Modern British History Seminar - Oxford Talks

Modern British History Seminar

Seminars will take place on Thursdays at 14:00, (except in Week 1, when it will take place at 17:00)

In weeks 2, 3 & 4 the seminar will be held in person at the Ship Street Lecture Theatre, Jesus College. In weeks 5 & 6 it will be held online via Microsoft Teams. If you wish to attend any of these events, and are not on the Modern British History mailing list, please email alfie.steer@hertford.ox.ac.uk

All welcome!

Type: Seminar Series
Series organisers: Matthew Grimley (Merton College) , Ben Jackson (University College) , Marc Mulholland (St Catherine’s College) , Sian Pooley (Magdalen College) , William Whyte (St John’s) , Aled Davies (Jesus) , Joshua Bennett (Lincoln) , Faridah Zaman (Somerville) , Meleisa Ono-George (Queen's)
Timing: Thursdays at 14:00, (except Week 1 - see below)
Organising department: Faculty of History

Thursday 21 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

14:00 - Start of term reception for all graduate students, early career researchers, and History Faculty members in Modern British History
N/A

Thursday 28 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

14:00 - Anthropology, secularism, and the evolution of marriage in Britain, 1889-1969
Joshua Bennett (Oxford)

Thursday 4 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

14:00 - "Tell the boys from me, as one of their old fellows, that they must all strive for Emigration, it is the making of thousands”: Boys, Empire and opportunity in the nineteenth-century
Gillian Lamb (Oxford)

Thursday 11 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

14:00 - "Riders of Tomorrow”: Horse-riding in Britain, c.1920-1960
Hannah Smith (Oxford)

Thursday 18 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

14:00 - "The moral rearmament of imperialism”: the Revolutionary Communist Party, Irish republicanism, and the new world order, c.1981-1998
Jack Hepworth (Oxford)

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Editors: Laura Spence, Belinda Clark

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