Received from Dr. Naomi Lloyd-Jones (Durham)
Dates: 20-21 July 2023
Location: Collingwood College Penthouse Conference Suite, Durham University and online
DAY ONE: THURSDAY 20 JULY
8.30AM – 9.15AM Registration (Lobby) and refreshments (Boardroom)
9.15AM – 10.30AM Keynote talk (Penthouse Suite Room A/B)
Professor Katrina Navickas (University of Hertfordshire): ‘Practical representation and battles over locality: the importance of place in British popular politics in the long nineteenth century’
10.30AM – 11AM Refreshments (Boardroom)
NB: During this break the Penthouse Suite will be split into rooms A and B for the panel sessions
11AM – 12.20PM Panel Session One
Panel 1.A (Room A) Politics and emotions
Nicholas Barone (Princeton University): ‘“The indifference is the deadweight of history”: Apathy and British Radical Politics, 1790-1840’
Professor Matthew Roberts (Sheffield Hallam University): ‘Cobden, Peel, the Anti-Corn Law League and the Politics of Feeling in Mid-Victorian England’
Dr Laura C. Forster (Manchester University): ‘The political lecture tour in nineteenth-century Britain: activism, hospitality and intimacy on the road’
Panel 1.B (Room B) Politics of land
Dr Lowri Ann Rees (Bangor University): ‘Protesting paternalism: the Rebecca Riots as a political protest movement in south-west Wales’
Dr Brian Casey (Durham University): ‘Michael Davitt’s second tour of the Scottish Highlands, 1887’
Dr Andrew Phemister (Newcastle University): ‘“A usurpation of the functions of government”: Boycotting, democracy and the state’
12.20PM – 1PM Lunch (Boardroom)
1PM – 2.20PM Panel Session Two
Panel 2.A (Room A) Politics in Ireland
Patrick Duffy (Trinity College Dublin): ‘“The gap of the north”: territorial rhetoric, identity and a frontier mentality in south Ulster, 1828-35’
Professor Peter Gray (Queen’s University Belfast): ‘Radicalism and its discontents in early-Victorian Belfast: The Ulster Constitutional Association, 1840-41’
Dr Colin Reid (Sheffield University): ‘Crisis management: the world of Irish Toryism during the 1830s and 1840s’
Panel 2.B (Room B) Politics in the age of reform
Dr Philip Salmon (History of Parliament): ‘Marrying for the vote: the political organisation of marriage in the UK’s freeman boroughs, 1800-1840’
Professor Richard Huzzey (Durham University), with Dr Kathryn Rix (History of Parliament): ‘Exclusive dealing and the politics of organisation in the age of reform’
Dr Martin Spychal (History of Parliament): ‘“she, yes she was the only member of Parliament”: Harriet Grote and the organisation of radicalism, 1832-41’
2.20PM – 2.45PM Refreshments (Boardroom)
2.45PM – 4.05PM Panel session 3
Panel 3.A (Room A) Four nations politics
Dr Kyle Thompson (Pittsburg State University): ‘The Young Scots Society and Gladstone’ (Online)
Dr Shaun Evans (Bangor University): ‘Landowners against land reform: the aims and activities of the North Wales Property Defence Association, c.1886-96’
Dr Niall Whelehan (University of Strathclyde): ‘Land, Rent and Irish Migrant Activism in late-nineteenth century Britain’
Panel 3.B (Room B) Inside and out of parliament
James Peate (Bristol University): ‘Friends of the People? Populism, Loyalism and Reform in the 1790s’
Sarah Boote-Powell (Warwick University): ‘“The sinews bag unstrung”: the organisation and practice of electoral registration in local politics in Coventry and Leicester, 1832-41’
Tom Musgrove (Queen Mary, University of London): ‘Representing the Balkans: “Expert” Image-Making and the Balkan Committee, 1903-1914’
4.05PM – 4.25PM Refreshments (Boardroom)
DAY ONE 4.25PM – 5.45PM Panel session 4
Panel 4.A (Room A) Knowledge and morality
Josh Smith (University of Stirling): ‘“Friends to the diffusion of knowledge”: The Associational Politics and Patronage of the British Subscription Library, 1800-1832’ (Online)
George Palmer (University of Cambridge): ‘Tory Faddism? The Church of England Temperance Society and the Politics of Conservative Morality in the Late Nineteenth Century’
Olly Gough (University of Oxford): ‘History, Voluntary Association and the State in British Political Thought, 1870-1914’
Panel 4.B (Room B) Political writing
