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