• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Matthew Grimley (Merton College) , Ben Jackson (University College) , Marc Mulholland (St Catherine’s College) , Sian Pooley (Magdalen College) , William Whyte (St John’s) , Aled Davies (Jesus) , Faridah Zaman (Somerville) , Meleisa Ono-George (Queen's) , Joshua Bennett (Lady Margaret Hall)
• Timing: Thursdays at 14:00-15:30, unless otherwise stated
• Organising department: Faculty of History

Thursday 19 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Touch, Tea-Drinking, and the Organisation of Desire in London, 1890-1932
  Simeon Koole (Magdalen College)

Thursday 26 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Advertisements of Every Kind to Bring their Brand into Notoriety”: Brand Innovation and “Brandolatry” in the Nineteenth-Century Champagne Trade
  Graham Harding (St Cross College)

Thursday 2 February 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - The “Value” of Bodies and the “Worth” of Grief: Towards an Emotional Economy of Death in Second World War Britain
  Lucy Noakes (Brighton University)

Thursday 9 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Conservative and Labour Research Departments and the EEC Debate, 1970-75
  Mikko Lievonen (St Edmund Hall)

Thursday 16 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Musicology, Adult Education, and Post-War Intellectual Culture: Wilfrid Mellers at the University of Birmingham’s Extramural Department, 1948-64
  Beau Woodbury (Wolfson Collge)

Thursday 23 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - The Idea of “the Establishment” in Post-War British Politics
  Stuart Middleton (University of Cambridge)

Thursday 2 March 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Discussion of 2017 Ford Lectures in British History, ‘History in English Criticism 1919-1961’
  Stefan Collini (University of Cambridge)

Thursday 27 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - The First World War and Housing in Britain
  Calum White

Thursday 4 May 2017 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - The Conservatives and Industrial Reorganisation, 1931-40: the Growth of the State.
  William Prescott, Rebecca Brown

Thursday 11 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - ‘Loved by the women of the East End and women of the West End’?
  Lyndsey Jenkins

Thursday 18 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - 1. The Forward March of Labour Halted / 2. 'To address ourselves violently towards the present as it is’
  Matthew Myers, Max Shock

Thursday 25 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - ‘This morning a man was hanged. This Evening we had a concert’: Music, Nationalism and Northern Ireland, 1923-1967.
  Richard Parfitt

Thursday 12 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Ewen Green Memorial Lecture: ‘Ideologies of Education in Twentieth Century Britain’
  Peter Mandler (Cambridge)

Thursday 19 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - ‘Free Markets and Feminism: The Neo-Liberal Defence of the Male Bread-Winner Model in Britain, c. 1980-1997’
  Ben Jackson (University College)

Thursday 26 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - ‘Losing the War: Conservatism, Grief, and Consensus in Britain after 1945’
  Kit Kowol (Christ Church College)

Thursday 2 November 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Roundtable Discussion on British Historiography and Race
  Various Speakers

Thursday 9 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - ‘Neoliberalism as a Category in Contemporary British History’
  Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite (UCL)

Thursday 16 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - ‘Prayer and Political Imagination: Revisiting Late Nineteenth-Century Feminism’
  Sarah Williams (Regent College, Vancouver)

Thursday 23 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - ‘An Ethical Foreign Policy? The Labour Party and British Overseas Development at the End of Empire’
  Charlotte Riley (Southampton)

Thursday 18 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - ‘Unmaking Stereotypes: A Comparison of the Political Cultures of Britain and Australia’
  Ross McKibbin (St John’s)

Thursday 25 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - ‘Popular Political Thought: The Case of the Chartists’
  Josh Gibson (LMH)

Thursday 1 February 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - ‘A “Cake-Makers’ Division”? Labour Women and the Practice of Politics in South-East England c. 1931-1939’
  Owen Sellers (Hertford)

Thursday 8 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - ‘The Rise of the “Synthetic Gaels”: Irish Protestant Nationalists and the Extremes of Identification, c.1908-23’
  Conor Morrissey (Hertford)

