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North American Conference on British Studies

November 13-15 The Doubletree By Hilton Little Rock, Arkansas

About NACBS The North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS) is a scholarly society founded in 1950 and dedicated to all aspects of British Studies. The NACBS sponsors publications and an annual conference, as well as several academic prizes and graduate fellowships. Its regional affiliates include the Mid-Atlantic Conference on British Studies (MACBS), the Midwest Conference on British Studies (MWCBS), the Northeast Conference on British Studies (NECBS), the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies (PCCBS), the Southern Conference on British Studies (SCBS), and the Western Conference on British Studies (WCBS).

For more information about the NACBS and its affiliates consult www.nacbs.org.

The 2016 conference, held in conjunction with the Mid-Atlantic Conference on British Studies, will convene November 11-13 in Washington, DC. For directions on submitting papers and panels for the 2016 conference, consult the NACBS website.

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Acknowledgements

The NACBS and SCBS thank the following organizations and institutions for their very generous sponsorship of this conference:

Adam Matthew Group British Council Cambridge University Press Huntington Library Institute for Historical Research Oxford University Press American Friends of Attingham History Department, University of Arkansas Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, University of Arkansas History Department, Texas Tech University History Department, Tulane University Program in British Studies, University of Texas at Austin History Department, Mississippi State University History Department, Louisiana State University History Department, Vanderbilt University History Department, Southern Methodist University School of Humanities and Social Sciences, The Citadel History Department, University of Arkansas Little Rock

We are grateful for the abiding support of the British Council. Here is a message from Mr. Paul Smith, Director, British Council USA:

The British Council is the UK’s international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities. We create international opportunities for the people of the UK and other countries and build trust between them worldwide.

We work in more than 100 countries and our 8,000 staff – including 2,000 teachers – work with thousands of professionals and policy makers and millions of young people every year by

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teaching English, sharing the arts and delivering education and society programmes.

We are a UK charity governed by Royal Charter. A core publicly- funded grant provides 20 per cent of our turnover which last year was £864 million. The rest of our revenues are earned from services which customers around the world pay for, such as language consultancy, education and development contracts and from partnerships with public and private organisations. All our work is in pursuit of our charitable purpose and supports prosperity and security for the UK and globally.

For more information, please visit: www.britishcouncil.org. You can also keep in touch with the British Council through http://twitter.com/britishcouncil and http://blog.britishcouncil. org/.

We are very grateful to Jason Kelly for his generous assistance with the website and registration; to Keith Wrightson and Susan Pennybacker for their support of the Program Committee and its work; and to Daniel Pearce of Cambridge University Press, who helped with both proposal submission and registration.

We are very grateful to Katherine Grenier, Rebecca Hayes, Lisa Diller and Robert Ingram for their assistance with arrangements for the meeting. Special thanks go out to John Inscoe, Stephen Berry and John Kirk of the Southern Historical Association for help with local arrangements, and to Joelle Neulander for program design. We would also like to recognize Velva French and India Davenport of the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel in Little Rock for their invaluable contributions to the success of the conference.

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NACBS Executive Committee

President Keith Wrightson, Yale University Vice President Susan Pennybacker, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Immediate Past President Dane Kennedy, The George Washington University Executive Secretary Paul R. Deslandes, University of Vermont Associate Executive Secretary Elizabeth Prevost, Grinnell College Treasurer Travis Glasson, Temple University

Elected Members of the NACBS Council Elizabeth Ewan, University of Guelph Paul Halliday, University of Virginia Andrew Muldoon, Metropolitan State University of Denver Susan Pedersen, Columbia University Rachel Weil, Cornell University

NACBS/SCBS Program Committee Program Chair Phil Harling, University of Kentucky Program Committee Alastair Bellany, Rutgers University Deborah Cohen, Northwestern University Elizabeth Elbourne, McGill University Karl Gunther, University of Miami Krista Kesselring, Dalhousie University Kate Staples, West Virginia University Susie Steinbach, Hamline University Robert Travers, Cornell University

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SCBS Officers President Katherine Grenier, The Citadel Vice-President Karl Gunther, University of Miami Secretary/Treasurer Eric Reisenauer, University of South Carolina at Sumter Immediate Past President William Anthony Hay, Mississippi State University Chancellor for SCBS Affairs John Hutcheson, Dalton State College

SCBS Local Arrangements Katherine Grenier, The Citadel

Exhibitors The NACBS and the SCBS wish to recognize our exhibitors: Adam Matthew Group Boydell and Brewer Cambridge University Press Oxford University Press Scholars’ Choice

We are grateful for their generous and continuing support. Please visit our exhibitors in the Salon B Room. Book Exhibit Hours: Friday 8:30-5, Saturday 8:30-5, Sunday 8:30-noon

Registration (2nd Floor Lobby): Thursday 4-7, Friday 8-5, Saturday 8-1

Free Continental Breakfast, Salon D: Friday 7:45-9, Saturday 7:45-9, Sunday 7:45-8:45

Graduate Student Reception: Palisades Room: Thursday 8-9:30. Graduate students attending the conference are invited to a welcome reception, hosted by the NACBS Executive Council.

