Two members of the department, John Maiden and John Wolffe, co-convene the IHR Modern Religious History seminar. The programme for 2014-15 will be as follows. 22 October 2014, Kristan Tetens (University of Leicester), ‘Hall Caine’s Mahomet: Religion, Empire, and Dramatic Censorship in Late-Victorian Britain’.
5 November 2014, Dr Robert Saunders (Queen Mary, University of London), ‘“Come to pray on referendum day”: The Church and the European Referendum, 1975’.
19 November 2014, Dr John Maiden (Open University), ‘An “anticipation of heaven”? Black and white Christian relations in England during the 1970s’.
3 December 2014, Professor John Coffey (University of Leicester), ‘Missionary Millennialism and British Antislavery, 1790-1840’.
11 February 2015, Dr Alana Harris (Oxford), ‘”The Writings of Querulous Women”: Contraception, Conscience and Clerical Authority in 1960s Britain’.
25 February 2015, Dr Maria Power (Liverpool), ‘A new model of ecumenism: the practice of the Common Good in the partnership of Bishop David Sheppard and Archbishop Derek Worlock’.
11 March 2015, Dr Alexander Lock (British Library), ‘The Grand Tours and Conflicting Identities of Eighteenth-Century English Catholic Travellers: Sir Thomas Gascoigne (1745-1810) and Henry Swinburne (1743-1803)’.
25 March 2015, Dr Andrew Atherstone (Oxford), ‘Farewell to Anglicanism: Evangelical Seceders from the Church of England 1964-76’.
The seminars are held in room 104, 1st floor, IHR, Wednesdays, 5.15.pm. It would be good to see you!