Thursday 15 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - ‘Roads to Higher Education: Working-Class Women’s Experiences of Applying to University, c.1960s-1970s’
  Bethany White (Trinity)

Thursday 22 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - ‘Child Protection in an Era of “Public Service Sensationalism”: Child Welfare and the Popular Press, 1933-1970’
  CANCELLED
  Jono Taylor (Magdalen)

Thursday 1 March 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - ‘Great expectations: Childhood, Family, and Middle Class Social Mobility in Nineteenth-Century England’
  Christina de Bellaigue (Exeter)

Thursday 8 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - ‘Representing the Nation: Scottish Nationalism and Europe, 1967-
  CANCELLED
  Malcolm Petrie (St Andrews)

Wednesday 11 April 2018 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Scaling the Nation: England in World Histories: graduate and early career researcher discussion of pre-circulated paper and advice on publishing in Twentieth-Century British History
  Guy Ortolano (New York University)

Thursday 26 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - ‘The working lives of Irish women in late nineteenth-century England’, ‘Overtures from Germany: Music, War, and Memory in Britain, 1934-1955’ & ‘The British Left and the Idea of Community in the 1970s’
  Beth Kitson (Balliol), Michael Nixon (Lincoln), Nicholas Garland (Univ)

Thursday 3 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - 'Languages of Imperialism in British First World War Propaganda.’
  Gregory Hynes (Pembroke)

Thursday 10 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - The housing crisis: whatever happened to a property-owning social democracy?
  Guy Ortolano and others (New York University)

Friday 11 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Scaling the Nation: England in World Histories: graduate and early career researcher discussion of pre-circulated paper and advice on publishing in Twentieth-Century British History
  Guy Ortolano (New York University)

Thursday 17 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Child Protection in an Era of “Public Service Sensationalism”: Child Welfare and the Popular Press, 1933-1970
  Jono Taylor (Magdalen)

Thursday 24 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - ‘British critics, the Iberian empires, and the dictators of Latin America, c. 1800-1850’
  Alexander Middleton (Corpus)

Thursday 11 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - ‘Empires of the mind: are British (and French) colonialism still with us?’
  Robert Gildea (Worcester)

Thursday 18 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - ‘Dr Francia and the science of despotism, 1800-1850’
  Alex Middleton (Corpus Christi)

Thursday 25 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - ‘Representing the nation: Scottish nationalism and Europe, 1967-1975’
  Malcolm Petrie (St Andrew’s)

Thursday 1 November 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Customs in common: making “race” in the black/white Atlantic’
  Catherine Hall (UCL)

Thursday 8 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Roundtable on new directions in the historiography of 1968
  John Davis (Queen’s), Tess Little (All Souls), Matthew Myers (Wadham)

Wednesday 14 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Ireland, Britain, and the taxing Union, 1801-1914’
  Julian Hoppit (UCL)

Thursday 22 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - ‘Student mental health in post-war Britain’
  Sarah Crook (Swansea)

Thursday 24 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Historicising British modernities: from “civilisation” to “the modern world”, 1939-1965
  Sam Brewitt-Taylor (Lincoln)

Thursday 31 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - The rise and fall of the “pansy” in inter-war Britain
  Dominic Janes (Keele)

Thursday 7 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Celia Johnson’s Grief: mourning and remembrance in post-Second World War Britain’
  Joint session with Modern History research seminar, 11am, History Faculty
  Lucy Noakes (Essex)

Thursday 14 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - The Lives and Loves of Muriel St. Clare Byrne: Perspectives on Queer Identity
  Joint session with Modern History research seminar, 11am, History Faculty.
  Mo Moulton (Birmingham)

Thursday 21 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - The Financialisation of Britain, c.1960-2000
  Aled Davies (Jesus)

Thursday 28 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Double Amnesia: Human Rights and Zionism, 1918-2018
  Joint session with Jewish History seminar
  Jim Loeffler (Virginia)

