History Lab meets at Teesside

On 21 February 2011, Teesside University held the fourth forum of the North East History Lab.

The History Lab is a postgraduate network affiliated to the Institute of Historical Research which seeks to provide an accessible network for north-eastern postgraduates and new researchers in history and related disciplines.

The Lab is an intellectual and social forum designed to meet the needs of postgraduate history community and is an opportunity for the next generation of historians to meet to discuss ideas and to drive the study of history forward.

In addition, the forums give an opportunity for doctoral researchers to present their work to a postgraduate audience. Such forums are held at the universities of Durham, Newcastle, Northumbria, Sunderland, Teesside and York.

The Teesside forum featured two speakers from Northumbria University: Richard Keogh, ‘Dublin: the education of an Irish Catholic elite?’, and Vanessa Sherriffs ‘Socialism v Feminism. A Fight for the Franchise; 1910 – 1918.’

Students from Teesside University have presented papers at other History Lab events. These papers were followed by a question and answer session, and the opportunity to network with other postgraduate students from the north-eastern universities in an informal setting.

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