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Doubletree by Hilton, Little Rock Floor plans

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Friday, November 13

Friday Continental Breakfast 7:45-9:00 SALON D

SESSION ONE: 1. The House of Lords and British Society: Personal Friday Politics in a Public Arena, 1660-1714 8:45-10:30 EDGEHILL

Chair and Comment: Paul Seaward, History of Parliament Trust

Aristocracy and Avarice: The story of the Albemarle inheritance Ruth Paley, History of Parliament Trust

“Open House at Hell”? Honour and corruption within the House of Lords, c. 1688-1700 Robin Eagles, History of Parliament Trust

Irish Appellate Cases at the Dublin and Westminster Parliaments Coleman Dennehy, University College, London

2. Architecture and the Sciences in Victorian Britain RIVERSIDE EAST

Chair and Comment: Amy Woodson-Boulton, Loyola Marymount University

Photography and the Scientification of Architecture in the Late Victorian Era David Frazer Lewis, Yale Center for British Art

Geological Ethics: John Ruskin’s “Truth of Essences” Marrikka Trotter, Harvard University

Building Parliament and Knowledge: The Science of the Palace of Westminster

Edward John Gillin, Oxford University

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SESSION ONE 3. Ireland within British Imperial Culture (cont’d): RIVERSIDE WEST Friday Chair: Michael de Nie, University of West Georgia 8:45-10:30 Ireland, the Imperial Turn and Four-Nations History: How the Empire Makes the United Kingdom Make Sense Stephanie Barczewski, Clemson University

Irish Wives for German Soldiers: State-Sponsored Migration to the Cape Colony during the 1850s Jill Bender, University of North Carolina-Greensboro

“Coloured and white policemen drilling side by side”: Imperial Encounters in Late Victorian and Edwardian Dublin Michael Silvestri, Clemson University

Comment: Paul Townend, University of North Carolina-Wilmington

4. Emotional Currencies of Empire SALON A

Chair and Comment: Dane Kennedy, The George Washington University

“Going Native”: Colonial Informants and Contentious Intimacies Kim Wagner, Queen Mary University of London (Marie Curie Fellow, George Washington University, 2015-17)

The “Terrorist” and his Jailor: Prison Intimacies in the Colonial Prison Durba Ghosh, Cornell University

“The Colour Bar is all Bunk”: South African Hospitality

during the Second World War

Jean Smith, University of Leeds

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SESSION ONE 5. Political Economy and Imperial Competition in (cont’d): the Long Eighteenth Century Friday SALON C 8:45-10:30 Chair: Carl Wennerlind, Barnard College

Guarda Costas in the Early English Empire, 1670-1700 Leslie Theibert, University of Oxford

The War of Jenkins’ Ear and the Political Economy of Empire Steven Pincus, Yale University

“Bad Money”: The Royal Mint at the Crossroads of Empire, 1782-1837 Heather Welland, SUNY Binghamton

Comment: Sarah Kinkel, Ohio University

6. Masculinity on the Backfoot PALISADES

Chair: Isaac Land, Indiana State University

Where Are Your Wives?: Laughing at African Explorers Angela Thompsell, The College at Brockport, SUNY

Liberalizing Paternalism? Men and the 1893 Slander of Women Act Caroline Shaw, Bates College

(Un)Lawful Confinement and Victorian Masculinity Amy Milne-Smith, Wilfrid Laurier University

Comment: Allison Abra, University of Southern

Mississippi

Friday Coffee Break 10:30-10:45 FOYER

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SESSION TWO: 7. (Re)Evaluating the Social Space of Early Modern Households Friday EDGEHILL 10:45-12:30

Chair: Elizabeth Ewan, University of Guelph

“Believing na evill nor Injury”: Urban Households and Petty Crimes in Early Modern Scotland Rob Falconer, Grant MacEwan University

“A Good Servant is a Precious Jewell”: Mistresses and Servants in the Early Modern English Elite Household Courtney Thomas, Independent Scholar

Helping to Slipe their Calfes: Man-Midwifery at the Court of Charles II Sarah Kelly, Independent Scholar

Comment: Richard Connors, University of Ottawa

8. Fighting for Britain? Negotiating Identities in Britain during the Second World War RIVERSIDE EAST

Chair: Juliette Pattinson, University of Kent

Recovering English-Welsh Hybridity in the Second World War Wendy Ugolini, University of Edinburgh

Britain, the Countryside and “Englishness” in the Second World War Lucy Noakes, University of Brighton

“Some Idea of our Country”: Scotland, Wales and

Northern Ireland in Early Wartime Documentary Film

Stuart Allan, National Museums Scotland

Comment: Susan R. Grayzel, University of Mississippi

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SESSION TWO 9. Rethinking the Role of Religion in Seventeenth- (cont’d): Century English Politics RIVERSIDE WEST Friday

10:45-12:30 Chair: Catherine Chou, Stanford University

Contemptuous Words Spoken in the Fleet: Religion and Sedition in the Early Modern Prison Richard Thomas Bell, Stanford University

Subversive Orthodoxy: Dying for the Lord’s Deposed Anointed in Protectorate England Mark T. Duggan, Rutgers University

The Devil is in the Details: Metaphysical Epistemologies in Anti-Popish Critiques of Charles I Christopher P. Gillett, Brown University

Comment: Brad S. Gregory, University of Notre Dame

10. Reimagining the “Primitive”: History, Anthropology, and the Past in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries SALON A

Chair: Andrew Muldoon, Metropolitan State University of Denver

Modernity and the Moon Goddess: Feminism, Psychology, and the “Primitive” in the Early Twentieth Century Joy Dixon, University of British Columbia

Doomed to Die: Anthropology and the Future of Endangered Races in Modern Settler Colonies Sadiah Qureshi, University of Birmingham

“Primitive” Art, “Primitivism,” and the Modern

Savage: Approaches to the History and Science of Culture Amy Woodson-Boulton, Loyola Marymount University

Comment: Chris Manias, University of Manchester

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SESSION TWO 11. Reactions to the Imperial Civil War (cont’d): SALON C

Friday Chair and Comment: Hannah Weiss Muller, Brandeis 10:45-12:30 University

“The Race of the Insipids”?: Neutrals and Neutrality in the American Revolution Travis Glasson, Temple University

Striking the King: Legal Rituals of Royalism and Rebellion during the American Revolution Brendan Gillis, Indiana University

Labor and Property in the American Revolution John Collins, Eastern Washington University

12. Redeeming Tommy Atkins: Poetry, Patriotism, and Performance at the Fin-de-Siècle PALISADES

Chair and Comment: Douglas Peers, University of Waterloo

Kipling and the Poetics of the Anglo-Afghan Wars Zarena Aslami, Michigan State University

Kipling's Bully Pulpit: Music Hall Patriotism Revisited Peter Bailey, University of Manitoba and Indiana University

Living Links to History, or, Victorian Veterans in the Twentieth-Century World Lara Kriegel, Indiana University

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LUNCH AND SALON D PLENARY ADDRESS Chair: Keith Wrightson (Yale University), President, NACBS 12:45-2:30 Plucked Hens and Principals: Tackling Dutch Politics in Seventeenth-Century England Jason Peacey, University College London

The NACBS thanks the British Council and Paul Smith, Director of the British Council USA, for co-sponsoring Professor Peacey’s appearance.

