• 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) , Faridah Zaman (Somerville) , Meleisa Ono-George (Queen's) , Joshua Bennett (Lady Margaret Hall)
• Timing: Thursdays at 14:00-15:30, unless otherwise stated
• Organising department: Faculty of History

Thursday 19 January 2017

• 14:00 - Touch, Tea-Drinking, and the Organisation of Desire in London, 1890-1932
  Simeon Koole (Magdalen College)

Thursday 26 January 2017

• 14:00 - Advertisements of Every Kind to Bring their Brand into Notoriety”: Brand Innovation and “Brandolatry” in the Nineteenth-Century Champagne Trade
  Graham Harding (St Cross College)

Thursday 2 February 2017

• 14:00 - The “Value” of Bodies and the “Worth” of Grief: Towards an Emotional Economy of Death in Second World War Britain
  Lucy Noakes (Brighton University)

Thursday 9 February 2017

• 14:00 - Conservative and Labour Research Departments and the EEC Debate, 1970-75
  Mikko Lievonen (St Edmund Hall)

Thursday 16 February 2017

• 14:00 - Musicology, Adult Education, and Post-War Intellectual Culture: Wilfrid Mellers at the University of Birmingham’s Extramural Department, 1948-64
  Beau Woodbury (Wolfson Collge)

Thursday 23 February 2017

• 14:00 - The Idea of “the Establishment” in Post-War British Politics
  Stuart Middleton (University of Cambridge)

Thursday 2 March 2017

• 14:00 - Discussion of 2017 Ford Lectures in British History, ‘History in English Criticism 1919-1961’
  Stefan Collini (University of Cambridge)

Thursday 27 April 2017

• 14:00 - The First World War and Housing in Britain
  Calum White

Thursday 4 May 2017

• 14:00 - The Conservatives and Industrial Reorganisation, 1931-40: the Growth of the State.
  William Prescott, Rebecca Brown

Thursday 11 May 2017

• 14:00 - ‘Loved by the women of the East End and women of the West End’?
  Lyndsey Jenkins

Thursday 18 May 2017

• 14:00 - 1. The Forward March of Labour Halted / 2. 'To address ourselves violently towards the present as it is’
  Matthew Myers, Max Shock

Thursday 25 May 2017

• 14:00 - ‘This morning a man was hanged. This Evening we had a concert’: Music, Nationalism and Northern Ireland, 1923-1967.
  Richard Parfitt

Thursday 12 October 2017

• 17:00 - Ewen Green Memorial Lecture: ‘Ideologies of Education in Twentieth Century Britain’
  Peter Mandler (Cambridge)

Thursday 19 October 2017

• 14:00 - ‘Free Markets and Feminism: The Neo-Liberal Defence of the Male Bread-Winner Model in Britain, c. 1980-1997’
  Ben Jackson (University College)

Thursday 26 October 2017

• 14:00 - ‘Losing the War: Conservatism, Grief, and Consensus in Britain after 1945’
  Kit Kowol (Christ Church College)

Thursday 2 November 2017

• 17:00 - Roundtable Discussion on British Historiography and Race
  Various Speakers

Thursday 9 November 2017

• 14:00 - ‘Neoliberalism as a Category in Contemporary British History’
  Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite (UCL)

Thursday 16 November 2017

• 14:00 - ‘Prayer and Political Imagination: Revisiting Late Nineteenth-Century Feminism’
  Sarah Williams (Regent College, Vancouver)

Thursday 23 November 2017

• 14:00 - ‘An Ethical Foreign Policy? The Labour Party and British Overseas Development at the End of Empire’
  Charlotte Riley (Southampton)

Thursday 18 January 2018

• 14:00 - ‘Unmaking Stereotypes: A Comparison of the Political Cultures of Britain and Australia’
  Ross McKibbin (St John’s)

Thursday 25 January 2018

• 14:00 - ‘Popular Political Thought: The Case of the Chartists’
  Josh Gibson (LMH)

Thursday 1 February 2018

• 14:00 - ‘A “Cake-Makers’ Division”? Labour Women and the Practice of Politics in South-East England c. 1931-1939’
  Owen Sellers (Hertford)