Thursday 7 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Becoming European internationalists, becoming social democrats? The debate on the European Community in Marxism Today in the long 1980s
  Max Shock (Univ)

Thursday 2 May 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - The Conservatives and Housing, 1931-40
  Will Prescott (University)

Thursday 9 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - England’s Early Railway Hotels, 1839-1854: a social and architectural history
  Lisa Hirst (Jesus)
• 14:00 - Prepared for the future? Nineteenth-century children and institutional care
  Gillian Lamb (Jesus)

Thursday 16 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Victorian etiquette, manners and social mobility
  Luisa Kapp (Brasenose)
• 14:00 - The reform of the British civil service: the treasury, c. 1847-1914
  Luis Gabriel Galan-Guerrero (St Anne's)

Thursday 23 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - The Social Role of Religion in the YMCA during the First World War
  Kathryn White (Pembroke)
• 14:00 - Be Fruitful and Multiply? Eugenics and the Anglican approval of birth control at the 1930 Lambeth Conference
  Andrew Moeller (Kellogg)

Thursday 30 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Crisis? Whose Crisis? The Country House Lobby's Campaign Against the Wealth Tax, 1973-76
  Elena Porter (St Anne's)
• 14:00 - Imperialism, Pacifism & Radicalism: E.D. Morel and British Society, 1900-24
  Mark Collett (St Peter's)

Thursday 6 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - The Forward March of Labour Halted: Changing conceptions of the working class on the British left in the long 1970s
  NB Change of location to Barn Lecture Theatre
  Matt Myers (Wadham)

Thursday 17 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - The Lucretia Borgia of Salford: Shelagh Delaney, Class, Sex and Biography
  Selina Todd (University of Oxford)

Thursday 24 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Race and Respectability: The Class Politics of London’s Post-War Multiculture
  Rob Waters (QMUL)

Thursday 31 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - The Legacy of Robert Burns and the Scottish Left (1910s-2010s)
  Paul Malgrati (St Andrews)

Thursday 7 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Ewen Green Memorial Lecture: ‘The Iron Curtain and the Iron Lady: Margaret Thatcher, 1989 and the Fall of the Berlin Wall'
  Robert Saunders (QMUL)

Friday 8 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Graduate workshop: ‘How do we Write the History of Brexit?’
  Various Speakers

Thursday 14 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Roundtable discussion on Jon Lawrence’s 'Me, Me, Me: The Search for Community in Post-War Britain'
  Jon Lawrence (Exeter), Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite (UCL), Jono Taylor (Oxford), Eve Worth (Oxford)

Thursday 21 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Reflections on a Working Life: Women Graduates in Post-War Britain c. 1945 to c.1963
  Lucy Golding (Oxford)

Friday 29 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:00 - Graduate workshop: ‘Oxford and Empire’
  Postponed to Trinity 2020
  Catherine Hall (UCL)

Thursday 5 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Between Two Worlds: John Whelan Dulanty and Ireland's Post-colonial Dilemma
  Michaela Moriarty (Oxford)

Thursday 23 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Popular politics in an age of mass democracy: Home Rule, ‘the caucus’ and public opinion
  Naomi Lloyd-Jones (Oxford)

Thursday 30 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Intimacy at a Distance: Emotional Labour and the “Psychological Turn” in British Problem Pages, c. 1960-1990
  Tracey Loughran (Essex)

Thursday 6 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Mobility, Nostalgia, and the Crisis of Social Democracy: The Viewers of When the Boat Comes In in Britain and Abroad
  David Cowan (Cambridge)

Thursday 13 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Defending the Good Life: London’s Suburbia and Householder Toryism, 1960-1980
  John Davis (Oxford)

Thursday 5 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - State of Emergency: The General Strike of 1926
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Jonathan Schneer (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Thursday 12 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Britain's Socialist Internationalists and the End of the Ottoman Empire
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Faridah Zaman (Oxford)

Tuesday 2 June 2020 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - James Ford Special Lecture: ‘Racial Capitalism Across the Black/White Atlantic’
  Please contact the organisers for further information as to whether this event has been postponed or will be available online
  Catherine Hall (UCL)

