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  • MBS 2019: Modern British Studies Beyond Boundaries
    • Call for Papers: Modern British Studies Beyond Boundaries, 3-5 July 2019
  • MBS 2017: British Studies in a Broken World
    • Conference Pages for MBS 2017: British Studies in a Broken World
    • Travel, Accommodation, and Accessibility
    • Programme: British Studies in Broken World
    • Looking for panels or panellists? MBS 2017
  • MBS 2016: Breaking Boundaries Politics History and the Wider Interdisciplinary Challenge
  • MBS 2015: Rethinking Modern British Studies
    • Rethinking Modern British Studies: Plenary Lectures
    • Programme: Rethinking Modern British Studies
    • Conference: Rethinking Modern British Studies, Blogs and Responses
    • PG/ECR Workshop Schedule
  • Working papers
    • Working Paper No.1
    • Working Paper No.2
    • Responding to the History Manifesto

Recent Posts

  • We are hiring! Assistant Professor in British History (West Midlands focus) June 6, 2022
  • Call for Applications! Beyond Binaries: A Study Day on New Frameworks in Gender Studies December 20, 2021
  • Guest Blog: “The dearest wish of our hearts is to return and end our days in our green isle…”: Irish Republican women in Britain, the forgotten exiles?’ October 19, 2021
  • Guest Blog: Movement Gone Wrong? Shipwreck in the 18th-Century British Empire October 19, 2021
  • Guest Blog: The Welsh Press and The Indian Empire October 19, 2021
  • MBS 2021: Programme and Registration June 23, 2021
  • CALL FOR PAPERS: We Are Still Here! A PGR Research Showcase. March 16, 2021
  • Guest Blog: International Students at the University of Birmingham in The Guild News 1958-1962 March 8, 2021
  • MBS2021: An Update March 5, 2021
  • Call for Participants: The life narratives of women who attended Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp 1981-2000 January 4, 2021
  • Becoming Birmingham: History, Diversity and Collaboration (16 December) December 7, 2020
  • Upcoming Seminar: Gender Trouble in British Interwar Student Life November 24, 2020
  • Our New PhDs: Dr Shahmima Akhtar and the Cultural History of Irish Identity on Display June 1, 2020
  • Our New PhDs: Dr Howard Carlton on Cosmology, Chronology and Crises May 18, 2020
  • ‘Constructing Histories’: exploring the potential of charity archives January 23, 2020
  • Film Screening: THE MAYOR’S RACE October 17, 2019
  • Events for Postgraduates, Autumn 2019 October 17, 2019
  • Post Conference Feedback and Contemporary British History Prize for Best Postgraduate Paper July 8, 2019
  • One week to go! An introduction to the opening roundtable on de-centering British Studies from the peripheries June 25, 2019
  • MBS 2019 Programme Available June 21, 2019
  • A Guide to Travel, Accommodation, and Food & Drink in Birmingham June 6, 2019
  • Registration Deadline Extended June 6, 2019
  • Draft Programme and Registration May 14, 2019
  • Call for Papers: Modern British Studies Beyond Boundaries, 3-5 July 2019 October 24, 2018
  • Stories about Individual Lives – or Intimate Histories? July 26, 2018
  • Announcing MBS2019 July 3, 2018
  • Call for Participants: Multiple-gender-attraction and bisexuality in 1970s and 1980s Britain: an oral history project May 16, 2018
  • Ways of Knowing, 5-6 July 2018: New Call for Papers Deadline April 25, 2018
  • Call for Papers: Ways of Knowing in (and about) Modern Britain March 1, 2018
  • CFP Deadline soon: MASCULINITIES IN TWENTIETH CENTURY BRITAIN January 29, 2018
  • Lectureship in the History of Modern Britain at Birmingham January 2, 2018
  • Shelter at Christmas December 19, 2017
  • Confidence Games and/as Modern Times – Round table. October 9, 2017
  • A male voice in a female chorus. August 16, 2017
  • Precarity, communality and #mbsreads August 8, 2017
  • MBS 2017 Response: Doing history within precarity August 7, 2017
  • MBS/CBH PGR Prize July 28, 2017
  • Contemporary British History / Centre for Modern British Studies Postgraduate Prize July 4, 2017
  • Teaching Fellow in Modern British History June 26, 2017
  • British Studies in a Broken World: Info June 22, 2017
  • Masculinities, Contraception and Sexual Health in Late-Twentieth Century Britain, 1967-1997: Call for Interview Participants June 5, 2017
  • Continuing the Conversation: Modern British Studies PGR Roundtable June 1, 2017
  • Cadbury Conference 2017: Marriage in Africa May 30, 2017
