Memorial Room, Worcester College
Wednesdays (weeks 1–8 at 5pm), except in 5th Week (see below)
Asterisked speakers are graduates, whose papers may be shorter than usual. All research students working in this period are encouraged to attend; anyone else interested is also very welcome.
Wed. 30th April **Christy Ford (Somerville)
(1st week) From Republic of Letters to Communities of Readers:
Reading Associations in Britain, 1750-1830
Wed. 7th May **Edward Hicks (St. Anne’s)
(2nd week) Spencer Perceval and Education
Wed. 14th May David Hayton (Queen’s, Belfast)
(3rd week) Walcott and Namier Reconsidered
Wed. 21st May **Simon Lewis (University College)
(4th week) “Movers of Sedition and Ringleaders of the Rabble”:
Political and Social Objections to Evangelical Revivalism
in the British Atlantic World, c.1735-c.1750
Tuesday, 27th May **John Hawkins (St. Edmund Hall)
(5th week) David Loggan’s Oxonia Illustrata
Wed. 4th June Elaine Chalus (Bath Spa)
(6th week) “My Dearest Tussy”: Family, Navy and Nation in the
Fremantle Papers, c.1801-14
Wed. 11th June Undergraduate Thesis Session
(7th week) Two current undergraduates will discuss the experience and findings of their recently-completed theses.
Wed. 18th June Guy Chet (North Texas)
(8th week) Armed Commerce: The Law of Piracy and Commercial
Ethics in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic
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