Thursday 15 October 2020 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Book Launch of Ben Jackson’s The Case for Scottish Independence: A History of Nationalist Political Thought in Modern Scotland
  Ben Jackson (Oxford), Scott Hames (Stirling University), Naomi Lloyd-Jones (Oxford), Rory Scothorne (Edinburgh University), Lise Butler (City University)

Thursday 22 October 2020 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Gender Trouble in Interwar Student Life
  Please email andrew.moeller@kellogg.ox.ac.uk for the link
  Emily Rutherford (Oxford)

Thursday 29 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Ewen Green Memorial Lecture ‘Love in the Time of Welfare’
  Registration is required by emailing alumni.office@magd.ox.ac.uk for the link
  Jordanna Bailkin (University of Washington)

Thursday 5 November 2020 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Empire, Free Trade, and Caribbean Freedom
  Please email andrew.moeller@kellogg.ox.ac.uk for the link
  Michael Joseph (Oxford)

Thursday 19 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - The Imperialism of International Government: Leonard Woolf, Henry Brailsford, and socialist thought in wartime Britain
  Please email andrew.moeller@kellogg.ox.ac.uk for the link
  Faridah Zaman (Oxford)

Thursday 3 December 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Roundtable discussion with Helen McCarthy (Cambridge) of her new book 'Double Lives: a history of working motherhood' (2020)
  Please email andrew.moeller@kellogg.ox.ac.uk for the link
  Helen McCarthy (Cambridge), Aleena Din (Oxford), Jane Humphries (Oxford), Eve Worth (Oxford)

Thursday 21 January 2021 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The 1984-5 Miners' Strike: An Oral History (joint meeting with Modern History Seminar)
  Robert Gildea (Oxford)

Thursday 28 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Imperial Encore: The Cultural Project of the Late British Empire
  Caroline Ritter (Texas State)

Thursday 4 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - “What Remains of What We Still Call, Sentimentally, our Communities”: Narrating the Crisis of Working-Class Community in 1980s Britain
  Nicholas Garland (Oxford)

Thursday 11 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - “Tactics are Dictated by the Existing Conditions”: The Design and Outcome of Provisional IRA Violence 1969-1979
  Rachel Kowalski (Oxford)

Thursday 18 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - “They’re Trying to Make Everyone Equal, and That Can’t Happen”: Gifted Education, Equality, and Difference in Britain, 1945-1990
  Jennifer Crane (Oxford)

Thursday 25 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Selina Todd in conversation with Mike Savage to launch her new book Snakes and Ladders: The Great Social Mobility Myth (2021)
  Selina Todd (Oxford), Mike Savage (LSE)

Thursday 4 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Foundations: How the Built Environment Made Twentieth-Century Britain
  Sam Wetherell (York)

Thursday 11 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Slavery and the Art of Race (joint meeting with Modern History Seminar)
  Philippa Levine (Texas/Oxford)

Thursday 6 May 2021 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - John Stuart Mill and the East India Company
  Andrew Dalkin (New College, Oxford)
• 14:00 - Moral personality, emotional experiences, and the intellectual history of ethical socialism, 1880-1930
  Oliver Gough (University College, Oxford)

Thursday 13 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - The Victorian regiment as a social institution: studying a soldier’s identity and belongingness
  Hannah Searle (St Antony's College, Oxford)
• 14:00 - “Not since the Wars of the Roses had so many patricians died so suddenly and so violently”: a closer look at aristocratic casualties in the Great War
  John Howard (Pembroke College, Oxford)
• 14:00 - Conflict in print: British soldiers and satirists on the Eastern Question, 1853-56
  Andrew Walsh (Keble College, Oxford)

Thursday 20 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Margaret Thatcher and the Trade Union "problem": the execution of an ideological blueprint or tactical opportunism?
  Christopher Birks (Lincoln College, Oxford)
• 14:00 - "Keep the Party Labour": The Grassroots Alliance and the changing strategies of opposition to Tony Blair and New Labour, 1994-2007
  Alfie Steer (Hertford College, Oxford)

