The Gaiety Girl and the Matinee Idol

Constructing Celebrity and Sexuality in the West End of London, 1880-1914

 

 

Professor Rohan McWilliam

(Anglia Ruskin University)

 

RHS Prothero Lecture, 6 July 2022

delivered at University College London and online

 

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‘The History Lecture: Past, Present and Future’

 

Professor Toby Green

(King’s College, London)

 

RHS Lecture, 6 May 2022

 

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RHS online workshop for Early Career Historians, 8 March 2022

 

 

The third in a new RHS series of training workshops for early career historians.

The focus of this latest event (held on 8 March 2022) was ‘Applying and Interviewing for your First History Lectureship’: with our panellists, Professor Elaine Chalus (Liverpool), Professor Julian Wright (Northumbria), Dr Matthew Johnson (Durham) and Professor Emma Griffin (UEA and RHS President), chair.

 

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“Freedom Seekers: Escaping Slavery in Restoration London”

 

Speakers:

 

Professor Simon P. Newman (University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Glasgow)

Professor Corinne Fowler (University of Leicester

Professor Gretchen Gerzina (University of Massachusetts)

Professor Emma Griffin (Royal Historical Society chair)

 

 

RHS Panel, 18 February 2022

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“Monks and the Muslim enemy: Conversion, polemic and resistance in monastic hagiography in the age of the Crusades, c.1000-1250”

 

Professor Andrew Jotischky

(Royal Holloway, University of London)

 

 

RHS Lecture, 4 February 2022

 

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“An Eastern Question and its History: Writing about the Greek War of Independence”

 

Professor Mark Mazower

(Columbia University, New York)

 

 

RHS International Lecture, 19 January 2022

 

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