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The Bangor Conference on the Restoration: The end of the Restoration? Politics, religion and culture in 1690s Britain and Ireland

26–28 July 2011
Bangor University

Professor Tony Claydon and Professor Thomas N. Corns once again invite everyone interested in the politics, religion, culture or literature of Britain and Ireland in the later seventeenth century to beautiful Snowdonia in North Wales for three days of talks, panels, discussion and hospitality. As usual, we will concentrate on the events and themes of a decade - this time the 1690s - but we will also be asking if William III's reign marked a turning point which definitively ended the Restoration era.

Plenary talks are by:

  • Alan Downie (Goldsmiths, London) - on 1700 as a literary turning point
  • David Hayton (Queen’s Belfast) - on state building in the three kingdoms
  • Neil Keeble (Stirling) - on Richard Baxter and the construction of the seventeenth century
  • Kevin Sharpe (Queen Mary, London) - on the image of William III
  • Rachel Weil (Cornell)- on Jacobite plotting and memory

The conference will run from lunchtime on Tuesday 26 July to lunchtime on Thursday 28 July.

Registration fee (includes lunches and daytime refreshments): £65

Optional extras: Tuesday evening buffet (£20); Conference dinner (£38); University accommodation (£32 pppn).

A few spaces still remain - so please do contact us if you wish to come, despite the poster deadline.

Contact Linda Jones: l.c.jones@bangor.ac.uk