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January 2012
Talk by Angela Davis: World War Two and British child psychology
Seminar, 19 January 2012, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Angela Davis will discuss how the mental health of young children, and particularly those who were evacuated, became an issue of major concern during and after the Second World War. The seminar will take place in Room LG8 at the Keppel Street Building. Please contact Ingrid James for more information.
Talk by Nick Draper: Compensating slave owners; compensating for slavery: British emancipation and beyond
Seminar, 26 January 2012, Pembroke College, Cambridge
This is part of the Cambridge Modern economic and social history seminar series. This term's seminars take place from 5.00pm at Pembroke College, Cambridge. Click here for the full programme [pdf file].
February 2012
Talk by Sir Stephen Wall: The approach to Europe: Harold Wilson's version, 1964-75
Seminar, 1 February 2012, King's College London
Sir Stephen Wall is a former UK Ambassador to the EU and an Official Historian at the Cabinet Office. This is part of the Contemporary British History seminar series. The seminar takes place in the History Department seminar room, 8th Floor, Strand Building, King's College London from 5.00pm.
Talk by Jamie Stark: Bacilli in the fleeces: agriculture, industry and the making of modern anthrax
Seminar, 2 February 2012, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Jamie Stark will look at developments in the understanding of anthrax from the late 19th century and how it came to be seen as primarily a human disease. The seminar will take place in Room LG8 at the Keppel Street Building from 12.45-2.00pm. For more information visit the website or contact Ingrid James.
Talk by Deborah Oxley: Weighty matters: lessons from historical bodymass
Seminar, 2 February 2012, Pembroke College, Cambridge
This is part of the Cambridge Modern economic and social history seminar series. This term's seminars take place from 5.00pm at Pembroke College, Cambridge. Please click here for the full programme [pdf file].
Talk by Ros Stanwell-Smith: Necessary nuisances: the history of London's public toilets
Seminar, 9 February 2012, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Ros Stanwell-Smith will look at the haphazard and contested development of London's public conveniences since the 19th century. The seminar will take place in Room LG9 at the Keppel Street Building from 12.45-2.00pm. For more information visit the website or contact Ingrid James.
Talk by Declan O'Reilly: Constructing Heroines: Women Special Operations Executive agents and British post-war consciousness
Seminar, 15 February 2012, King's College London
This event is part of the Contemporary British History seminar series. The seminar takes place in the History Department seminar room, 8th Floor, Strand Building, King's College London from 5.00pm.
Remembering Thalidomide
Symposium, 16 February 2012, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Stuart Anderson (LSHTM), Louise Medus-Mansell (Thalidomide Society) and Patrick Waller (LSHTM) will discuss the Thalidomide scandal of the 1950s-60s, looking at the historical and current policy contexts, and the personal impact on the individuals affected. This symposium will take place in the Manson Lecture Theatre in the Keppel Street Building from 2.15-4.15pm. Please contact Ingrid James for more information or see the abstract [pdf file].
Talk by Mark Roodhouse: Fair shares for all? The underground economy of austerity Britain, 1939-54
Seminar, 23 February 2012, Pembroke College, Cambridge
This is part of the Cambridge Modern economic and social history seminar series. This term's seminars take place from 5.00pm at Pembroke College, Cambridge. Please click here for the full programme [pdf file].
The News of the World in History
Conference, 24 February 2012, King's College London
Founded in 1843, The News of the World was one of the UK's longest-running Sunday newspapers when it came to its inauspicious end in the summer of 2011. Gone, but not forgotten, the NOTW continues to be of interest as the full 'story' of the hacking scandal is revealed in the wake of parliamentary and other investigations. For more information about the conference please contact Mark Turner for more information.
Scotland and the United Kingdom
Conference, 28 February 2012, British Academy, London
This is the first leg in a two-part conference organised by the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. It aims to bring academic analysis to bear on the current debates surrounding Scotland's relationship with the United Kingdom and to inform and challenge discussions both in Scotland and in Westminster. The London meeting will examine the three possible options for a referendum and their implications. The second leg will take place in Edinburgh in April. For full details and to register, visit the British Academy website.
Talk by Claire Langhamer: 'The live dynamic whole of feeling and behaviour': Capital publishment and the politics of emotion, 1945-57
Seminar, 29 February 2012, King's College London
This event is part of the Contemporary British History seminar series. The seminar takes place in the History Department seminar room, 8th Floor, Strand Building, King's College London from 5.00pm.
