Book Group
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Transatlantic Reading Group 2023-2024
| October 23, 2023 | Maxine Berg and Pat Hudson, Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution (2023) |
| November 20, 2023 | Esme Cleall, Colonising Disability: Impairment and Otherness across Britain and its Empire, c. 1800-1914 (2022) |
| December 4, 2023 | Work in Progress: Isobel Akerman |
| January 29, 2024 | Alison Bashford, The Huxleys: An Intimate History of Evolution (2022) |
| February 12, 2024 | Work in Progress: Lucy Sharp |
| March 4, 2024 | Arunima Datta, Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya (2021) |
| April 29, 2024 | Teri Chettiar, The Intimate State: How Emotional Life Became Political in Welfare-State Britain (2023) |
| July 12-14, 2024 | NYCTC11: Cambridge |
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Transatlantic Reading Group 2022-2023
| October 17, 2022 | James Stafford, The Case of Ireland: Commerce, Empire and the European Order, 1750-1848 (2022) |
| November 7, 2022 | Work in Progress: Roslyn Dubler |
| December 5, 2022 | Christopher Hilliard, A Matter of Obscenity: The Politics of Censorship in Modern England (2021) |
| February 6, 2023 | John Davis, Waterloo Sunrise: London from the Sixties to Thatcher (2022) |
| February 27, 2023 | Laura Carter, Histories of Everyday Life: The Making of Popular Social History in Britain, 1918-1979 (2021) |
| April 24, 2023 | Caroline Ritter, Imperial Encore: The Cultural Project of the Late British Empire (2021) |
| May 15, 2023 | Work in Progress: Alice McKimm |
| September 22-24, 2023 | NYCTC10: New York |
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Transatlantic Reading Group 2021-2022
| October 18, 2021 | Priya Satia, Time’s Monster: History, Conscience, and Britain’s Empire (2020) |
| November 8, 2021 | Sam Wetherell, Foundations: How the Built Environment Made Twentieth-Century Britain (2020) |
| December 6, 2021 | Peter Mandler, The Crisis of the Meritocracy: Britain’s Transition to Mass Education since the Second World War (2020) |
| January 24, 2022 | Lise Butler, Michael Young, Social Science, and the British Left, 1945-1970 (2020) |
| February 14, 2022 | Padraic X. Scanlan, Slave Empire: How Slavery Built Modern Britain (2020) |
| March 7, 2022 | Julia Laite, The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey: A True Story of Sex, Crime, and the Meaning of Justice (2021) |
| April 7-9, 2022 | NTYCTC8 |
| May 9, 2022 | Kate Imy, Faithful Fighters: Identity and Power in the British Indian Army (2019) |
| July 7-10, 2022 | NYCTC9 |
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Transatlantic Reading Group 2020-21
| November 2, 2020 | Otto Saumarez Smith, Boom Cities: Architectural Planners and the Politics of Radical Urban Renewal in 1960s Britain (2019) |
| November 30, 2020 | Kieran Connell, Black Handsworth: Race in 1980s Britain (2019) |
| January 25, 2021 | Helen McCarthy, Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood (2020) |
| February 15, 2021 | Erika Hanna, Snapshot Stories: Visuality, Photography, and the Social History of Ireland, 1922-2000 (2020) |
| April 5, 2021 | Jordanna Bailkin, Unsettled: Refugee Camps and the Making of Multicultural Britain (2018) |
| May 3, 2021 | Zoe Strimpel, Seeking Love in Modern Britain: Gender, Dating and the Rise of ‘the Single’ (2020) |
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Transatlantic Reading Group 2019-20
| October 14, 2019 | Desmond Fitz-Gibbon, Marketable Values: Inventing the Property Market in Modern Britain (2018) |
| October 28, 2019 | Steven Press, Rogue Empires: Contracts and Conmen in Europe’s Scramble for Africa (2017) |
| December 2, 2019 (postponed until 2020/2021) | Charlotte Greenhalgh, Aging in Twentieth-Century Britain (2018) |