Thursday 27 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Queer oral history and transfeminine experiences of Britain, 1970-1989
  Fleur MacInnes (Christ Church College, Oxford)
• 14:00 - Exposing the female neck and shoulders: beauty, prestige, and violence in England, c. 1838-1953
  Elena Tucker (Wolfson College, Oxford)

Thursday 17 June 2021 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Waterloo Sunrise: London Life, 1960-79: an event to mark the retirement of John Davis from the Oxford History Faculty
  John Davis (Oxford), Anna Minton (East London), Otto Saumarez-Smith (Warwick), Natalie Thomlinson (Reading)

Thursday 14 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Ewen Green Memorial Lecture: 'An English Field'
  N.B. this even takes place at 5pm, in the Grove Auditorium, Magdalen College REGISTRATION REQUIRED: https://www.magd.ox.ac.uk/ewen-green-memorial-lecture/
  James Rebanks

Thursday 21 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Start of term reception for all graduate students, early career researchers, and History Faculty members in Modern British History
  N/A

Thursday 28 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Anthropology, secularism, and the evolution of marriage in Britain, 1889-1969
  Joshua Bennett (Oxford)

Thursday 4 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - "Tell the boys from me, as one of their old fellows, that they must all strive for Emigration, it is the making of thousands”: Boys, Empire and opportunity in the nineteenth-century
  Gillian Lamb (Oxford)

Thursday 11 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - "Riders of Tomorrow”: Horse-riding in Britain, c.1920-1960
  Hannah Smith (Oxford)

Thursday 18 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - "The moral rearmament of imperialism”: the Revolutionary Communist Party, Irish republicanism, and the new world order, c.1981-1998
  Jack Hepworth (Oxford)

Thursday 20 January 2022 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Online book launch of Aled Davies, Ben Jackson and Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite (eds), The Neoliberal Age? Britain Since the 1970s (2020)
  Note: This event will take place on Zoom; registration required
  Aled Davies (Oxford), Colm Murphy (QMUL), Emily Robinson (Sussex), Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite (UCL)

Thursday 27 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Vernacular Discourses of Gender Equality in the Postwar British Working Class
  Note: This event is jointly held with the Modern History Seminar and will take place in the Rees Davies Room, Faculty of History, at 17:00
  Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite (UCL), Natalie Thomlinson (Reading)

Thursday 10 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Rethinking the punitive turn: Discipline in London prisons, c.1810-1850
  Kiran Mehta (Oxford)

Thursday 17 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Agents of which state? Danish journalists in British Exile, 1940-1945
  Note: This event is jointly held with the Modern History Seminar and will take place in the Rees Davies Room, Faculty of History, at 17:00
  Emil Seidenfaden (Copenhagen and Oxford)

Thursday 24 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Mahogany, afterlives of slavery and a Black Gaze
  Note: This event will be held in the Rees Davies Room, Faculty of History, at the usual time of 14:00
  Hannah Cusworth (Hull and English Heritage)

Thursday 3 March 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Sites of Resistance: Rastafari and the Black Power movement in Britain 1967-1973
  Aleema Gray (Warwick and Museum of London)

Thursday 10 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Middle life in the British Civil Service: Treasury promotions, marriages, and honours, c. 1847-1914
  Luis Galan-Guerrero (Oxford)

Thursday 13 October 2022 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Ewen Green Memorial Lecture: Why Schools Matter to Histories of Interwar Britain
  Please note this lecture is at 17:00 at Magdalen College
  Hestor Barron (Sussex)

Thursday 20 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Start of term welcome party for all graduate students, early career researchers, and History Faculty members in Modern British History
  Please note this event starts at 17:00
  N/A

Thursday 3 November 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Playing Parliament: Schoolgirls and Politics in England, 1870-1914
  Helen Sunderland (Oxford)

Thursday 10 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Winston Churchill, Race, and Transnational History
  Guy Ortolano (NYU)

