• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Joshua Bennett (St John’s) , Sam Brewitt-Taylor (Lincoln) , Lise Butler (Pembroke) , Matthew Grimley (Merton) , Ben Jackson (University) , Marc Mulholland (St Catherine’s) , Sian Pooley (Magdalen) , Simon Skinner (Balliol)
• Timing: Thursdays at 2 pm
• Organising department: Faculty of History

Thursday 15 October 2015 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - "Remembering the Future": commemoration and ownership of the Irish Revolution
  Professor Roy Foster (Hertford college, University of Oxford)

Thursday 22 October 2015 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - One Road to Buenos Aires: Microhistory and trafficking in the early twentieth century British World
  Julia Laite (Birkbeck)

Thursday 29 October 2015 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - State-supported healthcare provisions for venereal disease in England 1918-1939
  Anne Hanley (New College, Oxford)

Thursday 5 November 2015 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Roundtable discussion of William Whyte's 'Redbrick: a social and architectural history of Britain's civic universities' (2015)
  Christina de Bellaigue (Exeter College, Oxford), David Palfreyman (New College, Oxford), Otto Saumarez Smith (Lincoln College, Oxford)

Thursday 12 November 2015 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Writing a Cultural History of Shyness
  Joe Moran (Liverpool John Moores)

Thursday 19 November 2015 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Title TBC
  James Thompson (Bristol University)

Thursday 26 November 2015 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Informal Discussion of Current Research in modern British history at Oxford
  TBA

Thursday 21 January 2016 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Suffragettes at Home: Representations of Domestic Labour in the Edwardian Feminist Press
  Laura Schwartz (Warwick)

Thursday 28 January 2016 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - ‘A Device of Dictators and Demagogues’: The 1975 Britain and Europe Referendum
  Robert Saunders (Queen Mary University of London)

Thursday 4 February 2016 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - "I'm Not Political But...": Women's Political Subjectivity in Postwar Britain
  Eve Worth (Queen's)

Thursday 11 February 2016 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Remembering youth in ‘the so called swinging sixties’
  Helena Mills (University)

Thursday 18 February 2016 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Life beyond Burke: towards an intellectual history of Conservatism in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain
  Emily Jones (Cambridge)

Thursday 25 February 2016 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - A Kirk Queen: Queen Victoria and the Church of Scotland
  Michael Ledger-Lomas (King’s College London)

Thursday 3 March 2016 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Privacy, place and "Community" in Bermondsey and Bethnal Green, 1947-1955
  Jon Lawrence (Cambridge)

Thursday 10 March 2016 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - "She was full of evil spirits": Occult Influence and Free Will in the Proceedings of the Old Bailey, c.1860-1900
  Karl Bell (Portsmouth)

Thursday 13 October 2016 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Ewen Green Memorial Lecture, ‘Thatcherism in the archives.’
  Richard Vinen (KCL)

Thursday 20 October 2016 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - ‘Dreamers of the Third Empire: Imperial Federation and the Jewish question’
  Arie Dubnov (Haifa)

Thursday 27 October 2016 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - ‘Rebuilding parliament: politics and space in the temporary House of Commons, 1834-1852’
  Becki Moore (IHR)

Thursday 3 November 2016 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - ‘The “Power House” Revisited: Duleep Singh and the “English” Country House Tradition’
  Margot Finn (UCL)

Thursday 10 November 2016 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - 'Reinventing the Labour Party? The politics of nostalgia during the Kinnock-era, 1983-92'
  Richard Jobson (Queens)

Thursday 17 November 2016 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - ‘Communist spies and the making of modern Britain’
  Richard Davenport-Hines (All Souls)

Thursday 24 November 2016 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - 5pm Drinks party and informal discussion on ‘British History after Brexit’
  TBA