Review: Zoom into BrANCH 2020 (Online)
Conference Review: ‘Zoom into BrANCH’, 10th – 11th October 2020 In a pre-COVID-19 world, the Association of British American Nineteenth Century Historians (BrANCH) would have met in person for a range of exciting papers on nineteenth-century American history. But, just as the world has had to adapt, so too has BrANCH. Organised by Dr. Elizabeth Barnes, the decision to move the annual conference online brought together the BrANCH community through pre-circulated papers and an hour-long Q&A from each speaker. Making the most of the online platform, four papers dwelled on a range of topics and themes, from American sailors in Algeria to German anarchism in the late nineteenth-century US. The pre-circulated paper format allowed the attendees to think deeply about the work presented to them and contribute thought-provoking questions, fostering stimulating debates that, if in person, would have long continued into the post-panel drinks in the pub afterward. Saturday afternoon […]