Staff and Postgraduate Research Seminars Spring 2011

All seminars are held in A18/19, School of History, Lenton Grove, University Park and start at 4:15pm.

• 26th January 2011: Dr Philip Riden (University of Nottingham), ‘The coasting trade of Gainsborough, 1770-1840, and the Industrial Revolution in the East Midlands'

• 9th February 2011: Dr Tania Macintosh (University of Nottingham) 'Work and life cycle' roundtable discussion

• 16th February 2011: Dr Kevin Passmore (University of Cardiff), 'Regional prejudice and constitutional reform: right-wing anti-southern prejudice in France and anti-Celtic prejudice in Britain'

• 23rd February 2011: Dr James Mansell (University of Nottingham), ‘Sound and Selfhood in Early Twentieth-Century Britain’

• 2nd March 2011: Janice Musson (School of History PhD), ‘Robin Hood Heroes: how ordinary people stood up to their oppressors in early-thirteenth-century property disputes’

• 9th March 2011: Professor Richard Bosworth (University of Western Australia), ‘Rome and its histories: an eternal debate?’

• 16th March 2011: Warren Dockter (School of History PhD) ‘The appeal of the Orient: assessing Wilfrid Blunt's influence on Winston Churchill’

• 23rd March 2011: Professor Phil Cottrell, ‘“On foreign bodies”; the Ionian Bank and the Greek government during the 1870s’

• 30th March 2011: Neil Howe (School of History PhD), ‘Damn that Print! "Were I to prosecute you it would be the making of your fortune": prints as propaganda’

• 4th May 2011: Faye Taylor (School of History PhD), ‘Maps and miracle stories: some opportunities and obstacles of Historical GIS’

• 11th May 2011: Robert Hearne (School of History PhD), ‘History read in tooth and trotter: comparative species history in the Ligurian Apennines, 1515-2011’

• 19th May 2011: Julia Adeney Thomas (University of Notre Dame, USA), ‘A war without pictures: photography’s curious position in wartime Japan’