| January 27, 2020 | Mar Hicks, Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing (2017) |
| February 10, 2020 | Clair Wills, Lovers and Strangers: An Immigrant History of Postwar Britain (2017) |
| April 27, 2020 | Guy Ortolano, Thatcher’s Progress: From Social Democracy to Market Liberalism through an English New Town (2019) |
| May 27 2020 | Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, Class, Politics, and the Decline of Deference in England, 1968-2000 (2018) |
| September 21 2020 | Penelope Ismay, Trust Among Strangers: Friendly Societies in Modern Britain (2018) |
Transatlantic Reading Group 2018-19
| October 22, 2018 | Erika Rappaport, A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World (2017) |
| November 12, 2018 | Elizabeth Buettner, Europe after Empire: Decolonization, Society, and Culture (2016) |
| December 3, 2018 | Robert Saunders, Yes to Europe! The 1975 Referendum and Seventies Britain (2018) |
| January 28, 2019 | David Edgerton, The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A 20th-Century History (2018) |
| February 11, 2019 | Christopher Hilliard, The Littlehampton Libels: A Miscarriage of Justice and a Mystery about Words in 1920s England (2017) |
| April 29, 2019 | Tim Rogan, The Moral Economists: R.H. Tawney, Karl Polanyi, E.P. Thompson, and the Critique of Capitalism (2018) |
| May 12, 2019 (rescheduled from March 4) | Emily Robinson, The Language of Progressive Politics in Modern Britain (2017) |
Transatlantic Reading Group 2017-18
| October 16, 2017 | Aled Davies, The City of London and Social Democracy: The Political Economy of Finance in Post-war Britain (2017) |
| November 13, 2017 | Emily Jones, Edmund Burke and the Invention of Modern Conservatism, 1830-1914 (2017) |
| November 27, 2017 | Amanda Anderson, Bleak Liberalism (2016) |
| January 29, 2018 | Matt Houlbrook, Prince of Tricksters: The Incredible True Story of Netley Lucas, Gentleman Crook (2016) |
| February 19, 2018 | Catherine Hall et al., Legacies of British Slave-Ownership: Colonial Slavery and the Formation of Victorian Britain (2014) |
| April 30, 2018 | Alison Light, Common People: The History of an English Family (2014) |
| May 14, 2018 (rescheduled from March) | John Bew, Citizen Clem: A Biography (2016) |
Transatlantic Reading Group 2016-17
| October 17, 2016 | Thomas Dixon, Weeping Britannia: A Portrait of a Nation in Tears (2015) |
| October 31, 2016 | Erik Linstrum, Ruling Minds: Psychology in the British Empire (2016) |
| November 28, 2016 | Helen Smith, Masculinity, Class and Same-Sex Desire in Industrial England, 1895-1957 (2015) |
| January 23, 2017 | Katrina Navickas, Protest and the Politics of Space and Place, 1789-1848 (2015) |
| February 6, 2017 | Marc Matera, Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century (2015) |
| March 6, 2017 | James Smith, British Writers and MI5 Surveillance, 1930-1960 (2012) |
| May 1, 2017 | Antoinette Burton, The Trouble with Empire: Challenges to Modern British Imperialism (2015) |
Transatlantic Reading Group 2015-16
| October 20, 2015 | Carolyn Steedman, An Everyday Life of the English Working Class: Work, Self and Sociability in the Early Nineteenth Century (2013) |
| November 10, 2015 | William Whyte, Redbrick: A Social and Architectural History of Britain’s Civic Universities (2015) |
| December 1, 2015 | Julie-Marie Strange, Fatherhood and the British Working Class, 1865-1914 (2015) |
| February 2, 2016 | Seth Koven, The Match Girl and the Heiress (2015) |
| February 23, 2016 | Susan Pedersen, The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire (2015) |
| March 8, 2016 | Michael Saler, As If: Modern Enchantment and the Literary Prehistory of Virtual Reality (2012) |
| May 3, 2016 | Mathew Thomson, Lost Freedom: The Landscape of the Child and the British Post-War Settlement (2013) |