	CONFERENCES PAST

	Papers read at the Ninety-Second Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association Pacific Coast Branch, Maui, Hawaii, 5-8 August 1999 "The British Empire and English Constitutional History, 1870-1930" Richard A. Cosgrove, University of Arizona "The Historical Profession and the Forging of the Anglo-American Special Relationship, 1897-1917" Anthony Brundage, California State University, Pomona "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Colonial Masculinity: British India in the Nineteenth Century" Philippa Levine, University of Southern California "Marriage at the Imperial Margins: Matrimony, Sexuality, and the Military in Colonial India, c.1780-1850" Douglas M. Peers, University of Calgary "Sex and the Single Convict: Arranged Marriages and the Colonial State in Nineteenth Century India" Anand A. Yang, University of Utah "John Huston, Sean Connery, Michael Caine and the Epiphany of The Man Who Would Be King Richard Voeltz, Cameron University

	Papers read at the Northwest Conference on British Studies, Edmonton, Alberta, 30 September-2 October 1999 "History in Britain at the Millennium" Peter Marshall, Royal Historical Society and King's College, University of London "Middle Age in Twentieth-Century Britain" John Benson, Wolverhampton University "The Music of the spheres: the politics of public and private musical performances in Augustan England" James Bohun, Cambridge University "`I have askt God mercy for it': Believing Witchcraft Confessions" Lara Brindle, University of Alberta "Nation and House: The Rhetoric of Domesticity & the English Revolution" Sylvia Brown, University of Alberta "Good Housewife Fortune: Domesticating the Goddess of Death & Desire in Bleak House" Elizabeth Campbell, Oregon State University "How Imperial was the Committee of Imperial Defence?" Peter Catterall, Contemporary History Institute, University of London "`But his Wife govern'd': Women & the Politics of Influence in mid-18th C. England" Elaine Chalus, Oxford University "Poverty and Poltical Culture in mid-18thC England" Richard Connors, University of Alberta "Songlines & Ley-lines: Landscape & Memory in England, 1800-2000" John Considine, University of Alberta "In the King's Gift: The Widows in the Rotuli de Dominabus" RaGena DeAragon, Gonzaga University Serving Women, Deserving Women: Poor Relief and Marginality in 17th C. Aberdeen" Gordon DesBrisay, University of Saskatchewan "`Such honoured little maidens': The All Hallows School for Girls at Yale, British Columbi and the Politics of Place" Joy Frith, Queen's University "Searching for Michael: The Archangel in 11th C. England" Tara Gale, University of Alberta "The Macbeth Perplex" Raymond Grant, University of Alberta "Before Skiffle: The BBC & the Birth of the Folk Song Revival in England, 1945-55" David Gregory, Global & Social Analysis, Athabasca University "Royal Officials, Parliament and the historiography of Edward II's reign" David Higgins, Grant MacEwan College "`Come Out of Her My People': The Glorious Revolution and Apocalyptic Politics in the Restoration" Warren Johnston, Cambridge University "Whistler and Tradition: The Strategic Nude" Monica Kjellman, Boston University "The Fall and Rise of Delinquent Royalist Families: Landownership Strategies in mid-17th C. England" Lorrie Kostelyk, University of Alberta "'Packaging the Native: The Hudson's Bay Company & Paul Kane's Wanderings of an Artist among the Indians of North America" Tracy Kulba, University of Alberta "City Knowledge: Love, Class & London in Neil Jordan's Mona Lisa" Michael Lahey, University of Alberta "Technology and the Law in Medieval England" John Langdon, University of Alberta "`A True tho' Unworthy Son of the Church by Law Establish'd , or `Seditious Preacher, Ungodly Teacher': Inventing John Ray" Susan McMahon, University of Alberta "For Love of Mother England: Great War Patriotic Poetry and the Concept of Nationhood" Elizabeth Marsland, University of Alberta "Foreign Missions and the Church of England: Re-examining Anglicanism in Imperial Culture, 1870-1914" Steven Maughan, Albertson College "`Raising the Tribes': British Policy in Italian East Africa, 1938-41" Dawn Miller, University of Alberta "Re-Addressing the Addressers: Contexts of Loyal Expression in 18thC Provincial England" Nicholas Mitchell, University of Victoria "Religio Laici: John Cannon and the Church of England, 1684-1743" John Money, University of Victoria "Two Late Medieval Readers and their Books" John Morris, University of Alberta "Oriental Deceit or Deceiving the Orientals?: An Account of a British Cross-dresser in 1970s Iran" Nima Naghibi, University of Alberta "Charter-writing and its Uses in 13thC Celtic Scotland" Cynthia Neville, Dalhousie University "The Geography of Legend: Hagiography & Politics at Bury St Edmunds" Stephen Reimer, University of Alberta "Appeasement & Partition: Lloyd George & the Government of Ireland Act, 1920" Martin Seedorf, Eastern Washington University "Imaginary Heartland: Anglo-Scottish Relations & the Jacobean Border, 1603-12" Jared Sizer, Cambridge University "`And that's why we become witches': Sylvia Townsend Warner's Lolly Willows, or the Loving Huntsman" Pamela Stimpson, University of Alberta "The Marlborough Tomb: War, Party Politics & Memorializing the Dead" Kathleen Szpila, Temple University

