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2020
December
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CHPSTM - Loving the monster: David Lynch's The Elephant Man as cultural history
-Ostensibly a tale about Victorian London, David Lynch's The Elephant Man (1980) became a modern parable of tragic ugliness and inner beauty at a time when disfigurement was being redefined as a disability, and disability was being recognized as a civil rights issue.
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'The Mecca of the Womanhood of Scottish Agriculture': the Craibstone School of Rural Domestic Economy and the Dissemination of Electricity in Northern Scotland, 1923-1939
-Forgotten in Scotland's educational history, the Craibstone School of Rural Domestic Economy was the only institute in Scotland dedicated to the domestic education of women in rural areas from the opening of the School in 1923 to the outbreak of the Second World War.
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'No one wishes to say you are to live on preserved meats': Canned Food and Disruptive Narratives in Nineteenth Century Food Writing
-From its industrialised beginning at the start of the nineteenth century, the preserving of foods in hermetically sealed metal canisters would go on to vastly alter global foodways and people's engagement with convenience foods.
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Fictional and Non-Fictional Representations of Men of Science and the Supernatural in the Victorian Periodical Press
-This talk will look at Alfred Russell Wallace and William Benjamin Carpenter's very public feud in the 1870s over the validity of spiritualism.
