• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Sam Brewitt-Taylor (Lincoln College) , Matthew Grimley (Merton College) , Ben Jackson (University College) , Marc Mulholland (St Catherine’s College) , Sian Pooley (Magdalen College) , William Whyte (St John’s)
• Timing: Thursdays at 14:00

Thursday 23 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Popular politics in an age of mass democracy: Home Rule, ‘the caucus’ and public opinion
  Naomi Lloyd-Jones (Oxford)

Thursday 30 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Intimacy at a Distance: Emotional Labour and the “Psychological Turn” in British Problem Pages, c. 1960-1990
  Tracey Loughran (Essex)

Thursday 6 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Mobility, Nostalgia, and the Crisis of Social Democracy: The Viewers of When the Boat Comes In in Britain and Abroad
  David Cowan (Cambridge)

Thursday 13 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Defending the Good Life: London’s Suburbia and Householder Toryism, 1960-1980
  John Davis (Oxford)

Thursday 20 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:30 - Vernacular Discourses of Gender Equality in the Postwar British Working Class
  Note: joint with the Modern History Seminar at 11:30 in the History Faculty, Rees Davies Room
  Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite (UCL), Natalie Thomlinson (Reading)

Thursday 27 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:30 - The Problem with the “Home Front”: Rethinking a Conceptual Category in 20th-Century Europe and its Empires?
  Note: joint with the Modern History Seminar at 11:30am in the History Faculty, Rees Davies Room
  Susan Grayzel (Utah State)

Thursday 5 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - State of Emergency: The General Strike of 1926
  Jonathan Schneer (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Thursday 12 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Britain's Socialist Internationalists and the End of the Ottoman Empire
  Faridah Zaman (Oxford)