Cultural history
14 Jan 2013
How the British Isles Became British: The Residential Class in Jersey, c. 1815-1850s
Robin Mills (University of Cambridge)
7 Nov 2012
Consumer non-choices in the eighteenth century home
Conor Lucey (University College Dublin)
7 Nov 2012
Negotiating the past: Collaborative practice in cultural heritage research
Professor Alison Wylie (University of Washington)
7 Nov 2012
What's in a Name?: The 'Conversation' Piece in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Kate Retford (Birkbeck, University of London)
5 Nov 2012
"The Drab Suburban Streets Were Metamorphosed into a Veritable Fairyland": Spectacle, Ritual and Festivity in the Ilford Hospital Carnival, 1905-1914?
Dion Georgiou (Queen Mary, University of London)
22 Oct 2012
Football Statues: Honouring Heroes by Branding in Bronze?
Dr Chris Stride and Ffion Thomas (University of Sheffield)
3 Oct 2012
The discourse of practice: continuity and change in early modern domestic cultures
Anthony Buxton (University of Oxford)
25 Jun 2012
Boom and Bust: The Edwardian Roller Skating Boom, 1908-1912
Sean Creighton (Independent historian; Editor of 'History & Social Action Publications')
20 Jun 2012
From necessary leisure to moral prophylaxis: death of the suburban garden
Franklin Ginn (University of Edinburgh)
14 May 2012
Ailsa Craig and the Leisure Industry on the Firth of Clyde, c. 1800-2010
Dr Matthew McDowell (University of Glasgow)
21 Mar 2012
'Love, bitter wrong, freedom, sad pity, and lust of power': Politics and Performance in 1820
Malcolm Chase (University of Leeds)
19 Mar 2012
Sport's Role in 1951's Festival of Britain
Iain Wilton (Queen Mary, University of London)
6 Mar 2012
The Political Economy of Royal Emotions: Ruling the Spanish Empire in the Seventeenth Century
Alejandro Caneque (University of Maryland, USA)
5 Mar 2012
Khaki Fever at the Finsbury Park Rink Cinema: Gender, Sexuality and Modernity, 1913-19
Alex Rock (De Montfort University)
21 Feb 2012
The Old Bailey Corpus: spoken English in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Magnus Huber (Giessen)
20 Feb 2012
Women's Cricket Magazine, 1930-1967: Making Cricket Possible, Enjoyable and Fruitful for All Women and Girls
Rafaelle Nicholson (Queen Mary, University of London)
6 Feb 2012
'A Man Cannot See His Own Faults': British Professional Trainers and the 1912 Olympics
Dr David Day (Manchester Metropolitan University)
1 Feb 2012
Flaring Lights and Urgent Cries: London street markets c.1850-1939
Victoria Kelley (University for the Creative Arts)
23 Jan 2012
The 'La Salada' Fair (Buenos Aires) as a Place of Recreation and Construction of Identities
Adriana Massidda (University of Cambridge)
18 Jan 2012
New Wine in Old Bottles: Adapting and Abusing Tradition in French Visual Culture, 1880-1910
Professor Richard Thomson (University of Edinburgh)