	Papers read at the 1999 Midwest Conference on British Studies, meeting at the University of Chicago, 22-23 October 1999 "`Lying wonders and counterfeite zeale': Samuel Harrison's Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures and the Allen-Parsons debates, c. 1560-c. 1603" Christina Carlson, University of Chicago "Elizabeth I and the vocation of queenship" Zachary Cannon, University of Chicago "Iconography and database design: iconography of Elizabeth I" Renee Bricker, Antioch College "`Let us go forward together'? The British government and the military service of black people" Michael Healy, University of Loyola at Chicago "Sex in the cinemas: war, moral panic, and the British film industry, 1910-1918" Dean Rapp Wheaton College "`A bridge too close: British women writing from the victory of World War II to the end of empire" Phyllis Lassner, Northwestern University "Stealing to own oneself: the case of one extraordinary female recidivist" Mary Jo Kietzman, University of Michigan-Flint "Violent women and gossiping men: deconstructing gender through assault and defamation in London 1680-1720" Jeannine Hurl, York University "Separate spheres: using The Proceedings to understand women in late 18th-early 19th century London" Kathy Callahan, Marquette University "The Royal Historical Society British History Bibliography to 1992 on CD-ROM" Ian Archer, Keble College, Oxford "Parliamentary History on CD-ROM" Newton Key, Eastern Illinois University "Britannia Rules the Web? The Internet and the Future of British History in America" Todd Larson, University of Illlinois, Urbana-Champaign "Disorder in early modern England: petty crime in London, 1558-1642" Lee Beier, Illinois State University "'Mayntayninge the indigente and nedie': the institutionalization of social responsibility in the case of resident alien communities in Elizabethan Norwich and Colchester" Laura Yungblut, University of Dayton "Work and independence among the elderly of early modern England" Susannah Ottaway, Carleton College "An Irish Quaker's conundrum: a shift in radical theology" Margaret Preston, Boston College "What is the nature of that hyphen? Hybridity and the illusion of purity in Rudyard Kipling's Kim" Kate Costello-Sullivan, Boston College "Drinking, dining and dressing up: masculinity and patriotism in eighteenth century Ireland" Stephen Small, Boston College "Spiritualism, rationalism, and the quest for truth: the contradictions of mid-Victorian thought" Michael Shirley, Eastern Illinois University "A very Victorian monster: the Daedalus sea serpent, the press, and the British imagination, 1848-1900" Todd Larson, University of Illinois "Adepts, mahatmas, and masters: Annie Besant's theosophy and Indian nationalism" Robert McLain, University of Illinois "The family paradox: single women and the Poor Law in the 1830s and 1840s" Marjorie Levine-Clark, University of Colorado at Denver "Unsevered ties: family strategies and the care of children in London Poor Law district schools, 1870-1914" Lydia Murdoch, Indiana University) "Women, the Poor Law, and family responsibility, 1870 to 1930" Moira Martin, University of the West of England "The Restoration remembered: the making of Whig myth and history" Melinda Zook, Purdue University "Anti-royalist political thought from 1642 to 1700: `the more things change, the more they stay the same'" Janelle Greenberg, Pittsburgh University "Re-membering the regicide" Elizabeth Sauer, Brock University "The teaching of history and the public" Marji Morgan, Southern Illinois University "The state of British history at liberal arts colleges" Robert Butler, Elmhurst College "Mourning becomnes visible: the widow in Victorian art" Teri Sabatos, Indiana University "Anne Bronte's Agnes Grey and Elizabeth Gaskell's Ruth: Victorian novelists in support of women's ministry" Jennifer Stolpa, Loyola University "Imagining female patriotism: the Roman matron in Britain, 1700-1815" Philip Hicks, St. Mary's College "Archbishop Thomas Secker (1693-1768), high