Cultural history
12 Oct 2013
"As a sign of his love for her": Material representations of love between men and women in early modern rural Finland
Hanna Kietavainen-Siren (Jyvaskyla University, Helsinki)
11 Oct 2013
"The Luxurious Fancies of Vice": Sexual Connection and Material Pleasure in the Eighteenth Century Erotic Imagination
Joelle Del Rose (Wayne State University, USA)
11 Oct 2013
"Your artfull fingers have wrought passion there": feeling faith in early modern women's needlework
Claire Canavan (University of York)
11 Oct 2013
Fanaticism, Anxiety, Delight - the meanings of surface in the late Victorian and Edwardian home
Victoria Kelley (Central Saint Martins and UCA)
11 Oct 2013
Frayed: Textiles on the Edge
Ruth Battersby-Tooke (Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service)
11 Oct 2013
From amulets to apps: an emotional biogaphy of Edward Lovett's folklore collections
Ross Macfarlane (Wellcome Library)
11 Oct 2013
Objects to Care. Care for Objects: Embedding Emotions from the Assembly Line in the 19th Century
Juan Manuel Zaragoza Bernal (Queen Mary, University of London)
11 Oct 2013
Of Hair and Heart: Understanding the Materialisation of Love among the English in the Seventeenth Century
Sarah Ann Robin (Lancaster University)
11 Oct 2013
Responses to the Great Exhibition
Geoffrey Cantor (University of Leeds and University College London)
11 Oct 2013
Catholic images in late nineteenth-century Ireland: power and emotion
Ann Wilson (Cork Institute of Technology)
11 Oct 2013
Battlefield souvenirs and gender in the late nineteenth century
Kate Hill (University of Lincoln)
11 Oct 2013
'Your artfull fingers have wrought passion there': feeling faith in early modern women's needlework
Claire Canavan (University of York)
11 Oct 2013
'Regular progressive work occupies my mind best': Needlework as a source of consolation and reflection
Bridget Long (University of Hertfordshire)
11 Oct 2013
'Life Shall Triumph over Death': the souvenir as memorial and mourning device at A la Ronde
Freya Gowrley (University of Edinburgh)
11 Oct 2013
'I giue will and bequeathe [...]': the making of memory through material culture in seventeenth-century England
Natasha Awais-Dean (Independent scholar)
10 Sep 2013
Round Table: Issues in teaching the wider world
Machel Bogues; Peter D'Sena; Richard J. Evans; Nick Guyatt; Su Lin Lewis; Nicola Sheldon; Jason Todd
11 Jul 2013
You Are What You Eat: Historical Changes in Ideas about Food and Identity
Steven Shapin (Harvard)
12 Jun 2013
'Female agony and visionary experience: Jane Lead (1624-1704), her last days and its impact upon the Philadelphian Society, c. 1697-1704'
Ariel Hessayon (Goldsmiths)
7 Jun 2013
'Art' with a Capital 'A' and the Practice of Community Art
Kate Crehan (City University of New York)
3 Jun 2013
Spectacular Bodies: The Swimsuit, Censorship and Hollywood
Ellen Wright (University of East Anglia)
3 Jun 2013
Herr Winkelmeier, Tom Thumb and the Hilton Sisters: Uncovering the 'freaks' of the Wellcome Library
Ross MacFarlane (Wellcome Trust)
15 May 2013
Material Culture Panel: The Significance of Things.
Margot Finn (UCL) and John Styles (Hertfordshire)