Thursday 17 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Hunting with Dogs, a Jewish Pastime (Joint meeting with the Long Nineteenth Century Seminar)
  Abigail Green (Oxford), Tom Stammers (Durham)

Thursday 24 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - 25 Years After the 1997 Election: Roundtable on New Labour in Historical Perspective
  This seminar is cancelled and will be rescheduled in 2023
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Lise Butler (City), Eunice Goes (Richmond), Glen O'Hara (Oxford Brookes), Gavin Kelly (Resolution Foundation)

Thursday 26 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - The Great War and the Church of England in Oxfordshire
  Mark Smith (Oxford)

Thursday 2 February 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - 25 Years After the 1997 Election: Roundtable on New Labour in Historical Perspective
  Lise Butler (City), Eunice Goes (Richmond), Glen O'Hara (Oxford Brookes)

Thursday 9 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Counter Memories: Photographs of Empire in National Trust Country Houses
  Postponed until Michaelmas 2023 due to industrial action
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Rebekah Hodgkinson (Oxford)

Thursday 23 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - The Chesterfield Conference and the Development of Socialist Ideas and Strategy in the 1980s and 90s
  Postponed until Michaelmas 2023 due to industrial action
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Alfie Steer (Oxford)

Thursday 2 March 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Male juvenile delinquency in Britain, ca 1918-1970: working-class, sub-working class or no particular class?
  Postponed until Michaelmas 2023 due to industrial action
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Ross McKibbin (Oxford)

Thursday 9 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - “I loved the danger, loved the feeling of his hands on my throat”: culture, gender and strangulation c.1890-1950
  Elena Tucker (Oxford)

Thursday 27 April 2023 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - The Chesterfield conference and the development of socialist ideas and strategy in the 1980s and 90s
  Alfie Steer (Oxford)

Thursday 4 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Comprehending the conjuncture: black anarchism and the “anarcho-turn” of black British protest and politics, 1967-1987
  Caine Lewin-Turner (Oxford)
• 14:00 - Black identity during the Black Power movement in the Black Atlantic
  Alisha Odoi-Smith (Oxford)

Thursday 11 May 2023 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - “Foreign Agitators” in Britain: overseas students and the British student movement in the 1960s
  Olana Peters (Oxford)
• 14:00 - Networking populism: the neoliberal schism and the transnational origins of the Eurosceptic thought collective
  Christopher Lowe (Oxford)

Thursday 18 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Lauren Spohn (Oxford)
• 14:00 - “As much protection as can be safely given”: Jewish representation before the Porter Committee on the Law of Defamation, 1939-1952
  Shera Avi-Yonah (Oxford)

Thursday 25 May 2023 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - “Here to live”: black experience in the English inner-outer city, 1954-1995
  Holly Cooper (Oxford)
• 14:00 - Gay News: representation of political ideas and campaigns prior to the 1979 election
  Filippos Toskas (Oxford)

Thursday 1 June 2023 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Counter Memories: Photographs of Empire in National Trust Country Houses
  Rebekah Hodgkinson (Oxford)

Wednesday 7 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Book Launch: Our NHS: A History of Britain’s Best Loved Institution
  Please note this event is on Wednesday at 16:00, at St Anne's College
  Andrew Seaton (Oxford)

Thursday 12 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Ewen Green Memorial Lecture - Duelling in the Archive: Labour Quotas for Disabled Britons, 1944-1995
  Please note this talk is at 17:00 in the Auditorium at Magdalen College
  Lucy Delap (Cambridge)

Thursday 19 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Roundtable on Stuart Ward’s Untied Kingdom: A Global History of the End of Britain (2022)
  Ian McBride (Oxford), Vivian Kong (Bristol), Faridah Zaman (Oxford), Stuart Ward (Copenhagen)

