Thank you so much to everyone who came along to our ECW seminar this afternoon! Thanks especially to our speakers, Anna, Hillary and Emily who all presented such fascinating research. We can’t wait to see how all of your projects develop 👏

Dr. Emily Ireland’s paper examines “Legal Personhood and Subordination Under the English Common Law, 1689-1760”. Using an intersectional analysis, the paper pays attention to those whose legal status was modified in some way, e.g. married women, children, enslaved people and the mentally unwell.

“Assembled, Disassembled, Reassembled: Britain’s Assembly Rooms, 1660-1880” will introduce Dr. Hillary Burlock’s British Academy project, positioning assembly rooms at the centre of urban development and modernity through an exciting digital history project.

From 1793 to 1815, war captivity displaced thousands globally, including soldiers, enslaved people, and civilians. Dr. Anna McKay’s paper “Prisoners’ progress: imperial circulations of war captives 1793-1815” examines underutilised archives to offer a new framework for understanding war captivity.

Hi everyone!
📣We’re excited to announce our first seminar of the semester, taking place on 27th November 1:30-3:00 in the Arthur West Room. In this Work in Progress session, we’ll be sharing the fantastic new research of Dr. Anna McKay, Dr. Hillary Burlock and Dr. Emily Ireland. More details below⬇️