churchmanship, and the defense of Anglican orthodoxy in the mid-eighteenth century" Robert Ingram, University of Virginia "High churchmen and the `latitudinarian mood'" Jeffrey Chamberlain, University of St. Francis "Scenes from the `history wars' of the eighteenth century: the Clarendon thesis, revisionism, and the thirtieth of January, 1660-1760" James Caudle, Ouchita Baptist University "The ageing of 20th-century British society: burden or benefit?" Patricia Thane, University of Sussex "`To forsake husband, life and all': women and recusancy in early modern England" Colleen Sequin, Valparaiso University "Riotous religion: popular resistance to Stuart rule in seventeenth-century Scotland" John Hintermaier, Princeton University "Prophesies, petitions and prisons: political expressions of English Quaker women, 1660-1700" Susanna Calkins, Purdue University "`Completing the circle of organized self-help: medical services, political interests, and issues of class in late Victorian Birmingham" Anne Rodrick, William Paterson University "The development of health and welfare service in Scottish schools in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries" Thomas Velek, Mississippi University for Women "Friendly societies, medical charities, and respectability in England's industrial north" Chris Prom, University of Illinois "Colonizing the Bible: English women in Palestine, 1800-1939" Nancy Stockdale, University of California at Santa Barbara "'A medley mob of Irish-American plotters and dupes': the British press and transatlantic fenianism" Michael de Nie, University of Wisconsin "All Bellocians now? The formation of the English Catholic intellectual community, 1918-1931" James Lothian, Chicago "Reconsidering R. H. Tawney: the roots of Tawney's Christian socialism" Meredith Rusoff, Northwestern University "G. K. C.'s Jewish problem: anti-semitism in Chesterton's writing and responses to it" Adam Schwartz, Northwestern University "The end of the Nonconformist conscience: the Free Churches in the inter-war years" Peter Catterall, University of London/Westminster College "Popular politics in sixteenth and early seventeenth century London" Ian Archer, Oxford University "Ideology and allegiance in the English civil war" Edward Vallance, Oxford University "Between law and resistance: the politics and discourse of the London Whigs, 1682-83" Gary De Krey, St. Olaf College "Mary Jane Meadowes - the female Robinson Crusoe? And who is the anonymous female author?" Katherine Fromm, Iowa State University "Beauty and the feast: food and feminine identity in nineteenth century England" Julie Elb, University of Memphis "`I shall humble myself to no man': a mid-Victorian debate about insanity and adultery" Tara Beaton, York University "Revisionism Revisited: Consensus and Conflict in Early Modern Britain" Johann Sommerville, University of Wisconsin, Madison "Political Economy in the Glorious Revolution" Steven Pincus, University of Chicago "The Tempest and Colonial Administration" Richard Strier, University of Chicago "Literature and National Identity, 1640-1660" Derek Hirst, Washington University "Spying on Britain during World War II" James Barnes, Wabash College "`We'll make our own mistakes': the unlikely success story of Anglo-American naval intelligence exchange" Phyllis Soybel, Elmhurst College/Columbia College "Brave Old World: Britain and Hitler's Declaration of War on the United States" Alexander Nalbach "The changing city and its changeless criers: reading the marginal poor through the `Cries of London'" Thomas Prasch, Washburn University "Using poor relief: its place in the lives of the St. Martin's poor, 1815-1820" Lynn MacKay, Brandon University "`I used to take her to the doctor and get the proper thing': twentieth century health care choices in Lancashire working class communities" Lucinda Beier, Illinois State University "The Irish war in English eyes" Jacob Rukeyser, University of Chicago "Economic history and post-modernism: making sense of industrialization and class formation in eighteenth century England" John Smail, University of North Carolina at Charlotte "Land vs. labor, colonies vs. trade: economic ideologies and English expansion in the seventeenth century" N. Luke Brown, University of Chicago "The angry brigade: countercultural politics" Chad Martin, Stanford University "Folk influences in rock music: class values" David Simonelli, Tulane University "The investiture of the Beatles: youth culture" Julie Smith, University of Arkansas Best graduate student paper of the conference was awarded to Julie Elb for "Beauty and the feast: food and feminine identity in nineteenth century England."

