British History in the Long Eighteenth Century seminar for the Institute of Historical Research
School of Advanced Study, University of London
Ed Legon, Historic Royal Palaces/Kings College London Chair: Tim Reinke-Williams
Institute of Historical Research The Business of Wallpaper: The English Wallpaper Trade in the Long Eighteenth Century Philippa Mapes (University of Leicester) British History in the Long Eighteenth Century seminar series
Institute of Historical Research An Outdated Impulse? British Family Identity and Genealogical Knowledge in the Eighteenth Century Stéphane Jettot (University of Paris-Sorbonne) British History in the Long Eighteenth Century seminar series
Institute of Historical Research Country Houses & Collaborative Research: Revealing the History of Boughton House & the Montagu Estates in the Long Eighteenth Century Rosemary Sweet, Helen Bates and Emma Purcell (University of Leicester) Brit...
Institute of Historical Research The Idea of a Measurable Space: Joseph Priestley's 1765 Chart of Biography Stephen Boyd Davis (Royal College of Art) British History in the Long Eighteenth Century seminar series
Institute of Historical Research Ned Ward's "Knack of Pleasing": Practices of Laughter in the Eighteenth Century Kate Davison (University of Sheffield) British History in the Long 18th Century seminar series
Institute of Historical Research Cultures of Settlement, 1660-1780 Naomi Tadmor (University of Lancaster) British History in the Long Eighteenth Century seminar series
Institute of Historical Research Northern Lights and Welsh Peasants: New Perspectives on the Late Hanoverian Clergy Sara Slinn (University of Lincoln) British History in the Long 18th Century seminar series
Institute of Historical Research Trust the People: The English Approach to Arming and Training the 'Mob' for Home Defence, 1779-1805 Margaret Bird (Royal Holloway, University of London) British History in the Long Eighteenth Century seminar ...
Institute of Historical Research Neoclassicism and Florentine Freemasonry Dr Jason Kelly (Indiana University - Purdue University) British History in the Long EIghteenth Century seminar series
Institute of Historical Research 'At first nothing could be more shocking': the Impact of the Act for Burying in Woollen Alice Dolan (University of Hertfordshire) British History in the Long Eighteenth Century seminar series
Institute of Historical Research Becoming Disabled: Narrative, Emotion and Identity in Eighteenth-Century England Professor David Turner (Swansea University) British HIstory in the Long Eighteenth Century seminar series
Institute of Historical Research Legacies of British Slave-Ownership in the Long Eighteenth Century Dr Nick Draper (University College London) British History in the Long Eighteenth Century seminar series
Institute of Historical Research Disordered London? The view from Rosemary Lane Dr Janice Turner (University of Hertfordshire) British History in the Long 18th Century seminar series
Institute of Historical Research William Hazlitt's Radical Faith Kevin Gilmartin Hazlitt (Caltech/University of York) British History in the Long 18th Century seminar series
Institute of Historical Research Rabbits, Whigs and Hunters: Rethinking Mary Toft's Monstrous Births of 1726 Dr Karen Harvey (University of Sheffield) British History in the Long Eighteenth Century seminar series
Institute of Historical Research 'Lightning Talks' 3 minute presentations by early PhD students Kathleen Reynolds (Durham University) Anna Field (Cardiff University) Emma Purcell (University of Leicester) Daniel Reed (Oxford Brookes ...
(three minute papers from early PhD students) British History in the Long Eighteenth Century seminar Institute of Historical Research 30 October 2013
Institute of Historical Research 'Female agony and visionary experience: Jane Lead (1624-1704), her last days and its impact upon the Philadelphian Society, c.1697-1704' Ariel Hessayon (Goldsmiths) British History in the Long Eighteenth Centu...
Institute of Historical Research Loose, Idle and Disorderly: Vagrant Removal in Late Eighteenth-Century Middlesex Tim Hitchcock (Herts), Adam Crymble (KCL) and Louise Falcini (Reading) British History in the Long Eighteenth Century seminar ser...