SESSION THREE: 13. Modern History Workshop: The Individual and Friday Society 2:45-4:30 EDGEHILL (Session will run to 5:15) Note: Pre-circulated papers for this workshop are available from Deborah Cohen (Deborah-Cohen @northwestern.edu). A portion of this session will be reserved for questions from the floor; advance reading of the papers by audience members is not expected or required.

Chairs: Deborah Cohen, Northwestern University Matt Houlbrook, University of Birmingham

“The impressionistic brush of a Turner, not the microscopic detail of a Canaletto”: Reflections on the Use of Qualitative Evidence in Reconstructing Social History Alan Allport, Syracuse University

Celebrity and Empire: The Performance of Ruling in British India, 1760-1925 Christina Casey, Cornell University

Enterprise on the Margins: New Protagonists in British Business History Jessica P. Clark, Brock University

"In Me Two Worlds”: Dona Torr and the Construction of the Marxist Individual, 1900-1956 Cath Feely, University of Derby 13

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SESSION THREE The Tailor and Thomas Carlyle: Exceptionality and the (cont’d): Hidden Injuries of the Representative in Modern Friday Britain 2:45-4:30 Christopher Ferguson, Auburn University

Sharing With Strangers: Alcoholics Anonymous UK in the Late Twentieth Century Katie Harper, University of California, Berkeley

Individual Investors and Financialization in Post-War Britain Kieran Heinemann, University of Cambridge

Exemplars of Political and Ideological Change in Northampton, 1867-1918 Matthew Kidd, University of Nottingham

On the Biographies of Nobodies: Telling the History of Marginalized Individuals Julia Laite, Birkbeck, University of London

Sidgwick's Greek Prose Composition: Gender, Affect, and Sociability in the Late-Victorian University Emily Rutherford, Columbia University

“Sympathetic Ink”: Individual Identity in the 1820s Effort to Reform the British Sodomy Laws Charles Upchurch, Florida State University

14. Early-Modern History Workshop: Political History RIVERSIDE EAST (Session will run to 5:15) Note: Papers will be made available in cases where author consent has been given. Please contact Brendan Kane for details (brendan.kane @uconn.edu). A portion of this session will be reserved for questions from the floor; advance reading of the papers by audience members is not expected or required.

Chairs: Brendan Kane, University of Connecticut William Bulman, Lehigh University

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SESSION THREE Ritual, Order and Disorder during the Interregnum: (cont’d): The Evidence from the Prayer Book(s) Friday Hilary Bogert-Winkler, University of Connecticut

2:45-4:30 The Rise of the Majority William Bulman, Lehigh University

Parliament in the Elizabethan Political Imagination: New Perspectives and Paradigms

Catherine Chou, Stanford University

The Printing Press and the Pulpit: Imperial Propaganda for England's National Project, 1607- 1623 Kelsey Flynn, The George Washington University

“Credibly Informed”: Information Management and the Protestant Construction of Jesuit Influence in the Constitutional Crisis of 1647 Christopher Gillett, Brown University

Politics and Popular Appeals – Law, Legal Pamphlets and Mobilisation in the first English Civil War Alex Hitchman, University of Sheffield

Beyond the Spenser-Davies Group: Reading for Legitimacy in English Treatises on Governing Ireland Brendan Kane, University of Connecticut

The Down Survey: Science and Political History in

Stuart Ireland Ted McCormick, Concordia University

The Loyalty of Traitors: Mary Fenwick and Jacobite Ideology in Late Stuart England Kaitlin Pontzer, Cornell University

The World in the Archive: The Production of Political Knowledge in Early Modern Britain Nicholas Popper, College of William & Mary

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SESSION THREE 15. Roundtable: The English Reformation: Past, (cont’d): Present, and Future Friday RIVERSIDE WEST 2:45-4:30 Chair and Comment: Robert Ingram, Ohio University

Peter Lake, Vanderbilt University

Eric Josef Carlson, Gustavus Adolphus College

Karl Gunther, University of Miami

Joel Dodson, Southern Connecticut State University

16. Sustenance and Starvation: Food and the Cultural Politics of Welfare in Twentieth-Century Britain SALON A

Chair: Paul Deslandes, University of Vermont

Strikes, “Starvation,” and Welfare Politics in 1926 Marjorie Levine-Clark, University of Colorado, Denver

“Hot Drinks Mean Much in Jungle”: Tea in the Service of War Erika Rappaport, University of California, Santa Barbara

Nations Out of Nurseries, Empires Into Bottles: The Global Politics of Welfare Orange Juice Nadja Durbach, University of Utah

Comment: Deborah Valenze, Barnard College

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SESSION THREE 17. New Histories of the Welfare State (cont’d): SALON C Friday 2:45-4:30 Chair: Guy Ortolano, New York University

“Necessary” Medicine in the Early NHS Amy Whipple, Xavier University

“I’ve gone down, slipped; I’m from that Strata who lives off the State”: Women’s Selfhood and the Welfare State since 1945 Eve Worth, Queen’s College, University of Oxford