Thursday 26 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - New Histories of the 1984-85 Miners’ Strike: Discussion of Robert Gildea, Backbone of the Nation (2023) & Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite and Natalie Thomlinson, Women and the Miners’ Strike 1984-85 (2023)
  Robert Gildea (Oxford), Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite (UCL), Natalie Thomlinson (Reading), Freya Marshall Payne (Oxford), Andrew Seaton (UCL)

Thursday 2 November 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Birth Strikes, Women's Suffrage and Political Thought in Britain, 1907-1918
  Tania Shew (Oxford)

Thursday 9 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Drag: A British History
  Joint meeting with LGBTQ+ History Network
  Jacob Bloomfield (Konstanz)

Thursday 16 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Who Were They? The Social Origins of British Juvenile Delinquents (Male) ca.1918-1970
  Ross McKibbin (Oxford)

Thursday 23 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Being Parented: Disabled Children's Experiences in England, 1940-1970
  Please note this talk has been cancelled
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Samantha McCormack (Oxford)

Thursday 18 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Some ends of liberalism: law, morality, and governmentality in the long 1950s
  Ben Griffin (Cambridge)

Thursday 25 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - "A man who has fought cannot be anything but a brave man": First World War veterans, domestic violence, and the British courts
  Chloe Pieters (Oxford)

Thursday 8 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Ernest Bevin (1881-1951): political biography and grand international narrative
  Please note this seminar is at 17:00 in the Rees Davies Room, Faculty of History - joint with the Modern History Research Seminar
  Anne Deighton (Oxford)

Thursday 15 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - J S Mill before liberalism
  Peter Ghosh (Oxford)

Thursday 22 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Feeling Politics and Collective Feminist Solidarity in Women’s Networks since 1970
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Bec Wonders (Oxford)

Thursday 29 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - The Crimean War in Victorian Religious Thought and Intellectual Culture
  Petros Spanou (Oxford)

Thursday 7 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Changing Shapes of European History: The Modern European History Seminar since the 1980s
  Please note this seminar is in the Rees Davies Room, Faculty of History, at 17:00 - joint with the Modern History Research Seminar
  Martin Conway (Oxford), Tom Buchanan (Oxford)

Thursday 2 May 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Transfer of Status Presentations
  Kenneth Wong, Natalie Martz

Thursday 9 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Transfer of Status Presentations
  Gabrielle Davies, Thomas Wang, Carys Howell

Thursday 16 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Transfer of Status Presentations
  Eleri Hedley Carter, Freya Willis

Thursday 23 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Finally moving on? The Socialist Labour Party and the search for an electoral alternative to New Labour
  Alfie Steer (Hertford College, Oxford)

Thursday 30 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - "God is an Equal Opportunities Employer - Pity about the Church": Humour and the Campaign for Women's Ordination in the Church of England, 1978-1994
  Grace Heaton (Oxford)

Thursday 17 October 2024 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Ewen Green Memorial Lecture: Histories of Maternal Labour
  Please note this lecture is at Magdalen College at 17:00
  Professor Sarah Knott

Thursday 24 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Induction session for graduate students in modern British history
  Various Speakers

Thursday 31 October 2024 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Camping up the organisation man: sexuality and psychoanalysis in the mid-century British workplace
  Grace Whorrall-Campbell (Oxford)

Thursday 7 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - “Democracy has come!” The Third Reform Act and the making of British democracy
  Rob Saunders (QMUL)

Thursday 14 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - “The age has passed, when nations can be SUNG into liberty”: the changing sounds of working-class radicalism, 1838-67
  David Kennerley (Oxford)

Thursday 21 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Joint meeting with the English Faculty’s Nineteenth Century Research Seminar: “The desire to supply good tales to my school children”: Charlotte Yonge’s lifelong involvement in parochial education
  Susan Walton (Hull)

Thursday 28 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Harold Macmillan and his grand designs
  Pippa Catterall (Westminster)

Tuesday 3 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Joint meeting with the Modern History Research seminar: Writing history after Brexit
  Please note this meeting is on TUESDAY 3 December at 17:00
  Patricia Clavin (Oxford), Robert Gildea (Oxford), Rob Saunders (QMUL)