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CECS Day Conference at the King's Manor

Saturday 6 November 1999

Imperialism, Domesticity and the Private 1750-1850

PROGRAMME 

9.30-10.15 Coffee

10.15-11.15 Clare Midgley: 'Family, fireside evils' (William Wilberforce): The British evangelical campaign against sati(widow-burning) and the beginnings of cultural imperialism in India

11.15-11.30 Coffee

11.30-1.00 Harriet Guest: 'Hail, sacred home!' Domesticity and Empire at the turn of the century

Kate Davies: Abolition and the luxury of feeling

1.00-2.00  Lunch

2.00-3.00 Helen Weston: Representing people from France's colonies on the eve of the Napoleonic Empire: a public and private matter 

3.00-3.15 Tea

3.15-4.00 Panel: Joanna de Groot (Chair), John Whale and Mark Hallett will lead a discussion on future perspectives