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Councillor Ann Hughes (Labour Party, Stowe Ward, Lichfield District Council)

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Ann Hughes is the new Mayor of Lichfield City Council

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  Ann Hughes was elected as a Labour Party member of Lichfield City Council (a parish council) and installed as Mayor on 15th May, 2023.

Postgraduate symposium on Early Modern England, Wales and the Atlantic at Aberystwyth University (pasted from the RHS) cfp.

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  CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE EXTENDED – 26 MAY 2023 No Registration Fees – Lunch Provided Our Conference The early Modern period was a time of transition and transformation. Many historians would agree that this is a vital, but sometimes overshadowed, chapter in the history of England and Wales. This conference will be hosted by Postgraduates at Aberystwyth University. Our conference theme is the English and Welsh experience throughout the early modern world, not necessarily defined by nation, but instead characterised by people, their lives, and most importantly their experiences. We would like to invite historians, regardless of academic level or discipline, who specialise in Early modern England, Wales or the Atlantic and showcase historical research on the lived-in experience. Our Interests To make this conference accessible to as many researchers as possible, we are planning to create a multidisciplinary environment, promoting a network of early modern historians with Wales at its c

Call for Papers: Catholic Record Society (pasted from H-Albion)

  Catholic Record Society 65th Annual Conference | Registration now open by  Helen Kilburn The Catholic Record Society 65th Annual Conference 24 - 26 July 2023 | Hinsley Hall, Leeds (UK)   The Council of the Catholic Record Society is pleased to announce that registration for the Catholic Record Society 65th Annual Conference is now open. The conference is multidisciplinary and centres on the British and Irish Catholic experience until the present day. The British and Irish Catholic experience is broadly defined to include the British and Irish Catholic diaspora and the migration of people not of the Catholic faith to Britain and Ireland who engaged with British and Irish Catholics therein.  Keynote speakers Professor John Morrill, University of Cambridge Dr Ayshah Johnston, Black Cultural Archives Dr Jamie Callison, University of Agder The full programme of speakers can be viewed at  www.crs.org.uk/conferences   Purchase an early-bird ticket before 31st May and receive a 10% discount

Michael Braddick on 'Christopher Hill, the Crisis of Bourgeois Culture in the 1930s and the English Revolution' on 15th May

Michael Braddick will be giving a paper on this subject next Monday to the Britain in Revolution seminar. It will be open to view via zoom.