Centre events In 'MBS events' MBS Events2017Rethinking modern British studies Back to 'Centre for Modern British Studies' Forthcoming eventsRSS FeedAtom Feed There are currently no forthcoming events being advertised, please check back soon. Previous events 2023 3rd May - The perils of interpreting: the extraordinary story of two translators between Qing China and the British Empire8th February - Conservative Birmingham 2022 7th December - BRIHC In Public Event: What is housing poverty, who does it affect and how?23rd November - Collaborative public history: a roundtable with academics and partners16th November - Cold War frontier? British military communities in Germany, 1945-202023rd February - Researching Black British Histories 2021 6th October - Psychological 'treatments' for homosexuality and gender non-conformity: a roundtable discussion on histories and legacies 2019 1st-31st October - BHM2019 - Exhibition of British Asian Lifestyle3rd-5th July - Modern British Studies Beyond Boundaries 2018 13th June - Pacifists making guns: the Galtons of Birmingham and Britain's industrial revolution1st June - Masculinities in Twentieth Century Britain30th May - The Grain of History: Photography and Post-War Time c.1945-55 2017 5th-7th July - Modern British Studies Conference 2017: British Studies in a Broken World13th March - The Great Departure: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World8th March - Forum for Early Career Researchers1st March - Co-operatives and Decolonisation: A Beautiful Friendship?23rd February - The Killing of Sister George22nd February - Birmingham Teaching Fellows Session8th February - Beyond Empire's Ambit: Narcotic Drugs between Science and State Crime6th February - Making Manhood, Making Science: Myths of identity in modern sport and exploration1st February - Baubles of the Bourbons: The Fate of Royal Heritage in Nineteenth-Century France18th January - The Vanquished11th January - Violence, Resilience and the 'Coolie' Identity: Life on the Ships to the Caribbean, 1834-1920 2016 8th December - Winter roundtable23rd November - We Are the World: The End of Empire and the Rise of Global Humanitarianism12th July - Catherine Hall in conversation20th-21st June - Seeking legitimacy: authority and expertise in modern Britain 2015 2nd-3rd July - Rethinking modern British studies conference25th March - Economic History as if People Mattered: A Workshop for Dr Francesca Carnevali 2014 21st March - The Handsworth Scroll: Radical Politics on the High Street20th March - The Stuart Hall Project18th March - Ken Loach's 'Save the Children Fund Film'