18th-19th Century
4 Feb 2013
A Jamaican Odyssey: Nancy Prince's Travels to Jamaica in 1840
Beverley Duguid (Royal Holloway, University of London)
30 Jan 2013
The World is not Enough: Global History, Cotton Textiles and the Industrial Revolution
Giorgio Riello (University of Warwick)
30 Jan 2013
The stormy latitude of the law: Chancery Lane and spatial politics in late eighteenth-century London
Francis Boorman (IHR)
17 Jan 2013
Pick's posters and progress: a design strategy for the Underground
Oliver Green (Independent Scholar)
17 Jan 2013
Class and commuting on the underground, 1863-1939
Simon Abernethy (University of Cambridge)
17 Jan 2013
Letting off steam: the perils and possibilities of underground travel in Victorian and Edwardian London
Richard Dennis (University College London)
16 Jan 2013
A Sinew of Power? Ireland and the Fiscal-Military State, 1690-1782
Patrick Walsh (University College London)
14 Jan 2013
How the British Isles Became British: The Residential Class in Jersey, c. 1815-1850s
Robin Mills (University of Cambridge)
14 Jan 2013
A Liberal Education for 'Citizens': The Case of the Working Men's College (1854-1914 ca.)
Dr Marcella Sutcliffe (University of Cambridge)
14 Jan 2013
The fraudster, his mistress and humanitarian fundraising in the 1890s: anticlericalism and the inheritance of Mgr Lavigerie
Bertrand Taithe (University of Manchester)
9 Jan 2013
Sighs and settees: recovering the lost history of reading aloud in the eighteenth century
Abigail Williams (University of Oxford)
5 Dec 2012
Secularisation: Or Otherwise in Eighteenth-Century England?
Panel members: Penelope J. Corfield (Royal Holloway, University of London); Jeremy Gregory (University of Manchester); John Seed (Roehampton University).
22 Nov 2012
British Politics in the Long Eighteenth Century: a Defense of Political History
Frank O'Gorman (Manchester)
12 Nov 2012
Converting Emotions: Possession and Power in Female Missionaries’ Writing about Native Converts
Angharad Eyre (Queen Mary, University of London)
7 Nov 2012
Sanctifying the street: urban space, material religion and the G.F. Watts mosaic 'Time, Death and Judgement' in London, c.1880-1970
Lucie Matthews-Jones (Liverpool John Moores)
7 Nov 2012
Consumer non-choices in the eighteenth century home
Conor Lucey (University College Dublin)
7 Nov 2012
What's in a Name?: The 'Conversation' Piece in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Kate Retford (Birkbeck, University of London)
30 Oct 2012
Rent versus Production: Political Economy and Economic Culture in Venezuela, 1830-2010
Sarah Washbrook (Manchester)
24 Oct 2012
Profiling Irish Crime in London, 1801-1820
Adam Crymble (King’s College, London University)
23 Oct 2012
Quantifying the Language of British Politics, 1880-1914
Luke Blaxill (King's College London)
10 Oct 2012
A history of urban space: changing concepts of space in the study of the early modern metropolis
Stuart Minson (Oxford)
25 Jun 2012
"Head of Our Morality": why the twentieth-century British monarchy matters
Dr. David Starkey
14 May 2012
Ailsa Craig and the Leisure Industry on the Firth of Clyde, c. 1800-2010
Dr Matthew McDowell (University of Glasgow)