Over the next couple of days our MA students in Contemporary History, Global History and Modern British Studies are work-shopping their nascent dissertation projects. Please see the programme below for a flavour of what they are studying.
Tuesday 20 March
Room G 26: Mechanical Engineering Building
2.15: Assemble & Introductions (Simon Jackson)
2.30-3.15: Gender, Masculinity & Clothing
Joe Combs – Masculinity, Femininity and Homosexuality in Small Northern Industrial Towns, 1960-2000’
Katelyn Elder, ‘Boys to men: the role of public schools and the Boy Scouts in shaping masculinity in the late Victorian and early Edwardian period.’
Eleanor Holmes, ‘Dressing for the War: Utility Clothing and Rationing in World War Two Britain’
3.30-4.00: Labour, Nation & Community
Haowen (Sylvie) Liu, ‘The role of Chinese Labor in the Second World War and the subsequent labor movement’
Curt Trudgeon, ‘Immigrant and Ethnic Minority Communities in North- Western Port Cities During Interwar Britain: Racism, Urban Topography and Cultural Impacts’
Sarah Middlemass, How did print media generate and propagate ideas of ‘Britishness’: 1993-2001″.
4.30-5.15: Culture, conformity and contestation
Rachel Littler, ‘The Rational Dress Movement and Women’s Mobility’
Uzmah Mohammed, ‘Material culture, cultural appropriation and colourblindness’ (Only 3-6 Tuesday)
Seb Read, ‘Exploring the social roles and impacts of musical subcultures in 1980s England’.
Wednesday 21 March
Biosciences, 301
10.00 – Assemble and Welcome (Chris Moores)
10.05-11.50 – Bodies and History
Grace France, “The Rigid Right and the Strait-Laced Left? An Exploration of the Response to Page Three from 1970 to 1990”
Beth Parkes, ‘Suntanning in 1960s and 1970s Britain’
Rose Parkinson: Colonial medical care, gender, and urbanism in Bombay, c. 1913-1930
11.10 -11.55: Empires
Ioannis Tzianis, ‘To what extent did the Vietnam war affect the UK-US relations?’ (Wednesday)
Vicky Basra, An Investigation of the Expansionary efforts of Maharajah Ranjit Singh: Accepted hero?
Charlotte McKnight, ‘Our national beverage’: The British School of Malting and Brewing’.
12.00: LUNCH BREAK
1.00-2.30: Activist Selly Oak (Muirhead Tower, 109): This is an optional session with the opportunity to find out about the Activist Selly Oak Event a Heritage Lottery Funded Project being run by Chris Moores with BRIHC – the session will take place in Muirhead Tower, 109 (it is not likely to last until 2.30 for those presenting in the final session)
2.30-3.00: Media
Emma McMullen, ‘Women’s autonomy and social class in British mass media, 1950-1970’.
Imogen Anderson, ‘The role of news broadcasts and black British cultural production in portraying Handsworth, Birmingham’
