Programme
Timings are provisional and may be adjusted closer to the day.
Speakers, please keep your paper to 15 minutes and bring your slides on a USB drive; we will load them panel by panel.
Daniel Grey & William Bainbridge
Dr Catherine Phipps (University of Bristol)
Coercive Care for Penitent Women: The Reform Home for Sex Workers in Wellclose Square, 1830–1875
Professor Alana Harris (King's College London)
Lacemaking and the Therapeutic: Weaving Everyday Histories of the Victorian Asylum
Amy Stone (Royal Holloway, University of London)
In their own hands: reconstructing difference through the lives of nineteenth-century craftspeople
followed by discussion
Professor Caroline Bressey (University College London)
Hostile environments: Victorian prison archives
Dr Lewis Ryder (University of Lincoln)
The Ashanti Spoils (1896): Crown agents, museums and Scotland Yard
Shriya Dasgupta (Purdue University)
The Burden of Empire: The Impact of Colonial Masculinity on Armed anti-Colonial Resistance in India
followed by discussion
Steven Spencer (Salvation Army International Heritage Centre)
Heritage, museums and memorialisation in the Salvation Army
Amber Flood (University of Exeter)
Belonging to elite knowledge networks: how subscription libraries shaped and maintained power structures in the English provinces
Dr Lucinda Matthews-Jones (Liverpool John Moores University), Dr Jane Skelding, and Professor Georgina Brewis (UCL, in absence)
'A trusted, second home': belonging in settlement history and belonging in the settlement community
followed by discussion
Dr Deborah Jeffries
To drink or not to drink? How legislation affected entertainment seekers in the wake of the 1843 Theatres Act
Tilly Guthrie (University of Sheffield)
Touching community: tactile literacy and blind identity in nineteenth-century Britain
Dr Fern Riddell
'No-one loves you more': Recovering Queen Victoria's secret marriage to John Brown, through The John Brown Family Archive
followed by discussion
Royal Holloway, University of London – chaired, with Q&A
All welcome to continue the conversation nearby.