Bad Neighbors, Bad Bosses, Bad Feelings: The Making of the Race Relations Conciliation Officer, 1958-1976 Camilla Schofield, University of East Anglia

Comment: Selina Todd, St. Hilda’s College, University of Oxford

18. Women and Power Relationships: Cultural Assumptions, Negotiations and Resistance PALISADES

Chair and Comment: Jessica Sheetz-Nguyen, University of Central Oklahoma

Female Factory Inspectors, Gertrude Tuckwell, the Women’s Trade Union League and the Struggle against Workplace Fines and Deductions, 1893-1913 Christopher Frank, University of Manitoba

Dealing with the Army: Regimental Life of the Wives of Enlisted Men and NCOs in the Nineteenth Century Lynn MacKay, Brandon University

“We found as free ingress into their cells as if we had been a regiment of confessors”: Wellington’s Officers and the Seduction of Portuguese Nuns Jennine Hurl-Eamon, Trent University

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Friday, November Coffee Break 13 FOYER 4:30-4:45

4:30-6:00 Board Meeting: American Friends of the Institute for Historical Research SALON A

Board Meeting: Canadian Friends of the Institute

for Historical Research

SALON C

4:45-5:15 Business meeting: Southern Conference on British Studies

RIVERSIDE WEST

5:15-5:45 Business meeting: North American Conference on British Studies

RIVERSIDE WEST

Friday, November Reception and NACBS Awards Presentation. 13 6:00-7:30 SALON D

The awards presentation will begin at 6:30. Conference attendees are asked to remain quiet during this interval, so that all who are present can

hear the presentations and duly acknowledge their

peers. If you must talk during this portion of the reception, please retreat to the hallway outside Salon D.

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Saturday, November 14

Saturday, Continental Breakfast November 14 SALON D 7:45-9:00

SESSION FOUR: 19. Naval Healthcare at Home and at the Edge of Saturday, Empire, 1570-1825 November 14 EDGEHILL 8:45-10:30 Chair: Greg Smith, University of Manitoba

“In Misery and Distress”: Healthcare in the Early English East India Company, 1601-1611 Cheryl Fury, University of New Brunswick, St. John

“The Most Affectionate and Unremitted Care and Attention”: Black Nurses, Racial Immunity, and British West Indian Naval Hospitals, 1790-1825 Erin Spinney, University of Saskatchewan

London’s Hospitals and the Fiscal-Naval State, 1650- 1715 Matthew Neufeld, University of Saskatchewan

Comment: Krista Kesselring, Dalhousie University

20. Ceremony and Authority in Modern Britain and the British Empire RIVERSIDE EAST

Chair and Comment: Timothy Alborn, Lehman College, City University of New York

Royal Ritual and Performance in Colonial Africa

Charles Reed, Elizabeth City State University

The Call of the Medieval: Inventing Rituals for Honours in the Twentieth Century Tobias Harper, Providence College

Ritual Murder: Popular Reactions to Anglican Liturgical Reform, 1965-1980 Daniel Loss, Harvard University

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SESSION FOUR 21. Gender and the Professionalization of “Culture,” (cont’d): c. 1880 to c. 1969 Saturday, RIVERSIDE WEST November 14 8:45-10:30 Chair: Peter Mandler, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge

The Women’s Guild of Arts: Women Artists and Tactics of Professionalization in the Arts and Crafts Movement, c. 1880-1930 Zoe Thomas, Royal Holloway, University of London

“The Amateur Trader”: Women in the Market for Antiques, c. 1880-1940 Heidi Egginton, Newnham College, University of Cambridge

Untangling Thirsk’s Law: Women and History in Mid- Twentieth-Century Britain Laura Carter, Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge

Comment: Leslie Howsam, University of Windsor

22. Environments of Rebellion: Climate, Resources, and Politics in Early Modern Britain and the Atlantic SALON A

Chair: J. Sears McGee, University of California, Santa Barbara

Mapping Rebellion: Evaluating Plantation Land in Late Tudor Ireland, 1584-1603 Keith Pluymers, Caltech

Winter and Discontent in Early Modern England William Cavert, St. Thomas University

First Fruits of Cynicism: Creating Environmental Law for Economic Reward in the Early Modern British World Jennifer Wells, Brown University

Comment: Derek Hirst, Washington University in St. Louis

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SESSION FOUR: 23. Roundtable: Queer in the Classroom Saturday, SALON C November 14 8:45-10:30 Moderator: Paul Deslandes, University of Vermont

Chris Waters, Williams College

Katie Hindmarch-Watson, Colorado State University

Matt Houlbrook, University of Birmingham

Charles Upchurch, Florida State University

24. Roundtable: The Early Modern Legacy of

Religious Liberty

PALISADES

Moderator: Robert Ingram, Ohio University

The Other Religious Liberty Brent Sirota, North Carolina State University

Arguments for Religious Liberty as Tactics of

Oppression

William Bulman, Lehigh University

Gender, Family, and Religious Liberty in Early Modern England Susan D. Amussen, University of California, Merced

Tolerating Whom for What Purpose? Peter Lake, Vanderbilt University

Comment: Brad S. Gregory, University of Notre Dame

Saturday, Coffee Break November 14 FOYER 10:30-10:45

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SESSION FIVE: 25. Jews, Jewishness, and the Formation of Saturday, National Identity in the British Empire November 14 RIVERSIDE EAST 10:45-12:30 Chair: Dane Kennedy, The George Washington University

Political Lives between Nation and Empire: Jewish Elites in Mandatory Palestine and the “British Question” Elizabeth Imber, The Johns Hopkins University

Agitate, Friend Moses: Jews in the Irish Nationalist Imagination Aidan Beatty, University of Chicago

Tales of Love and Darkness: Zionism, the British Empire and Colonial Nostalgia in the Work of Amos Oz Eitan Bar-Yosef, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Comment: David Feldman, Birkbeck, University of

