Events

The Centre plans to offer a vibrant and stimulating research environment with a wide range of seminars, performances and other events.

Listed below are a selection of events from across the Faculty relating to Modern and Contemporary Britain.

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Past events

• 10 November 2025: Cricket, Imperial Culture and the Remaking of Postwar England
• 16 October 2025: Teaching Britain and Britishness: challenges and dilemmas
• 25 June 2025: Rethinking Britain and Britishness: launching the Centre for Modern & Contemporary Britain
• 1 May 2025: ‘I have a kind husband, a beautiful baby, no financial problems and still I want to die’
• 22 November 2024: The Blonde Bombsite: Towards a Cultural History of Working-Class Femininity in Britain
• 4 October 2023: Townhall meeting to discuss the reactivation of the Centre for Modern & Contemporary Britain (CMCB)
• 28 November 2022: A Playful Social: making play about research
• 17 October 2022: Pieter Geyl and Britain: Encounters, Controversies, Impact
• 15 June 2022: Ecologies of Black Femme Sociality
• 10 March 2022: Book launch: Temporalities of Mixedness and Blackness in Britain: ‘Making Mixed Race'
• 7 March 2022: VIRTUAL 'Inter-Worlds: Transcultural Hybridity in Art Talk Series'
• 15 June 2021: VIRTUAL: The Black Liberation Front Q&A
• 8 June 2021: VIRTUAL: Black in the British Frame 1936-1996
• 28 May 2021: VIRTUAL Lunch & Learn: UCL and the History of Eugenics
• 13 April 2021: VIRTUAL: LLRG Seminar—London After London: Apocalyptic London from Mary Shelley to Lockdown
• 12 January 2021: VIRTUAL: LLRG Seminar—From Cesspool to Supersewer: Placing London’s Subterranean Waste