Local and Regional History seminar series, Spring 2013
A multi-disciplinary series for academics, students and heritage professionals, aimed at exploring aspects of local history from the ancient to the modern and from the Midlands to the wider world.
7 January
Professor Cristopher Dyer (University of Leiester)
Deserted villages visited - new interdisciplinary approaches
21 January
Dr James Hamilton (Research and Cultural Collections, University of Birmingham)
Brilliant with all colours: Vesuvius and the evolution of its image
4 February
Jo-Ann Curtis (Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery)
The Bull Ring, an iconic Birmingham landmark: the popularity of 19th century topographical views
18 February
Sally Hoban (Birmingham Assay Office and University of Birmingham)
Accomplished ladies or professional women? Women in art and design in Birmingham in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
4 March
Dr Nicola Whyte (University of Exeter)
The place of the dead: territory and identity in the early modern landscape
18 March
David Eveleigh (Back Country Living Museum)
It's all a gas: the development and provision of household technology in the Black Country 1800-1939
Time and location
Mondays 1600:1800
Lecture room 3, Arts building
Further information
Dr Malcolm Dick: m.m.dick@bham.ac.uk