Summer Term, 2013
Dr Liam Haydon (University of Manchester),
The cultural impact of the spice trade on Europe, 1602 -1698
Professor Nick Crowson (University of Birmingham),
Down and Out? Exploring Homelessness in twentieth century Britain
Professor Alex Calvo (European University, Barcelona and University of Birmingham),
In Defence of the Realm, Falklands 1942: Between Tokyo, Washington, and Buenos Aires
Geoffrey Humble (University of Birmingham),
Imperial Barbarians? Seeing Mongol, Han and Other Identities in ‘The History of the Yuan Dynasty’
Stella Sims (University of Sussex),
Popular Memory and the 1950s: Conversations with rockabillies, hepcats and teddy boys
Dr Kieran Connell (University of Birmingham),
Africa in a British Inner-City: Music and Dance in 1980s Handsworth
Andrew Jones (University of Birmingham),
The Politics of Live Aid
Spring Term, 2013
Imaobong Umoren (University of Oxford)
‘Lifting as We Climb’: Caribbean Women Intellectuals, Political Participation and Race Leadership, 1920s-1940s
Robert Brown (University of Birmingham)
‘The Yellow Peril of the fiction writer has become actuality’. The awakening of the East and the Fall of Singapore through the eyes of British Imperial culture, 1890-1945
Patrick Longson (University of Birmingham)
Popular Anxieties and an ‘Ideological Archive’: The Kruger Telegram in British Popular Consciousness, 1896-1934
Derek Janes (University of Exeter & Gunsgreen House)
Smuggler’s Clerk, Playwright and Historian of India: the re-discovery of Alexander Dow
Ruth Atherton, (University of Birmingham)
Power and Persuasion in the Palatinate 1559-76: Frederick III’s Quest for Social Control through the Process of Death and Dying
Amy Edwards (University of Birmingham)
The ‘Sale of the Century’: The Conservative Party and the Marketing of Private Ownership c. 1979 – 1984
Kimberly Brice (Kings College, London)
The Use of Mine Detection Dogs by the British Army in the Second World War
Summer Term, 2012
James Lawrence (University of Birmingham),
Fighting to Stay Away from the Front: The Work of the Military Service Appeal Tribunal in Warwickshire in the First World War
Elizabeth McKenna (University of Birmingham),
Nineteenth Century Workhouses in the West Midlands
Amy Edwards (University of Birmingham),
Maggie’s Admen: Saatchi & Saatchi and the political advertising of Neoliberalism
Jessica Moody (University of York),
Public Memory of Slavery in Liverpool
Sam Humphries (University of Birmingham),
Dressing like Yanks’? Skinheads, the working-classes & the white body, 1968-1972
Spring Term, 2012
Andrew Jones (University of Birmingham),
The Ethiopian Famine in the British Media
Martin Theaker (University of Cambridge),
Britain and ‘Big Science’, 1945-55
Patrick Longson (University of Birmingham),
Germanophobia, Anglo-German Relations and the Venezualan Crisis, 1902-4
Holly Ellis (University of Birmingham),
Helping our “Sisters-under-the-Skins”: complicating Feminist Orientalism in the interwar period
Rebecca Crites (University of Birmingham),
Not his fault? The victimisation of the British wife-beater, 1914-1939
Daisy Payling (University of Birmingham),
Ring of Steel: Sheffield Activism and Protest Movements in the 1970s and 1980s
Autumn Term, 2012
Rakesh Ankit (University of Southampton),
From Empire to the Cold War: Kashmir, 1945-65
Andrew Jones (University of Birmingham),
British Humanitarian NGOs, Disasters & Media Production, 1960-85
Harry Wood (University of Liverpool),
Edwardian Invasion-Scare Fiction: External Threats Mask Internal Fears
Kate Law (University of Sheffield),
‘Mapping Time, Space and Life’: Women, Gender and Whiteness in the Zimbabwean memoir
Rebecca Jones (University of Birmingham)
Documenting Travel in Nigeria: the Public, the Private and the Readers in Early Twentieth Century Nigerian Travel Writing in Yoruba and English
Thomas Penfold (University of Birmingham)
A Three Tiered Crisis: South Africa’s (Un)National Literature
Robert Houghton (University of St Andrews)
When the Bishop’s Away… : Absentee Bishops of Parma during the Investiture Conflict
History and Cultures Workshop 