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In Their Own Write: The Testimony of the Victorian English and Welsh Poor 23 July

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The welfare system of the time, referred to as relief under the New Poor Law, was often forcefully contested between paupers and those who administrated the system. In this talk, you will meet ordinary people at the extreme lower strata of Victorian society, who campaigned to their social “betters” for more acceptable levels of poor relief. This talk will examine how the Victorian poor tried to explain their poverty, the conditions in which they lived, and what they considered should be their rights to welfare in times of unemployment and/or sickness.

The Global Heritage of British Natural History 23 September

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From the seventeenth century, Europeans engaged with a complex world of nature in the colonies in Asia, Africa and America in their pursuit of plants, minerals and human labour. That particular history of nature is often lost in the conventional narratives of natural history, which focuses on the emergence of the empirical vision of nature based on experimental, observational, and empirical methods. Drawing from British imperial history in South Asia and the Caribbean, this talk explores the alternative makings of natural history.