Conference Programme

Thursday 31st May

09:15-09:45 Registration Zeeman Building, Atrium

09:45-09:55 Opening Remarks Prof Maria Luddy, Head of Department MS.02

10:00-11:20

Panel 1a: Care, Welfare, and Institutions MS.03

Chair: Claire Sewell

• Anna Bosanquet- Midwifery Education in Eighteenth-Century London
• Stephanie Hawkins – ‘A Missing Link in Ireland?’ Day Industrial Schools, 1890-1910
• Jennifer Crane – Forgotten Voices: the Construction and Memorialisation of Evacuee Experience in Britain since 1939
• Thomas Bray – ‘Their Failings, their stupidities, their inadequate ways of meeting life’: the ‘Client’ and their Context

Panel 1b: Clashes of Conscience MS.05

Chair: Naomi Wood

• Alex Jackson – Piety, Polemic and Protestantism: the Last Will and Testament in Elizabethan England
• Aimee Burnham – ‘Mr Hume the Deist’: Reputation and Representation of David Hume in the Debate between Science and Religion
• Anne Thompson – Elizabethan Clerical Households: Evidence from Clergy Wills proved at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury 1560-1600
• Ruperta Nelson – Demystification of the Church and the Creation of Celebrity

11:20–11:45 Break Zeeman Building, Atrium

11:45 – 13:05

Panel 2a: Britain in the Post-War Period MS.03

Chair: Josh Moulding

• Emily Thompson – Holocaust Denial in the UK
• Christopher Zacharia – ‘Drool, Britannia’ – Cookbooks, the Imagined Community and Multiculturalism in Contemporary Britain
• Peter Clemons – The language of unemployment/the depression and the road to the British welfare state 1930-45
• Jane Hand – You Are What You Eat: Chronic Disease, Consumerism and Health Education in Post-War Britain

Panel 2b: Politics of Race MS.05

Chair: David Doddington

• Rachel Nottage - To what extent was Enslaved Life Gendered in the Antebellum South 1830-1861?
• James Heath – Balance, Ideology and Representation: American Political Development and the Nomination of Supreme Court Justices, 1956-1970
• Adunni Adams – Indigenous voices in the development of Caribbean historical analysis
• Meleisa Ono-George – ‘Washing the Blackamoor White’: Intimacy, Power and Race in Early Nineteenth-Century Jamaica

13:05-14:00 Lunch Zeeman Building, Atrium

14:00 – 15:20

Panel 3a: China and the Wider World MS.03

Chair: Tim Davies

• Shengfang Chou – Late Qing China and the British world: a case study of the “China-Man” Figure in British Popular Culture and Entertainment 1840-1920
• John Hardeman – Nineteenth-century attempts to repress British India’s opium trade with China
• Henry Wickham-Smith – Drugs & violence: the role of the West in the evolution of China’s criminal underworld
• Meike Fellinger – Talking fashion: wholesalers, mariners and the prediction of markets for Chinese export wares in Europe, 1720-50

Panel 3b: Conflict and Identity MS.05

Chair: Rebecca Williams

• Adityajeet Govil – Partition of India: Inevitable?
• Gregory Thompson – The ontological self during the Volunteer Movement of the French Revolutionary Wars and afterwards
• Alan Malpass- Liberating the voice(s) of captivity: prisoners of war (and peace) in Britain 1939-1948
• Elodie Duché – ‘Une ville pour prison’: space, honour and the paradoxical otium of Napoleon’s British prisoners of war at Verdun 1803-1814

15:20–15:50 Break Zeeman Building, Atrium

15:50–16:50

Panel 4a: Collections and Recollections MS.03

Chair: Stephen Bates

• Ross Hester – ‘An arrogant, ritual-obsessed empire that had to be blasted into the Modern World’: was this perception of China held by British Chinese ceramics collectors 1850-1930?
• Timothy Somers – Publicising private spaces: printed cabinets and closets in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
• Ellen Filor – Miss Wilhemina’s Museum: Female Collecting and Imperial Spaces in Langholm, c. 1790-1830

Panel 4b: Sites and Subjectivity MS.05

Chair: Collin Lieberg

• Anna Dawson – Sites of exchange: parlours in English towns, circa 1650-1750
• Kimberley Thomas – ‘Maritime and Mobile’ : networks of revolutionary communication in Jamaica during the age of Atlantic revolution
• Tessa Johnson – How to be a Domestic Goddess: Housewives, minor tranquilizer use and the nuclear family in Cold War America