London

26. Chartist Leaders and Ideas

RIVERSIDE WEST

Chair: James J. Sack, University of Illinois at Chicago

“The Most Consistent of Them All”: William Sharman Crawford as a Chartist Anthony Daly, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts

Anti-Semitism in the Chartist Movement: The

Localities

Denis Paz, University of North Texas

Bronterre O’Brien, Chartism, and Money Michael J. Turner, Appalachian State University

Comment: James A. Epstein, Vanderbilt University

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SESSION FIVE 27. Urban Racial Politics in Post-War Britain (cont’d): SALON A Saturday, November 14 Chair and Comment: Susan Pennybacker, University 10:45-12:30 of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Egba Mi: Spaces and Sounds of African London Marc Matera, University of California, Santa Cruz

The Anti-Discrimination Paradox: Race Relations Policy, Policing and the Politics of Black British Citizenship Kennetta Hammond Perry, East Carolina University

Rastafari at the Odeon, Birmingham. 22 June 1976 Bill Schwarz, Queen Mary University of London

28. Political Communities and New Forms of Solidarity in Seventeenth-Century England SALON C

Chair and Comment: Rachel Weil, Cornell University

John Lilburne’s Allies: English Political Culture and its Transformations in the Revolutionary Decades (1640- 1660) Michael Braddick, University of Sheffield

Dissident Networks and Anglo-Dutch Print Culture in the Seventeenth Century Jason Peacey, University College London

“Spoken by ye one and confirmed by ye other”: Memory, Sedition, and Solidarity in Post- Revolutionary England, 1660-1685” Edward Legon, King’s College London

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SESSION FIVE 29. Leonore Davidoff: Pioneer Historian of Class and (cont’d): Gender Saturday, PALISADES November 14 10:45-12:30 Chair and Comment: Ellen Ross, Ramapo College of New Jersey

The New Perspectives on Siblings and Sibling Death in Davidoff’s Thicker Than Water (2012) Lydia Murdoch, Vassar College

Evangelical Christianity, Class, and Gender: Family Fortunes’ Invaluable Contribution to the Study of Religion in Nineteenth-Century Britain Pamela Walker, Carleton University

Leonore Davidoff as a Mentor in Social History and Gender History Anna Clark, University of Minnesota

Lunch and Luncheon Plenary Saturday, SALON D November 14

12:45-2:30 Chair: Katherine Grenier (The Citadel), President, Southern Conference on British Studies

Framework Trouble: Britain, the League of Nations, and the Italo-Ethiopian War Susan Pedersen, Columbia University

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SESSION SIX: 30. The Evolution of Imperial Defense in the British Saturday, World, 1850-1974 November 14 EDGEHILL 2:45-4:30 Chair: John C. Mitcham, Duquesne University

The Professionalization of British Naval Administration and the Evolution of Imperial Defense Strategy, 1850-1875: A Case Study John F. Beeler, University of Alabama

Forging a “Britannic Alliance”: The Dominions and Imperial Security, 1907-1918 John C. Mitcham, Duquesne University

“Off the Diplomatic Net”: Imperial Ends and American Means in the Indian Ocean, 1973-1974 Peter John Brobst, Ohio University

Comment: The Audience

31. Gender, Co-Operation, Resilience and Defence: The British Home Front in the Second World War RIVERSIDE EAST

Chair and Comment: Alan Allport, Syracuse University

“The Royal Mail will always get through”: Maintaining Communications on the Home and Military Front during the Second World War Mark Crowley, Wuhan University

Motherhood under Fire: Midwifery in Wartime Britain, 1939-45 Sandra Dawson, Northern Illinois University

Calculated Risks: Armaments Production and Public Safety in Wartime Britain Peter Thorsheim, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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SESSION SIX 32. Print, Polemic and Publicity in Early Modern (cont’d): England Saturday, RIVERSIDE WEST November 14 2:45-4:30 Chair: Amy Harris, Brigham Young University

“Beyond Luther” and “Against Rome”: Richard Bernard, Anti-Catholicism and Anti-Calvinism Amy Tan, Vanderbilt University

Zachary Crofton’s Presbyterian Lash: Confessional Conflict in a London Parish Isaac Stephens, Saginaw Valley State University

“At the Office to Noon, and then to the Change”: Publics, Publicity and Public Men in Early Restoration London David Magliocco, Vanderbilt University

Comment: Peter Lake, Vanderbilt University

33. Knowledge, Empire, and the East India Company SALON A

Chair: Holger Hoock, University of Pittsburgh

From the Winds of the Bay of Bengal: Science, Empire, and Self Sujit Sivasundaram, University of Cambridge

The East India Company, the Company’s Museum, and the Political Economy of Natural History in the Early Nineteenth Century Jessica Ratcliff, Yale- NUS College

Mobilizing Paperwork in an Age of Imperial War: John Bruce, the East India Company, and the Imperial Archive in the Era of the French Wars Asheesh Kapur Siddique, Columbia University

Comment: Durba Ghosh, Cornell University

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SESSION SIX 34. Pathways to Development: Private Actors and (cont’d): Development in the 20th Century British Empire Saturday, SALON C November 14 2:45-4:30 Chair and Comment: Erik Gilbert, Arkansas State University

Doing the Work of Empire: Oil Companies as Agents of Development Karl Ittmann, University of Houston

Of Little Immediate Benefit: Colonial Development Planning and Impoverishment in Central Tanzania Gregory Maddox, Texas Southern University

“Notice Tenders for Contract”: Colonial Development in the Imperial Periphery Katie Valliere Streit, University of Houston

