09:30–10:15 | Delegates arrival; registration; refreshments | |
10:15–11:00 | Introduction: Angus Hawkins (University of Oxford) | |
11:00–12:30 | Parallel sessions 1 and 2 | |
1. The ends of “Old Corruption” | |
Craig Smith (University of Glasgow): “Public Spirit and Corruption in the Scottish Enlightenment: a reconsideration” | |
Mark Knights (University of Warwick) “What is the significance of 1780 for anti-corruption?” | |
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Jennifer Davey (University of East Anglia): “Female despots”: Aristocratic women and “old corruption” in Victorian Britain. | |
2. Public virtues, institutional vices: official corruption | |
Francis Dodsworth (Kingston University, London): “From solution to problem: corruption and the police since the eighteenth century” | |
Ian Cawood (Newman University, Birmingham):”Was the pre-Victorian Church of England corrupt or merely poorly led?” | |
Kim Price (University of Liverpool) “No law so often infamously administered, no law so openly violated, no law habitually so ill supervised’: corrupting health in the English workhouse” | |
12.30–13:30 | Lunch | |
13.30–15.00 | Parallel sessions 3 and 4 | |
3. Empires of corruption | |
Ben Gilding (University of Cambridge): “Corruption, ‘Public Service’, and the Regulation of the East India Company, 1765-1784” | |
Aaron Graham (University College, London): “Public service, corruption and ‘Oeconomical Reform’ in the Jamaica, 1774-91” | |
Alex Middleton (University of Oxford), “Corruption, tyranny, and the Colonial Office, 1828–1853” | |
4. Finance, democracy and the public good | |
Dilwyn Porter (De Montfort University): “Degrees of depravity’: Financial Journalism from the City Office to the Bucket Shop, c. 1880-1914” | |
James Parker (University of Exeter): “Democratic finance? Trade unions, candidate sponsorship, and the business of Labour politics, 1918-1940” | |
Liam Stowell (University of Manchester): “Republicanism, corruption and public service in British international thought, 1919-39” | |
15.00–15.30 | Refreshments | |
15.30–17.00 | Parallel sessions 5 and 6 | |
5. The disinterested state and the problem of corruption | |
Martin Spychal (History of Parliament): “Resisting corruption through science: the ‘spirit of inquiry’ and the establishment of the 1831-2 boundary commission” | |
Stuart Jones (University of Manchester): “Gladstonian Liberalism, Public Service and Private Interests: Reforming Endowments” | |
Liam Ryan (University of Bristol): “The Perils of Officialism’: Socialism and State Corruption, 1900-1940” | |
6. British anti-corruption in comparative perspective | |
Bo Rothstein (University of Gothenburg): “The Swedish Way Out of Systemic Corruption: The Indirect “Big Bang” Approach” | |
Malcolm Crook (Keele University): “Corrupt practices’? Electoral morality and the reform of voting behaviour in France, Britain and the United States in the long nineteenth century” | |
Eckhart Hellmuth (University of Munich) “Morals and Manners - The Prussian Leviathan and its Servants around 1800.” | |
Friday 25 January 2019 | |
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9.00–9.30 | Refreshments | |
9.30–11.00 | Conference keynote: Kathryn Rix (History of Parliament): “The system that works so well? Corruption at elections in Britain in the 19th century” | |
11.00–11.30 | Refreshments | |
11.30–13.00 | Parallel sessions 7 and 8 | |
7. Political culture and corruption | |
Roland Quinault (Institute of Historical Research): “Electoral bribery in Hull in the early Victorian period” | |
Gary D. Hutchison (Durham University): “Corruption, Culture, and Custom: Electoral Violence in NineteenthCentury England and Wales” | |
Geoffrey Hicks (University of East Anglia): “Politics, Patronage or Public Service? Conservatives at the Foreign Office, 1858-59” | |
8. Rotten boroughs: corruption in the provinces | |
James Moore (University of Leicester), “Managing the Political Impact of Corruption Scandals in British Local Authorities, c. 1880-1914” | |
Peter Jones (University of Leicester): “Corrupt Triangle: Belfast, Glasgow and Liverpool c. 1890–1940” | |
Helen Rutherford (Northumbria University) and Clare Sandford-Couch (Newcastle University and Northumbria University): “An abuse which demands notice’: politics, power and corruption in Newcastle upon Tyne” | |
13.00–14.00 | Lunch | |
14.00–15.00 | Plenary Discussion | |
15.00–16.00 | Concluding Address: Graham Brooks (University of West London): “Looking Back - Going Forward” | |
Conference ends | |