The British Empire at War Research Group
War and Empire in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Workshop
Room 5531, 5th Floor, Howard Building, Sheffield Hallam University 1000-1730 9 May 2013
0930 Arrival
1000 Welcome from Bruce Collins, Huw Davies, and Ashley Jackson
1015 Huw Davies (King’s College London), ‘Explaining the Rise of British Military Power, 1750-1850’
1045 Randolf Cooper (independent researcher), ‘The Development of British Martial Race Theory in the C18th’
1115 Coffee
1145 John Rumsby (independent researcher), ‘Discipline, System, and Style: The Social History of a British
Cavalry Regiment in India 1822-1846’
1215 Bruce Collins (Sheffield Hallam), ‘The British Military Response to the Indian Mutiny-Rebellion in 1857’
1245 Buffet lunch
1330 Marie-Cecile Thoral (Sheffield Hallam), ‘British-French Coalition Warfare during the Second Opium
War’
1400 Peter Cain (Sheffield Hallam), ‘Contextualizing the South African War, 1890-1899’
1430 Iain Smith (Warwick), ‘The Establishment of Concentration Camps in Colonial Arenas: New Research on
the British Camps in South Africa, 1900-1903’
1500 Daniel Whittingham (King’s College London), ‘Colonial Warfare and Military Thought in Britain, c.18701914’
1530 Douglas Peers (Waterloo), tbc
1600 Tea
1615 Plenary discussion led by Bruce Collins and Douglas Peers
1730 Pub
Reserve paper: Ashley Jackson (King’s College London), ‘The Evolution of a Martial Colony: Ceylon and the
British Military, 1796-1902’
Directions: The fifth floor of the city campus complex, just across the street from the main railway station.
This event is sponsored by Sheffield Hallam University, the Arts & Humanities Research Council, the British
Empire at War Research Group, and King’s College London
http://britishempireatwar.org