35. Roundtable: Women’s History in the Academy PALISADES

Chair and Comment: Selina Todd, St. Hilda’s College, University of Oxford

Susan Grayzel, University of Mississippi

Philippa Levine, University of Texas at Austin

Alexandra Shepard, University of Glasgow

Sarah Knott, Indiana University

Saturday,

November 14 Coffee Break 4:30-4:45 FOYER

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Saturday, Presidential Address November 14 SALON D 5:00-6:00 Salon D Chair: Susan Pennybacker, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Presidential Address: Keith Wrightson, Yale University Popular Senses of Time: “Dating Statements” and the Rise of “Almanac Time” in England, c. 1560-c. 1720

Saturday, Reception November 14 BUTLER CENTER FOR ARKANSAS STUDIES 6:15-7:45: (409 President Clinton Avenue, 501-320-5700)

Walk: 0.4 mile, 9 minutes. Head east on West Markham Street (which shortly thereafter becomes Clinton Avenue) for ~6 blocks. The Butler Center is located in the Arkansas Studies Institute building (on your right if you’re coming from the Doubletree), on the southeast corner of Rock Street and Clinton Avenue. The entrance is the fourth door on the building, coming from the corner of Rock Street and Clinton Avenue.

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Sunday, November Continental Breakfast 15 SALON D 7:45-8:45

SESSION SEVEN: 36. Rumour, Politics, and Public Opinion in England, Sunday, November c. 1381-1945 15 EDGEHILL 8:30-10:15 Chair and Comment: Andy Wood, Durham University

Rumour Right or Wrong: The Dangerous Power of Common Talk in Late Medieval England Christopher Fletcher, CNRS – University of Paris I

“Common Fame”: Rumour and the Vox Populi during the Impeachment of the Duke of Buckingham, 1626 David Coast, Bath Spa University

Lions on the Loose and Sharks in the Channel: Rumour and War in Britain, 1939-1945 Jo Fox, Durham University

37. Imperial Environments during the Late

Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

RIVERSIDE EAST

Chair and Comment: Mark Hampton, Lingnan University

Daniells’ Calcutta: Visions of Life, Death, and Nabobery in Late-Eighteenth-Century British India Patrick Rasico, Vanderbilt University

The Texture of Empire: Botanic Gardens and

“Improvement” in India in the Nineteenth Century

J’Nese Williams, Vanderbilt University

Social Antidotes to China's Opium Plague: India and the Culture of Imperial Reformism in Victorian Britain Simon Case, Lingnan University

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SESSION SEVEN 38. Guilt and the Problem of Evil in the British (cont’d): World Sunday, November RIVERSIDE WEST 15 8:30-10:15 Chair and Comment: Martin J. Wiener, Rice University

“The Worst sort of Christians make the Devil their Play-Fellow”: Making Merry in Seventeenth-Century New England Charlotte Carrington-Farmer, Roger Williams University

Sin, Satan, and Guilt in Eighteenth-Century Scottish Crime Literature Michelle Brock, Washington and Lee University

Evil and Evolution in Victorian Criminal Jurisprudence: The Case of Frederick Bailey Deeming Catherine Evans, Center for History and Economics, Harvard University

39. Historical Pageants in Twentieth-Century Britain and Ireland SALON A

Chair and Comment: Paul Andrew Readman, King’s

College London

When Ireland was British: Hegemonic and Counter- Hegemonic Historical Pageants, 1907-1914 Joan Fitzpatrick Dean, University of Missouri-Kansas City

“A Nation of Town Criers”: Civic Publicity and Historical Pageants in 1930s Britain Tom Hulme, King’s College London

“The Scots Pageant!”: The Arbroath Abbey Pageant and the State of Unionism in Postwar Scotland Linda Fleming, University of Glasgow

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SESSION SEVEN 40. Gender, Class, and Citizenship in Nineteenth- (cont’d): and Twentieth-Century Britain Sunday, November SALON C 15 8:30-10:15 Chair and Comment: Jacqueline deVries, Augsburg College

“Disenfranchised for doing his Duty toward his Family and his Neighbors”: Medicine, Pauperism, and the Workingman’s Vote, 1867-1885 Matthew Newsom Kerr, Santa Clara University

Votes for Women or Votes for “Hodge”? Gender, Class, and the Vote in the Reform Debates of the 1860s, 70s, and 80s Jill Abney, University of Kentucky

Family Matters: Women, Domesticity, and the Anti- Immigrationist Movement, 1955-1981 Nicole Longpré, Columbia University

41. The Meanings and Consequences of Violence in the Nineteenth Century: Ireland, Britain, and the Empire

PALISADES

Chair and Comment: Richard Price, University of Maryland, College Park

“Brandishing Ireland as a Weapon of Warfare”: The Problem of Irish “Outrage” and its Many Political Uses, 1837-1839 Jay R. Roszman, Carnegie Mellon University

Belfast’s Polemical Parson: The Reverend Thomas Drew and the Politics of Religious Violence in Mid- Victorian Belfast Sean Farrell, Northern Illinois University

The Invention of Terrorism in Victorian Britain William Meier, Texas Christian University

The Webb Case and the Regulation of Sexual Violence in Colonial India, c. 1883 Ashley Wright, Washington State University 31

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Sunday, November Coffee Break 15 FOYER 10:15-10:30

SESSION EIGHT: 42. Tory Feminism? Women, Leadership and Sexual Sunday, November Politics in the Conservative Party 15 EDGEHILL 10:30-12:15 Chair and Comment: Nicoletta Gullace, University of New Hampshire

“Formulating a Policy of Special Interest to Women” (M. Maxse): The British Conservative Party and the Mobilization of Women, 1918-1945 Clarisse Berthezene, Paris Diderot University

“The Statutory Woman whose main task was to explore what Women were likely to think”: Margaret Thatcher and Women’s Politics in the 1950s Krista Cowman, University of Lincoln

Tory Feminists in the Aftermath of Suffrage Julie Gottlieb, University of Sheffield

From Crucial Female Auxiliaries to Superfluous Women?: The Primrose League and its Struggle for Survival, 1914-1932 Matthew Hendley, SUNY Oneonta

