Events

Forthcoming events

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Previous events

2024

• 18 March - Merrie England: Twenty-first Century Military History

2023

• 3 May - The perils of interpreting: the extraordinary story of two translators between Qing China and the British Empire
• 8 February - Conservative Birmingham

2022

• 7 December - BRIHC In Public Event: What is housing poverty, who does it affect and how?
• 23 November - Collaborative public history: a roundtable with academics and partners
• 16 November - Cold War frontier? British military communities in Germany, 1945-2020
• 23 February - Researching Black British Histories

2021

• 6 October - Psychological 'treatments' for homosexuality and gender non-conformity: a roundtable discussion on histories and legacies

2019

• 1-31 October - BHM2019 - Exhibition of British Asian Lifestyle
• 3-5 July - Modern British Studies Beyond Boundaries

2018

• 13 June - Pacifists making guns: the Galtons of Birmingham and Britain's industrial revolution
• 1 June - Masculinities in Twentieth Century Britain
• 30 May - The Grain of History: Photography and Post-War Time c.1945-55

2017

• 5-7 July - Modern British Studies Conference 2017: British Studies in a Broken World
• 13 March - The Great Departure: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World
• 8 March - Forum for Early Career Researchers
• 1 March - Co-operatives and Decolonisation: A Beautiful Friendship?
• 23 February - The Killing of Sister George
• 22 February - Birmingham Teaching Fellows Session
• 8 February - Beyond Empire's Ambit: Narcotic Drugs between Science and State Crime
• 6 February - Making Manhood, Making Science: Myths of identity in modern sport and exploration
• 1 February - Baubles of the Bourbons: The Fate of Royal Heritage in Nineteenth-Century France
• 18 January - The Vanquished
• 11 January - Violence, Resilience and the 'Coolie' Identity: Life on the Ships to the Caribbean, 1834-1920

2016

• 8 December - Winter roundtable
• 23 November - We Are the World: The End of Empire and the Rise of Global Humanitarianism
• 12 July - Catherine Hall in conversation
• 20-21 June - Seeking legitimacy: authority and expertise in modern Britain

2015

• 2-3 July - Rethinking modern British studies conference
• 25 March - Economic History as if People Mattered: A Workshop for Dr Francesca Carnevali

2014

• 21 March - The Handsworth Scroll: Radical Politics on the High Street
• 20 March - The Stuart Hall Project
• 18 March - Ken Loach's 'Save the Children Fund Film'