Join our History Research Seminar series and book your place at the following events:
- Queer Pandemic: Preserving LGBTQ experiences of Covid-19 – Tuesday 15 November, 5-6:30pm
Justin Bengry presents his video history project ‘Queer Pandemic’ in association with Queer Britain. 'Queer Pandemic' is a video-based oral history project aimed at collecting stories about the experiences of LGBTQ+ people living across the UK during the era of COVID-19.
Focusing on cross-generational dialogue, the project aims to explore connections between the pandemic and other crises experienced by LGBTQ+ people. ‘Queer Pandemic’ looks at how queer people's lives and communities have been shaped and strengthened by individual and shared responses to COVID-19 and previous crises.
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This event will take place both on Regent Campus and online (a zoom link will be sent once you’ve registered).
- Is the UK’s post-Brexit constitution ‘populist’? – Tuesday 22 November, 5-6:30pm
The UK has undergone a series of recent constitutional changes as we move towards the UK’s post-Brexit constitution. Some people have argued that these changes show that the UK constitution is becoming more populist - although often this seems to be used more as an insult than a form of detailed criticism.
This talk by Alison Young, Professor of Public Law at Cambridge, will explain when populism is dangerous, both generally and when applied to the UK’s unique un-codified, political constitution.
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This event will take place both on Regent Campus and online (a zoom link will be sent once you’ve registered).
- The Conservative Leadership Crisis of 1963 – Tuesday 29 November, 5-6:30pm
Political writer and broadcaster Rob Shepherd explains the Conservative leadership crisis of 1963 and how it continues to impact Britain's current governing party.
The Conservative leadership crisis in October 1963 marks a pivotal moment in the party’s history and is striking for its high drama, personal intrigue and bitter recriminations. In this research seminar, Rob Shepherd recounts the chaos that ensued after Harold Macmillan resigned and looks at how the fallout from that moment in history is still being felt in the party today.
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This event will take place both on Regent Campus and online (a zoom link will be sent once you’ve registered).
- Nasty meetings with the men: the takeover of women’s leisure spaces in the 1990s – Tuesday 6 December, 5-6:30pm
Dr Raf Nicholson discusses her research findings, which suggest that male control over women’s leisure lives actually increased between 1990 and 2000. This was because during this period women’s sports, including cricket, lacrosse, hockey, squash, and football moved from being governed by women-only organisations to a new form of “merged governance”, whereby an existing male-dominated body would take charge.
Join as Dr Raf Nicholson reflects on these ‘mergers’ and whether or not the 1990s was actually a decade of regression, not progression, in relation to gender equality.
Find out more and book your place through Eventbrite.
This event will take place both on Regent Campus and online (a zoom link will be sent once you’ve registered).
