CivicLAB Event: Rethinking Health and Work in Victorian and Edwardian Britain

Thursday 29 May, 10:30am, Artcore De1 2DS

Dr Kathleen McIlvenna is senior lecturer in history and programme leader for the MA History and Heritage at the University of Derby.

Kathleen's research focuses on the history of health, work and age in the nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain. 

She has recently received a BA/Leverhulme small grant for her project Tokens of Esteem: Retirement Gifts in Modern Britain 1860-1930 which focuses on material culture and the development of a ritual around the collection of money for, and giving of, retirement gifts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

CivicLAB is based at the University of Derby. The city is a UNESCO City of Life Long Learning and home to World Heritage Sites. CivicLAB has been designed to support academics, creative & cultural industry professionals, freelance creatives and the public to share their insights on research and practice through a place-based approach to knowledge generation.

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