Seminars, Lectures and Groups

The following seminar series are open to staff and students from all departments. Members of the public are also encouraged to attend and are advance to contact the series organiser in advance for further details if necessary.

'Brown Bag' Seminars
Early Modern Seminars
Other Seminars

'Brown Bag' Seminars

Please contact Dr Claudia Prestel for more information. The seminars are all held at 1.00pm.

Date	Lecture
29 October 2012	Professor Keith Snell 'In or out of their place: migrant poor in English art, 1740-1900' Seminar Room, 5 Salisbury Road
26 November 2012	Dr Deborah Toner ‘”The rocks become drunk”: Changing Conceptions of Drunkenness in Mexico, c. 1400-1900’
10 December 2012	Dr Julie Attard & Dr Pam Fisher “Making history together: the tribulations and triumphs of community history projects”
February 2012	Dr Bernard Attard ‘How to organise a “capital strike”: The British Australasia Society and the Queensland government, 1898-1924’
11 March 2013	Dr Stuart Ball 'The Conservative Party in Britain between the wars'
14 May 2013	Dr Jonathan Atherton ‘"Nothing but a Birmingham jury can save them": Prosecuting the Priestley Rioters of 1791'

Early Modern Seminars

Please contact Professor John Coffey, Dr Ian Harris or Dr Kate Loveman for more information. Seminars begin at 5.15pm in Attenborough 216.

Date	Lecture
Monday, 11 February	Keith McDonald (Leicester) 'Marvell and Private Lives: Oliver Cromwell and Thomas Fairfax'
Monday, 25 February	Mark Williams (Leicester) 'Communicating Royalism: Informational Cultures in Exile, 1649-1660'
Monday, 11 March	Ben Parsons (Leicester) 'Better a Teacher of Dogs than of Men': Schoolmasters on Trial in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
Monday 29 April	Neil Keeble (Stirling) '"That Posterity Be Not Deluded": Reliquiae Baxterianae and the Shaping of the Seventeenth Century'
Monday, 11 May	John Morrill (Cambridge) Title TBA
Monday, 20 May	Nicole Greenspan (Hampden-Sydney College, VA) Title TBA