'Narratives' Workshop

Collier Room, Hild Bede College, Durham, 8 May 2014

12:00 Lunch

Session One

12:45 MIKE CRESSEY (Durham): Restoration Plot Narratives: The first celebrity hardbacks?

13:15 NICKI KINDERSLEY (Durham): “The night is pregnant with an invisible thing”: Spy stories

and narrative issues in South Sudan

13:45 Tea break

Session Two

14:00 STAN NEAL (Northumbria): The Myall Creek Massacre and Competing Narratives in

Australian History

14:30 JESSICA PRESTIDGE (Durham): Fictionalising Thatcher and the Contested Historical Value

of Biography

15:00 Tea break

Session Three

15:15 KATHLEEN REYNOLDS (Durham): Writing the History of Women and Early Modern

Medicine

Training Session

15:45 ANDY MCKAY (English Language Centre, Durham): Making Yourself Heard: The historian's

voice in writing

16:30 Concluding discussion and History Lab NE business

17:00 Post-workshop social

No registration is required, but if you have any dietry requirements please notify the organisers

via historylab.northeast@gmail.com.

Directions to Hild Bede College from Durham station:

Follow the signs to 'city centre' down a long flight of steps, then cross the road at the large

roundabout and carry straight on over the river alongside the A690 Leazes Road. Continue

following this major road past another roundabout and uphill to a third roundabout. The

entrance to the college is off this roundabout to the right (you may need to cross the road via the

footbridge). For the Collier Room, follow signs to the Caedmon Building

(https://www.dur.ac.uk/resources/hild-bede/HildBedeSitePlan.pdf). The walk from the station

should take around 20 minutes.

Funded by Centre for Academic and Researcher Development, Durham University