History Research Group announces new research seminar series for 2021/22 academic year

The series of events will take place on Tuesday evenings at the University’s Regent Campus and online, with 15 free seminars running from 5 October 2021 to 7 June 2022. The seminars will cover a wide range of topics, from queer histories of capitalism to the West End between the wars.

The History Research Group is based within the School of Humanities at the University of Westminster and comprises of established academics and early-career historians whose research embraces British and European history, urban history and London, and international policy history.

The series includes the following events:

1.    Women Clerks in the Foreign Office 1920–1960: Perception and Reality – 5 October

• Professor Gaynor Johnson (University of Kent) 

2.    Book launch: The French Economy since 1945 – 26 October

• Frances Lynch (University of Westminster) with commentary from Professor Herrick Chapman (New York University) and Professor David Edgerton (King’s College London)

3.    Book launch: ‘Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 2) 1938-1943’ – 16 November

• Professor Simon Heffer (University of Cambridge)

4.    The Festival of Britain 1951: Attlee’s Last Hurrah – 23 November 

• Iain Wilton (Independent scholar and former government special adviser)

5.    Book launch: ‘The Memory of Colonialism in Britain and France: The Sins of Silence’ – 30 November

• Dr Itay Lotem (University of Westminster)

6.    The 1963 Conservative Leadership Crisis: A Political Psycho-Drama – 7 December

• Rob Shepherd (Independent Scholar and former government special adviser)

7.    The Pink Pound: Queer Histories of Capitalism – 25 January

• Dr Justin Bengry (Goldsmiths, University of London)

8.    The Remaking of the ‘British’ constitution 1922-1949 – 8 February

• David Torrance (Westminster/House of Commons Library)

9.    The Ambivalence of Gay Liberation: Male Homosexual Politics in 1970s West Germany – 22 February

• Dr Craig Griffiths (Manchester Metropolitan University)

10.    Gender, Conflict and the Media in the Northern Ireland Troubles – 8 March

• Rose Hayden (University of Westminster)

11.    Empire, Heritage and Decolonisation – 22 March

• Dr Mirjam Brusius (German Historical Institute in London)

12.    The West End Between the Wars – 29 March

• Professor Rohan McWilliam (Anglia Ruskin University)

13.    The Development of Stevenage New Town – 5 April

• Professor Christine Wall (University of Westminster)

14.    Understanding Battles and Battlefields: From Event to Heritage – 3 May

• Dr John Carman and Patricia Carman (University of Birmingham)

15.    The Gratitude Train: Culture, Politics and Franco-American Relations at the Start of the Cold War – 7 June

• Dr Ludivine Broch (University of Westminster)

For more information, please email Pippa Catterall at [email protected].