CCBH
 
IHR: Institute of Historical Research
 
SEMINAR IN CONTEMPORARY BRITISH HISTORY 2006-7
- Institute of Historical Research, University of London -

This seminar, one of many run at the Institute of Historical Research, normally meets on Wednesdays in term time, 5.00-6.30 in the Wolfson room. The seminar convenors are: Rodney Lowe (Bristol); Pat Thane (CCBH, IHR).

Autumn Term

• 11 October
Duncan Tanner (Bangor)
The Freedom of Information Act and its Impact: Studying the History of Welsh Devolution.


• 25 October
James McKay (Birmingham)
The Passage of the Commonwealth Immigration Act : a Case-Study of Back-Bench Pressure, 1961-2.


• 7 November, 5pm
Vanessa Chambers (CCBH)
Gremlins- the Second World War and the Supernatural.


• 22 November, 5pm
Susan Williams (Institute of Commonwealth Studies)
Colour Bar: the Exile of Seretse Khama, 1948-56.


• 6 December, 5pm
Peter Waymark (Open University)
Harold Wilson and the BBC in the 1960s.

Spring Term
• 10 January, 5pm
Carl Bridge and Glenn Calderwood (Menzies Center for Australian Studies)
Australians in Britain: 1901.
(Joint with seminar with Metropolitan History)


• 24 January, 5pm
James Cronin (Boston College)
The


• 7 February, 5pm
Nicholas Owen (Queen's College, Oxford)
Anti-imperialism in inter-war Britain.

• 21 February, 5pm
Judith Allen (University of Indiana)
The Great Frigidity Debates, 1933-1959: Kinsey and his critics.


• 7 March, 5pm
Jack McGowan (QMUL)
The Grunwick Dispute and the Media in the Summer of 1977.


• 21 March, 5pm
Peter Malpass
To be announced


• 18 April, 5pm
Kenneth Morgan (Queen's College Oxford and House of Lords)
Michael Foot and British History.

Summer Term
• 2 May, 5pm
Robert Taylor
The Tragedy of Parliamentary Socialism


• 16 May, 5pm
Lesley Whitworth (Brighton University)
The Design Council and Industrial Design since 1945.


• 30 May, 5pm
Kester Aspden (Author of Nationality: Wog. The Hounding of David Oluwale , Jonathan Cape, 2007)
The Death of David Oluwale: a Leeds Story of Racial Politics- 1969
 

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