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Thursday, May 30, 2019
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The ÌÇÐÄTV Postgraduate History ConferenceWolfson Research ExchangeDAY 1 Thursday, 30 May 12.40 LUNCH BREAK PANEL 1: FOOD CULTURE AND HISTORY Chair: Rebecca Earle Ricardo Aguilar. History of Food in Sixteen-Century New Spain: Relaciones de Indias and Materia médica Louise Morgan. ‘Eat Better, Not Less’: Finding the History of Clean Eating 09.30 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION 09.45 WELCOME ADDRESS 10.00 11.20 13.40 11.00 COFFEE BREAK PANEL 3: MODERN BRITAIN, COLONIAL GOVERNANCE AND INFORMAL IMPERIALISM Chair: Robert Fletcher Ahmad Shaviz Fawad. British foreign policy towards Afghanistan in the late-19th century Ali Al Khalifa. The Adviser: The Role of Charles Belgrave in Bahrain within Britain’s Informal Empire in the Gulf Bobby Tam. Stories of Fear: Colonial State Inquests of Suicides and unreported Burials in Nineteenth-century Hong Kong PANEL 2: TWENTIETH CENTURY BRITAIN - WELFARE AND SOCIAL CHANGE Chair: Mathew Thomson Ed Devane. True Pioneers? Modernity and the Austerity Health Centre Pierre Botcheby. ‘Representing local interests in post-industrial town centre regeneration: a case study of St. Helens, Merseyside’ Josh Patel. Realising the ‘Good Society’ through Economic Science: the Robbins Report into Higher Education (1963) 15.00 END OF DAY ONE |