North Western Long Eighteenth-Century Seminar
Programme for 2007-8
Venue: John Rylands Library, Deansgate, Manchester (map: http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/media/media,9539,en.pdf)
Time: 3.30 start (tea from 3 in the library cafe), 5pm finish, followed by drinks and dinner. All welcome.
3 October 2007
Bill Stafford, University of Huddersfield
'The representation of masculinities in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1785-1815'
21 November 2007
Karen Harvey, University of Sheffield
‘Ritual Encounters: Reconstructing Male Homosociability in the Eighteenth Century’
30 January 2008
Murray Pittock, University of Glasgow
'The Jacobite Army in 1745: tactics, organization and arms'
5 March 2008
Katrina Navickas, University of Edinburgh
‘Moors and fields in popular protest in the north of England, 1760-1848’
23 April 2008
Dan Szechi, University of Manchester
‘Retrieving Captain Le Cocq's Plunder: Plebeian Scots and the Aftermath of the 1715 Jacobite Rebellion’
4 June 2008
David Worrall, Nottingham Trent University
‘The Representation of the Islamic World on the British and American Stage’
ALSO, IN ADDITION TO OUR SEMINAR SERIES:
14 March 2008
Teaching and Learning the Long Eighteenth Century
A Day Conference at the Centre for Excellence in Enquiry-Based Learning, University of Manchester. Further details (including call for papers and booking information) at the History Subject Centre website, at: www.hca.ltsn.ac.uk/history
For a map of the campus, see http://www.manchester.ac.uk/visitors/travel/