'"They stole our bell ropes": monastic/parochial conflicts in late
medieval England'
Katherine L. French (SUNY, New Paltz)
'Civic penitential rituals in pre-Reformation Scotland'
Audrey-Beth Fitch (U of Guelph)
'Conflict resolution in Reformation Scotland'
Michael F. Graham (U of Saskatchewan)
Commentator Gordon DesBrisay (U of Saskatchewn)
7 Women of Independent Means: Single Women and Work in early Modern England
Chair: Judith M. Bennett (U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
'Passing the buck: the transmission of trades between single women
in early modern England'
Amy M. Froide (Duke U)
'An independent interval?: domestic service and women's life strategies
in eighteenth-century England'
Patty Seleski (California State U, San Marcos)
Commentator: Anna Clark (U of North Carolina, Charlotte)
8 Radicalism and the Role of the State in Early-Nineteenth-Century Britain
Chair: Joel Wiener (City College, CUNY)
'Ruralization and its discontents: the Chartist Land Plan, the state
and the decline of Chartism'
Jamie Bronstein (Stanford U)
'Thomas Hodgskin and the idea of the state'
David Eastwood (U of Wales, Swansea)
'The violatwed body and Chartism: the state, technology, and
Malthusianism, 1830-1840'
Robert G. Hall (U of Tennessee)
'The not-so-friendly societies: benefit societies, radicalism and the
British state, 1832-67'
Jodi Minor (Carnegie Mellon U)
Commentator: James Epstein (Vanderbilt U)
9 Revising the Domestic
Chair: Dorothy O. Helly (Hunter College, CUNY)
'Harriet Martineau's resistant domesticity and the idea of character'
Lauren M. E. Goodlad (U of Washington)
'Domesticity in the harem: Anna Leonowen's maternal imperialism'
Susan Zlotnick (Vassar College)
'The domestic drone: Margaret Oliphant and a political history of
the novel'
Deirdre d'Albertis (Bard College)
Commentator: Anita Levy (U of Rochester)
10 London: from Imperial to post-Imperial Metropolis
Chair: James A. Cronin (Boston College)
'The face of the imperial metropolis: London in 1900'
Jonathan Schneer (Georgia Institute of Technology)
'Reconstructing Black migration in the Imperial metropolis, 1900-39'
Laura Tabili (U of Arizona)
'The re-creation of outcast London'
Peter Weiler (Boston College)
Commentator: Richard Price (U of Maryland, College park)
Plenary Address
'Is British political biography in crisis?'
Ben Pimlott (Birkbeck College, U of London)
Chair: Reba Soffer, President, NACBS (California State U, Northridge)
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