Research

 

DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY & WELSH HISTORY

HISTORY RESEARCH SEMINARS

2017/18

SEMESTER II

Seminars will be held

5 PM in C164, Hugh Owen Building

All welcome!

31 January John Hirst (Aberystwyth)

Selling the Seaside - how the Victorians promoted the Cambrian coast

7 February Eva Johanna Holmberg (London)

The slaves of the Ottoman Sultan. British encounters with the Peoples of the Book, 1580-1640

14 February Charles Rozier (Swansea)

Recovering the lost past in the works of Orderic Vitalis (1075-1142) and his nineteenth-century successors

21 February Chris Pearson (Liverpool)

The affective agency of stray dogs in nineteenth-century

London, New York and Paris

7 March Helen Birkett (Exeter)

News in the Middle Ages

14 March Nicholas Stargardt (Oxford)

Talking about genocide: private and public moral sentiments in Nazi Germany

21 March Ryan Kemp (Aberystwyth)

Sun, sex, and suspicious archbishops: political culture in twelfth-century England and Germany

18 April Lena Liapi (Keele)

Drinking with robbers: criminal sociability in early modern London

25 April Karin Barber (Birmingham)

TBC

2 May Alexandro Quiroga (Newcastle)

The Emperor’s shadow. Nation-building in Napoleonic Europe

9 May Janet Nelson (London)

Writing a biography of Charlemagne