Dr Marion Loeffler (Cardiff University): ‘Dissenters, Poets and Dangerous Translations: Undercover Radicals in 1790s Wales’
Dr Vic Clarke (Durham University): ‘Advertising Radicalism: Identity and Collective Branding in the Chartist Press’
Dr Martin Wright (Cardiff University): ‘Print Culture, Language and Radical Networks in Welsh Socialism before the Great War’
5.45PM-6.45PM Drinks reception (Boardroom)
Generously co-sponsored by Centre for Nineteenth Century Studies and History of Parliament Trust
7PM – conference dinner (location TBC)
DAY TWO: FRIDAY 21 JULY
8.30AM – 9AM Registration (Lobby) and refreshments (Boardroom)
9AM – 10.20AM Panel session 5 (Penthouse Suite Room A/B)
Visual and material cultures
Dr Henry Miller (Durham University): ‘Petitions and the material culture of political organisation’
Dr Chloe Ward (Queen Mary, University of London): ‘Art and Action: Victorian Painting as a Call to Arms’
Professor James Thompson (University of Bristol): ‘The visual culture of demonstrations, c. 1880-1914’
10.20AM – 10.50AM Refreshments (Boardroom)
NB: During this break the Penthouse Suite will be split into rooms A and B for the panel sessions
10.50AM – 12.10PM Panel session 6
Panel 6.A (Room A) Regional politics
Professor Simon Morgan (Leeds Beckett University): ‘“The mainspring of the movement”: Richard Cobden’s letters and the regional organisation of the Anti-Corn Law League’
Dr Kathryn Rix (History of Parliament): ‘Between the centre and the constituencies: regional party organisation in England in the wake of the Third Reform Act’
Professor Ewen Cameron (University of Edinburgh): ‘Joe Duncan and the challenge of Labour organisation and activism in the east of Scotland, 1906 to 1914’
Panel 6.B (Room B) Suffragette politics
Dr Mari Takayanagi (Parliamentary Archives): ‘Suffragette activism in the Palace of Westminster’
Dr Erin Geraghty (University of the West of England): “‘‘It is not nationality, but personality that counts”: English suffragists in the Irish suffrage movement’
Dr Kate Connelly (New York University, London): ‘…And Whose Army?’
DAY TWO 12.10PM – 12.50PM Lunch (Boardroom)
12.50PM – 2.10PM Panel session 7
Panel 7.A (Room A) Politics of space
Mary O’Connor (University of Oxford): ‘Forum Selection in the Anti-Corn Law Campaign of the 1820s’
Dave Steel (Warwick University): ‘The Power of the Crowd’
Dr Caitlin Kitchener (York University): ‘Political Palimpsests: How landscape, memory, and heritage organised mass platform meetings in early nineteenth radicalism’
Panel 7.B (Room B) Politics of association
Dr Francis Calvert Boorman (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies): ‘Independence or interference?: Arbitration and working-class associational culture in nineteenth-century England’
Dr Dan Weinbren (Open University): ‘Friendly societies and the performance of fraternal democracy’
Professor Graeme Morton (University of Dundee): ‘Politicising Middle-Class Associational Culture in a Stateless Nation’
2.10PM – 2.25PM Refreshments
2.25PM – 3.45PM Panel session 8
Panel 8.A (Room A) Women in politics
Dr Ciara Stewart (National Library of Ireland): “‘The Tyrannous and Immoral Law” Petitioning Against the Contagious Diseases Acts in Britain and Ireland: A Comparative Perspective’
Natasha Booth-Johnson (University of Birmingham): ‘Isabella Ford and the Dream of a Lesbian Utopia’
Dr Helen Sunderland (University of Oxford): ‘Schoolgirl electioneering: mock elections and political culture in girls’ schools in Edwardian England’
Panel 8.B (Room B) Politics of empire
Isaiah Silvers (Durham University): ‘Voluntarism and political conflict in Barbados, 1807-1834’
Dr Tom Scriven (Oxford Brookes University): ‘Transatlantic democracy and the Chartist positions on slavery and abolition, 1838-1856’
Professor Andrea Major (University of Leeds): ‘Political Activism, Colonial Philanthropy, and Spaces of Empire: George Thompson in Britain and India, 1838-43’
Event supported by: British Agricultural History Society, Durham University, Centre for Nineteenth Century Studies, Leverhulme Trust, Past and Present Society, Social History Society, Society for the Study of Labour History.
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