2015-16 (archive)

Trinity Term 2016

Hilary Term 2016

The seminar will meet weekly, on Wednesdays at 5 p.m., in the Turl Yard Lecture Room, Lincoln College (ask at the college lodge for directions). Tea and Coffee will be served from 4.45pm. All research students working in this period are encouraged to attend; anyone else interested is also very welcome.

20th Jan. (week 1) Graciela Iglesias Rogers (Winchester), Bewilderment, Gratitude and Contempt: Hosting Foreign Volunteers during the Napoleonic Wars

27th Jan. (week 2) Robin Eagles (History of Parliament), ‘Open House at Hell’? Honour and Corruption within the House of Lords, c.1689-1700

3rd Feb. (week 3) Philip Loft (UCL), Governing Eighteenth-century Scotland: Litigation, Legal Pluralism and the Role of the House of Lords as ‘High Court’

10th Feb. (week 4) Helen Paul (Southampton), The South Sea Bubble: After the Scandal Abated

17th Feb. (week 5) Joanne Begiato (Oxford Brookes), Breeding a Little Stranger: Perceptions of Pregnancy, c. 1760-1830

24th Feb. (week 6) Peter Finnerty (St. Cross), ‘To be Liberally Brought up and Educated in the Study and Practice of the Laws of England’: Atlantic Exchange and the English Education of the South Carolina Elite

2nd March (week 7) Grayson Ditchfield (Kent), Archdeacon Francis Blackburne and the Evolution of Latitudinarianism in Later Eighteenth-century Britain

9th March (week 8) Matthew Green (Unreal City Audio), From PhD to BBC: How to Make the Transition from Academic History to Popular History, including Tours, Publishing, Journalism, Events, Radio and TV

For information about the seminar, and news of forthcoming events, visit our Facebook page. We would be happy to post notices of interest to our group – contact [email protected].

F. Dabhoiwala (Exeter); J. Innes (Somerville), B. Harris (Worcester); P. Gauci (Lincoln)

Michaelmas Term 2015

The seminar will meet weekly, on Wednesdays at 5 p.m., in the Turl Yard Lecture Room, Lincoln College (ask at the college lodge for directions). Tea and Coffee will be served from 4.45pm. All research students working in this period are encouraged to attend; anyone else interested is also very welcome.

14th Oct. (week 1)       Introductory party

21st Oct. (week 2)      Bob Harris (Worcester) The Lottery and Gambling in the Long Eighteenth Century

28th Oct. (week 3)      David Kennerley (Worcester) Loyalism, Celebrity and the Politics of Personality: Charles Dibdin in the 1790s

4th Nov.  (week 4)       Andrew Mackley (Linacre) Stamped with the Authority of Parliament’: Scottish Local Legislation, 1760-1830

11th Nov. (week 5)      Stéphane Jettot (Paris-Sorbonne) The Making of Baronetages: An Insight into Family Genealogical Literacy in Long Eighteenth-Century Britain

18th Nov.  (week 6)     Peter Forsaith (Oxford Brookes) John Wesley: Images and Identity

25th Nov.  (week 7)     Frances Richardson (Kellogg) The Introduction of the Old Poor Law in North Wales, 1750-1837

2nd Dec.  (week 8)       Ali Yaycioglu (Stanford) Deed of Alliance (1808): A Late Ottoman Magna Carta?

For information about the seminar, and news of forthcoming events, visit our Facebook page.  We would be happy to post notices of interest to our group – contact [email protected]

Convenors: F. Dabhoiwala (Exeter); J. Innes (Somerville), B. Harris (Worcester); P. Gauci (Lincoln)