Thursday 8 February 2018

• 14:00 - ‘The Rise of the “Synthetic Gaels”: Irish Protestant Nationalists and the Extremes of Identification, c.1908-23’
  Conor Morrissey (Hertford)

Thursday 15 February 2018

• 14:00 - ‘Roads to Higher Education: Working-Class Women’s Experiences of Applying to University, c.1960s-1970s’
  Bethany White (Trinity)

Thursday 22 February 2018

• 14:00 - ‘Child Protection in an Era of “Public Service Sensationalism”: Child Welfare and the Popular Press, 1933-1970’
  CANCELLED
  Jono Taylor (Magdalen)

Thursday 1 March 2018

• 14:00 - ‘Great expectations: Childhood, Family, and Middle Class Social Mobility in Nineteenth-Century England’
  Christina de Bellaigue (Exeter)

Thursday 8 March 2018

• 14:00 - ‘Representing the Nation: Scottish Nationalism and Europe, 1967-
  CANCELLED
  Malcolm Petrie (St Andrews)

Wednesday 11 April 2018

• 14:00 - Scaling the Nation: England in World Histories: graduate and early career researcher discussion of pre-circulated paper and advice on publishing in Twentieth-Century British History
  Guy Ortolano (New York University)

Thursday 26 April 2018

• 14:00 - ‘The working lives of Irish women in late nineteenth-century England’, ‘Overtures from Germany: Music, War, and Memory in Britain, 1934-1955’ & ‘The British Left and the Idea of Community in the 1970s’
  Beth Kitson (Balliol), Michael Nixon (Lincoln), Nicholas Garland (Univ)

Thursday 3 May 2018

• 14:00 - 'Languages of Imperialism in British First World War Propaganda.’
  Gregory Hynes (Pembroke)

Thursday 10 May 2018

• 12:00 - The housing crisis: whatever happened to a property-owning social democracy?
  Guy Ortolano and others (New York University)

Friday 11 May 2018

• 14:00 - Scaling the Nation: England in World Histories: graduate and early career researcher discussion of pre-circulated paper and advice on publishing in Twentieth-Century British History
  Guy Ortolano (New York University)

Thursday 17 May 2018

• 14:00 - Child Protection in an Era of “Public Service Sensationalism”: Child Welfare and the Popular Press, 1933-1970
  Jono Taylor (Magdalen)

Thursday 24 May 2018

• 14:00 - ‘British critics, the Iberian empires, and the dictators of Latin America, c. 1800-1850’
  Alexander Middleton (Corpus)

Thursday 11 October 2018

• 14:00 - ‘Empires of the mind: are British (and French) colonialism still with us?’
  Robert Gildea (Worcester)

Thursday 18 October 2018

• 14:00 - ‘Dr Francia and the science of despotism, 1800-1850’
  Alex Middleton (Corpus Christi)

Thursday 25 October 2018

• 14:00 - ‘Representing the nation: Scottish nationalism and Europe, 1967-1975’
  Malcolm Petrie (St Andrew’s)

Thursday 1 November 2018

• 17:00 - ‘Customs in common: making “race” in the black/white Atlantic’
  Catherine Hall (UCL)

Thursday 8 November 2018

• 14:00 - Roundtable on new directions in the historiography of 1968
  John Davis (Queen’s), Tess Little (All Souls), Matthew Myers (Wadham)

Wednesday 14 November 2018

• 17:00 - ‘Ireland, Britain, and the taxing Union, 1801-1914’
  Julian Hoppit (UCL)

Thursday 22 November 2018

• 14:00 - ‘Student mental health in post-war Britain’
  Sarah Crook (Swansea)

Thursday 24 January 2019

• 14:00 - Historicising British modernities: from “civilisation” to “the modern world”, 1939-1965
  Sam Brewitt-Taylor (Lincoln)

Thursday 31 January 2019

• 14:00 - The rise and fall of the “pansy” in inter-war Britain
  Dominic Janes (Keele)

