Postgraduate Conference (May 2013)

Programme for the School of Historical Studies' Postgraduate Conference held on 21 May 2013.

There is limited space for students and staff who have not already registered to attend. If you would like to do so please email Lizzie Rowberry.

Download the booklet of abstracts here.

Time	Venue	Panel	Name of Speaker	Title of Presentation
9.30am	Att 111	-		Registration (Tea and Coffee available)
9.50am	Att LT3	-	Sally Horrocks	Welcome and Introduction
10am - 11.15am	Att 208	1a	Joe Harley	The Material Wealth of Paupers in South West England, 1700-1834
			Nicholas Gibson	Lifestyles of Luxury: Examining the inmates of Tynemouth Union Workhouse, 1836-1860.
			Valerie Bagnas	Micro-History of Poor Relief Response to Crisis and Dearth: Quainton 1796-1804
	Att 111	1b	Trixie Gadd	A Governable People: social regulation in St George, Gloucestershire, 1750-1850
			Thomas Snowden	What can the riots which occurred in nineteenth century Flintshire tell us about the local mining community?
			Stefan Tornack	The Riots of 1981 – Social causes and spatial consequences in Nottingham and Manchester
Break 11.15am - 11.30am
11.30am - 12.20pm	Att 208	2a	Qadir Muhammad	Kurd and Kurdistan in the viewpoint of the British travellers in the nineteenth century
			Andrew Wager	Advertising the Excursion - Promotion of Victorian Leisure Travel
			Lizzie Rowberry	PATCO & the Press: The public image of the Air Traffic Controllers' Strike
	Att 111	2b	Carol Beardmore	The Rural Community through the eyes of the land agent , William Castleman
			Emma Purcell	A View of Provincial Life in Georgian England from the Diary of Abigail Gawthern, c.1751-1810
			Jay Emery	Lawrence's Nottinghamshire: The Representation of Community in the works of D. H. Lawrence – 1911-1920
Lunch 12.20pm - 1.30pm
1.30pm - 2.35pm	Att 208	3a	Janice Morris	The impact of the French Revolution and its aftermath on life in the English country house
			Jamie Taylor	Victorian Church Restorations in South Nottinghamshire
			Stephen Murray	The temples of Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos: three London power stations.
	Att 111	3b	Stuart Galloway	The American Equal Rights Association, 1866-1870: Universal Suffrage and Gendered Political Cultures
			Nicolle Watkins	Conflicted Wartime Memories: The Changing Face of Holocaust Remembrance in the Channel Islands
			Alex Cooney	The role of Minnesota Senators; Humphrey, McCarthy & Mondale in shaping liberalism in 20th Century US politics
Break 2.35pm - 2.50pm
2.50pm - 3.45pm	Att 208	4a	Jane Rowling	Trust and the Auction Mart in Twentieth Century Wharfedale
	Att 208	4a	Philip Batman	Tracking core families in a rural population
	Att 111	4b	Maureen Harris	Clergy, parishioners and the ‘immoral economy’ of the Warwickshire ecclesiastical courts, 1660-1720
			Ines Hassan	Medium-sized cities and globalisation: the example of Reims and Leicester 1980-2008
			Georgina Barlow	The Evolution of Leicester's Urban Landscape
Break 3.45pm - 4pm
4pm - 5.30pm	Att 111	5	Emily Whewell	British Crime in late nineteenth and early twentieth century China
			Robert Mee	Derbyshire Associations for the Prosecution of Felons, 1740 – 2013 (First Steps).
			Rachel Bennett	Reconciling the need for decency & the quest for knowledge: Dissection & the Criminal Corpse in Mid 18th Century Scotland.
Post Conference Reception at Salisbury Road, 5.30pm onwards

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Postgraduate Conference (May 2013)

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The Transformation of Urban Britain Since 1945

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