A series of occasional seminars will be held, usually in Room G.12, William Robertson Wing, at 5pm on Wednesdays, unless otherwise stated.
Discussion will continue after the seminars with a glass of wine. All are welcome.
Semester 2, spring 2014
| Date |
Topic |
Speaker |
Notes |
| 15 January |
Sikhs, sex and the state: British historical imagination and the family of Ranjit Singh c. 1800-1850 |
Margot Finn (University College London) |
Room G.16 |
| 12 February |
TBC |
Craig Muldrew (University of Cambridge) |
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| 12 March |
Sovereign independence and financial markets: a study of Irish land bonds, 1891-1938 |
Eoin McLaughlin (University of Edinburgh) |
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Semester 1, autumn 2013
| Date |
Topic |
Speaker |
Notes |
| Tuesday 15 October |
Can women count? Gender and numeracy in 19th-century Ireland’ |
Matthias Blum (Technical University of Munich and Visiting Fellow Edinburgh) |
Room G.11 |
| 30 October |
I invest, you speculate, they gamble? James Bridges, the first Duke of Chandos during the South Sea Bubble |
Koji Yamamoto (King’s College, London) |
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| 13 November |
Creating a proper system of publishing: the trials and tribulations of industrial print technologies in mid-19th-century Edinburgh |
Aileen Fyfe (University of St Andrews) |
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| 27 November |
The land without pop: Popular music in 20th century Germany |
Klaus Nathaus (University of Edinburgh) |
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Previous events
2012-2013 Spring Seminars
| Date |
Description |
| 30 January |
Paul Sharp (University of Southern Denmark) ‘North and south: social mobility and welfare spending in pre-industrial England’ |
| 13 March |
Philip Morgan (Johns Hopkins University and Edinburgh) ‘The Caribbean environment in the early modern era’ |
2012-2013 Autumn Seminars
| Date |
Description |
| 17 October |
Dan Bogart (University of California, Irvine) ‘On the doorstep: the politics of access in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution’ |
| 7 November |
Barry Doyle (University of Huddersfield) ‘Reassessing the city as a healthy space: urban England between the wars’ |
| 28 November |
Bill Luckin (University of Bolton) ‘Town, country and “planet” in nineteenth century Britain’ |
2011-2012 Seminars
| Date |
Description |
| 11 October |
Bernard Capp (University of Warwick) ‘The travails of Agnes Beaumont: faith and family in early modern England’ (Joint meeting with the Gender History Network) Room 1.9, Doorway 6, Teviot Place |
| 26 October |
Jeremy Boulton (University of Newcastle) ‘Saving the poor worms from starving? Traffic in corpses, interment, burial fees and vital registration in Georgian London’ Room G.13, Doorway 4, Teviot Place |
| 23 November |
Giorgio Riello (University of Warwick) ‘When Europe met Asia: fashioning textiles in the early modern world’ Room G.13, Doorway 4, Teviot Place |
For further information contact Nuala Zahedieh.