Thursday 7 February 2019

• 11:00 - Celia Johnson’s Grief: mourning and remembrance in post-Second World War Britain’
  Joint session with Modern History research seminar, 11am, History Faculty
  Lucy Noakes (Essex)

Thursday 14 February 2019

• 11:00 - The Lives and Loves of Muriel St. Clare Byrne: Perspectives on Queer Identity
  Joint session with Modern History research seminar, 11am, History Faculty.
  Mo Moulton (Birmingham)

Thursday 21 February 2019

• 14:00 - The Financialisation of Britain, c.1960-2000
  Aled Davies (Jesus)

Thursday 28 February 2019

• 14:00 - Double Amnesia: Human Rights and Zionism, 1918-2018
  Joint session with Jewish History seminar
  Jim Loeffler (Virginia)

Thursday 7 March 2019

• 14:00 - Becoming European internationalists, becoming social democrats? The debate on the European Community in Marxism Today in the long 1980s
  Max Shock (Univ)

Thursday 2 May 2019

• 14:00 - The Conservatives and Housing, 1931-40
  Will Prescott (University)

Thursday 9 May 2019

• 14:00 - England’s Early Railway Hotels, 1839-1854: a social and architectural history
  Lisa Hirst (Jesus)
• 14:00 - Prepared for the future? Nineteenth-century children and institutional care
  Gillian Lamb (Jesus)

Thursday 16 May 2019

• 14:00 - Victorian etiquette, manners and social mobility
  Luisa Kapp (Brasenose)
• 14:00 - The reform of the British civil service: the treasury, c. 1847-1914
  Luis Gabriel Galan-Guerrero (St Anne's)

Thursday 23 May 2019

• 14:00 - The Social Role of Religion in the YMCA during the First World War
  Kathryn White (Pembroke)
• 14:00 - Be Fruitful and Multiply? Eugenics and the Anglican approval of birth control at the 1930 Lambeth Conference
  Andrew Moeller (Kellogg)

Thursday 30 May 2019

• 14:00 - Crisis? Whose Crisis? The Country House Lobby's Campaign Against the Wealth Tax, 1973-76
  Elena Porter (St Anne's)
• 14:00 - Imperialism, Pacifism & Radicalism: E.D. Morel and British Society, 1900-24
  Mark Collett (St Peter's)

Thursday 6 June 2019

• 14:00 - The Forward March of Labour Halted: Changing conceptions of the working class on the British left in the long 1970s
  NB Change of location to Barn Lecture Theatre
  Matt Myers (Wadham)

Thursday 17 October 2019

• 14:00 - The Lucretia Borgia of Salford: Shelagh Delaney, Class, Sex and Biography
  Selina Todd (University of Oxford)

Thursday 24 October 2019

• 14:00 - Race and Respectability: The Class Politics of London’s Post-War Multiculture
  Rob Waters (QMUL)

Thursday 31 October 2019

• 14:00 - The Legacy of Robert Burns and the Scottish Left (1910s-2010s)
  Paul Malgrati (St Andrews)

Thursday 7 November 2019

• 17:00 - Ewen Green Memorial Lecture: ‘The Iron Curtain and the Iron Lady: Margaret Thatcher, 1989 and the Fall of the Berlin Wall'
  Robert Saunders (QMUL)

Friday 8 November 2019

• 14:00 - Graduate workshop: ‘How do we Write the History of Brexit?’
  Various Speakers

Thursday 14 November 2019

• 14:00 - Roundtable discussion on Jon Lawrence’s 'Me, Me, Me: The Search for Community in Post-War Britain'
  Jon Lawrence (Exeter), Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite (UCL), Jono Taylor (Oxford), Eve Worth (Oxford)

Thursday 21 November 2019

• 14:00 - Reflections on a Working Life: Women Graduates in Post-War Britain c. 1945 to c.1963
  Lucy Golding (Oxford)

Friday 29 November 2019

• 09:00 - Graduate workshop: ‘Oxford and Empire’
  Postponed to Trinity 2020
  Catherine Hall (UCL)

