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The Warwick Postgraduate History Conference
DAY 1 Thursday, 30 May
12.40 LUNCH BREAK
PANEL 1: FOOD CULTURE AND HISTORY
Chair: Rebecca Earle
Ricardo Aguilar. History of Food in Sixteen-Century New Spain: Relaciones de
Indias and Materia médica
Louise Morgan. ‘Eat Better, Not Less’: Finding the History of Clean Eating
09.30 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION
09.45 WELCOME ADDRESS
10.00
11.20
13.40
11.00 COFFEE BREAK
PANEL 3: MODERN BRITAIN, COLONIAL GOVERNANCE AND INFORMAL
IMPERIALISM
Chair: Robert Fletcher
Ahmad Shaviz Fawad. British foreign policy towards Afghanistan in the late-19th
century
Ali Al Khalifa. The Adviser: The Role of Charles Belgrave in Bahrain within Britain’s
Informal Empire in the Gulf
Bobby Tam. Stories of Fear: Colonial State Inquests of Suicides and unreported
Burials in Nineteenth-century Hong Kong
PANEL 2: TWENTIETH CENTURY BRITAIN - WELFARE AND SOCIAL CHANGE
Chair: Mathew Thomson
Ed Devane. True Pioneers? Modernity and the Austerity Health Centre
Pierre Botcheby. ‘Representing local interests in post-industrial town centre
regeneration: a case study of St. Helens, Merseyside’
Josh Patel. Realising the ‘Good Society’ through Economic Science: the Robbins
Report into Higher Education (1963)
15.00 END OF DAY ONE
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