  • Register for MBS 2017 May 24, 2017
  • Registration for #MBS2017 May 4, 2017
  • British Studies in a Broken World May 2, 2017
  • #Thanks for Typing April 10, 2017
  • Seeing like a Sub: Modern Britain from Beneath April 1, 2017
  • Conservatives, Grammar Schools and the ‘Great Meritocracy’ March 20, 2017
  • Annual Lecture 2017 – Tara Zahra (Chicago): The Great Departure: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World March 13, 2017
  • Research Round-table: Reconstructing the Historical Subject February 22, 2017
  • Looking for panels or panellists? MBS 2017 February 14, 2017
  • Lecturer in the History of 19th Century Britain and the Wider World February 8, 2017
  • Letter to Birmingham City Council on Birmingham Museums February 7, 2017
  • MBS 2017: Call for Papers Reminder February 6, 2017
  • The diary of Joseph Ludlow Delarue February 1, 2017
  • Diary of an Unidentified Woman 1853 January 31, 2017
  • BRIHC Public Lectures: Spring Series January 30, 2017
  • The Diary of William Prince Telfer: Summer 1914 January 30, 2017
  • MBS 2017: Themes and Schemes January 16, 2017
  • Looking for panels or panellists? MBS 2017 January 10, 2017
  • MBS 2017: Funny things December 19, 2016
  • Power and Resistance: The PGR ‘Long Read’ December 5, 2016
  • British Studies in a Broken World: Call for Papers MBS 2017 November 30, 2016
  • Patrick Wall and a different lost world of conservatism November 28, 2016
  • Visibly Hidden: Power and Historical Practice in Modern Britain November 21, 2016
  • Bonfire Night and Beyond: Burns Injury and Identity in Britain, c.1800-2000 October 31, 2016
  • The Big Bang: a fairy tale in London October 24, 2016
  • Pinning down the Prince of Tricksters October 10, 2016
  • INTO THE GANNET’S EYE: THE ATLANTIC EDGE & BRITISH HISTORY October 3, 2016
  • #MBS2017 August 23, 2016
  • MBS 2017: New researchers and the future of Modern British Studies July 27, 2016
  • Accumulating Objects July 18, 2016
  • Honouring Professor Catherine Hall July 12, 2016
  • 5-7 July: MBS 2017 July 11, 2016
  • Thatcher’s Alive?! July 7, 2016
  • Displays and Memories July 4, 2016
  • Catherine Hall in Conversation June 30, 2016
  • Always something there to remind me June 27, 2016
  • Trust, Charities and the EU Referendum June 14, 2016
  • The bin beside the display cabinet June 6, 2016
  • Class, gender, and mobilities: the Princess Diana Collection* May 23, 2016
  • CFP: Understanding Material Loss Across Time and Space May 16, 2016
  • Hidden Objects and Untold Histories May 12, 2016
  • MA Scholarships and Teaching on MBS Birmingham April 12, 2016
  • Call for Papers: PG and ECR Workshop March 16, 2016
  • Breaking Boundaries February 1, 2016
  • The Goddess: Call for Interview Participants January 19, 2016
  • ‘Symbols of Urban Malaise’: Past and Present January 18, 2016
  • Birmingham Central Library December 22, 2015
  • Vagrant Life Stories December 7, 2015
  • MBS 2015 Conference Videos December 2, 2015
  • Waltzing with the Goddess in Modern Britain November 30, 2015
  • Amateur gentlemen, Everest, and the Science of Foie Gras. November 23, 2015
  • A ‘Courageous Decision’? Using Sitcoms as Sources for Historical Research November 17, 2015
  • Hues of Red: On Book-Jackets, Politics and Publishing in 1930s Britain November 9, 2015
  • Bringing out the dead November 2, 2015
  • ‘We the peoples’ and ‘the greatest cause of all’ October 26, 2015
  • Sticking the boot into charity October 21, 2015
  • The Irish Village of Ballymaclinton October 19, 2015
  • Collaborating to co-produce historical research October 15, 2015
  • Chile Solidarity FC, 1977 October 12, 2015
  • Rethinking Modern British Studies: On-going Blogging. August 17, 2015
  • Cultural studies and the possibilities of academic collaboration today July 27, 2015
  • MBS 2015: Videos July 24, 2015
  • More Conference Blogs July 20, 2015
  • MBS2015 Blogs July 13, 2015
  • So, what next? MBS 2015. July 6, 2015
  • ‘Distance lends enchantment to the view’: The Left Book Club abroad. June 22, 2015
  • British Studies and North Britain: UHI, HSBI, and the Impact of Research-Led Teaching June 15, 2015
  • A City with No Memory? June 11, 2015
  • Continuing the Conversation June 9, 2015
  • MBS 2015: Conversations Beyond the Conference June 4, 2015
  • MA Student Research Day, 8 June 2015, 11 AM. June 3, 2015
  • Full Conference Programme May 21, 2015