Institute of Historical Research Material Culture Panel: The Significance of Things 'What can things tell us about the eighteenth century that we don't know already?' John Styles (Hertfordshire) British History in the Long Eighteenth Centur...
Institute of Historical Research Material Culture Panel: The Significance of Things 'How can things make historians think differently?' Margot Finn (UCL) British History in the Long Eighteenth Century seminar series
Institute of Historical Research Reading Lives of English Men and Women, 1695-1830 Polly Bull (Royal Holloway, University of London) British History in the Long Eighteenth Century seminar series
Institute of Historical Research 'For the benefit of example': hanging felons at the scene of their crime in the long eighteenth century Steve Poole (University of the West of England) In this talk Poole begins reconsidering popular assumptio...
Institute of Historical Research The World is not Enough: Global History, Cotton Textiles and the Industrial Revolution Giorgio Riello (University of Warwick) British History in the Long Eighteenth Century seminar series
Institute of Historical Research A Sinew of Power? Ireland and the Fiscal-Military State, 1690-1782 Patrick Walsh (University College London) British History in the Long Eighteenth Century seminar series
Institute of Historical Research Secularisation: Or Otherwise in Eighteenth-Century England? Penelope J. Corfield (Royal Holloway, University of London) British History in the Long Eighteenth Century seminar series
Institute of Historical Research Secularisation: Or Otherwise in Eighteenth-Century England? Jeremy Gregory (University of Manchester) British History in the Long Eighteenth Century seminar series
Institute of Historical Research Secularisation: Or Otherwise in Eighteenth-Century England? John Seed (Roehampton University) British History in the Long Eighteenth Century seminar series
Institute of Historical Research What's in a Name?: The 'Conversation' Piece in Eighteenth-Century Britain Kate Retford (Birkbeck, University of London) British History in the Long Eighteenth Century seminar series
Institute of Historical Research Profiling Irish Crime in London, 1801-1820 Adam Crymble (King's College London) British History in the Long Eighteenth Century seminar series
Institute of Historical Research The material life of the militia man Matthew McCormack (Northampton) British History in the Long Eighteenth Century seminar series
Institute of Historical Research 'Love, bitter wrong, freedom, sad pity, and lust of power': Politics and Performance in 1820 Malcolm Chase (University of Leeds) British History in the Long Eighteenth Century seminar series
Institute of Historical Research Neutral nobility to contentious aristocracy; Changing terms in testing times, 1700-1850 Amanda Goodrich (Open University) British History in the Long Eighteenth Century seminar series
Institute of Historical Research Antislavery and empire: The imperial context of British Abolitionism, c.1783-1793 Matthew Wyman-McCarty (McGill) In this seminar Wyman-McCarty looks at the rise of British abolitionism in an imperial context, ...
Institute of Historical Research 'Rusty old Queen Anne's many suitors': Firearms and inter-communal violence in Armagh, 1783-1790 Stephen Duane Dean jr (King’s College London) British History in the Long Eighteenth Century seminar series
Institute of Historical Research Pacifying the past: British historical culture, 1745-1776 Paul Davis (Princeton) British History in the Long Eighteenth Century seminar series
Institute of Historical Research Eighteenth-century histories of Norwich and the political vernacular Daniel Howse (University of East Anglia) British History in the Long Eighteenth Century seminar series
Institute of Historical Research Chancery Lane: politics, space and the built environment, c.1760-1815 Francis Boorman (IHR) British History in the Long Eighteenth Century seminar series
Institute of Historical Research Rethinking the interests of eighteenth-century Britain Julian Hoppit (University College London) Julian Hoppit looks at the current state of research into eighteenth-century Britain. His assessment is not ent...
Institute of Historical Research Scottish townscapes and 'improvement' in the age of enlightenment c.1720-1820 Bob Harris (Worcester College, Oxford) Did the enlightenment reach provincial Scottish towns in the Georgian period? What, if any,...
Institute of Historical Research A Quaker convert and writing of fiction: the case of Amelia Opie Isabelle Cosgrave (Exeter University) British History in the Long Eighteenth Century seminar series