Brendan Tam
@brendantam.bsky.social
PhD candidate (History) University of Warwick (2022-2026) || Political friendship in Britain 1760-1837|| 🇦🇺 || PG Co-Convenor IHR British History in the Long Eighteenth Century Seminar
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Brendan Tam
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AUTUMN 2025 TERM CARD:
We have an exciting range of speakers for the remainder of this term - covering a range of topics relating to Britain in the #18th!
As always, all our seminars take place in person and online. Make sure to register with the following link!
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
We have an exciting range of speakers for the remainder of this term - covering a range of topics relating to Britain in the #18th!
As always, all our seminars take place in person and online. Make sure to register with the following link!
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
October 20, 2025 at 9:35 AM
AUTUMN 2025 TERM CARD:
We have an exciting range of speakers for the remainder of this term - covering a range of topics relating to Britain in the #18th!
As always, all our seminars take place in person and online. Make sure to register with the following link!
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
We have an exciting range of speakers for the remainder of this term - covering a range of topics relating to Britain in the #18th!
As always, all our seminars take place in person and online. Make sure to register with the following link!
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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I'm really looking forward to sharing my findings about debates surrounding the Scottish Coal miners. Make sure to come along!
Next Wednesday 22-10 starting at 5:30pm Dr Polly Lowe will present her paper ‘Bound Labour, Narratives of Nationhood, and the Rhetoric of Slavery: Liberty, Identity, and Scottish Coal-Miners in the Long Eighteenth Century’. Join us in person at the IHR or online!
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Bound Labour, Narratives of Nationhood, and the Rhetoric of Slavery: Liberty, Identity, and Scottish Coal-Miners in the Long Eighteenth Century
www.history.ac.uk
October 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I'm really looking forward to sharing my findings about debates surrounding the Scottish Coal miners. Make sure to come along!
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We're super excited to announce the return of the Warwick History PG Work in Progress for 2025/26. Open to all who are interested in hearing about all the fantastic research being done by PG history students at Warwick!
October 6, 2025 at 1:09 PM
We're super excited to announce the return of the Warwick History PG Work in Progress for 2025/26. Open to all who are interested in hearing about all the fantastic research being done by PG history students at Warwick!
I have the pleasure of chairing @richardjansell.bsky.social’s paper next week. Be sure to add it to your calendar if you’re interested to hear more about servants on the “grand tour” in the 18th century!
Join us next Wednesday (8-10) in person at the IHR or online from 5:30pm to Dr Richard Ansell’s paper ‘Travel Journals and Other Traces of Servants on the Grand Tour’. Register with the following link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Richard outlines the paper here:
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Richard outlines the paper here:
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Join Dr Richard Ansell (Birkbeck) for a free online seminar. 5:30-7:30pm London time on Wed. Oct 8 via zoom. “Travel Journals and Other Traces of Servants on the Grand Tour”. From valets to maids, dis...
TikTok video by Long 18th Century Seminar IHR
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October 1, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I have the pleasure of chairing @richardjansell.bsky.social’s paper next week. Be sure to add it to your calendar if you’re interested to hear more about servants on the “grand tour” in the 18th century!
Back to what has become over the last three years another home.
September 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Back to what has become over the last three years another home.
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@joecozens.bsky.social, one of our seminar convenors, has just had an article published by @histparl.bsky.social discussing his research into John Lewis, a Black sailor who was arrested during the 1828 Weymouth by-election.
historyofparliament.com/2025/06/24/j...
historyofparliament.com/2025/06/24/j...
John Lewis: A Black Sailor at the 1828 Weymouth By-Election - The History of Parliament
In this guest article Dr Joe Cozens discusses his research into John Lewis, a Black sailor who was arrested during the 1828 Weymouth by-election. Dr Cozens is
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June 24, 2025 at 8:36 AM
@joecozens.bsky.social, one of our seminar convenors, has just had an article published by @histparl.bsky.social discussing his research into John Lewis, a Black sailor who was arrested during the 1828 Weymouth by-election.
historyofparliament.com/2025/06/24/j...
historyofparliament.com/2025/06/24/j...
