Staff and Postgraduate Seminars

Postgraduate historians are encouraged to attend a range of seminar programmes which are organised by the History Department or by other cognate disciplines. Annual programmes are advertised on the postgraduate noticeboard, and details of specific seminars are usually announced by e-mail a week in advance.

.Click here to go to the current seminar programme.

Depending on your field of study, you may find the following series of interest:

1. Departmental Research Seminar. This meets several times a term, usually at 5 pm. on Wednesdays, to hear and discuss papers from staff and research students on their current work.
   
   
2. Early Modern Seminar. Inter disciplinarian seminar series with internal and external speakers which meet six times a year.
   
   
3. Jack Leighton Lectures :The Jack Leighton Trust is a non-university foundation founded by the late Jack Leighton in order to promote research into the History of Staffordshire and its environs, in part to promote projects in association with Keele University.
   All enquiries should be directed to the following address: Knight & Sons, The Brampton, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire
   
   
4. M6 Medieval Seminars The M6 Medieval Seminar is a regionally based seminar of universities in the Northwest linked by the M6 motorway and includes Keele University, the University of Liverpool, the University of Manchester, University of Lancaster, Liverpool Hope University, Chester College and the University of Huddersfield. Originally designed as a forum for post-graduate students of medieval history, under the current dispensation, papers are presented by postgraduate students and established medievalists alike, generally in the form of three, twenty minute papers grouped under a broader historical problem or topical theme, followed by discussion. The seminar meets on average four times a year, and is a 'moveable feast', alternating between the above universities. Click here for more details.
   
   
5. History Society. The student-run History Society organises an occasional series of lectures by outside speakers. It welcomes suggestions from both undergraduates and postgraduates about possible contributors. The Society also runs excursions to faraway historical locations such as York, Chester and ye olde London shoppes.
   
   
6. The Ranulf Higden Society was founded in 1992 to meet the needs of local historians, family historians, genealogists and others who regularly make use of documents written in Latin and Anglo-Norman.The Society organises three Saturday meetings each year when visiting scholars are invited to give advice on particular classes of documents and their use. The location of meetings varies among a number of centres in the North West.
   
   
7. Local History Seminar. Organised through the History department's Centre for Local History, the regular seminars cover aspects of the local history of Cheshire, Shropshire and Staffordshire.
   
   
8. Earl Lectures