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Departmental Seminars 2011-12
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All meetings of the seminar will commence at 4.15 p.m., and be held in Lecture Room One (LR1), behind 3-5 Woodland Road. They will finish by 6 p.m.
Staff research clusters will continue to take place in the rooms of members, and postgraduate (PG) training sessions in LR1. The latter will follow the same timetable as the seminars, but the clusters may meet at other times of day.
Autumn Term 2011
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11 October: The Postgraduate Profile of the Department
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18 October: Staff Member: Simon Potter, ‘Broadcasting Empire: the BBC and the British World, 1922–1970’
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25 October: Research Clusters/ PG Training
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1 November: Postgraduate: John Reeks, ‘The Laudian Reformation in the Diocese of Bath and Wells 1632-40’.
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8 November: Visiting Speaker: Professor Miri Rubin (Queen Mary University College), ‘The Birth of ‘Ritual Murder’ in Medieval Norwich’.
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15 November: Staff Member: William Raybould, ‘Tractable Instruments and Bad Bargains: Preparing for Service in the East India Company 1773-1833’
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22 November: Postgraduate: James Thompson, ‘Religion, Socialism and the Religion of Socialism in Nineteenth-Century Britain’
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29 November: School Seminar
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6 December: Research Clusters/ PG Training
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13 December: PG Training
Spring term 2012
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17 January: Staff Member: Juliane Furst, ‘Living in a Yellow Submarine: The Rise and Fall of a Leningrad Commune, and the Fate of Late Socialist Culture’
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24 January: Visiting Speaker: Dr Matt Kelly (Southampton University), ‘Improvement and Incarceration: The Strange Case of Nineteenth-Century Dartmoor’
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31 January: School Seminar
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7 February: Staff Member: Evan Jones, ‘William Weston: Bristol's forgotten explorer’
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14 February: Staff Panel: Kirsty Reid, Tim Cole and Rhian Tritton (of the SS “Great Britain”), ‘Collaborative Histories: The SS “Great Britain” and Bristol Zoo’.
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21 February: Visiting Speaker: Mr Mark Rowe (Journalist), ‘Life After Nuclear War: Bristol’s (and Britain’s) Secret Plans to Survive World War Three 1950-70’.
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28 February: School Seminar:
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6 March: Postgraduate: Brian Paisley, ‘Gender and Sex in Modern Pagan Cosmology’.
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13 March: Research Clusters/ PG Training
For more information please contact Professor Ronald