Institute of Historical ResearchThe Business of Wallpaper: The English Wallpaper Trade in the Long Eighteenth CenturyPhilippa Mapes(University of Leicester)British History in the Long Eighteenth Century seminar series

An Outdated Impulse? British Family Identity and Genealogical Knowledge in the Eighteenth Century

Feb 15th, 2017 1h

Institute of Historical ResearchAn Outdated Impulse? British Family Identity and Genealogical Knowledge in the Eighteenth CenturyStéphane Jettot(University of Paris-Sorbonne)British History in the Long Eighteenth Century seminar series

Country Houses & Collaborative Research: Revealing the History of Boughton House & the Montagu Estates in the Long Eighteenth Century

Oct 12th, 2016 1h 3m

Institute of Historical ResearchCountry Houses & Collaborative Research: Revealing the History of Boughton House & the Montagu Estates in the Long Eighteenth CenturyRosemary Sweet, Helen Bates and Emma Purcell(University of Leicester)Bri

The Idea of a Measurable Space: Joseph Priestley's 1765 Chart of Biography

May 31st, 2016 44m 23s

Institute of Historical ResearchThe Idea of a Measurable Space: Joseph Priestley's 1765 Chart of BiographyStephen Boyd Davis(Royal College of Art)British History in the Long Eighteenth Century seminar series

Ned Ward's "Knack of Pleasing": Practices of Laughter in the Eighteenth Century

Mar 1st, 2016 51m 53s

Institute of Historical ResearchNed Ward's "Knack of Pleasing": Practices of Laughter in the Eighteenth CenturyKate Davison(University of Sheffield)British History in the Long 18th Century seminar series

Cultures of Settlement, 1660-1780

Feb 3rd, 2016 52m 54s

Institute of Historical ResearchCultures of Settlement, 1660-1780Naomi Tadmor(University of Lancaster)British History in the Long Eighteenth Century seminar series

Northern Lights and Welsh Peasants: New Perspectives on the Late Hanoverian Clergy

Nov 11th, 2015

Institute of Historical ResearchNorthern Lights and Welsh Peasants: New Perspectives on the Late Hanoverian ClergySara Slinn(University of Lincoln)British History in the Long 18th Century seminar series

Trust the People: The English Approach to Arming and Training the 'Mob' for Home Defence, 1779-1805

Oct 14th, 2015

Institute of Historical ResearchTrust the People: The English Approach to Arming and Training the 'Mob' for Home Defence, 1779-1805 Margaret Bird(Royal Holloway, University of London)British History in the Long Eighteenth Century seminar

Neoclassicism and Florentine Freemasonry

Jun 16th, 2015 48m 52s

Institute of Historical ResearchNeoclassicism and Florentine FreemasonryDr Jason Kelly(Indiana University - Purdue University)British History in the Long EIghteenth Century seminar series

'At first nothing could be more shocking': the Impact of the Act for Burying in Woollen

Jun 2nd, 2015 39m 26s

Institute of Historical Research'At first nothing could be more shocking': the Impact of the Act for Burying in WoollenAlice Dolan(University of Hertfordshire)British History in the Long Eighteenth Century seminar series

Becoming Disabled: Narrative, Emotion and Identity in Eighteenth-Century England

May 19th, 2015 51m 18s

Institute of Historical ResearchBecoming Disabled: Narrative, Emotion and Identity in Eighteenth-Century EnglandProfessor David Turner(Swansea University)British HIstory in the Long Eighteenth Century seminar series

Legacies of British Slave-Ownership in the Long Eighteenth Century

May 5th, 2015 51m 13s

Institute of Historical ResearchLegacies of British Slave-Ownership in the Long Eighteenth CenturyDr Nick Draper(University College London)British History in the Long Eighteenth Century seminar series

Disordered London? The view from Rosemary Lane

Mar 17th, 2015 49m 16s

Institute of Historical ResearchDisordered London? The view from Rosemary LaneDr Janice Turner(University of Hertfordshire)British History in the Long 18th Century seminar series

William Hazlitt's Radical Faith

Feb 4th, 2015 52m 38s

Institute of Historical ResearchWilliam Hazlitt's Radical FaithKevin Gilmartin Hazlitt(Caltech/University of York)British History in the Long 18th Century seminar series

Rabbits, Whigs and Hunters: Rethinking Mary Toft's Monstrous Births of 1726

Dec 10th, 2014 53m 19s

Institute of Historical ResearchRabbits, Whigs and Hunters: Rethinking Mary Toft's Monstrous Births of 1726Dr Karen Harvey (University of Sheffield)British History in the Long Eighteenth Century seminar series

'Lightning Talks' 3 minute presentations by early PhD students

Nov 12th, 2014 42m 16s

Institute of Historical Research'Lightning Talks' 3 minute presentations by early PhD studentsKathleen Reynolds(Durham University)Anna Field(Cardiff University)Emma Purcell(University of Leicester)Daniel Reed(Oxford Brookes ...

Pechu kecha/Speed Presentations

Nov 29th, 2013 1h 41m

(three minute papers from early PhD students) British History in the Long Eighteenth Century seminarInstitute of Historical Research30 October 2013

'Female agony and visionary experience: Jane Lead (1624-1704), her last days and its impact upon the Philadelphian Society, c.1697-1704'

Jun 11th, 2013 51m 5s

Institute of Historical Research'Female agony and visionary experience: Jane Lead (1624-1704), her last days and its impact upon the Philadelphian Society, c.1697-1704'Ariel Hessayon(Goldsmiths)British History in the Long Eighteenth Cent

Loose, Idle and Disorderly: Vagrant Removal in Late Eighteenth-Century Middlesex

May 28th, 2013 43m 9s

Institute of Historical ResearchLoose, Idle and Disorderly: Vagrant Removal in Late Eighteenth-Century MiddlesexTim Hitchcock (Herts), Adam Crymble (KCL) and Louise Falcini (Reading)British History in the Long Eighteenth Century seminar s

Material Culture Panel: The Significance of Things - Margot Finn

May 14th, 2013 27m 3s

Institute of Historical ResearchMaterial Culture Panel: The Significance of Things'How can things make historians think differently?' Margot Finn(UCL)British History in the Long Eighteenth Century seminar series

Material Culture Panel: The Significance of Things - John Styles

May 14th, 2013 29m 21s

Institute of Historical ResearchMaterial Culture Panel: The Significance of Things'What can things tell us about the eighteenth century that we don't know already?'John Styles (Hertfordshire)British History in the Long Eighteenth Centur

Reading Lives of English Men and Women, 1695-1830

Mar 12th, 2013 49m 21s

Institute of Historical ResearchReading Lives of English Men and Women, 1695-1830Polly Bull (Royal Holloway, University of London)British History in the Long Eighteenth Century seminar series

'For the benefit of example': hanging felons at the scene of their crime in the long eighteenth century

Feb 27th, 2013 45m 7s

Institute of Historical Research'For the benefit of example': hanging felons at the scene of their crime in the long eighteenth centurySteve Poole(University of the West of England)In this talk Poole begins reconsidering popular assumpti

The World is not Enough: Global History, Cotton Textiles and the Industrial Revolution

Jan 30th, 2013 47m 15s

Institute of Historical ResearchThe World is not Enough: Global History, Cotton Textiles and the Industrial RevolutionGiorgio Riello(University of Warwick)British History in the Long Eighteenth Century seminar series