University Welcomes Local Historians to Open Seminars
History enthusiasts are invited to attend a series of open seminars being staged by the University of Greenwich designed to broaden an understanding of the theory and practice of local history research and to celebrate the bi-centenary of the abolition of slavery..
On Wednesday, February 28, Dr Andrew Hann, who is leading the Victoria County History research project into the Lower Medway Valley, will be joined by Dr Emma Hanna to examine the methodology of the research and writing of community history. The seminar, at Queen Anne Court, will start at 1pm.
Professor Penelope Corfield will speak about Historians and Time on Tuesday, March 13, at 6pm. The seminar, at Queen Anne Court, will also mark the launch of her new book, Time and the Shape of History, which is being published by Yale University Press.
The Quakers and Abolition will be the theme of the seminar being led by Dr Heather Brunskell-Evans, at Queen Anne Court on Wednesday, April 25, at 1pm.
Meanwhile, on Tuesday, May 5, at 5pm, Dr Clive Jolliffe, of University College of Fraser Valley, British Colombia, will talk about Missionaries and Slavery in Nineteenth Century British West Africa. The seminar will be held at Queen Mary Court.
The series of open seminars has been designed by Dr Mary Clare Martin, Senior Lecturer in Education Studies, at the University of Greenwich.
Dr Martin said: “There is a growing enthusiasm for local history research and we are delighted to be able to be able to invite people to come and discuss the latest developments in the research and recording of our communities.
“It is also important for us to mark the bi-centenary of the abolition of slavery and the campaigners who worked to end this oppression.”
The open history seminars will be all held at the University of Greenwich campus at Greenwich.
For further information visit about the seminars and local history research at the University of Greenwich, visit www.greenwich.ac.uk or e-mail m.c.h.martin@greenwich.ac.uk
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