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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
MBS 2016: Breaking Boundaries Politics History and the Wider Interdisciplinary Challenge
MBS 2015: Rethinking Modern British Studies
Working papers

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

Modern British Studies Birmingham

Interdisciplinary research and public events on nineteenth and twentieth century Britain at the University of Birmingham

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
MBS 2016: Breaking Boundaries Politics History and the Wider Interdisciplinary Challenge
MBS 2015: Rethinking Modern British Studies
Working papers