07 Mar 18

Emotions and Britain’s Decision for War in 1914

The Birth of Meritocracy: Michael Young, The Rise of the Meritocracy and Post-War British Politics, 1944-1958

John Young

David Civil

21 Mar 18

Title TBC

Sarah Miller-Davenport (Sheffield)

25 Apr 18

Historicising Trauma in Colonial and Post-colonial Contexts: An Artist’s Interpretation

Michael McMillan

9 May 18

Henry Christophe and the Kingdom of Haiti during the Age of Revolutions

Paul Clammer

 
Autumn 2017
11 Oct 17

The Pentateuch Diagram in the Codex Amiatinus

Mainstream Piety and Dissent in a Fifteenth-century Bristolian Parish: The Case of St Thomas the Martyr

Peter Darby

Esther Lewis

25 Oct 17

An Anti-Permissive Permissive Society? Public Opinion and Social Change in Postwar Britain

Marcus Collins (Loughborough)

8 Nov 17

Buried in the Text: Bodies and Burials in Late Medieval Women’s Wills

The Life of a Jewish Liberal in Vienna: Heinrich Jaques (1831-1894) and his Milieu

Alexandra Marchbank

Jonathan Kwan

22 Nov 17

Elusive Diplomacy: Saxon Conflict Management in the later Sixteenth Century

Hannes Ziegler (GHIL)

6 Dec 17

Avoiding ‘Musty Mutton Chops’: The Network Narrative of an American Merchant in London, 1772-1774

Cartographies of Belonging in the Early Nineteenth-century British Empire

Sheryllynne Haggerty

Onni Gust

 
Spring 2017
8 Feb 17

Cartography and Cultural Revolution: Maps, Modernity and the New Soviet Man

Rediscovering the Region: The West German Press in the
1970s

Nick Baron


Christian Haase            

22 Feb 17

Premodern Diplomatic Gift-Exchange: An Anglo-Muscovite Example, 1568-1604

Red Rubber in Sepia: Slavery, Memory and Representation in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Tatyana Zhukova

Katie Donington

15 Mar 17 Gifts and the Material Life of Embassies: The Franco-Siamese Exchange of the Late 17th Century

Giorgio Riello

29 Mar 17

Visual Histories of the Japanese Occupation of China

Science, Medicine and the Spectator in Early Soviet Russia

Jeremy Taylor

Anna Toropova

5 Apr 17

The Culture of Loyalty in Fifteenth-Century England

Jewish Women's Economic Activities in Barcelona at the time of the Black Death

Matthew Ward

Anna Rich-Abad
10 May 17 Public History in the Curriculum and Beyond

Rebellion in Action: The Curatorial View

Sarah Holland

Richard Gaunt

 
Autumn 2016
12 Oct 16 ‘My dear lady, why not be a nurse?’: women doctors, medical professionalisation, and colonial ‘opportunity’ in c.19th/c.20th Britain

The queen was not there: riots, race and rights in the post-Rebellion British Caribbean

Hilary Ingram 

Sascha Auerbach

26 Oct 16 Revolution and the irrational: British socialists and the Russian Revolution of 1917

‘The brava gente caught on tape’: listening in to captured Italian soldiers in Britain during the Second World War

Michael Carey

Alex Henry

2 Nov 16 Women’s activism during the 1984–5 miners’ strike: memories and legacies Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite and Natalie Thomlinson  
16 Nov 16 Imperial elephantology: undead capital and situated knowledge in colonial Burma c.1900–1940 Jonathan Saha
30 Nov 16 Diplomacy and the politics of gift-exchange: diplomatic gifts of Elizabeth and James I to the Russian Tsars, 1566–1621

The experience of charitable aid in the British and Irish Civil Wars: the reception of Irish refugees in the English localities, c.1641– 1651
Tatyana Zhukova


Bethany Marsh
 
Spring 2016

3 Feb 16

‘Apostolic economics: Property and poverty in the Middle Ages and  beyond’

‘Iconoclasm and the Paulicians’
Claire Taylor

Carl Dixon
17 Feb 16 Title tbc

‘Monkey business: Japan and the Simian other’
Sarah Badcock

Sue Townsend
2 Mar 16    ‘“This community which nobody can define”: Scholars grappling with the British Commonwealth, 1945–60’ Chris Prior, University of Southampton

16 Mar 16

‘Growing up in the medieval village: Underaged heirs and orphans and their guardians’ Miriam Muller, University of Birmingham
27 Apr 16 ‘The patriarchate of Antioch and Byzantium: Crusader relations c. 1170’

Title TBC
Tom Sayers


Rob Lambert
 
Autumn 2015

14 Oct 15

‘Histories of sodomy in 17th-century England’

‘The long and winding road: The problem of the “wandering soldier” in 17th-century England’
Harry Cocks

David Appleby
28 Oct 15 ‘Negotiating power and space in an Alpine region: The Carolingians in Valtellina’

‘“Saracens”: Bede and Canterbury’
Roberta Cimino


Emma Vosper
4 Nov 15    ‘Winston Churchill and the golden age of journalism’ Professor Richard Toye, University of Exeter

18 Nov 15

‘The politics of preferment: Ormond, Ussher and the appointment of Irish bishops, 1641–1647’ Dr Patrick Little, History of Parliament 
2 Dec 15 ‘Writing the experiences of royalist defeat: The Earl of Westmorland in Interregnum England, c.1646–1660’

‘Patterns of Recruitment into Edward III’s Royal Affinity, 1327–1377’
Robbie Rudge


Matt Hefferan
 
Spring 2015

4 Feb 15

Japanese Red Cross Mission to Britain in 1915–16

Gordon Daniels
11 Feb 15

Belief, heresy and inequality in medieval Europe

Ian Forrest
18 Feb 15    Indians, segregation and public health in colonial Kenya, 1890–1930

The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM)
and the Rhodesia problem, 1966–1979

Anna Greenwood

Jazliza Jamaluddin 

4 Mar 15

Forging a “new” diplomacy: the International Peace Bureau and the
Hague conferences of 1899 and 1907

Learning more from the history of failure than success? Case studies
of British interventions in the Middle East since 1956

Dan Hucker


Louise Kettle
18 Mar 15

Extraordinary rendition after the First World War? The case of Morgan
Philips Price

William Raffard, a converted Cathar perfect and his community

Colin Storer


Harry Barmby
6 May 15

Taxes, burdens, and anxieties: a short history of taxes in Russia,
Europe, and North America, 1700–1914

Yanni Kotsonis
 
Autumn 2014

22 Oct 14

Defining prostitution in late Tsarist Russia and the early Soviet Union

The early years of the Société Psychanalytique de Paris, 1926–1939

Siobhan Hearne

Richard Bates
29 Oct 14

Competing identities: urban worker identity in Sormovo, 1917–1921

Reconstructing Europe: photography and the cultural history
of the post-war European city, 1945–1961

Laura Sumner

Tom Allbeson
5 Nov 2014          A state so oddly constituted? The parliamentary culture of
the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1495–1795

Robert Frost

19 Nov 14

Private lives and everyday life in Nazi Germany (postgraduate and
early career workshop)

More details 
26 Nov 14

Religious diplomacy and political intelligence in Anglo-German relations under Elizabeth I

Empire and the racialisation of boredom

David Gehring


Onni Gust
3 Dec 14

The Christ in Majesty image in the Codex Amiatinus

Relics on the road: the Delatio in medieval Europe, c. 900–1100

Peter Darby

Elizabeth Wiedenheft
 

 

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