Friday 1st June

09:30–10:00 Registration Zeeman Building, Atrium

10:00–11:20

Panel 5a: Performance and Pageantry MS.03

Chair: Linda Briggs

• Claire Wooldridge – Processions, Pageants and Parades: How Festivals Were Experienced and Remembered in Sixteenth-century Italy and Beyond
• Nicholas Morgan – ‘Imperial Entertainments’: Local and Global Trajectories in British Circus Entertainments, 1890-1913
• Dave Toulson – ‘I say break the neck of this Apartheid’: Popular Music and Politics in Apartheid and Post-Apartheid South Africa, 1977-1995
• Collin Lieberg – ‘Here, there and everywhere’: (re) interpreting the ‘British Invasion’

Panel 5b: Troubled Spaces MS.05

Chair: David Hitchcock

• Sotirios Triantafyllos – Banditry and space in seventeenth-century Europe
• John Morgan – Understanding natural disasters in early modern England
• Maurits Meerwijk – Victorian filth, disease and the government of cities
• Douglas Doherty – Behind the Sudd in Bilad al-Sudan: the ‘Nilotic’, the ‘Bog Baron’ and the ‘Blue’, ruled by the local and fated by the global

11:20-11:45 Break Zeeman Building, Atrium

11:45-13:05

Panel 6a: Medical Exchange MS.03

Chair: Jane Hand

• Sarah Jane Bodell – ‘A key which may be said to fit every lock’: Examining Power Through Medical Missionary Women in India
• Orla Mulrooney – Sun and surgery: a History of Medical Tourism c. 1976-2011
• Anne Moeller – Trading Medicine, Trading Culture: Pietist Medical Trade and Bourdieu’s Cultural Capital
• Josh Moulding – ‘Dining with Disney’: Film, Nutrition Education and Selfhood in 1960s Guatemala

Panel 6b: Military and Warfare MS.05

Chair: Grace Huxford

• Duncan Whitehead – Reconceptualising Early Modern Warfare: the English Civil Wars (1642-1651) and the Edifices of Military Success
• Amandip Somal – The Role of Warfare in Globalisation: Examining the Economic Linkages and Globality of the Opium Wars
• Steven Gray – Imperial Coaling: steam-power, the Royal Navy and British imperial coaling stations c. 1870-1914
• Daniel Ellin – ‘Square pegs into round holes’: RAF Bomber Command ground personnel 1939-1945

13:05 – 14:00 Lunch Zeeman Building, Atrium

14:00 – 15:00

Panel 7a: History and the Written Word MS.03

Chair: Hannah Graves

• Sophie Thompson – Visions of the Future: Temporal acceleration and its effect on the cultural imagination of time travel in Britain, 1881-1914
• Alex White – Utopia and Dystopia on the American Road
• Jacob Halford – A Map of Mischief: Conflict, Disagreement and the Dialogue genre 1640-1660

Panel 7b: Early Modern Gender Identities MS.05

Chair: David Beck

• Maria Nicolaou – Did love overcome reason? Women and marital separation in Early Modern England
• Christopher Hussey – Women and Criminal Gangs in Early Modern England 1600-1750
• Naomi Wood – A web of ‘community conversations’: the impact of women’s letter-writing on the transatlantic Quaker community

15:00 – 15:25 Break Zeeman Building, Atrium

15:25– 16:25

Panel 8a: Sociability and Violence MS.03

Chair: Thomas Bray

• Charlie Small – ‘On the lash?’: Drunkenness at sea in the ‘Long Eighteenth Century’
• Matthew Jackson - ‘Pox on your Bourdeaux...get me some ale’: Popular Consumerism and Drink in Early Modern England
• Thomas Guntripp – ‘...and took her and used her in a most barbarous manner, stopping her mouth as she cried out’: A study into crimes of sexual violence in Early Modern Staffordshire 1600-1800

Panel 8b: Gender Identities and the Modern World MS.05

Chair: Josette Duncan

• Guangze Sun - Conflicts and Communications between the West and China during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century
• Thomas Comerford – ‘Let us show our enemy what we women can do’: A Study on Gender in Revolutionary Ireland, 1917-1922
• Myroslava Matwijiwskyj – Women in the Ukrainian Liberation Movement (OUN-UPA) during the Second World War

16:30 Closing Remarks Prof Rebecca Earle, Director of Graduate Studies MS.02

16:45 Wine Reception