主题1：Politics, Contingency and the Transformation of Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries

主讲人：Stephen Taylor，Professor in the History of Early Modern England，Head of Department of History, Durham University

主题2：Lions on the Loose and Sharks in the Channel: Rumour and War in Britain, 1939-1945

主讲人：Jo Fox，Professor in the History of Propaganda in Twentieth-century Europe，Durham University

时间：2014年11月6日（周四）上午9：30-11：:30

地点：历史系文北楼309教室

主持人：梅雪芹 教授

主讲人简介：

Professor Stephen Taylor is a specialist in the religious and political history of England in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and his published work has touched on topics as diverse as the identity of Anglicanism, court culture, party politics, the circulation of news and libertinism. With Kenneth Fincham (Kent) and Arthur Burns (KCL) he has been, since 1999, one of the Directors of The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540-1835, and with Philip Williamson and Natalie Mears (both Durham) he is one of the investigators on the AHRC-funded project on ‘British state prayers, fasts and thanksgivings, 1540s-1940s'. He is the Academic Editor (Bibliography of British and Irish History) of the Royal Historical Society and Honorary Editor of the Church of England Record Society.

Professor Jo Fox is a specialist in the history of propaganda in twentieth-century Europe. She has published on the cinematic cultures of Britain and Germany during the Second World War, exploring the connections between film, propaganda and popular opinion. She is currently working on two main projects: on rumour and oral propaganda in the First and Second World Wars and on the 'afterlife' of wartime propaganda narratives from 1945. She is the Honorary Communications Director of the Royal Historical Society and a member of the Council for the International Association for Media and History.