Modern British History Seminar
Trinity Term 2015
Thursdays, 2pm, Larkin Room, St John’s.
All welcome. Tea is served after the seminar.
1
30 April, Graham Harding (St Cross), ‘“Effervescency”: the production of a liquid
and an idea in the 19th century’ and Beau Woodbury (Wolfson), ‘Promoting classical music
in mid twentieth century adult education’.
2
7 May, Richard Parfitt (Linacre), ‘“Living still, in spite of dungeon, fire and
sword": music and Irish political prisoners, 1916-1921' and Catherine Sloan (Queen’s), ‘The
“Tunding Row”: reform and resistance at Winchester School, 1872’.
3
14 May, Rory Allan (Christ Church), ‘Citizens & scholars: public history and the
historian's vocation in Britain, 1860-1930’ and Greg Hynes (Pembroke), ‘“The menace of
remoteness”: Britain’s imperial communications networks and the greater British community
during the First World War’.
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4
21 May, Mikko Lievonen (St Edmund Hall), ‘Policy-making in the professional
party: the Conservative and Labour research departments, 1970-9’ and Callum White
(Balliol), ‘“The betrayal of the slums”?: the politics of the housing programme in Britain
after the First World War’.
Sian Pooley
Matthew Grimley
Ben Jackson
Marc Mulholland
Simon Skinner
William Whyte