Thursday 5 December 2019

• 14:00 - Between Two Worlds: John Whelan Dulanty and Ireland's Post-colonial Dilemma
  Michaela Moriarty (Oxford)

Thursday 23 January 2020

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

Thursday 5 March 2020

• 14:00 - State of Emergency: The General Strike of 1926
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Jonathan Schneer (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Thursday 12 March 2020

• 14:00 - Britain's Socialist Internationalists and the End of the Ottoman Empire
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Faridah Zaman (Oxford)

Tuesday 2 June 2020

• 17:00 - James Ford Special Lecture: ‘Racial Capitalism Across the Black/White Atlantic’
  Please contact the organisers for further information as to whether this event has been postponed or will be available online
  Catherine Hall (UCL)

Thursday 15 October 2020

• 17:00 - Book Launch of Ben Jackson’s The Case for Scottish Independence: A History of Nationalist Political Thought in Modern Scotland
  Ben Jackson (Oxford), Scott Hames (Stirling University), Naomi Lloyd-Jones (Oxford), Rory Scothorne (Edinburgh University), Lise Butler (City University)

Thursday 22 October 2020

• 14:00 - Gender Trouble in Interwar Student Life
  Please email andrew.moeller@kellogg.ox.ac.uk for the link
  Emily Rutherford (Oxford)

Thursday 29 October 2020

• 17:00 - Ewen Green Memorial Lecture ‘Love in the Time of Welfare’
  Registration is required by emailing alumni.office@magd.ox.ac.uk for the link
  Jordanna Bailkin (University of Washington)

Thursday 5 November 2020

• 14:00 - Empire, Free Trade, and Caribbean Freedom
  Please email andrew.moeller@kellogg.ox.ac.uk for the link
  Michael Joseph (Oxford)

Thursday 19 November 2020

• 14:00 - The Imperialism of International Government: Leonard Woolf, Henry Brailsford, and socialist thought in wartime Britain
  Please email andrew.moeller@kellogg.ox.ac.uk for the link
  Faridah Zaman (Oxford)

Thursday 3 December 2020

• 14:00 - Roundtable discussion with Helen McCarthy (Cambridge) of her new book 'Double Lives: a history of working motherhood' (2020)
  Please email andrew.moeller@kellogg.ox.ac.uk for the link
  Helen McCarthy (Cambridge), Aleena Din (Oxford), Jane Humphries (Oxford), Eve Worth (Oxford)

Thursday 21 January 2021

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

Thursday 28 January 2021

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

Thursday 4 February 2021

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

Thursday 11 March 2021

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

Thursday 6 May 2021

• 14:00 - John Stuart Mill and the East India Company
  Andrew Dalkin (New College, Oxford)
• 14:00 - Moral personality, emotional experiences, and the intellectual history of ethical socialism, 1880-1930
  Oliver Gough (University College, Oxford)

Thursday 13 May 2021

• 14:00 - The Victorian regiment as a social institution: studying a soldier’s identity and belongingness
  Hannah Searle (St Antony's College, Oxford)
• 14:00 - “Not since the Wars of the Roses had so many patricians died so suddenly and so violently”: a closer look at aristocratic casualties in the Great War
  John Howard (Pembroke College, Oxford)
• 14:00 - Conflict in print: British soldiers and satirists on the Eastern Question, 1853-56
  Andrew Walsh (Keble College, Oxford)

Thursday 20 May 2021

• 14:00 - Margaret Thatcher and the Trade Union "problem": the execution of an ideological blueprint or tactical opportunism?
  Christopher Birks (Lincoln College, Oxford)
• 14:00 - "Keep the Party Labour": The Grassroots Alliance and the changing strategies of opposition to Tony Blair and New Labour, 1994-2007
  Alfie Steer (Hertford College, Oxford)

Thursday 27 May 2021

• 14:00 - Queer oral history and transfeminine experiences of Britain, 1970-1989
  Fleur MacInnes (Christ Church College, Oxford)
• 14:00 - Exposing the female neck and shoulders: beauty, prestige, and violence in England, c. 1838-1953
  Elena Tucker (Wolfson College, Oxford)