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SESSION EIGHT 43. “Pressing” the Empire into Service: The Colonial (cont’d): Press Comes to London Sunday, November RIVERSIDE EAST

15 Chair and Comment: Kim Wagner, Queen Mary 10:30-12:15 University of London (Marie Curie Fellow, George Washington University, 2015-17)

Exporting Fleet Street: Editorship, Journalistic Practice, and the Attempt to Make Good Journalists in the Fold of Britain’s Empire Leslie James, University of Birmingham

Nnamdi Azikiwe’s Debut and his British Stage: The West African Press Delegation, 1943 Mark Reeves, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Civil Rights in the Colonial Empire: The National Council for Civil Liberties and the Translation of Empire Christopher Moores, University of Birmingham

44. Minding the Margins: Politics and the Construction of Religious Identity in Early Stuart England RIVERSIDE WEST

Chair: Paul Lim, Vanderbilt University

Catholics and the Cromwellian Church: The Politics of de jure versus de facto Toleration Katherine G. Lazo, Vanderbilt University

Plundering the Presbyterians: The Covenant with Moses and Godly Government in Interregnum Theology and Political Thought

Andrew J. Martin, Vanderbilt University

Ecclesiastical Licensing, Religious Censorship, and the Regulation of Consensus in Early Stuart England Greg Salazar, University of Cambridge

Comment: Lori Anne Ferrell, Claremont Graduate University

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SESSION EIGHT 45. Managing Health and Avoiding Death in the (cont’d): Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century British Sunday, November Atlantic World 15 SALON A

10:30-12:15 Chair and Comment: Amanda Herbert, Christopher Newport University

When Skulls Were Drugs: Cranium Humanum and Exotic Medicines in the Early Modern World Benjamin Breen, Columbia University

“To be well done must be well paid”: Transatlantic Health Infrastructure in a Time of Sugar, Slaves, and Scarcity Zachary Dorner, Brown University

“A Difference of housing, clothing and turning out”: The Evolution of Body Management Strategies in British Plantation America, 1750-1807 Claire Gherini, The Johns Hopkins University

46. Education and Social Engineering in the British Empire, 1830-1930 SALON C

Chair and Comment: David Mitch, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

A Well-Ordered Home: Imperial Domestic Education in British Malaya and British India, 1920-1930 Matthew Schauer, Oklahoma State University

Educating Free Jamaicans: Religion, Elementary Education, and Childhood in Jamaica, 1838-1870 Christopher Bischof, University of Richmond

To Educate or Civilize? That is the Question: British

Women and Educational Rhetoric in Colonial Africa, 1900-1930 Elizabeth Schmidt, Texas A&M

“The Bulk of Our Problem”: Indian Law Students at the Inns of Court, c. 1880-1930 Ren Pepitone, The Johns Hopkins University

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SESSION EIGHT 47. Britishness Beyond Britain (cont’d): PALISADES Sunday, November 15 Chair and Comment: Patricia van der Spuy, Castleton 10:30-12:15 College

“We are a Great Class of British Subjects”: British Cultural Identity amongst South African Indians, 1890-1914 Irina Spector-Marks, University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign

Between “Purity” and “Degeneration” in a Pacific Utopia: Locating Britishness among the Pitcairn Islanders Adrian Young, Princeton University

From Colonized to Colonizer: Irish Immigrants, Violence, and Public Identities in Upper Canada and New South Wales, 1845-1868 Matthew Schownir, Purdue University

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Index

A Abney, Jill Panel 40 Abra, Allison Panel 6 Alborn, Timothy Panel 20 Allan, Stuart Panel 8 Allport, Alan Panel 13, Panel 31 Amussen, Susan D. Panel 24 Aslami, Zarena Panel 12

B Bailey, Peter Panel 12 Bar-Yosef, Eitan Panel 25 Barczewski, Stephanie Panel 3 Beatty, Aidan Panel 25 Beeler, John F. Panel 30 Bell, Richard Thomas Panel 9 Bender, Jill Panel 3 Berthezene, Clarisse Panel 42 Bischof, Christopher Panel 46 Bogert-Winkler, Hilary Panel 14 Braddick, Michael Panel 28 Breen, Benjamin Panel 45 Brobst, Peter John Panel 30 Brock, Michelle Panel 38 Bulman, William Panel 14, Panel 24

C Carlson, Eric Josef Panel 15 Carrington-Farmer, Charlotte Panel 38 Carter, Laura Panel 21 Case, Simon Panel 37 Casey, Christina Panel 13 Cavert, William Panel 22 Chou, Catherine Panel 9, Panel 14 Clark, Anna Panel 29 Clark, Jessica P. Panel 13 Coast, David Panel 36 Cohen, Deborah Panel 13 Collins, John Panel 11 Connors, Richard Panel 7 Cowman, Krista Panel 42 Crowley, Mark Panel 31

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D Daly, Anthony Panel 26 Dawson, Sandra Panel 31 de Nie, Michael Panel 3 Dean, Joan Fitzpatrick Panel 39 Dennehy, Coleman Panel 1 Deslandes, Paul Panel 16, Panel 23 deVries, Jacqueline Panel 40 Dixon, Joy Panel 10 Dodson, Joel Panel 15 Dorner, Zachary Panel 45 Duggan, Mark T. Panel 9 Durbach, Nadja Panel 16

E Eagles, Robin Panel 1 Egginton, Heidi Panel 21 Epstein, James Panel 26 Evans, Catherine Panel 38

F Falconer, Rob Panel 7 Farrell, Sean Panel 41 Feely, Cath Panel 13 Feldman, David Panel 25 Ferguson, Christopher Panel 13 Ferrell, Lori Anne Panel 44 Fleming, Linda Panel 39 Fletcher, Christopher Panel 36 Flynn, Kelsey Panel 14 Fox, Jo Panel 36 Frank, Christopher Panel 18 Fury, Cheryl Panel 19

