Institute of Historical Research: Society, Culture and Belief, 1500-1800

The programme for the academic year 2012-3 is on the theme of TIME

Convenors: Laura Gowing (King’s College London), Kate Hodgkin (University of East London) and Michael Hunter (Birkbeck).

Seminars will take place in Room G21A, Senate House, London, WC1, on the following Thursdays at 5.30 p.m. All are welcome!

11 October

Kate Hodgkin (UEL)

Family Time: Women, Lineage and Memory in Seventeenth-Century England

1 November

Rosalind Carr (UEL)

The Scottish Enlightenment after Dark

6 December

Kat Hill (Oriel),

Chronicling the Lutheran Reformation: history and memory in the work of Cyriacus Spangenberg

17 January

Mark Curran (Queen Mary)

Time and Uncertainty in the Enlightenment Book Trade

14 February

Lynn Botelho (Fulbright Scholar, King’s College London)

The Changing Nature of a "Good Old Age'" in Early Modern England

14 March

Brodie Waddell (Birkbeck)

The Present State of England

9 May

Caroline Watkinson (IHR Fellow) – room tbc

Ritualising Time in an Age of Revolution:  Exiled English Nuns, Cyclical History, and the French Revolution