	Papers read at the 1999 Western Conference on British Studies,, Tucson, Arizona, 29-30 October 1999 "Oxford's Packed Jury" Mary Beth Emmerichs, University of Wisconsin-Sheboygan "Election, Qualification, or Appointment?: Schemes for Reconstituting the House of Lords in the Edwardian Era" Derek W. Blakeley, Washington University, St. Louis "Failure to Reform the House of Lords, 1911-1949" Peter Catterall, Westminster College and the University of London" "The Liberal Unionists (1885-1910) and the Meaning of Liberalism" William C. Lubenow, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey "The Earl of Midleton's Autopsy on Ireland's Death from Kindness" David R.C. Hudson, Texas A & M University "`The Gravest Situation of our Lives': The Conservative Party and Ireland, 1911-1914" Thomas Kennedy, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville "Ordering Chaos: Dreams and Politics in the Work of Thomas De Quincey" Rebecca Rowley, Clovis Community College "Frances Power Cobbe on Dreams and the Unconscious" Sandra Peacock, Georgia Southern University "The Exotic Career of Sir Philip Sassoon, 1888-1939" Peter Stansky, Stanford University "Reflections on the Whig Theory of History" Richard Cosgrove, University of Arizona "A Jurisprudence of Power: Law and the Governor Eyre Controversy, 1865-68" R. W. Kostal, University of Western Ontario "The Norman Conquest and the American Revolution: the Linkage between the two Key Paradigm Shifts in Anglo-American Historiography, 1890-1910" Anthony Brundage, California State University, Pomona "Irish History in Feature Films: Michael Collins and The Treaty" Robert Cole, Utah State University "The Covenant, the Nation, and Cromwell's Britain: Scottish Identity and Nationalism in the Mid-Seventeenth Century" Robert Landrum, University of South Carolina, Beaufort "Not Just Millenarianism: The Enduring Scottish Difference in British Politics" Robin Melville, Ripon College "Unmarried Men in Early Modern England, 1625-1775" James Rosenheim, Texas A & M University "In Her Place: The Queen's Household, during the reign of Henry VIII" Pam Gross, Adams State College "The Empress's New Clothes: The Intertextual Empire, the Imperial Artist, and the Rajas Spectacle" Julie Codell, ARizona State University "Edmund Spenser and T. E. Lawrence: Empire and the Ambivalences of Literary Discourse of the Other" Susan Williams, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville "The Angry Brigade: Revolutionary Violence and the British Counterculture" Chad Martin, Stanford University "Mau Mau in White and Black: First Person Narratives of Revolt in Colonial Kenya" Marshall Clough, University of Northern Colorado "Thomas More's Utopia: The Reality of an Ideal" Robert McJimsey, Colorado College "The East Anglia Witch Hunts of 1645-7: Purging the Invisible World" M.L.Ellison-Murphree, Auburn University "Gender, Empire, and Public Opinion, 1780-1810" Anna Clark, University of Minnesota "Macaulay, Whig History, and the Romance of Empire" Theodore Koditschek, University of Missouri, Columbia "The Queen is also a King: Mary I and the Act Concerning Regal Power" Charles Beem, University of Arizona "Legislating the Female Succession in Tudor England: The 1543 Act of Succession" J.L. McIntosh, Johns Hopkins "Elizabeth I and the Nation: Inventing England" Tara Wood, Arizona State University "`And yet God has not Said a Word!': Scienece versus Religion in Robert Browning's `Porphyria's Lover.'" Melissa McLeod, Georgia State University "Marriage and Distance: Murdoch's Unselfing" J. Robert Baker, Fairmont State College "Gerty Macdowell, Tess Durbeyfield, and the Illnesses of Modernity" Mark Mossman, Bethany College "Lord Salisbury and Sir Thomas Sanderson Down to Earth" Lyle McGeoch, Ohio University "Selling the Mother Country to the Empire: The Imperial Press Conference of June 1909" J. Lee Thompson, Lamar University "Dueling Favorites: A Comparison of Robert Carr and George Villiers and their Role in the Court of James I and VI" Amy Medrick, American University "Stripping Manhood: Masculine Power and Discipline in the Royal Navy of the Napoleonic Wars" Jeff Glasco, University of Arizona "`Ill-educated, Unchaste, and Potentially Rebellious': Gender, and the Construction of Welsh Identity After 1847" Jodie Kreider, University of Arizona "Sir Arthur Helps and the Creation of Victorianism" Stephen Keck, National University of Singapore "Evangelical Penal Theory in the Early 19th Century" Richard Follett, Washington