Dr Todd Gray has taken a leading role in the study of Devon's history, has written widely on Devon's past and lectured to a large number of groups. His recent published work has included Strumpets and Ninnycocks and How to Swear Like an Elizabethan in Devon. His talk sheds light on the nature of society in Devon 500 years ago.
£6/£4.20/Friends free/Devon History Society members free. Discounts available via the Artory App and free to Plymouth University students via SPiA
The Mary Jacobs Memorial Lecture by Professor Lucy Bland
Lucy Bland’s research has concentrated on the history of gender, sexuality and feminism in Britain between 1880s-1980s. Her new projects are a social and cultural history of transracial adoption in Britain since World War II and an investigation of mixed race offspring of black GIs and British women born during World War II.
£6/£4.20/Friends free. Discounts available via the Artory App and free to Plymouth University students via SPiA.
Sex and the City: Rethinking the Victorians series
Passions Between Women in Victorian Britain
Join the distinguished historian of gender and sexuality, Dr Lesley Hall, as she explores the fascinating subject of romantic friendship between women in the Victorian period. Were passions between women deemed appropriate only in adolescence, to be superseded by marriage, or were things rather different in reality?
Dr Hall’s talk will examine the stories of women who loved and were loved by other women in 19th-century Britain, which reveal a more varied account than the...
Dr Timothy Cooper works in the fields of environmental and political history at the Penryn campus of Exeter University. His teaching emphasises on the role of historical knowledge in thinking about how we can realise different possible futures. He has been working with colleagues on an oral history of the Torrey Canyon disaster in 1967, which is the topic of this evening’s lecture.
Claire Fitzpatrick completed her doctoral studies at Cambridge University, and is now a lecturer in modern Irish history at Plymouth University. Her research interests lie mainly in the development of democracy in the Irish free state and the role of Labour in the Irish revolution. She is also interested in popular participation in the revolution, and the effects of partition on politics and identity and the development of the state in Northern Ireland in relation to Labour and popular politics. She is currently working on a history of the...
An award-winning Native American chef, food historian, and photographer will provide an insight into centuries of culinary tradition when she gives a public lecture at Plymouth University in June.
Dr. Lois Ellen Frank, adjunct professor at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA), will take to the stage to talk about using ancestral Native American foods as a ‘New Paradigm for...
Plymouth University welcomed a new member to its team this week in the form of ‘One Week Job’ man Matt Frost.
30-year-old Matt, from Liskeard in Cornwall, is currently trying his hand at 52 jobs in a year and is on week 19 of his challenge. Some of his previous jobs include a stuntman, farmer, outdoor instructor, pizza delivery man and journalist.
The fashion of the 18th Century is synonymous with luxury and extravagance, but the tumultuous period at the end of the century saw revolution in France affect both society and style.
In this illustrated talk, fashion historian Amber Butchart looks at the politics of dress and display through some of the era's key figures - from Casanova to Catherine the Great, and from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu to Marie Antoinette - to dissect how wealth and power were read on the body through attire, and how the Revolutionary Era brought about huge transformations in the way both men and...
Professor Jason Peacey’s research focuses on the politics and political culture of early modern Britain, and he is particularly interested in the relationships between print culture and political life, and between the citizen and the state.
Jason, one of the editors of a Leverhulme Trust project to produce a new edition of the letters and speeches of Oliver Cromwell, is currently writing a microhistory on politics and religion in a protracted 17th-century land dispute, provisionally entitled The Churchrobber and the Madman.
