20th Century
7 Jun 2013
'Art' with a Capital 'A' and the Practice of Community Art
Kate Crehan (City University of New York)
5 Jun 2013
Domesticating medicine: medical technologies and the modern home
Roberta Bivins (University of Warwick)
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)
28 May 2013
The summits of modern man: mountaineering after the Enlightenment
Peter Hansen (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)
23 May 2013
A Plea for the Weak Against the Strong : l'anti-impérialisme d'Annie Besant (1847-1933)
Muriel Pécastaing-Boissière (Paris IV-Sorbonne)
7 May 2013
Adaptees aux milieux canadiens-francais et catholiques: Educating Librarians to be Censors at the Universite de Montreal, 1937-61
Geoffrey Little (Concordia University Libraries)
20 Mar 2013
History for citizens: the record of the historical profession in Britain
John Tosh (Roehampton)
13 Mar 2013
"Riding on Top of the Car": The cinematic tram and urban transformation
Karolina Kendall-Bush (University College London)
11 Mar 2013
A permanent environment of brightness, warmth and homeliness: children's experiences of institutional care in the Waifs and Strays Society, 1881-1914
Claudia Soares (University of Manchester)
11 Mar 2013
Labour and the Politics of Drink in Interwar Britain
Dr Peter Catterall (University of Westminster)
27 Feb 2013
Auctions, maps, leases and "narrations" of property: representing commodified space in Delhi, 1911-47
Anish Vanaik (Oxford)
25 Feb 2013
Professional Bodybuilding and the Business of 'Extreme' Bodies: Exploring the Mr Olympia Competition in the Context of Las Vegas Leisure Industries
Dr Dimitris Liokaftos (Goldsmiths, University of London)
20 Feb 2013
The Spirit of 1976: Commerce, Community, and the Politics of Commemoration
Tammy Gordon (Director of Public History, University of North Carolina, Wilmington)
13 Feb 2013
Whose Home? Jewish migration and local reaction in the East End of London 1870-1914
Oliver Betts (York)
11 Feb 2013
'The People's Popular Emporium': A Short History of Gamages of Holborn, Cycling and Athletic Outfitters, 1878-1935
Dr Geraldine Biddle-Perry (Central St Martins College of Art and Design)
7 Feb 2013
'My other mother': Separated families and mourning as agency in narratives in the 1947 Indian partition
Anindya Raychaudhuri (University of St Andrews)
30 Jan 2013
Protestant Missions, Progressivism and Global Modernity: The YMCA in China, 1895-1935
John Heavens (University of Cambridge)
28 Jan 2013
Good Feeling and Brotherliness: Leisure, the Suburbs and the Society of Public Librarians in London, 1895-1930
Dr Michelle Johansen (Bishopsgate Institute)