The Institute of Historical Research’s History Lab is pleased to announce that its flagship conference will be taking place virtually this year on Tuesday, 18th July 2023, and is currently accepting registrations for attendance.
This year’s theme, Historia Interrupta, aims to reflect on how we approach moments of historical interruption, and to share insights from new generations of historians on how we can understand continuity and change. We have a fantastic line-up of nine presenters and a keynote presentation from the brilliant Professor Julian Hoppit. This year’s presenters have been arranged into three panels, and each panel will consist of three presentations of 20 minutes followed by questions and discussion from the audience.
The conference will take place online via Zoom. All are welcome and attendance is free, but advance registration is required.
To register and view the full schedule, please visit: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/534906438557
9:00-10:30 Panel 1 – Britain and the World
Nathalie Cooper (University of Warwick and the Horniman Museum): The Ideological Separation of Ancient and Modern in the Horniman Museum’s Egyptian Collections
Luke Thrumble (University of Nottingham): ‘An old question answered anew’: Continuities in British foreign policy throughout the end of the Cold War and beyond
Michael Trull (Cardiff University): Anglo-Japanese Diplomacy and the Meiji Restoration
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-12:30 Panel 2 – Assessing cultural change through everyday experiences
Paul Hutchinson (University of Bristol): A Tag of Shame: Masculinity in the Literature of the Dust Bowl
Aoife Miralles (University of Oxford): Political Changes and Musical Continuities in Eighteenth-Century Liège and Lille
Joshua Rushton (University of Leeds): Between Rome and the Serenissima: Holy Sacrament Confraternities and Religious Reform in Venice c. 1545-1690
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:00 Panel 3 – Government, power, and survival
Julie Fitzpatrick (Royal Holloway, University of London): ‘Help, I’m starving. There are still no bananas!’: The Relationship between Food, Power and Persecution During the Holocaust
Amy Longmuir (University of Reading): The impact of the 1970 Equal Pay Act on working women’s wages in Britain
Daniel Tang (King’s College London): Religious continuity and the Thirty Tyrants of Athens: A new perspective on the oligarchic revolution of 404 BCE
15:00-15:30 Break
15:30-17:00 Keynote speaker
Professor Julian Hoppit (University College London): Continuity, Change and Understanding the Industrial Revolution