NYCTC members participate in the collaboration’s programming, including our workshops and the book group, but they’ve also been very busy on their own account of late! Here’s what some members have been up to over the spring and summer. You can find out more on our pages about members’ publications and public engagement:
- Laura Carter, Chris Jeppesen, and Peter Mandler‘s Secondary Education and Social Change project have had a busy few months. This summer, they are working with the Centre for Longitudinal Studies in the British birth cohort archives, and in the new academic year they will be collaborating with Cambridge Digital Humanities to add a new social media element to their project. Keep up to date by following their website, where new briefing papers, blog posts, and updates to their timeline are regularly posted.
- Sam Coggeshall will be giving a paper at the conference “The Discourse of British and German Colonialism: Convergence and Competition” at Queen Mary in September. The paper is titled, “Caught Between ‘Cossacks’ and ‘Ethiopians’: Colonial Troops, Imperial Legitimacy, and American Labour in German Wartime Propaganda, 1914-1916.”
- David Cowan presented at a conference on “Ways of Knowing” in modern British history hosted by Modern British Studies Birmingham in July. He and fellow Cambridge Ph.D. student George Morris wrote a reflection on the conference, featured on the Birmingham MBS website.
- Anna Danziger Halperin defended her dissertation, Education or Welfare? American and British Child Care Policy, 1965-2004, in April, and graduated the following month. In May, she presented at the Policy History Conference on “Advocacy After Retrenchment: Child Care Subsidies in the 1990s.”
- Lucy Delap is co-author, with Ben Jarman, Louise Jackson, Caroline Lanskey, Hannah Marshall and Loraine Gelsthorpe, of a forthcoming policy report, Safeguarding children in the secure estate: 1960-2016.
- Katrina Moseley is a founding member of the Cambridge Body and Food Histories Group, which held a conference in June about “Food and Embodied Identities, c. 1500-2000.” A report of the conference is available on their website.
- Guy Ortolano delivered a week of seminars and lectures as the Astor Visiting Lecturer at Oxford University in May. He also delivered the keynote lecture, “Begrudging Market Liberalism,” at the annual conference of King’s Contemporary British History (KCBH). His book, Thatcher’s Progress: From Social Democracy to Market Liberalism through an English New Town, is forthcoming from Cambridge.
- In the spring, Emily Rutherford gave seminar papers about her dissertation research at Cambridge, Manchester, and the Institute for Historical Research. She has also written about her research for several online publications, including Eidolon, Public Seminar, and Manchester University’s University Histories blog.
- Andrew Seaton presented his research at several occasions to mark the seventieth anniversary of the National Health Service, including at the History of Government blog and at a film night at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. This summer he also gave papers at the Britain and the World Conference in Exeter and the Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) Conference in Liverpool.
- George Severs curated the “Personal Testimony and Memory” strand of the London AIDS Histories and Cultures Festival in July, in connection with which he was involved in a series of events at the Royal College of Nursing, presenting and talking about some of his oral history interviews. In September, he is attending a conference on Humanae Vitae in Bonn as part of a training session for Ph.D. students on new and innovative approaches to the history of religion, and in October his essay on the BNP is being reprinted in a new Routledge edited collection.