Thursday 17 June 2021

• 17:00 - Waterloo Sunrise: London Life, 1960-79: an event to mark the retirement of John Davis from the Oxford History Faculty
  John Davis (Oxford), Anna Minton (East London), Otto Saumarez-Smith (Warwick), Natalie Thomlinson (Reading)

Thursday 14 October 2021

• 17:00 - Ewen Green Memorial Lecture: 'An English Field'
  N.B. this even takes place at 5pm, in the Grove Auditorium, Magdalen College REGISTRATION REQUIRED: https://www.magd.ox.ac.uk/ewen-green-memorial-lecture/
  James Rebanks

Thursday 21 October 2021

• 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

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

Thursday 4 November 2021

• 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

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

Thursday 18 November 2021

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

Thursday 20 January 2022

• 14:00 - Online book launch of Aled Davies, Ben Jackson and Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite (eds), The Neoliberal Age? Britain Since the 1970s (2020)
  Note: This event will take place on Zoom; registration required
  Aled Davies (Oxford), Colm Murphy (QMUL), Emily Robinson (Sussex), Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite (UCL)

Thursday 27 January 2022

• 17:00 - Vernacular Discourses of Gender Equality in the Postwar British Working Class
  Note: This event is jointly held with the Modern History Seminar and will take place in the Rees Davies Room, Faculty of History, at 17:00
  Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite (UCL), Natalie Thomlinson (Reading)

Thursday 10 February 2022

• 14:00 - Rethinking the punitive turn: Discipline in London prisons, c.1810-1850
  Kiran Mehta (Oxford)

Thursday 17 February 2022

• 17:00 - Agents of which state? Danish journalists in British Exile, 1940-1945
  Note: This event is jointly held with the Modern History Seminar and will take place in the Rees Davies Room, Faculty of History, at 17:00
  Emil Seidenfaden (Copenhagen and Oxford)

Thursday 24 February 2022

• 14:00 - Mahogany, afterlives of slavery and a Black Gaze
  Note: This event will be held in the Rees Davies Room, Faculty of History, at the usual time of 14:00
  Hannah Cusworth (Hull and English Heritage)

Thursday 3 March 2022

• 14:00 - Sites of Resistance: Rastafari and the Black Power movement in Britain 1967-1973
  Aleema Gray (Warwick and Museum of London)

Thursday 10 March 2022

• 14:00 - Middle life in the British Civil Service: Treasury promotions, marriages, and honours, c. 1847-1914
  Luis Galan-Guerrero (Oxford)

Thursday 13 October 2022

• 17:00 - Ewen Green Memorial Lecture: Why Schools Matter to Histories of Interwar Britain
  Please note this lecture is at 17:00 at Magdalen College
  Hestor Barron (Sussex)

Thursday 20 October 2022

• 17:00 - Start of term welcome party for all graduate students, early career researchers, and History Faculty members in Modern British History
  Please note this event starts at 17:00
  N/A

Thursday 3 November 2022

• 14:00 - Playing Parliament: Schoolgirls and Politics in England, 1870-1914
  Helen Sunderland (Oxford)

Thursday 10 November 2022

• 14:00 - Winston Churchill, Race, and Transnational History
  Guy Ortolano (NYU)

Thursday 17 November 2022

• 14:00 - Hunting with Dogs, a Jewish Pastime (Joint meeting with the Long Nineteenth Century Seminar)
  Abigail Green (Oxford), Tom Stammers (Durham)

Thursday 24 November 2022

• 14:00 - 25 Years After the 1997 Election: Roundtable on New Labour in Historical Perspective
  This seminar is cancelled and will be rescheduled in 2023
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Lise Butler (City), Eunice Goes (Richmond), Glen O'Hara (Oxford Brookes), Gavin Kelly (Resolution Foundation)

Thursday 26 January 2023

• 14:00 - The Great War and the Church of England in Oxfordshire
  Mark Smith (Oxford)

Thursday 2 February 2023

• 14:00 - 25 Years After the 1997 Election: Roundtable on New Labour in Historical Perspective
  Lise Butler (City), Eunice Goes (Richmond), Glen O'Hara (Oxford Brookes)

