Seminars and Lectures

SEMINARS 2012-2013

 The Department sponsor a number of research seminars which meet regularly throughout the year. All visitors are welcome.

EARLY MODERN RESEARCH SEMINARS
Date Name of Event Co-ordinator Venue/Time
21-Nov  Susan Bruce, Keele - "Instruments for thinking with":  a Utopian Dialectic.  Ann Hughes CM0.12, Claus Moser Research Centre - 5.30 pm
MODERN HISTORY RESEARCH SEMINARS
Date Name of Event Co-ordinator Venue/Time
17-Oct Marisa  Linton, Kingston -  The Politicians' Terror in the French Revolution. Shalini Sharma CBB0.030, Chancellor's Building - 5.15 pm
5-Nov  Robert Gray, Keele - Landscape, Space and the Creation of `Commons' in nineteenth-century Hungary  Shalini Sharma  CBB0.030, Chancellor's Building - 5.15 pm
5-Dec Andrew Dilley, Aberdeen - Culture, Political Economy, and the British World:  The Congress of Chambers of Commerce of Empire 1886-1914.  Shalini Sharma CBB0.030, Chancellor's Building - 5.15 pm

 

PREVIOUS SEMINARS 2011-2012

 The Department sponsor a number of research seminars which meet regularly throughout the year. All visitors are welcome.

  • M6 Seminar. Provides opportunities for postgraduates at Keele, Lancaster, Manchester, Liverpool and Chester to meet, present and discuss papers in a wider academic forum than their own institution.

          Details of the first seminar of the 2011-12 session will appear here shortly.

          Keele,  16 March 2011.  Programme

          Wednesday 26 October 2011 at 5.30 pm:

   Judith Maltby (Corpus Christi College, Oxford): 'Extravagencies and Impertinencies':

   Set Forms,'Conceived' and Free Prayer in Revolutionary England

   Wednesday 7 December 2011 at 5.30 pm

   Bill Speck: The Radicalisation of Tom Paine

  

   Seminars take place in the Claus Moser Building Room CM0.12 at 5.30 pm.
   Tea will be available in the foyer from 5.00 p.m.

          For further details contact Ann Hughes: a.l.hughes@his.keele.ac.uk


Wednesday 2 November 2011
David Arnold (Warwick)
'The god of small things: rethinking technology in British India'

Wednesday 30 November 2011
Helen McCarthy (Queen Mary, London)
'Elite outsiders: women in the British diplomatic Service c.1946 to the
present'

Wednesday 22 February 2012
Rachel Bright (Keele)
'Chinese labour and the formation of the British world c.1850-1914'

Wednesday 21 March 2012
Miles Taylor (York/Institute of Historical Research)
'Queen Victoria and her jubilees: rethinking the invention of tradition'.

Seminars take place in CBB0.030 at 5.15 pm. Tea and coffee will be
available from 4.45 pm

For further details contact Shalini Sharma  s.sharma@his.keele.ac.uk

  • Jack Leighton Local History

    The next seminar will take place on Wednesday 23 November 2011 at 2.15 pm in the usual room (CBA1.102)
     
     Two papers:
     
    Henry Miller (History of Parliament), 'Electoral politics in Staffordshire, 1832-1868: elections, parties, voters and patrons in an industrialising county'
     
    Pam Fisher (University of Leicester), 'Favours, fifes, and fish-vans: celebrating the election of Staffordshire coroners in the early 19th century'