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The Strangers’ Friends Societies: Methodism’s Response 1785-1840 to the Challenges of Urban Poverty and Disease

3 December 2025 4:00 pm

Revd Dr Tim Macquiban Tim Macquiban based his doctoral research through University of Birmingham on this topic while teaching in the School of Theology...

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Experimentations with Narrative Voice: The Gothic and the Desire for Social Reform in The Story of Willie Ellin (1853) and Jane Eyre (1847)

4 February 2026 4:00 pm

Chloe Roberts, MBChB Student Engagement and Support Officer, University of Chester The Story of Willie Ellin (1853) remains a neglected facet of Charlotte Brontë’s...

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Workers with ‘necks as white as snow’: Macclesfield Baths and Washhouses in the Nineteenth Century

4 March 2026 4:00 pm

Dr Sarah Griffiths, Managing Editor, University of Chester Press A key part of the national campaign to improve sanitary conditions in urban areas was...

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Less than Splendid Isolation: An Exploration of the Rise and Demise of England’s Fever Hospitals

3 June 2026 4:00 pm

Professor Elizabeth Mason-Whitehead, University of Chester Our interest in the 1918-20 flu pandemic (Spanish flu) would re-emerge a century later when we turned back to...