Thursday 9 February 2023

• 14:00 - Counter Memories: Photographs of Empire in National Trust Country Houses
  Postponed until Michaelmas 2023 due to industrial action
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Rebekah Hodgkinson (Oxford)

Thursday 23 February 2023

• 14:00 - The Chesterfield Conference and the Development of Socialist Ideas and Strategy in the 1980s and 90s
  Postponed until Michaelmas 2023 due to industrial action
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Alfie Steer (Oxford)

Thursday 2 March 2023

• 14:00 - Male juvenile delinquency in Britain, ca 1918-1970: working-class, sub-working class or no particular class?
  Postponed until Michaelmas 2023 due to industrial action
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Ross McKibbin (Oxford)

Thursday 9 March 2023

• 14:00 - “I loved the danger, loved the feeling of his hands on my throat”: culture, gender and strangulation c.1890-1950
  Elena Tucker (Oxford)

Thursday 27 April 2023

• 14:00 - The Chesterfield conference and the development of socialist ideas and strategy in the 1980s and 90s
  Alfie Steer (Oxford)

Thursday 4 May 2023

• 14:00 - Comprehending the conjuncture: black anarchism and the “anarcho-turn” of black British protest and politics, 1967-1987
  Caine Lewin-Turner (Oxford)
• 14:00 - Black identity during the Black Power movement in the Black Atlantic
  Alisha Odoi-Smith (Oxford)

Thursday 11 May 2023

• 14:00 - “Foreign Agitators” in Britain: overseas students and the British student movement in the 1960s
  Olana Peters (Oxford)
• 14:00 - Networking populism: the neoliberal schism and the transnational origins of the Eurosceptic thought collective
  Christopher Lowe (Oxford)

Thursday 18 May 2023

• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Lauren Spohn (Oxford)
• 14:00 - “As much protection as can be safely given”: Jewish representation before the Porter Committee on the Law of Defamation, 1939-1952
  Shera Avi-Yonah (Oxford)

Thursday 25 May 2023

• 14:00 - “Here to live”: black experience in the English inner-outer city, 1954-1995
  Holly Cooper (Oxford)
• 14:00 - Gay News: representation of political ideas and campaigns prior to the 1979 election
  Filippos Toskas (Oxford)

Thursday 1 June 2023

• 14:00 - Counter Memories: Photographs of Empire in National Trust Country Houses
  Rebekah Hodgkinson (Oxford)

Wednesday 7 June 2023

• 16:00 - Book Launch: Our NHS: A History of Britain’s Best Loved Institution
  Please note this event is on Wednesday at 16:00, at St Anne's College
  Andrew Seaton (Oxford)

Thursday 12 October 2023

• 17:00 - Ewen Green Memorial Lecture - Duelling in the Archive: Labour Quotas for Disabled Britons, 1944-1995
  Please note this talk is at 17:00 in the Auditorium at Magdalen College
  Lucy Delap (Cambridge)

Thursday 19 October 2023

• 14:00 - Roundtable on Stuart Ward’s Untied Kingdom: A Global History of the End of Britain (2022)
  Ian McBride (Oxford), Vivian Kong (Bristol), Faridah Zaman (Oxford), Stuart Ward (Copenhagen)

Thursday 26 October 2023

• 14:00 - New Histories of the 1984-85 Miners’ Strike: Discussion of Robert Gildea, Backbone of the Nation (2023) & Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite and Natalie Thomlinson, Women and the Miners’ Strike 1984-85 (2023)
  Robert Gildea (Oxford), Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite (UCL), Natalie Thomlinson (Reading), Freya Marshall Payne (Oxford), Andrew Seaton (UCL)

Thursday 2 November 2023

• 14:00 - Birth Strikes, Women's Suffrage and Political Thought in Britain, 1907-1918
  Tania Shew (Oxford)

Thursday 9 November 2023

• 14:00 - Drag: A British History
  Joint meeting with LGBTQ+ History Network
  Jacob Bloomfield (Konstanz)