University, St. Louis "The Difference of Complexion": Sarah Parker Redmond's British Anti-Slavery Lectures, 1859-65" Theodore Koditschek, University of Missouri, Columbia "New Perspectives on the English Revormation" Heiko Oberman, University of Arizona "Clerks and Credit: William de Hamnilton and his Associates under Edward I" David R. Carr, University of South Florida "London Merchants and Edward I: A Prosopographical Study" Boyd Breslow, Florida Atlantic University "Opposing `Hunnish' Ways: British Views on the Germans in South America before the First World War" Phillip Dehne, Syracuse University "Cooperation for Economic Stability in the Abestos Industry, 1919-1939" James W. Stitt, High Point University "What Shakespeare Knew and How he Knew it" Patricia Coleman, Westminster College, Salt Lake City "Book Reviewing in the Moral Essays: Samuel Johnson's Commentary on Recently Published Titles in the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler" Maj.Brian Hanley, USAF Academy

	Papers read at the conference, "Scotland and the Thirty Years War, hosted by the Department of History, University of Aberdeen, 30 October 1999 "Leslie of Auchintoul and Scottish Russian collaboration in central Europe 1630-1635 Paul Dukes, Aberdeen "The Scottish Parliament and Political Nation: Attitudes to the European Conflict, 1618-1648" John R. Young, Strathclyde "Stuart Diplomacy and the Thirty Years War" Steve Murdoch, Aberdeen and Roehampton "'The Thirty Years War and Beyond: Walter Leslie and the Scots in Habsburg Service David Worthington, Aberdeen "Wish You Were Here? Scottish Reactions to `Postcards' home from the German Wars" David Horsburgh ""Robert Munro: Scotsman, Colonel and Regimental Historian" Bill Brockington, University of South Carolina at Aiken "Scotland, Sweden and Thirty Years' War" Alexia Grosjean, Aberdeen

	Papers read at the Southern Conference on British Studies, Fort Worth, Texas, 4-6 November 1999 "`A Difference Only in Name': British Aristocrats, Oriental Despots and "Popular Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century" Tamara L. Hunt, Loyola Marymount University "East Feeds West" Rajani Sudan, University of Texas at Arlington "Imperial Map vs. Domestic Novel--Wish vs. Fear of an Island-Empire" Chu-chueh Cheng, Texas Christian University "The Possibilities of Silence: Narrating the Coloniy in Olive Schreiner's The Story of an African Farm" Elizabeth MacLeod Walls, Texas Christian University "The Missing Stratum of Scottish Education? The Technical Education Debate in the Scottish Context" Thomas G. Velek, Mississippi University for Women "`Culture for the Coster': Class, Culture, and Adult Education in Late Victorian Birmingham" Anne Baltz Rodrick, Willam Patterson University "Issues of Divisiveness in Scottish Identity in the National and International Contexts" Matthew H. Hammond, University of Texas at Austin "Public Opinion, the House of Lords, and the Abolition of the Slave Trade" Michael W. McCahill, The Brooks School "The Duke of Wellington and Public Opinion: A New Dimension" Shaun Durham, University of Southampton "Wellington's Career after 1832" R. W. Davis, Washington University in St. Louis "Proselytizing the Imperial Faith: British-Israel and the Press in the Late Nineteenth Century" Eric Reisenauer, The University of South Carolina Sumter "`Religion is a very Simple Thing': The Democratic Theology of Lord Baden-Powell" Melissa Langley Biegert, Independent Scholar "British Intellectuals and the End of Empire" Ishita Ghosh, Winthrop University "Bishop Carleton and Predestinarian Thought in the Late Jacobean Era" William Rednour, CUNY "Anthony Sparrow's Rationale upon the Book of Common Prayer and the Clandestine Anglican Church, 1642-1660" Linda S. York, Auburn University "Riotous Religion: Popular Resistance to Stuart Rule in Seventeenth-Century Scotland" John M. Hintermaier, Princeton University "Liberalism and Imperialism: S. R. Gardiner Confronts English Hegemony in Ireland" Myron C. Noonkester, William Carey College "Lond Shadows of a Irish Tragedy: Gladstone's Liberals and the Limits of Laissez-Faire in Indian Famine Planning" James Patterson Smith, University of Southern Mississippi "Perception of India and the Indians in Ladies Treasury and Queen, 1850-1890' Nupur Chaudhuri, Texas Southern University "`In the Names of Morality and Religion': Cohabitation and Illegitimacy in Victorian England" Ginger S. Frost, Samford University "`A Company of Mothers': The Purposes