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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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