Modern British History Research Seminar
Lent 2017
Castlereagh Room in the Fisher Building, St John’s College
Thursdays at 5 pm. Wine will be served before the discussion.
26 Jan – Matt Houlbrook, University of Birmingham, Prince of Tricksters: The Incredible True
Story of Netley Lucas, Gentleman Crook
9 Feb – Graham Earles, University of Cambridge: 'Fifty-four Forty Or Fight': British policy and
international law in the settling of the Oregon question with the United States, 1842-46
23 Feb - Margaret O'Callaghan, Queens Belfast: Roger Casement, Alice Stopford Green and the
politics of the Irish past
9 March – Julia Stapleton, Durham University [to be held in the Lightfoot Room, St John’s
College]: Conservatism within the Church of England, 1900-1939: Hensley Henson and Lord Hugh
Cecil on Church, State, and Nation.
Convenors
Eugenio Biagini,
Lucy Delap (contact - lmd11),
Ben Griffin
Lawrence Klein,
Jon Lawrence,
Renaud Morieux
Jon Parry
The Seminar is grateful for the generous support provided by the Trevelyan Fund
West Road
Cambridge CB3 9EF
Tel: +44 (0) 1223 335340
Fax: +44 (0) 1223 335968
Email: [email protected]
www.hist.cam.ac.uk