of the Mothers' Union, 1876-1902" Ann Sumner Holmes, Louisiana State University "Safeguarding the Future of the Race: Medical Discourse on Women's Work in England, 1900-1914" Carolyn Malone, Ball State University "An Enlightened Empire: Imperial Reformers in the Age of the American Revolution" J. Russell Snapp, Davidson College "A Protestant Empire: Evangelical Contributions to Imperial Sentiment in Late Hanoverian Britain, 1790-1820" William C. Barnhart, SUNY at Stony Brook "British Radicals and Colonial Rebellions, 1837-1857" Michael Michie, Atkinson College, York University 'I Could Be Hanged for What?: Capital Punishment in England in 1820" K. Gird Romer, Kennesaw State University "The Workers' Compensation Debate of the 1890s: A Case Study in Changing Attitudes Toward Workers, the Law, and Government" V. Markham Lester, Birmingham-Southern College "The Gendered Geography of the English Co-operative Moevement at the Turn of the Century" Barbara J. Blaszak, LeMoyne College "Images of the Tabernacle in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre" Janna Henrichsen, Claremont Graduate University "Hermeneutic Strategies in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's A Drama of Exile and Jean Ingelow's A Story of Doom" Terence Hoagwood, Texas A&M University "The End-Times Preaching of the Rev. John Cumming" Robert H. Ellison, East Texas Baptist University

	Papers read at the annual meeting of the North American Conference on British Studies, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 18-21 November 1999 "Gender, Patronage and Modes of Approach: Women's Letters of Petition in England, 1540-1603" James Daybell, University of Reading "`To have your Honour's countenance': The Earl of Essex and the Dynamics of Patronage" Paul Hammer, University of Adelaide "Military Affinities and the Structures of Lordship in Early Modern England David Trim, Newbold College "Violence and Gentry Honour in Early Stuart England" Richard Cust, University of Birmingham "Francis Bacon, the Earl of Northampton and the Jacobean Anti-duelling Campaign" Markku Peltonen (University of Helsinki and Clare Hall, Cambridge) "Civility's Enemies: Violence and Disorder in the Age of Shaftesbury" Victor Stater (Louisiana State University) "Conquering Desires: Women, Nations and Identities in the American Revolution" Kathleen Wilson, State University of New York, Stony Brook "The Problem of English Identity in the American Revolution" Dror Wahrman, Indiana University "Race, Geography and Law: The Problem of the Frontier in Eighteenth-Century British Imperial History" Eliga H. Gould, University of New Hampshire "`Cutting off the sailors' pigtails': Domesticating the Maritime in Britain, 1750-1850" Isaac Land, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor "Hierarchies of Civilisation, Missionary Practice and the Construction of Middle-Class Masculinities in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain" Alison Twells, Sheffield Hallam University "All Things to All Men: The Salvation Army and Cultural Cross-Dressing in British India" John W. Mackey, Boston College "Masculinity, Empire and Naval Seamen in British Popular Culture, 1870-1914" Mary A. Conley, Boston College "At Risk: Contagion and the Production of Social Continuity in the Early Victorian City" Tina Young Choi, University of California, Berkeley "Dirty Pictures: Art and Victorian Sanitation Reform" Eileen Cleere, Simmons College "`Where there's dirt there's danger': Health Education in English Elementary Schools, 1918-1939" Katherine Rashid, University of Pennsylvania "Violence, Policing and Community in Liverpool and Manchester, 1850-1914" John E. Archer, Edge Hill College "A Brutalised Society? Reactions to Violence in Postwar Britain, 1918-1922" Jon Lawrence, University of Liverpool "A Scottish Chicago? Street Gangs and Violence in Glasgow in the 1920s and 1930s" Andrew Davies, University of Liverpool "Via Media Revisited" Lori Anne Ferrell, Claremont Graduate University "The Battle of the Altars in Caroline England" David Cressy, Ohio State University "Anglican Parochialism in Seventeenth-Century Cathedral Cities Carl B. Estabrook, Dartmouth College "`Colonial quotation' and the Rhetoric of Imperialism" Barbara Fuchs, University of Washington Aphra Behn's Oronooko and the Construction of English Colonial Identity" Shannon Miller, Temple University "Extending Credit: Thomas Harriot and Ralph Lane in Virginia" David J. Baker (University of Hawaii, Manoa) "Surplus