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Join us next Wednesday (25/6) 5:30-7:30 in person at the IHR and online for our final seminar of 2024-5 to hear David Turner ( Swansea University) present his paper ‘Histories of Resistance: Disability, Agency & Embodiment in the Long Eighteenth Century’
@ihr.bsky.social
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@ihr.bsky.social
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Histories of Resistance: Disability, Agency and Embodiment in the Long Eighteenth Century
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June 19, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Join us next Wednesday (25/6) 5:30-7:30 in person at the IHR and online for our final seminar of 2024-5 to hear David Turner ( Swansea University) present his paper ‘Histories of Resistance: Disability, Agency & Embodiment in the Long Eighteenth Century’
@ihr.bsky.social
shorturl.at/hMRGz
@ihr.bsky.social
shorturl.at/hMRGz
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Join us next Wednesday at the University of Northampton as we take the Seminar on the road! Starting at 15:00 hyrid, John Coffey (Leicester) will present on the ongoing Wilberforce Diaries project.
The event will be proceeded by a walking tour of Northampton!
www.history.ac.uk/events/diari...
The event will be proceeded by a walking tour of Northampton!
www.history.ac.uk/events/diari...
The Diaries and Journals of William Wilberforce: An Editor’s Report
www.history.ac.uk
June 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Join us next Wednesday at the University of Northampton as we take the Seminar on the road! Starting at 15:00 hyrid, John Coffey (Leicester) will present on the ongoing Wilberforce Diaries project.
The event will be proceeded by a walking tour of Northampton!
www.history.ac.uk/events/diari...
The event will be proceeded by a walking tour of Northampton!
www.history.ac.uk/events/diari...
It was a pleasure presenting a paper this morning based on my recent work on political sociability (derived from a dissertation chapter section) at Warwick’s PG History Conference.
Congratulations to my fellow co-organisers for putting together a fantastic 2-day conference!
Congratulations to my fellow co-organisers for putting together a fantastic 2-day conference!
Opening our final day of the conference with a fascinating panel: concepts in historical perspective.
Join us in OC0.04 to find out more about the History PG community’s research!
Join us in OC0.04 to find out more about the History PG community’s research!
May 23, 2025 at 10:42 AM
It was a pleasure presenting a paper this morning based on my recent work on political sociability (derived from a dissertation chapter section) at Warwick’s PG History Conference.
Congratulations to my fellow co-organisers for putting together a fantastic 2-day conference!
Congratulations to my fellow co-organisers for putting together a fantastic 2-day conference!
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Kicking off our conference with our first panel: Early Modern Mobilities
Come down to OC0.04 to catch the latest in PG history research here at Warwick!
Come down to OC0.04 to catch the latest in PG history research here at Warwick!
May 22, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Kicking off our conference with our first panel: Early Modern Mobilities
Come down to OC0.04 to catch the latest in PG history research here at Warwick!
Come down to OC0.04 to catch the latest in PG history research here at Warwick!
I have throughly enjoyed helping to put this event together as the current PGR Seminar Co-Convenor. We have a bumper lineup of early stage PhDs presenting their research.
Join us next Wednesday (14 May) in room 243 of Senate House or online for our annual Lightning Talks event. This is our seminar’s flagship event where we hear rapid-fire three minute presentations from early-stage PhDs about their dissertation research.
www.history.ac.uk/events/light...
www.history.ac.uk/events/light...
Lightning Talks
www.history.ac.uk
May 9, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I have throughly enjoyed helping to put this event together as the current PGR Seminar Co-Convenor. We have a bumper lineup of early stage PhDs presenting their research.
Our conference schedule is now live! I am very excited to see this showcase of research from rhe Warwick PG community! warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...
May 8, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Our conference schedule is now live! I am very excited to see this showcase of research from rhe Warwick PG community! warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...
Check out this fantastic conference on early modern work - @annajpravdica.bsky.social has put together an absolute stellar lineup!
So pleased that this event which I first had the idea for well over a year ago now is so close to coming to fruition 😍 We have a really wonderful programme with an exciting array of speakers whose papers I can't wait to hear in June! Find out more @earlymodern2025.bsky.social
Our jam-packed and very exciting programme is now available on our webpage here ✨ We're hugely grateful to all the excellent speakers who submitted proposals and have agreed to be part of this event, which has been long in the making but is now only a month away! warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...
May 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Check out this fantastic conference on early modern work - @annajpravdica.bsky.social has put together an absolute stellar lineup!
Thrilled that I have been awarded a Lewis Walpole Travel Grant which will support two weeks of research later this year trawling through their eighteenth century private correspondence and manuscripts collections in Connecticut!
walpole.library.yale.edu/fellowships/...
