WORK IN PROGRESS: SEMINAR PROGRAMME 2006-7

Where an abstract is available, click on the speaker's name

 

First Semester

 

8th Oct

"…The undermining of the general classes by the creation of low paid women's classes is inimical to the best interests of the public service." The Union of Post Office Workers and the campaign for women's wage equality in the Post Office, 1939-45

Mark J Crowley(University of London)


Discourses of youth leisure in mid-twentieth century Glasgow

Oliver Stockman (University of Glasgow)

 

22nd Oct

Telling the story of religious broadcasting at the BBC

Caitriona Noonan, University of Glasgow

 

'James Young Simpson 1854-1863: More than 'the Chloroform Man?'

Victoria Hand, University of Glasgow


Nov 5th

'The US foreign policy shift towards Pakistan during 1960s: China and
India as Factors'

Syed Soherwordi, university of Glasgow

 

Title: TBC

Andreas Boldt, National University of Ireland, Manooth

 

3rd Dec

'Sisterhood is powerful?': Women's Liberation Workshops in Scotland c. 1969-1978.

Sarah Browne, University of Dundee


The crisis of capitalism in interwar Glasgow and its realistic representation".

Sylvia Morgan, University of Glasgow

 

Second Semester

 

28th Jan

Title TBC

Shaureen Lammie, University of Edinburgh


Gender patterns in church discipline in early modern Scotland

John McCallum, St Andrews University

 

11th Feb

The Irish response to British decolonisation, in particular, Ireland, Britain and the EOKA in Cyprus.

Helen O'Shea, University of Edinburgh


'The Heavenly Civitas of the early Mediaeval British Isles'.

Melanie Maddox, University of St Andrew's


25th Feb

The History of memories and representations of the Algerian War of Independence
(1954-62)

Claire Eldridge, University of Edinburgh

 

Title TBC

Nara Franca, University of Stirling

 

17th March

Title TBC

Amy McKnight, University of Glasgow


Cold War American history

Helen Bury, St Andrew's University