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Skip to content
  • About us
  • Study with us
  • Blog posts
  • MBS 2019: Modern British Studies Beyond Boundaries
    • Call for Papers: Modern British Studies Beyond Boundaries, 3-5 July 2019
  • MBS 2017: British Studies in a Broken World
    • Conference Pages for MBS 2017: British Studies in a Broken World
    • Travel, Accommodation, and Accessibility
    • Programme: British Studies in Broken World
    • Looking for panels or panellists? MBS 2017
  • MBS 2016: Breaking Boundaries Politics History and the Wider Interdisciplinary Challenge
  • MBS 2015: Rethinking Modern British Studies
    • Rethinking Modern British Studies: Plenary Lectures
    • Programme: Rethinking Modern British Studies
    • Conference: Rethinking Modern British Studies, Blogs and Responses
    • PG/ECR Workshop Schedule
  • Working papers
    • Working Paper No.1
    • Working Paper No.2
    • Responding to the History Manifesto

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Recent Posts

  • We are hiring! Assistant Professor in British History (West Midlands focus)
  • Call for Applications! Beyond Binaries: A Study Day on New Frameworks in Gender Studies
  • Guest Blog: “The dearest wish of our hearts is to return and end our days in our green isle…”: Irish Republican women in Britain, the forgotten exiles?’
  • Guest Blog: Movement Gone Wrong? Shipwreck in the 18th-Century British Empire
  • Guest Blog: The Welsh Press and The Indian Empire
  • MBS 2021: Programme and Registration
  • CALL FOR PAPERS: We Are Still Here! A PGR Research Showcase.
  • Guest Blog: International Students at the University of Birmingham in The Guild News 1958-1962
  • MBS2021: An Update
  • Call for Participants: The life narratives of women who attended Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp 1981-2000
  • Becoming Birmingham: History, Diversity and Collaboration (16 December)
  • Upcoming Seminar: Gender Trouble in British Interwar Student Life
  • Our New PhDs: Dr Shahmima Akhtar and the Cultural History of Irish Identity on Display
  • Our New PhDs: Dr Howard Carlton on Cosmology, Chronology and Crises
  • ‘Constructing Histories’: exploring the potential of charity archives
  • Film Screening: THE MAYOR’S RACE
  • Events for Postgraduates, Autumn 2019
  • Post Conference Feedback and Contemporary British History Prize for Best Postgraduate Paper
  • One week to go! An introduction to the opening roundtable on de-centering British Studies from the peripheries
  • MBS 2019 Programme Available
  • A Guide to Travel, Accommodation, and Food & Drink in Birmingham
  • Registration Deadline Extended
  • Draft Programme and Registration
  • Call for Papers: Modern British Studies Beyond Boundaries, 3-5 July 2019
  • Stories about Individual Lives – or Intimate Histories?
  • Announcing MBS2019
  • Call for Participants: Multiple-gender-attraction and bisexuality in 1970s and 1980s Britain: an oral history project
  • Ways of Knowing, 5-6 July 2018: New Call for Papers Deadline
  • Call for Papers: Ways of Knowing in (and about) Modern Britain
  • CFP Deadline soon: MASCULINITIES IN TWENTIETH CENTURY BRITAIN
  • Lectureship in the History of Modern Britain at Birmingham
  • Shelter at Christmas
  • Confidence Games and/as Modern Times – Round table.
  • A male voice in a female chorus.
  • Precarity, communality and #mbsreads
  • MBS 2017 Response: Doing history within precarity
  • MBS/CBH PGR Prize
  • Contemporary British History / Centre for Modern British Studies Postgraduate Prize
  • Teaching Fellow in Modern British History
  • British Studies in a Broken World: Info
  • Masculinities, Contraception and Sexual Health in Late-Twentieth Century Britain, 1967-1997: Call for Interview Participants
  • Continuing the Conversation: Modern British Studies PGR Roundtable
  • Cadbury Conference 2017: Marriage in Africa
  • Register for MBS 2017
  • Registration for #MBS2017
  • British Studies in a Broken World
  • #Thanks for Typing
  • Seeing like a Sub: Modern Britain from Beneath
  • Conservatives, Grammar Schools and the ‘Great Meritocracy’
  • Annual Lecture 2017 – Tara Zahra (Chicago): The Great Departure: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World

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