History Sixth Form Study Afternoon

The Department of History at the University of Birmingham will be holding a Sixth Form Study Afternoon from 2-5pm on the subject of 'Renaissance, Reformation and Rebellion: Politics, Religion and Society in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries'.

The afternoon will take the form of four 30-minute talks by individual members of the academic staff, with a concluding 30-minute question-and-answer session. There will also be a 30-minute interval in which sixth-formers can talk to academics in the Department of History about studying History at university. The speakers and topics are:

New Worlds and New Ideas (Dr Margaret Small);
Faiths in Conflict: Protestants-v-Catholics in early modern Europe (Dr Simone Laqua-O’Donnell and Dr Elaine Fulton);
Henry VIII and the English Reformation (Dr Jonathan Willis);
Charles I and the English Civil War (Professor Richard Cust).

The cost of the event will be £5 for students, with free attendance for teachers.