Centre for Regional and Local History
Academic year: 2020-2021
Seminars will be delivered live and remotely on these dates and times. You can join these sessions from your home computer via Blackboard Collaborate. You do not need to download any special software to join these sessions. Simply click on the links below which act as an entry key into the virtual seminar room. Sessions will open 15 minutes before the scheduled start of the paper. Please ensure that your video and microphones are off during the paper. There will be opportunities to ask questions directly after the paper.
The pre-industrial Lowestoft Fish Office: another red herring?
8 October 2020, 2.15pm
Matt Bristow
New light on the medieval Gough map of Britain
22 October 2020, 2.15pm
Dr Bill Shannon
Where next for the Victoria County History?
5 November 2020, 2.15pm
Dr Adam Chapman
The Provincial-Provincial Public Sphere: Scotland, New Zealand and the Newspaper Press in the Age of Telegraph and Steam
19 November 2020, 2.15pm
Dr Melodee Beals
Humbug and a Welsh Hindu: a small history of race, language and begging in nineteenth-century Liverpool
3 December 2020, 2.15pm
Professor Martin Johnes
'He used to come and sit in the kitchen': Farmers and Advisors Sharing and Making Local Knowledge in Post-war British Farming
21 January 2021, 2.15pm
Dr Sally Horrocks and Dr Paul Merchant
Female entrepreneurship: business, marriage and motherhood in England and Wales, 1851-1911
4 February 2021, 2.15pm
Dr Carry van Lieshout
'Overfrighted and feared': feelings, attitudes and responses to fear during the 1641 Irish rebellion
18 February 2021, 7pm
Dr Bethany Marsh
Migration from Swaledale during the collapse of the nineteenth-century lead mines
4 March 2021, 2.15pm
Professor Phil Batman
From Slave Trade to Scramble for Africa: the making of the Black population in Britain
18 March 2021, 7pm
Dr Chris Zembe