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2025-2026 Award Recipients
| Lewis Walpole Library
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April 30, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Thrilled that I have been awarded a Lewis Walpole Travel Grant which will support two weeks of research later this year trawling through their eighteenth century private correspondence and manuscripts collections in Connecticut!
walpole.library.yale.edu/fellowships/...
walpole.library.yale.edu/fellowships/...
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This summer, @histparl.bsky.social is joining forces with the School of Law at the University of Worcester, @parlhistjournal.bsky.social and @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social, for a conference on the trial of Warren Hastings.
All welcome!
@cecs-york.bsky.social
www.worcester.ac.uk/about/academ...
All welcome!
@cecs-york.bsky.social
www.worcester.ac.uk/about/academ...
The Impeachment of Warren Hastings: The First Governor General of India - University Of Worcester
www.worcester.ac.uk
April 15, 2025 at 7:29 AM
This summer, @histparl.bsky.social is joining forces with the School of Law at the University of Worcester, @parlhistjournal.bsky.social and @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social, for a conference on the trial of Warren Hastings.
All welcome!
@cecs-york.bsky.social
www.worcester.ac.uk/about/academ...
All welcome!
@cecs-york.bsky.social
www.worcester.ac.uk/about/academ...
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🚨Call for Papers🚨
We're now welcoming abstracts from Warwick history postgraduates for our annual Conference!
Deadline 16 April
Apply here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...
We're now welcoming abstracts from Warwick history postgraduates for our annual Conference!
Deadline 16 April
Apply here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...
March 26, 2025 at 6:13 PM
🚨Call for Papers🚨
We're now welcoming abstracts from Warwick history postgraduates for our annual Conference!
Deadline 16 April
Apply here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...
We're now welcoming abstracts from Warwick history postgraduates for our annual Conference!
Deadline 16 April
Apply here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...
Thanks to the team at @gladlib.bsky.social for assisting with my research trip this week, consulting the Glynne-Gladstone manuscripts, helping me get through a mammoth amount of material. Now to actually write it up into the dissertation…
March 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Thanks to the team at @gladlib.bsky.social for assisting with my research trip this week, consulting the Glynne-Gladstone manuscripts, helping me get through a mammoth amount of material. Now to actually write it up into the dissertation…
Thanks to everyone who participated in the “Lived Experiences of the Westminster Parliament in History” conference that I co-organised with the fantastic @chloechallender.bsky.social - we enjoyed a wide range of papers spanning from medieval Westminster to the present day
March 14, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Thanks to everyone who participated in the “Lived Experiences of the Westminster Parliament in History” conference that I co-organised with the fantastic @chloechallender.bsky.social - we enjoyed a wide range of papers spanning from medieval Westminster to the present day
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Fantastic conference on Lived Experiences of the Westminster Parliament at Warwick today - great to speak on Vanda Salmon papers @chuarchives.bsky.social on panel with @lisaberrywaite.bsky.social and @emmapeplow.bsky.social. Thanks @chloechallender.bsky.social @brendantam.bsky.social for organising
March 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Fantastic conference on Lived Experiences of the Westminster Parliament at Warwick today - great to speak on Vanda Salmon papers @chuarchives.bsky.social on panel with @lisaberrywaite.bsky.social and @emmapeplow.bsky.social. Thanks @chloechallender.bsky.social @brendantam.bsky.social for organising
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Register for next week’s seminar on Wed 5 Mar to hear Prof Rebecca Earle’s (Warwick) paper ‘The World of Jacob de Pinna, Notary and Culture-Broker: The role of eighteenth-century London notaries as intercultural go-betweens’ from 17:30 at Senate House and online.
www.history.ac.uk/events/world...
www.history.ac.uk/events/world...
The World of Jacob de Pinna, Notary and Culture-Broker: The role of eighteenth-century London notaries as intercultural go-betweens
www.history.ac.uk
February 26, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Register for next week’s seminar on Wed 5 Mar to hear Prof Rebecca Earle’s (Warwick) paper ‘The World of Jacob de Pinna, Notary and Culture-Broker: The role of eighteenth-century London notaries as intercultural go-betweens’ from 17:30 at Senate House and online.
www.history.ac.uk/events/world...
www.history.ac.uk/events/world...