Talk by Ed Balls: Being Shadow Chancellor
Mile End Group, 29 February 2012, Queen Mary, University of London
This event is a Mile End Group meeting. For further information please email the Mile End Group or visit the website.
March 2012
The past in today's politics: a debate on the state of history-writing as a political act
Debate, 5 March 2012, British Library, London
This debate is organised by the Raphael Samuel History Society and the British Library. Speakers include H&P partner Virginia Berridge and Labour Peer Maurice Glasman. They will debate whether there is a place for politics in academic research. The event runs from 6.00-8.00pm in the Eliot Room at the British Library Conference Centre. Booking is essential. For further information please visit the website or contact Clare Makepeace.
Talk by Janet Greenlees: 'The peculiar and complex female problem': the Church of Scotland and women's healthcare, 1900-1948
Seminar, 7 March 2012, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
The seminar will take place in Room LG8 at the Keppel Street Building from 12.45-2.00pm. For more information visit the website or contact Ingrid James.
Talk by Duncan Needham: The media and the 1976 IMF crisis
Seminar, 8 March 2012, Pembroke College, Cambridge
This is part of the Cambridge Modern economic and social history seminar series. This term's seminars take place from 5.00pm at Pembroke College, Cambridge. Please click here for the full programme [pdf file].
Gendering the history of charity and voluntary effort
Workshop, 9 March 2012, Huddersfield
This one-day workshop for postgraduates and early-career researchers is the first of this year's Voluntary Action History Society workshops. It will explore how gender was figured in voluntary activity at the level of men's and women's lives and senses of self, social structures and cultural legacies. For more information please contact Tosh Warwick or visit the workshop website.
Talk by Peter Jones: 'Incalculably evil' or 'Victim of a legal and political machination'? John Poulson and political corruption, 1972-74
Seminar, 14 March 2012, King's College London
This event is part of the Contemporary British History seminar series. The seminar takes place in the History Department seminar room, 8th Floor, Strand Building, King's College London from 5.00pm.
Talk by Penny Tinkler: Women, smoking and visual culture
Seminar, 15 March 2012, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
The seminar will take place in Room LG8 at the Keppel Street Building from 12.45-2.00pm. For more information visit the website or contact Ingrid James.
Promoting engagement with the teaching of economic history
Workshop, 22 March 2012, Oxford Brookes University
This event will draw together good practice in engaging students with economic history and discuss how to re-energise and reintegrate it into mainstream history curricula. For more information contact Alysa Levene or Glen O'Hara.
The state and the fourth estate: media in American history
Conference, 24-25 March 2012, Boston, USA
This is the fourth annual graduate student history conference of the Boston University American Political History Institute. The conference aims to explore the role the media has played in American history. This year's keynote speaker is Julian Zelizer, Woodrow Wilson Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University. For more information about the conference please contact Seth Blumenthal or visit the website.
Talk by John Regan: The dilemma of the historian of contemporary Ireland revisited
Seminar, 28 March 2012, King's College London
This event is part of the Contemporary British History seminar series. The seminar takes place in the History Department seminar room, 8th Floor, Strand Building, King's College London from 5.00pm.
Economic History Society annual conference
Conference, 30 March-1 April, Oxford
The programme for this year's Economic History Society conference is now available, with a H&P panel discussion on banking reform to take place on Saturday, 31 March from 4.30-5.30pm. For more information about the conference visit the website. For information about the H&P session, please contact Fiona Holland or Mel Porter.
April 2012
Social History Society annual conference
Conference, 3-5 April, Brighton
The programme for this year's Social History Society conference is now available, with papers ranging across seven, wide-ranging social themes. For more information about the conference please contact Linda Persson or visit the website.
May 2012
Talk by Jane Garnett and Alana Harris: 'Fronter encounters': Class, gender and Christian youth work, 1958-1982
Seminar, 3 May 2012, Pembroke College, Cambridge
This is part of the Cambridge Modern economic and social history seminar series. This term's seminars take place from 5.00pm at Pembroke College, Cambridge. Please click here for the full programme [pdf file].
Talk by David Sugarman: A collision of law and politics: the Pinochet case, 1998-2000
Seminar, 9 May 2012, King's College London
This event is part of the Contemporary British History seminar series. The seminar takes place in the History Department seminar room, 8th Floor, Strand Building, King's College London from 5.00pm.
Talk by Sally Sheard: A well-connected academic: Brian Abel-Smith and the development of global health and social welfare
Seminar, 16 May, King's College London
This event is part of the Contemporary British History seminar series. The seminar takes place in the History Department seminar room, 8th Floor, Strand Building, King's College London from 5.00pm.