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The History Research Seminar is central to the academic life of the School of History, Philosophy, and Digital Humanities, running most weeks during term time.

Seminars take place on Tuesday afternoons throughout the Autumn and Spring terms, from 4:15 to 5:30 p.m.

Seminars in weeks 3 - 8 & 10 will take place in the Pam Liversidge Building, Design Studio 1.

Week 9 will be 38 Mappin Street, Workroom 3.

Each seminar features a 45-minute presentation followed by a discussion.

For more information, please contact Julia Moses at j.moses@sheffield.ac.uk.

All are welcome!


Upcoming seminars

Spring 2025

Date Speaker Title of Paper
11.02.2025 History Research Hubs -
25.02.2025 - Manchester Metropolitan СŷÊÓƵ 'The Future Forms of Public History'
04.03.2025 - СŷÊÓƵ of St Andrews 'Enacting and Resisting Dictorial Power in Everyday Life in Fascist Italy'
11.03.2025 & Daniel Patterson - Trinity College Dublin 'Hiding in Plain Sight: Women in Early Modern Ireland and the VOICES Project' - Joint session with SCEMS
18.03.2025 History Research Hubs -
25.03.2025 - Lancaster СŷÊÓƵ 'Imperial Salt Harvests: Science, Landscape and Ecology at Sambhar Salt Lake, Rajasthan, 1880 to 1980'
01.04.2025 - СŷÊÓƵ of Leeds ‘Robert Cecil and the East Indies’
29.04.2025 - СŷÊÓƵ of Glasgow 'Forgetting Scotland's Slavery Past'
06.05.2025 , TBC - СŷÊÓƵ of Sheffield New Books Celebration
13.05.2025 - Kenyon College 'Rehabilitating the Empire: Care and the Colonial State in First World War Britain'

Past Seminars

Autumn 2024
Date Speaker Title of Paper
08.10.2024 - City, СŷÊÓƵ of London 'Protesting peacekeeping: making visible anti-colonial dissent in past UN missions'
15.10.2024 - СŷÊÓƵ of Nottingham 'Representing the Holocaust and combatting Antisemitism at the intersection of research and impact'
22.10.2024 - Lingnan СŷÊÓƵ, Hong Kong 'Oswald Mosley and The European, 1953-59: Fascism, Empire, and European Unification'
29.10.2024 - York СŷÊÓƵ, Toronto 'The Death of Colin Roach and the Politics of Race and Policing in Late twentieth-century Britain'
05.11.2024 Anna Ross & Madeline Woker - СŷÊÓƵ of Sheffield Introducing New Colleagues: (Post-) Empire, Law and International Relations
19.11.2024 - King's College London ''Health', Disease, and the Medical Making of Slavery, 1500-1780'
26.11.2024 Journalism Hub - СŷÊÓƵ of Sheffield Introducing the New Media History Research Hub
03.12.2024 - Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford СŷÊÓƵ 'From a West African Savanna to a Portuguese Dining Table: Ivory on the Move in a Late Medieval World'
10.12.2024 - СŷÊÓƵ of Warwick 'Reservoirs of Venereal Diseases:’ Women and Medico-Moral Discourses in Idi Amin’s Uganda'
17.12.2024

- СŷÊÓƵ of Edinburgh

Charmian Mansell, Cathy Shrank, Mirela Ivanova & Phil Withington - СŷÊÓƵ of Sheffield

New Books Celebration

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