Department of History

History event archive 2016

The De-industrialising City: Urban, architectural and socio-cultural perspectives

Date
Monday 12 - Tuesday 13 December
Description
Joint workshop with the Society for the Promotion of Urban Discussion (SPUD). When the Coventry-based band The Specials released their single 'Ghost Town' in June 1981, they gave poignant expression to a broader sense of crisis characterising Britain's urban environment in the early Thatcher years.

Medieval Postgraduate Seminar - Wednesday 14 December 2016

Date
Wednesday 14 December
Description
Medieval Postgraduate Seminar with Anja Rohde and Matthew Hefferan.

Local history seminar - Saturday 14 January 2017

Date
Saturday 14 January
Description
John Beckett discusses the role of the private subscription library in Nottingham in the development of scientific thinking in the early 19th century. In a second session Paul Elliott examines the degree to which the experience of women in scientific culture between 1780 and 1850 conformed to the separate spheres model.

Local history seminar - Saturday 11 February 2017

Date
Saturday 11 February
Description
Dr Julie Attard discusses the HLF-funded Charnwood Forest Roots project.

Local history seminar - Saturday 11 March 2017

Date
Saturday 11 March
Description
Mike Jefferson discusses farming on the Templar estates in Lincolnshire following the arrest of the Order in 1308; Amy Calladine discusses public ritual in English towns, c.1630-1670.
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