About this Event
The DHS AGM will be followed by a panel of three speakers talking on poverty, vagrancy laws and slums
10:30 - 11:00 Devon History Society's AGM
11:00 - 11:15 Break
11:15 - 12:30 Panel: Evie Nash - How the vagrancy laws were used against Quakers in Devon in the 17th century
Shagnick Bhattacharya - How socially vulnerable women would have navigated through parish poor law structures under the old and initial phase of the new poor laws of Devon (c1750-1800)
Julia Neville - Exeter’s West Quarter in the 1920s: in the shadow of slum clearance
About the speakers
Evie Nash is a third-year History PhD student at the University of Warwick examining the persecution of religious dissenters as vagrants across the British Atlantic World in the seventeenth century. Evie is a Devon local, having grown up in Totnes, and attended Exeter University where she got her undergraduate degree in History.
Shagnick Bhattacharya is the new Wolfson Scholar at the University of Exeter. As a social and economic historian of the modern world, among other things, his research focuses on the gendered experiences of poverty.
Julia Neville is a community collaborative historian, leading on behalf of Devon History Society a number of research projects to which historians across the county have contributed. Her personal research interests are mainly in early nineteenth and twentieth century social history, exploring social change in different communities, and most recently on the Devon in the 1920s project.
The Rougemont Room is located in Exeter Library and can accessed via lift.
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Event venue & nearby stays
Rougemont Room, Exeter Central Library, Exeter, United Kingdom
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