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Past Events at the Centre for Historical Studies

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Take a look at past events hosted by the Centre for Historical Studies at the University of Northampton

Northampton Museum and Art Gallery

16 December 2022
  • 10am-10:30am Welcome and Introduction to the Centre for Historical Studies ​
  • 10.30am-11:30am Chris Houghton, Allison Zink and Nikita Archer, from Gale, ‘The future of Digital Humanities’​
  • 11.45am-12.15pm Professor Anne-Marie Kilday, Vice Chancellor of UON​​
  • 1.15pm-2pm Visiting Fellow’s Annual Lecture: Andrew Hann (English Heritage) ‘Slavery and Imperial Connections in the Properties of English Heritage’​
  • 2pm-2.15pm Professor Andrew N. Williams, Hospital Archive​
  • 2.30pm-3pm A showcase of the PhD projects in History at the University of Northampton.​
  • 3pm-3.30pm Amir Darwish on ‘the other side of hope’, and closing remarks

University of Northampton

19 April 2023

Beowulf and the Emotional Landscape of Early Medieval England (c.600-800): Online event presented by Toby Purser

University of Northampton

20 April 2023
  • 10am-10.15am Welcome
  • 10.15am-10.30am CHS Strategy
  • 10.30am-11am Mission Statement
  • 11am-12pm Research Strengths
  • 12.45pm-1.30pm Dawn Hibbert (RIIFS): Research Impact
  • 1.30pm-2.15pm Lee Machado (Faculty of Arts Science and Technology): The role of research centres
  • 2.15pm-2.45pm Postgraduate Research Training
  • 2.45pm-3pm SIRRIP Wellbeing Workshop
  • 4pm-5pm Dr Roland Clark (Liverpool): History of Fascism Exhibition

Wrest Park

28 April 2023
  • 10am-10.30am Introduction
  • 10.30am-11.15am Tamsin Greaves (NTU): ‘Art Cares?’
  • 11.20am-12pm Jemima Hubberstey (University of Oxford) ‘“The only Place that can heighten my Enjoyment of my Friends”: Wellbeing at Wrest Park in the Eighteenth Century’
  • 12.45pm-1:.45pm Andrew Hann (English Heritage): A Guided Tour of Wrest Park
  • 2pm-2.30pm Ruby Rutter (University of Manchester) ‘Emotional Labour, Elite Women, and the Eighteenth-Century Country House
  • 2.30pm-3pm Kirsty McCarrison and Chania Fox (English Heritage), ‘Young People, Heritage and Wellbeing
  • 3pm-3.30pm Stewart Magrath (independent), ‘How have we been’
  • 3.30pm-4pm Tea/Coffee and Plenary – Looking Forward to the Conference 12-13th July

University of Northampton

Day 1: 12 July 2023
  • 9.30am-10am Welcome and Introduction: Mark Rothery (UON) ‘Wellbeing in History’
  • 10.15am-12pm Heritage and Archives: Chair Paul Jackson
    – Faye Sayer (University of Birmingham) ‘Can Heritage Change Visitor Subjective Well-being? An Evaluation Framework and Overview of UK Heritage Site Results’
    – Dan Jones (UON): ‘Caring Archives: Wellbeing challenges in an archive of extremism: Lessons and Questions from a Decade of the Searchlight Archive.’
    – Jane Seddon (Northampton Museum and Art Gallery): ‘Military family memories: Health and Wellbeing and Military Collections’
  • 1pm-3pm War and the Military: Chair William Hatfield
    – Michael Reeve (Open University): ‘A Panacea for Wounds’: Tobacco, Military Welfare and Soldiers’ Well-being during the First World War
    – Laura Robson Mainwaring (The National Archives) “The roar is terrible to bear”: Noise, Well-being and the State in the c.1960s
    – Laura Ugolini (University of Wolverhampton): Well enough? Middle-class men, mental illness and military service in England, 1916-1918 – you decide (interactive)
  • 3.30pm-5.30pm Gardens and Outdoor Space: Chair Mark Rothery
    – Rachel Moss (UON): “In this orchard, when you would be comforted”: gender, wellbeing and orchard spaces in late medieval England
    – Emily Bavellas (Northampton Museum and Art Gallery): A Place to Breathe: Ecotherapy and the Victorian Asylum
    – Declan Ryan (UON): Greenspace as critical assets for maintaining and supporting health and wellbeing in local communities
    – Marcella Daye (UON), ‘Why we are not all going on a summer holiday? An examination of barriers to ethnic minority participation in leisure activities and domestic tourism in the UK’
Day 2: 13 July 2023
  • 9.30am-10am Introduction
  • 10am-11.45am Medicine and philosophy: Chair Paul Jackson
    – Robbie Spiers (University of Cambridge): Psychiatrists against Psychiatry – Twentieth-Century German Debates on the Origins and Nature of Mental Illness
    – Claire Chatterton (Open University):  Wellbeing in Mental Health Nurses’ Working Lives – reflections on past and present
    – Cathy Smith (UON) ‘The Trials of life – the mental health and wellbeing of the middle classes in Victorian England’
  • 1pm-2.45pm Therapy and Mindfulness: Chair Siobhan Hyland
    – Sue Niebrzydowski (Bangor University): ‘Mindfulness and the mise-en-page: Wellbeing and the Book of Hours’
    – Barbara Lewis (Friends of Kettering Art Gallery and Museum): Healing energies Past, present and future of Complementary Therapies
    – William Hatfield and Ryan Holser (UON): “A sound mind in a sound body”- A Historical Journey through the Evolution of Wellbeing
  • 3pm-4.30pm Family and Community: Chair Mark Rothery
    – Emma Marshall (University of York) ‘In your wellbeing is chief felicity’: Illness, wellbeing and letter-writing in early modern family life
    – Susan Botterill (Abington Library and Archive) Perspective from Community Groups – Voices from diverse community groups on wellbeing, the Community Library – Wellbeing in context 1939 – 2023
    – Kat Perry (UON): Women and Welfare – Philanthropy in the Northampton Boot and Shoe Industry
  • 4.30pm Conclusion and Close