Department takes part in BBC History Weekend
News | Posted on Friday 10 November 2017
PhD students from the Department of History are taking part in the BBC's History Weekend event.
The event, which will take place between the 24-26 November, will take place at the Yorkshire Museum and the Hospitium and will include a host of talks by PhD students from the Department. Details of the talks which are part of the History Bites sessions can be found below.
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 11:10-11:20 (Sat) | Sophie Vohra | The World’s First Railway? The Commemorations of the Stockton and Darlington Railway in the Nineteen and Twentieth Centuries |
| 13:30 – 13:40 (Sat) | Ben Walker | Kenneth Stacey Morris: A Maverick Medic in the Gold Coast, 1928-1953 |
| 15:10 – 15:20 (Sat) | Catherine-Rose Hailstone | Gregory of Tours: a real Game of Thrones |
| 17:00 – 17:10 (Sat) | Devin Dattan | The Role of the Adventurer in Victorian Society |
| 11:40-11:50 (Sun) | Josh King | A Hop, Hobble and a Stump: Amputation & Artificial Limbs in England’s Long Eighteenth Century |
| 13:40-13:50 (Sun) | Robert Smith | What good is praise? Flattery, Politics and Charlemagne’s successors |
| 15:10-15:20 (Sun) | Tom Lennon | ‘Freedom is what we must have’: African-American resistance to racial violence in North Carolina, 1918-1942. |
For further details and to book, please visit the History Weekend website.