Department takes part in BBC History Weekend
Posted on 10 November 2017
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.