Women with Surplus Money: The Role of Singlewomen as Creditors in Early Modern England" Amy M. Froide, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga "Women, the Informal Economy and the Development of Capitalism in England, 1650-1850; or, Did Women Get Credit?" Beverly Lemire, University of New Brunswick "Small Sums to Risk: London Women's Investments in the Age of the Financial Revolution" Barbara J. Todd, University of Toronto "Mr. Pooter Goes Abroad: Empire, Migration and Empowerment for Lower Middle-Class Men, 1900-1970" James Hammerton, La Trobe University "Masculinity and the Idea of Decay in Turn-of-the-Century British India" Matthew Stone, University of Southern California "`To present to my young countrymen an example of manly perseverance': David Livingstone, Masculinity, Race and Empire" Christopher Petrusic, Carleton University "Migrants, Immigrants and Welfare from the Old Poor Law to the Welfare State" David Feldman, Birkbeck College, University of London "From Poor Law to Welfare State: Declining Public Support for Older People?" Pat Thane, University of Sussex "From Poor Law to Welfare State: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Orphan" Susan Thorne, Duke University "More than a Footnote? Wales in British History" Keith Robbins (Senior Vice Chancellor, University of Wales) "Children of Hagar: Gypsy Fascination in Nineteenth-Century Britain" Deborah Epstein Nord, Princeton University "The Appellant and the Clerk: The Officers of Central Government and the First Appeal of Treason, 1387-1389" Douglas L. Biggs, Waldorf College "Lancastrian Queens: Xenophobia, Misogyny and a Warm Welcome Joel T. Rosenthal, State University of New York, Stony Brook "Patronage and Power in Late Medieval England" Sharon D. Michalove, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign "Charles I and the Early Modern Monarchy" Mark Kishlansky, Harvard University "Lord Sidmouth's Bill: The Sectarian Tide Not Turned" Michael A. Rutz, Washington University "Pamphleteer, Agent, Impresario: The Secret Political Career of Mrs. R. C. Biggs" Stuart Semmel, University of Pennsylvania "The Idea of `Treason against the King' in an Age of Regency, 1810-1820" Lisa Steffen, University of South Carolina, Spartanburg "Mayhew's Needlewomen: `tragic and touching romances' Beth Harris, Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY "The Melodramatic Moment: G. W. M. Reynolds, Henry Mayhew and the Radical Imagination" Rohan McWilliam, Anglia Polytechnic University "Melodrama at the Margins of Society: Rethinking Mayhew" Thomas Prasch, Washburn University "Class, Criminality and the `New System of Corinthianism': Pierce Egan's `Tom and Jerry' in 1820s London" Heidi Holder, Central Michigan University "`Gentlemen in Petticoats': Gender, Sexuality and Social Class in R. v. Boulton, Park et al. (1871)" Morris B. Kaplan, Purchase College, SUNY "The Ever-wider Pelvis: Havelock Ellis on Race and Sex Difference" Sally J. Markowitz, Willamette University Randy on the Rand: Sexuality and South African Mine Workers at the Turn of the Century" Ross G. Forman, Kingston University "China for Sale: Commodity Consumption and the Imperial Consciousness in Charles Lamb's Essays of Elia" Karen Fang, Johns Hopkins University "`Ashamed of my own trowsers': Masculinity and Print Culture at London's Museum of Manufactures, 1852-1853" Lara Kriegel, Brown University "Art, Commerce or Empire? The Uses of Architecture and the Rebuilding of Regent Street, 1880-1927" Erika Rappaport, University of California, Santa Barbara "British Writers, American Readers: Images of Britain During the Second World War" Fred M. Leventhal, Boston University "Lords and Monks: Creating an Ideal of Noble Power in Monastic Chronicles Jennifer Paxton, Harvard University "Havelok the Dane and Fulk Warenne: Heroic Nobles and Dastardly Kings" Claire Valente, University of Portland "In the King's Service: Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, King's Lieutenant in Aquitaine, 1295-1298" J. S. Hamilton, Baylor University "The Importance of Luther-Bashing for English Catholics" Margaret Sena, Princeton University "`Naughty knave priests that will rule us all': From Anticlerical Satire to Popular Anticlericalism in Reformation England" Ethan Shagan, Harvard University "A Cat May Look Upon a King: The Overbury Murder Scandal and the English Revolution" Alastair Bellany, Rutgers University "The Family in Early Modern England: Continuity and Change" Keith