The conference is entitled ‘Society and Social Movements’, and will have sessions on labour history, slavery, the colonial American South, gender history. It will be the College occasion to congratulate Betty and Alastair on their retirement.

To RSVP please email, Dr Simone Maghenzani ( sm955@cam.ac.uk), by Sunday 15 January 2017.

Programme of events

10.00 am

Welcome

Dr Simone Maghenzani

The Mistress of Girton College, Prof. Susan J. Smith

For Betty Wood

HISTORY OF THE COLONIAL AMERICAN SOUTH

Chair: Dr Nick Guyatt (Trinity Hall, Cambridge)

Speaker: Prof. Tim Lockley (Warwick)

Discussant: Dr Ben Marsh (Kent)

HISTORY OF GENDER AND SLAVERY

Chair: Dr John Thompson (St Catharine’s College, Cambridge)

Speaker: Dr Inge Dornan (Brunel)

Discussant: Dr Sarah Pearsall (Robinson College, Cambridge)

Responding remarks: Betty Wood

11.40 am COFFEE BREAK

12.00 pm

For Alastair Reid

HISTORY OF BRITAIN’S TRADE UNIONS

Chair: Dr Paul Ryan (King’s College, Cambrige)

Speaker: Prof. Peter Ackers (De Montfort University)

Discussant: Dr James Moher  (King’s College, London)

HISTORY OF BRITISH SOCIETY AND POLITICS

Chair: Prof. Simon Szreter (St John’s College, Cambridge)

Speaker: Dr Ben Griffin  (Girton College, Cambridge)

Discussant: Prof. Eugenio Biagini (Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge)

Responding remarks: Alastair Reid

1.30 pm

BUFFET LUNCH, OLD HALL

We gratefully acknowledge the generous support of: The Trevelyan Fund (Cambridge History Faculty); The Ellen McArthur Fund (Cambridge History Faculty); The Cambridge Political Economy Society Trust.