• 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)
• Timing: Thursdays at 14:00, except 21 January and 11 March at 17:00
• Organising department: Faculty of History

Thursday 21 January 2021 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The 1984-5 Miners' Strike: An Oral History (joint meeting with Modern History Seminar)
  Robert Gildea (Oxford)

Thursday 28 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Imperial Encore: The Cultural Project of the Late British Empire
  Caroline Ritter (Texas State)

Thursday 4 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - “What Remains of What We Still Call, Sentimentally, our Communities”: Narrating the Crisis of Working-Class Community in 1980s Britain
  Nicholas Garland (Oxford)

Thursday 11 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - “Tactics are Dictated by the Existing Conditions”: The Design and Outcome of Provisional IRA Violence 1969-1979
  Rachel Kowalski (Oxford)

Thursday 18 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - “They’re Trying to Make Everyone Equal, and That Can’t Happen”: Gifted Education, Equality, and Difference in Britain, 1945-1990
  Jennifer Crane (Oxford)

Thursday 25 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Selina Todd in conversation with Mike Savage to launch her new book Snakes and Ladders: The Great Social Mobility Myth (2021)
  Selina Todd (Oxford), Mike Savage (LSE)

Thursday 4 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Foundations: How the Built Environment Made Twentieth-Century Britain
  Sam Wetherell (York)

Thursday 11 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Slavery and the Art of Race (joint meeting with Modern History Seminar)
  Philippa Levine (Texas/Oxford)