Wrightson, Yale University "Incest Tales and Culture: Rethinking Familial Relations in Eighteenth-Century England" Seth Denbo, University of Warwick "Rethinking the Family in the Eighteenth Century: The Contribution of Visual Evidence" Kate Retford, University of Warwick "Empire and Parliamentary Reform: The 1832 Reform Act Revisited" Miles Taylor, King's College, University of London "Political Friendships: Francis Place and Joseph Parkes: Radical Reform and Political Loyalty in the Decade of Reform" Nancy D. LoPatin, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point "Political Dinners in Whig, Radical and Tory Westminster, 1780-1880" Marc Baer, Hope College "The Ironies of Commemorating Violence: Masculinity and the Martial Representations of Alfred the Great at the Turn of the Twentieth Century" Stephen Heathorn, Indiana University, Indianapolis "`Manly in his warlike creed': Martial Races, the Language of Masculinity and British Imperial Instability" Heather Streets, Washington State University "May the Best Man Win? Boxing, Race and Masculinity in Imperial Britain" Patrick McDevitt, Rowan University "The Citizen as Consumer: Governing Commercial Society in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain" James Vernon, University of Manchester "`You are boss of the show': Pleasure Grounds, Social Identities and Consumption in Interwar England" Helen Pussard, University of Manchester "Whose Side are You On? Institutional Loyalties, Religious Tension and the Birth of the Mid-Tudor Via Media" Norman Jones, Utah State University "Identity Formation and Strategies of Resistance to Elizabethan Religious Policies" Caroline Litzenberger, Portland State University "Scandalous to Whom? Gender, Social Status and the Proceedings against the `Scandalous' Clergy in the 1640s" Eric Josef Carlson, Gustavus Adolphus College "`Any office that may undeceive the people': Royalist Use of Print, 1641-1642" Sarah Trombley, Harvard University "The Missing Mob, or Why Charles I Was Not Rescued" Joyce Lee Malcolm, Bentley College / MIT "English Royalists and the Restoration Conflict over the Irish Rebellion" Burke Griggs, Boston College "Making Connections: A Letter Book, John Locke and Family Papers" Susan E. Whyman "The Correspondence Networks of John Evelyn" Frances Harris, The British Library "The Theory and Practice of Letter Writing: The Third Earl of Shaftesbury" Lawrence E. 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Oxendale, State University of New York, Binghamton "Resuscitating the Raj: Preserving and Commemorating Britain's Heritage in India Since the 1970s" Elizabeth Buettner, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London "Reshaping the Post-War British Welfare State: Gender and Unemployment Benefits in London, 1948-1963" Ginny Noble, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill "The Fall of the Gentleman: British National Character in Decline, 1918-1970" Marcus Collins, Columbia University "Revolution, Violence and the British Counterculture, 1958-1974" Chad Martin, Stanford University "The Significance of Oliver Cromwell" John Morrill, University of Cambridge "NACBS Web Sites at the University of Chicago Press" Julia E. Noblitt, University of Chicago Press "History Online" Jane Winters, Institute of Historical Research "Archives Online" Sonia P. Anderson, Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts "Getting (and Surviving) the Job Interview" George K. 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Ellens, Redeemer College "Votes and Voluntaryism: The Franchise and the Church-Rate Issue in England and Wales, 1832-1868" Philip Salmon, History of Parliament "Symbolism and Responsibility: Church Rates and Expectations of the Liberal Party, 1833-1852" Joseph Coohill, Open University "The Intimate Empire of Home: Missionary Wives in Southern Africa and New Zealand, 1790s-1830s" Elizabeth Elbourne, McGill University "`The moral conquest' of Colonial Law-Making: Marriage Custom and Law in British India" Sandra M. den Otter, Queen's University "Carnivorous Plants and their `strange horrible murders'" Terrie M. Romano, Queen's University "Coming to Terms with Affluence? Socialism and Social Change in the 1950s" Lawrence Black, London Guildhall University "The `penny farthing machine' Revisited: Labour Party Organization in the Era of the `Mass Party', c. 1950-1970" Stephen Fielding, Salford University "`The People's Voice'? 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