Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Trinity Term 2021

GRADUATE SEMINAR IN HISTORY 1680-1850

Trinity Term 2021

The seminar will meet weekly, on Tuesdays at 4 p.m. on MS Teams. Asterisked speakers are graduates in their first doctoral year, whose papers may be shorter than usual. All research students working in this period are encouraged to attend; anyone else interested is also very welcome.

27^th April                                  **Myles Smith (St Edmund Hall)

(1^st week)                                 Piety and Protest: Popular Belief in the Scottish Lowlands, c. 1730-1800

4^th May                                     **Ingrid Schreiber (Wadham)

(2^nd week)                                 Solitude and Sociability in the Late German Enlightenment, 1756-1807

11^th May                                   **Amanda Westcott (Keble)

(3^rd week)                                 The Court of George III and Country Houses: hosting the ‘Royal Excursioners’ at Nuneham Courtenay in Oxfordshire

18th May                                  Jean-Francois Dunyach (Sorbonne)

(4^th week)                                 William Playfair vs France: a case-study in British Popular conservatism and the London Press during the French Revolution

25^th May                                   Richard Drayton (KCL)

(5^th week)                                 Europe’s ‘Blue Water’ empires and its hinterlands: the Pan-European dimension of early modern globalization

1st June                                    Carl Griffin (Sussex)

(6^th week)                                 Enclosure as a Colonial Act: the Common as terra nullius

8^th June                                     Julie Farguson (St. Hilda’s)

(7^th week)                                 Visualising Protestant Monarchy: Ceremony, Art and Politics after the Glorious Revolution, 1689-1714

15^th June                                   Undergraduate Thesis Session

(8^th week)                                 Two current undergraduates will discuss the experience and findings of their recently-completed theses.

Hilary Term 2021

GRADUATE SEMINAR IN HISTORY 1680-1850

Hilary Term 2021

The seminar will meet weekly on Tuesdays at 4.00pm on MS Teams. All research students working in this period are encouraged to attend; anyone else interested is also very welcome.

19 Jan. (week 1)          Katie Donington (London South Bank) The bonds of family: slavery, commerce and culture in the British Atlantic world

26 Jan. (week 2)          Richard Manning (Merton) ‘A moderate price when compared with … the Kentish Coast’: South Devon’s seaside resorts, c. 1760-1840

2 Feb. (week 3)           Caroline Stanford (Kellogg) ‘Employed by many of the Nobility and first Architects in the Kingdom’: Eleanor Coade, a study in eighteenth-century business practice

9 Feb. (week 4)           Mikhail Belan (St. Antony’s) ‘Not unto us, not unto us, but unto thy name’: Russian provincial towns and the People’s Militia in the early nineteenth century

16 Feb. (week 5)         Yoko Onodera (UCL) Magistrates, Local Government and the Police from the 1820s to the 1850s

23 Feb. (week 6)         Daniel Szechi (Manchester) The Spy who never came in from the Cold: Father James Carnegy’s personal war Against the British State 1697-1735

2 March (week 7)       Carl Griffin (Sussex) TBC

9 March (week 8)       Laura Keim (Stenton Museum, University of Pennsylvania) Saved from the British: Layered Stories from a Philadelphia Historic House

For information about the seminar, and news of forthcoming events, visit our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Oxford-seminar-in-mainly-British-History-1680-1850/123050627891042  We would be happy to post notices of interest to our group – contact perry.gauci@lincoln.ox.ac.uk

B. Harris (Worcester); H. Smith (St. Hilda’s); O. Cox (TORCH); P. Gauci (Lincoln)

Michaelmas Term 2019

The seminar will meet weekly, on Tuesdays at 4.15 p.m., in the Beckington Room, Lincoln College (ask at the college lodge for directions). Tea and coffee will be served from 4.00pm. All research students working in this period are encouraged to attend; anyone else interested is also very welcome.

15 Oct. (week 1) Introductory party

22 Oct. (week 2) Nick Leah (City University)
Parliament and Empire: Colonial Debt and the Politics of Slavery, 1727-32

29 Oct. (week 3) Amanda Goodrich (Open University) and Joe Cozens (UCL)
‘The Force of the State’
AG: Hunted like a Jacobin Fox: The Force of Pitt’s “Terror” in Sheffield, 1793-95
JC: The Dragoon State: Soldiers and Riot Control in Britain, c. 1789-1819

5 Nov. (week 4) Hannah Smith (St. Hilda’s)
Court Culture and the Godly Revolution: Henry Purcell’s and Sir Charles Sedley’s 1692 Birthday Ode for Mary II

12 Nov. (week 5) Aaron Graham (Oxford)
Imperial Careering in the Eighteenth-century British Atlantic

19 Nov. (week 6) Hannah Barker (Manchester)
Taking Money from Strangers: Traders’ Responses to Banknotes and the Risks of Forgery in Late Georgian London

26 Nov. (week 7) Moritz von Brescius (University of Bern)
Empires of Opportunity: German Naturalists in British India and the Frictions of Transnational Science

3 Dec. (week 8) Fabio Morabito (Lincoln)
Deforming History, or How to Make a Music Star, c.1800

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