Wednesday, 2 October 2019 at 4:15 pm – Wednesday, 11 March 2020 at 6:00 pm
History Research Centre Seminar Series 2019 - 20
The History Research Centre Seminar Series runs from Wednesday 2nd October 2019 to Wednesday 11th March 2020.
For further information, please contact Andy Crome at a.crome@mmu.ac.uk or Craig Griffiths at c.griffiths@mmu.ac.uk.
All seminars start at 4.15pm in Geoffrey Manton GM 224, Rosamond St West, Manchester Metropolitan University. Tea, coffee and biscuits are served from 4pm before every seminar, and please join us in a local pub afterwards to continue the discussion.
Death in Early Modern Venice
Alex Bamji (University of Leeds)
Date: Wednesday 2nd October 2019
Overcoming Adversity: Vera Cambridge and the Women’s Amateur Athletics Association in Inter-War Britain
Professor Dave Day (Manchester Met)
Date: Wednesday 23rd October 2019
Table Talk and the Sense of Taste: How Political and Religious Identity took its Seat at the Table
Anna Fielding (Manchester Met)
‘It's 150 a year, and I dare say we shall be ruined!’: Renting the middle-class home in nineteenth century Manchester
Thomas McGrath (Manchester Met)
Date: Wednesday 20th November 2019
‘To get freedom, one went abroad a lot’: Entangled histories of male homosexuality, 1950-1970
Julia Maclachlan (University of Manchester)
‘Voices in my ear’: Intimacies at London Lesbian and Gay Switchboard, 1974-1990
Ralph Day (Birkbeck, University of London)
Date: Wednesday 15th January 2020
Constructing spaces, constructing bodies: Sport, control and order (and some fun) in the new Dutch culture around 1900
Nick Piercey (Manchester Met)
Date: Wednesday 29th January 2020
Regendering the Tetrarchy
Julia Hillner (University of Sheffield)
Date: Wednesday 11th March 2020