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Research Seminars and Reading Groups

The postgraduate students are very welcome to attend the Department Research Seminar which takes place on Wednesdays from 4.30-6 pm on Microsoft Teams. Last year's speakers included Catherine Hall (UCL) ‘Doing Reparative History: Bringing Race and Slavery Home'; Joanna Bourke (Birkbeck), ‘Ordinary and Extraordinary: Sexual Violence and Psychiatry from the Fin de Siècle to #MeToo’, Jeremy Adelman (Princeton) 'The Need for Strangers: A Story of Love and Loathing', Barbara Taylor (Queen Mary) ‘Philosophical Solitude: David Hume vs. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’ and Pratik Chakrabarti (Manchester), ‘Is Deep History White?’.

The History Department is also host to an extensive collection of research centres and groups which run their own activities and events including:

For more information on these Centres and other research groups and projects in the Department, see here. Please get in touch with Centre Directors if you would like to know more.

Events Calendar

The Department of History Events Calendar gives details of all seminars, conferences, workshops and events. Upcoming department events are listed below:

Thu 18 Jun '26

9:15am:

CHMST&MRC Conference: 'Blood is the Price of Coal: Coal Communities, Health & Welfare in Britain & Beyond from the 19th Century to the Present'

Tue 23 Jun '26

9:30am:

Wheeler workshop, Travel Writing and its Limits’

Thu 25 Jun '26

9am:

GHCC Workshop: Between Thompson and the Global: Rethinking Labour History

1pm:

Materiality and Process: Foundations for Effective Map Histories, Prof Matthew H. Edney, University of Southern Maine

Fri 26 Jun '26

2pm:

CHMST WIP: "There are some strokes of calamity that scathe and scorch the soul": Heartbreak, Emotions, and the Body, c. 1750-1830-Sally Holloway,

4pm:

CHMST END OF TERM SOCIALS

Mon 29 Jun '26

9:30am:

GHCC / IGSD conference: Disastrous Pasts and Sustainable Futures: Urban Disasters and Resilience in Historical and Social Scientific Perspectives

Mon 20 Jul '26

10am:

Conference, Uncovering Traces of Ming Occupations with Sociological Theory

Sun 26 Jul '26

2pm:

CHMST WIP;"There are some strokes of calamity that scathe and scorch the soul": Heartbreak, Emotions, and the Body, c. 1750-1830 Sally Holloway

4pm:

CHMST END OF TERM SOCIALS

Tue 28 Jul '26

10am:

Warwick Restoration Conference 2026: Fashioning, Forging and Faking Identities, 1660-1714

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