Register to join us on Friday 14th March at Warwick for our conference ‘Lived Experiences of the Westminster Parliament in History: People, sociability, communities and space’ organised by myself and @chloechallender.bsky.social with support from @emeccwarwick.bsky.social and History of Parliament
This conference on 14 March at University of Warwick looks excellent. And its free! Congrats @brendantam.bsky.social & @chloechallender.bsky.social on organising a great line up. Find out more here: historyofparliament.com/2025/02/13/c... @victoriancommons.bsky.social @georgianlords.bsky.social
Lived experiences of the Westminster Parliament in history: People, sociability, communities and space - The History of Parliament
On Friday 14 March 2025, a one-day conference, Lived Experiences of Westminster Parliament in History: People, Sociability, Communities, & Space, will be
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February 13, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Register to join us on Friday 14th March at Warwick for our conference ‘Lived Experiences of the Westminster Parliament in History: People, sociability, communities and space’ organised by myself and @chloechallender.bsky.social with support from @emeccwarwick.bsky.social and History of Parliament
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We have had last minute change of schedule - instead join us next week to hear seminar co-convenor Tim Hitchcock discuss his latest research (conducted with Bob Shoemaker) on policing and criminal justice in the late 18th century, at the usual time of 17:30 at the IHR and online.
@ihr.bsky.social
@ihr.bsky.social
Our speaker for next week's @long18thsem.bsky.social has had to withdraw. Instead, I will be speaking about 'Mapping Criminal Justice at London's Old Bailey, 1720-1820' - on behalf ofBob Shoemaker and myself. The same arrangements apply. www.history.ac.uk/events/mappi... @ihrlibrary.bsky.social
Mapping Criminal Justice at London's Old Bailey, 1720-1820: From the Night Watch to Proactive Policing
www.history.ac.uk
February 12, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We have had last minute change of schedule - instead join us next week to hear seminar co-convenor Tim Hitchcock discuss his latest research (conducted with Bob Shoemaker) on policing and criminal justice in the late 18th century, at the usual time of 17:30 at the IHR and online.
@ihr.bsky.social
@ihr.bsky.social
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CFP
Are you at the start of your PhD? Want to tell an eager and engaged audience about it in 5 mins? We want to hear the best PGR research about 18th Britain at our #LightningTalks event May 14 2025.
Please see the poster for further information, and please spread the word!
@ihr.bsky.social
Are you at the start of your PhD? Want to tell an eager and engaged audience about it in 5 mins? We want to hear the best PGR research about 18th Britain at our #LightningTalks event May 14 2025.
Please see the poster for further information, and please spread the word!
@ihr.bsky.social
January 31, 2025 at 2:04 PM
CFP
Are you at the start of your PhD? Want to tell an eager and engaged audience about it in 5 mins? We want to hear the best PGR research about 18th Britain at our #LightningTalks event May 14 2025.
Please see the poster for further information, and please spread the word!
@ihr.bsky.social
Are you at the start of your PhD? Want to tell an eager and engaged audience about it in 5 mins? We want to hear the best PGR research about 18th Britain at our #LightningTalks event May 14 2025.
Please see the poster for further information, and please spread the word!
@ihr.bsky.social
While I didn’t present a paper (due to my ongoing moratorium), it was fantastic to attend the @bsecs.bsky.social annul conference this week at Pembroke College Oxford. It’s always a joy to meet fellow 18th century scholars and to hear insights from the cutting edge of the field.
January 10, 2025 at 6:38 PM
While I didn’t present a paper (due to my ongoing moratorium), it was fantastic to attend the @bsecs.bsky.social annul conference this week at Pembroke College Oxford. It’s always a joy to meet fellow 18th century scholars and to hear insights from the cutting edge of the field.
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ICYMI 👎
There’s just over a week left to submit an abstract proposal for our upcoming 1 day conference “Lived Experiences of the Westminster Parliament in History” being held on Friday 14 March (deadline Friday January 13th)
warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...
@histparl.bsky.social
There’s just over a week left to submit an abstract proposal for our upcoming 1 day conference “Lived Experiences of the Westminster Parliament in History” being held on Friday 14 March (deadline Friday January 13th)
warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...
@histparl.bsky.social
January 2, 2025 at 12:15 PM
ICYMI 👎
There’s just over a week left to submit an abstract proposal for our upcoming 1 day conference “Lived Experiences of the Westminster Parliament in History” being held on Friday 14 March (deadline Friday January 13th)
warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...
@histparl.bsky.social
There’s just over a week left to submit an abstract proposal for our upcoming 1 day conference “Lived Experiences of the Westminster Parliament in History” being held on Friday 14 March (deadline Friday January 13th)
warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...
@histparl.bsky.social