Keynotes:
Jerome de Groot, Manchester: New materialism and ‘reading’ history through DNA
Caroline Sturdy-Colls, Staffordshire: Digging at Treblinka
Philip Morgan, Keele: Battlefields, memories and memorialisation.
Speakers and Papers:
Milla Fedorova, Russian Revolt on the Screen
Will Pooley It’s Not the Wallpaper that Worries Me: Genre Trouble and Historical Faction
Mario Slugan Crime Reconstructions in Early Cinema: The Threat to Public Morals and The Fact/Fiction Distinction
Sarah Hardstaff, Maybe One Day: Anticipation in the Children’s Social Justice Novel
Alison Baker, Intertextuality in Antonia Forest’s Marlowe books & the 2 historical ones
Virginia Preston, ‘Drake at sea and our Eliza ashore’: stories of the Spanish Armada, Catholics, and Protestants in Elizabethan England
Tony Keen, ‘Me no speak Celtic’: Britons Abroad in Screen Portrayals of the Roman Empire
Corey Hackworth, Fictive History and Historical Myth
Juliette Harrisson, ghost stories as embedded historical narratives
Ronald Ramsay, Central but Silent: works of art and architecture as characters in fiction
Alex Butterworth, Treasuring the Unbelievable
Ioulia Kolovou Did she or didn’t she?” Portraying Powerful Historical Women in Fiction: The Case of Anna Komnene.’
Yasemin, From Empire to Republic: Perceptions of Change in Contemporary Fiction
Marianne Gilchrist, Bleed-through: When historical fiction colours historiography
Catherine Padmore, Writing Bennelong: The cultural impact of early Australian biofictions by Eleanor Dark and Ernestine Hill
Julia Ilgner The Foreign King? The Political Appropriation Of Alfred The Great In Nineteenth-Century German Literature
Stephen Brooks, Isolation of the Long Distance Quaker
Farah Mendlesohn, Victorian Quakers in the Seventeenth Century historical novel
Kate Macdonald, Writing Edwardian feminism through historical Quakers and Dissenters
Cheryl Morgan, If Your Past isn’t Queer it is not Realistic
Lucy Cook, Anne Boleyn, The Woman Question and Victorian Historical Culture”
Tanya Brown, A Dead Man in Deptford?: The Death and Afterlife of Christopher Marlowe in Historical Fiction
Dorothea Flothow, Writing a Restoration Rake: the Earl of Rochester in comic fiction
Lynne Fotheringham Doing justice to the past: the representation of violence in a historical comic