TCBH Ben Pimlott Memorial Lecture 2023: Roberta Bivins and Mathew Thomson

The Ben Pimlott Memorial Lecture 2023: Roberta Bivins and Mathew Thomson - Anniversary Fever? History and the Culture of Celebrating the Age of the NHS

The Ben Pimlott Lecture is hosted by the journal Twentieth Century British History, Oxford University Press Journals and King's Contemporary British History. This lecture series was established in 2006 in honour of the late Ben Pimlott and in association with the Institute of Contemporary British History, with which Ben had close ties. Each lecture is published in Twentieth Century British History journal and is available free online.

The Lecture has previously been given by Mar Hicks, Kennetta Hammond Perry, Patricia Clavin, Susan Pederson, Deborah Cohen, David Kynaston, and Ross McKibbin.

This year's lecture is given by Roberta Bivins and Mathew Thomson. Professor Roberta Bivins is Director of the Centre of History of Medicine at the University of Warwick and author of Contagious Communities: Medicine, Migration and the NHS in Post War Britain (OUP, 2015). Professor Mathew Thomson is a professor of history at the University of Warwick and is author of Lost Freedom: The Landscape of the Child and the British Post-War Settlement (OUP, 2013). From 2015-2020, they led a Wellcome Trust-funded project to uncover what the NHS meant to people in Britain, and how it came to have such emotional and political resonance.

The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception.

All Welcome

Free Admission