Two Sessions
Session 1: John Beckett - Bromley House
The role of the private subscription library in Nottingham in the development of scientific thinking in the early 19th century. The paper also looks at how over time the library was superseded by other specialist societies and organisations, which themselves linked eventually to the University College which opened in 1881.
Session 2: Paul Elliott - Regions of Enlightenment: Women and Scientific Culture in the East Midlands during the Nineteenth Century
In Family Fortunes, their well-known study of English middle-class family life, Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall argued that an ideology of the private domestic sphere became prominent between 1780 and 1850 and circumscribed female behaviour, while men dominated the public sphere life of the arts and government. This paper examines the degree to which the experience of women in scientific culture between 1780 and 1850 conformed to the separate spheres model.Click here to view the full list of local history seminars. Admission is £5 and includes refreshments. Booking is not required. These seminars are open to all with an interest in local and regional history.
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