Thursday 16 November 2023

• 14:00 - Who Were They? The Social Origins of British Juvenile Delinquents (Male) ca.1918-1970
  Ross McKibbin (Oxford)

Thursday 23 November 2023

• 14:00 - Being Parented: Disabled Children's Experiences in England, 1940-1970
  Please note this talk has been cancelled
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Samantha McCormack (Oxford)

Thursday 18 January 2024

• 14:00 - Some ends of liberalism: law, morality, and governmentality in the long 1950s
  Ben Griffin (Cambridge)

Thursday 25 January 2024

• 14:00 - "A man who has fought cannot be anything but a brave man": First World War veterans, domestic violence, and the British courts
  Chloe Pieters (Oxford)

Thursday 8 February 2024

• 17:00 - Ernest Bevin (1881-1951): political biography and grand international narrative
  Please note this seminar is at 17:00 in the Rees Davies Room, Faculty of History - joint with the Modern History Research Seminar
  Anne Deighton (Oxford)

Thursday 15 February 2024

• 14:00 - J S Mill before liberalism
  Peter Ghosh (Oxford)

Thursday 22 February 2024

• 14:00 - Feeling Politics and Collective Feminist Solidarity in Women’s Networks since 1970
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Bec Wonders (Oxford)

Thursday 29 February 2024

• 14:00 - The Crimean War in Victorian Religious Thought and Intellectual Culture
  Petros Spanou (Oxford)

Thursday 7 March 2024

• 17:00 - The Changing Shapes of European History: The Modern European History Seminar since the 1980s
  Please note this seminar is in the Rees Davies Room, Faculty of History, at 17:00 - joint with the Modern History Research Seminar
  Martin Conway (Oxford), Tom Buchanan (Oxford)

Thursday 2 May 2024

• 14:00 - Transfer of Status Presentations
  Kenneth Wong, Natalie Martz

Thursday 9 May 2024

• 14:00 - Transfer of Status Presentations
  Gabrielle Davies, Thomas Wang, Carys Howell

Thursday 16 May 2024

• 14:00 - Transfer of Status Presentations
  Eleri Hedley Carter, Freya Willis

Thursday 23 May 2024

• 14:00 - Finally moving on? The Socialist Labour Party and the search for an electoral alternative to New Labour
  Alfie Steer (Hertford College, Oxford)

Thursday 30 May 2024

• 14:00 - "God is an Equal Opportunities Employer - Pity about the Church": Humour and the Campaign for Women's Ordination in the Church of England, 1978-1994
  Grace Heaton (Oxford)

Thursday 17 October 2024

• 17:00 - The Ewen Green Memorial Lecture: Histories of Maternal Labour
  Please note this lecture is at Magdalen College at 17:00
  Professor Sarah Knott

Thursday 24 October 2024

• 14:00 - Induction session for graduate students in modern British history
  Various Speakers

Thursday 31 October 2024

• 14:00 - Camping up the organisation man: sexuality and psychoanalysis in the mid-century British workplace
  Grace Whorrall-Campbell (Oxford)

Thursday 7 November 2024

• 14:00 - “Democracy has come!” The Third Reform Act and the making of British democracy
  Rob Saunders (QMUL)

Thursday 14 November 2024

• 14:00 - “The age has passed, when nations can be SUNG into liberty”: the changing sounds of working-class radicalism, 1838-67
  David Kennerley (Oxford)

Thursday 21 November 2024

• 14:00 - Joint meeting with the English Faculty’s Nineteenth Century Research Seminar: “The desire to supply good tales to my school children”: Charlotte Yonge’s lifelong involvement in parochial education
  Susan Walton (Hull)

Tuesday 26 November 2024

• 17:00 - Joint meeting with the Modern History Research seminar: Writing history after Brexit
  Please note this meeting is on TUESDAY 3 December at 17:00
  Patricia Clavin (Oxford), Robert Gildea (Oxford), Rob Saunders (QMUL)

Thursday 28 November 2024

• 14:00 - Harold Macmillan and his grand designs
  Pippa Catterall (Westminster)