Speaker: Miles Taylor (Centre for British Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin)
Title: Umbrellas and popular protest in Europe c.1828-1916
Miles Taylor is Professor of British History and Society at the Centre for British Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin. He was previously Professor of Modern History at the University of York in the UK, and between 2008 and 2014 Director of the Institute of Historical Research in London.
Professor Taylor is a nineteenth century specialist with particular interest in Britain and its empire. His recent books include Empress: Queen Victoria and India (Yale 2018) and (as co-editor) The Utopian Universities: A Global History of the New Campuses of the 1960s (Bloomsbury, 2020).
He is currently completing a book on parliamentary representation in the UK since the eighteenth century and a funded project on salt, protest and public health in India. He co-convenes a research seminar on the History of Universities and is General Editor of the New Cambridge History of Britain to be published in five volumes by Cambridge University Press.
This paper is based on Professor Taylor’s new research project.
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