Full Schedule
DAY ONE: MONEY, SOVEREIGNTY, AND REPRESENTATION
10.00 – 11.00 Registration
11.00 – 12.30 Session One: Money, Nationality and Sovereignty
Liam Connell, (University of Winchester) ‘“Don’t you have any proper money?”: Scottish banknotes and the state of the nation.’
Nicky Marsh, (University of Southampton) ‘The Crime of ’73: Imagining American Money.’
Nina Boy, (University of Hamburg), The backstory of the safe asset: how government debt became ‘safe’
12.30 – 1.30 LUNCH
1.30 – 3.00 Session Two: Money and Trust
Rob Hawkes (University of Teeside), “You began your life with fraud!’: Money, Modernity, Trust, and Deception’
Catherine Clark (University of Southampton) ‘Before money? Coins and value in Old English literature’
Matthew Rowlinson (University of Western Ontario) ‘Sweating Money: The Remainders of Circulation’
3.00 – 4.30 Session Three: Money, History and Gender
Tom Hockenhull and Ben Alsop (British Museum), ‘Deeds not words: the British Museum and women’s suffrage’
Katie Eagleton (British Library), ‘’A collection of scraps’: why did Sarah Sophia Banks (1744-1818) collect coins and prints, but not paper money?
6.00 – 8:00 Public Lecture by Caroline Criado-Perez
Private View of the Exhibition ‘Show Me the Money’ and Drinks Reception
DAY TWO: BANKING IN THE AGE OF JANE AUSTEN
9:15 -9:45: Registration
9:45 – 9.50 Emma Clery, Welcome.
9:50 – 10:15 Introduction and Overview of Exhibition (Paul Crosthwaite and Peter Knight)
10:15 -11.00 Ian Haywood (University of Roehampton), ‘The Ghost of Gold: Forgery, Finance and Satirical Prints’.
11.00 – 11:30 Break
11:30 – 12:15 Matthew Rowlinson (University of Western Ontario), ‘John Bull and the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street: Gender and Money in the Restriction Era’
12:15 – 1.00 Helen Paul (University of Southampton), ‘Henry Austen’s Banking Failure’
1.00 – 2.00 Lunch
2.00 – 2:45 Robert Clark (University of East Anglia), ‘The Hertfordshire of Pride and Prejudice: the Space of Capital’.
2:45 – 3:30 Emma Clery (University of Southampton), ‘Speculation in Austen’s World’
3:30 – 5.00 Tea and Exhibition Visit
