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Tim Harris (Brown University) ‘Riots, Firearms and Manslaughter: The Battle over the Enforcement of the 1670 Conventicle Act in South Devon’

February 11 @ 4:15 pm - 5:30 pm
Peter Mancall (University of Southern California): ‘The Lord of Misrule and Thomas Morton: Myth, Reality, and the Atlantic Origins of New England.’

February 18 @ 4:15 pm - 5:30 pm
Jeffrey Byrne (University of British Columbia): ‘Global subversion, national salvation: The rise and fall of revolutionary anti-colonialism’

February 25 @ 4:15 pm - 5:30 pm
Sarah Roddy (University of Manchester): ‘Pray for the Donor: Money and the Material in the Irish Catholic Church, 1850-1921’

March 3 @ 4:15 pm - 5:30 pm
Sarah Thieme (University of Mϋnster): ‘We have found faith in the city’: Church actors facing the challenges of urban structural change and de-industrialization in Essen and Manchester, 1970-80s’

March 10 @ 4:15 pm - 5:30 pm

We’re pleased to announce our Department Research Seminar programme for the Autumn 2019-20 Semester:
Intoxicating Spaces: The Impact of New Intoxicants on Public Spaces, Consumption and Sociability in North Western Europe, c. 1600 – c. 1850
We are delighted to announce our Departmental Research Seminar programme for Spring 2019:
Exhibition sheds new light on European peace protests of 1980s
Suffrage 100 at Off the Shelf – Curated by Dr Julie V Gottlieb