2014-15 (archive)

Michaelmas Term

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.

15th Oct. (week 1)  Introductory Party

22nd Oct. (week 2)  Jon Mee (York)
Thomas Hardy, The London Corresponding Society, and Questions of Religion and Publicity    

29th Oct. (week 3)   Evan Wilson (Univ)
The Sea Officers: Gentility and Professionalism in the Royal Navy, 1775-1815  

5th Nov.  (week 4)    Spike Sweeting (Victoria and Albert Museum/Royal College of Art)
The Age of Corruption? Bribery, Politics and Pensions at London’s Customs House, c. 1735-1785   

12th Nov. (week 5)   Brian Young (Christ Church)
Anglican Theologies and Intellectual Life  

19th Nov.  (week 6)   James Marsden (Corpus Christi)
Absolutely General Knowledge: History for Schoolboys in Eighteenth-Century Britain  

26th Nov.  (week 7)   Mark Smith (Kellogg)
Revolution in the Parish: The Early Evangelical Clergy and the Refashioning of Anglicanism     

3rd Dec.  (week 8)   Roshan Allpress (Christ Church)
Credit, Trust and the ‘Intellectual School’ of the Clapham Sect  

For information about the seminar, and news of forthcoming events, visit our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Oxford-seminar-in-mainly-British-History-1680-1850/123050627891042. 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)

Hilary Term 2015

21st January (1st week): Lawrence Klein (Cambridge) Kissing for Virtuosi: William Stukeley’s Philosophy of Pleasure, 1757

28th January (2nd week): Henry French (Exeter) What the Cat hath left on the Malt Heap: Younger Sons, Inheritance, and Life-Courses among the Gentry, 1650-1800

4th February (3rd week): Moises Prieto (St. Antony’s) Charisma, Exigence and Fear: Facing Dictatorial Rule in Europe and Latin America in the Early Long Nineteenth Century

11th February (4th week): Hazel Tubman (Brasenose) Self-Accounting and the Commercial Pocket Diary, 1750-1850

18th February (5th week): Kate Davison (Sheffield) Ned Ward’s Social Network in Grub Street London

25th February (6th week): William Gibson (Oxford Brookes) Sex and the Church in the Eighteenth Century

4th March (7th week): Ruth Scobie (Worcester) The Many Deaths of Captain Cook: Celebrity and Empire in the late Eighteenth Century

11th March (8th week): Oliver Cox (TORCH) Country House Rescue: Or, Why the Heritage Industry needs Academics

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

Trinity Term 2015

Wed. 29 April **Jessica Davidson (St Edmund Hall) The Persistence of the English Fair, 1750-1850

Wed. 6th May **Alvin Chen (Christ Church) The Interplay of Medicine and Natural Philosophy: George Berkeley and the Theory of Tar-Water

Wed. 13th May **Mark Lee (Lady Margaret Hall) Enthusiasm, Madness and the Medical World: Views of Popular Evangelicalism in British and American Medical Publications, c.1790-1850

Wed. 20th May Karen Hollewand (St. Anne’s) The Banishment of Beverland (1650-1716): The Radical Ideas of a Humanist Scholar on Sex, the Bible, and the Classics

Wed., 27th May Helen Berry (Newcastle) The Employment of London Foundling Hospital Children, c. 1751-1851

Wed. 3rd June **Katharine Mutlow (St. Hilda’s) Gender and the Body in Early Nineteenth-Century British Protest

Wed. 10th June Undergraduate Thesis Session
Two current undergraduates will discuss the experience and findings of their recently-completed theses.

Wed. 17th June Paul Monod (Middlebury) Freemasonry in English Society 1717-51

For information about the seminar, and news of forthcoming events, visit our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Oxford-seminar-in-mainly-British-History-1680-1850/123050627891042. 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)