G Gherini, Claire Panel 45 Ghosh, Durba Panel 4, Panel 33 Gilbert, Erik Panel 34 Gillett, Christopher P. Panel 9, Panel 14 Gillin, Edward John Panel 2 Gillis, Brendan Panel 11 Glasson, Travis Panel 11 Gottlieb, Julie Panel 42 Grayzel, Susan R. Panel 8, Panel 35 Gregory, Brad S. Panel 9, Panel 24 43

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Gullace, Nicoletta Panel 42 Gunther, Karl Panel 15

H Hampton, Mark Panel 37 Harper, Katie Panel 13 Harper, Tobias Panel 20 Harris, Amy Panel 32 Heinemann, Kieran Panel 13 Hendley, Matthew Panel 42 Herbert, Amanda Panel 45 Hirst, Derek Panel 22 Hindmarch-Watson, Katie Panel 23 Hitchman, Alex Panel 14 Hoock, Holger Panel 33 Houlbrook, Matt Panel 13, Panel 23 Howsam, Leslie Panel 21 Hulme, Tom Panel 39 Hurl-Eamon, Jennine Panel 18

I Imber, Elizabeth Panel 25 Ingram, Robert Panel 15, Panel 24 Ittmann, Karl Panel 34

J James, Leslie Panel 43

K Kane, Brendan Panel 14 Kelly, Sarah Panel 7 Kennedy, Dane Panel 4, Panel 25 Kerr, Matthew Newsom Panel 40 Kesselring, Krista Panel 19 Kidd, Matthew Panel 13 Kinkel, Sarah Panel 5 Knott, Sarah Panel 35 Kriegel, Lara Panel 12

L Laite, Julia Panel 13 Lake, Peter Panel 15, Panel 24, Panel 32 Land, Isaac Panel 6 Lazo, Katherine G. Panel 44 Legon, Edward Panel 28

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Levine-Clark, Marjorie Panel 16 Levine, Philippa Panel 35 Lewis, David Frazer Panel 2 Lim, Paul Panel 44 Longpré, Nicole Panel 40 Loss, Daniel Panel 20

M MacKay, Lynn Panel 18 Maddox, Gregory Panel 34 Magliocco, David Panel 32 Mandler, Peter Panel 21 Manias, Chris Panel 10 Martin, Andrew J. Panel 44 Matera, Marc Panel 27 McCormick, Ted Panel 14 McGee, J. Sears Panel 22 Meier, William Panel 41 Milne-Smith, Amy Panel 6 Mitch, David Panel 46 Mitcham, John C. Panel 30 Moores, Christopher Panel 43 Muldoon, Andrew Panel 10 Muller, Hannah Weiss Panel 11 Murdoch, Lydia Panel 29

N Neufeld, Matthew Panel 19 Noakes, Lucy Panel 8

O Ortolano, Guy Panel 17

P Paley, Ruth Panel 1 Pattinson, Juliette Panel 8 Paz, Denis Panel 26 Peacey, Jason Friday Lunch, Panel 28 Pedersen, Susan Saturday Lunch Peers, Douglas Panel 12 Pennybacker, Susan Panel 27 Pepitone, Ren Panel 46 Perry, Kennetta Hammond Panel 27 Pincus, Steven Panel 5

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Pluymers, Keith Panel 22 Pontzer, Kaitlin Panel 14 Popper, Nicholas Panel 14 Price, Richard Panel 41

Q Qureshi, Sadiah Panel 10

R Rappaport, Erika Panel 16 Rasico, Patrick Panel 37 Ratcliff, Jessica Panel 33 Readman, Paul Andrew Panel 39 Reed, Charles Panel 20 Reeves, Mark Panel 43 Ross, Ellen Panel 29 Roszman, Jay R. Panel 41 Rutherford, Emily Panel 13

S Sack, James J. Panel 26 Salazar, Greg Panel 44 Schauer, Matthew Panel 46 Schmidt, Elizabeth Panel 46 Schofield, Camilla Panel 17 Schownir, Matthew Panel 47 Schwarz, Bill Panel 27 Seaward, Paul Panel 1 Shaw, Caroline Panel 6 Sheetz-Nguyen, Jessica Panel 18 Shepard, Alexandra Panel 35 Siddique, Asheesh Kapur Panel 33 Silvestri, Michael Panel 3 Sirota, Brent Panel 24 Sivasundaram, Sujit Panel 33 Smith, Greg Panel 19 Smith, Jean Panel 4 Spector-Marks, Irina Panel 47 Spinney, Erin Panel 19 Stephens, Isaac Panel 32 Streit, Katie Valliere Panel 34

T Tan, Amy Panel 32 Theibert, Leslie Panel 5

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Thomas, Courtney Panel 7 Thomas, Zoe Panel 21 Thompsell, Angela Panel 6 Thorsheim, Peter Panel 31 Todd, Selina Panel 17, Panel 35 Townend, Paul Panel 3 Trotter, Marrikka Panel 2 Turner, Michael J. Panel 26

U Ugolini, Wendy Panel 8 Upchurch, Charles Panel 13, Panel 23

V Valenze, Deborah Panel 16 van der Spuy, Patricia Panel 47

W Wagner, Kim Panel 4, Panel 43 Walker, Pamela Panel 29 Waters, Chris Panel 23 Weil, Rachel Panel 28 Welland, Heather Panel 5 Wells, Jennifer Panel 22 Wennerlind, Carl Panel 5 Whipple, Amy Panel 17 Wiener, Martin J. Panel 38 Williams, J’Nese Panel 37 Wood, Andy Panel 36 Woodson-Boulton, Amy Panel 2, Panel 10 Worth, Eve Panel 17 Wright, Ashley Panel 41 Wrightson, Keith Saturday Presidential Address

Y Young, Adrian Panel 47

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