Dr. Lynn Botelho of the Department of History will give a paper, as well as chair and comment on panels, at the Europe Social Science History Conference in Ghent, Belgium, on April 12–17, 2010.
Her paper, “Methodological Approaches to Writing the Social History of Elite Peasants: England in the 16th and 17th Centuries,” explores methods for studying the lives of social groups whose history has hitherto been unexplored by historians. In addition, she will chair and comment on three papers dealing with new perspectives on early modern poor relief in England, and she will chair a panel titled “Global Labour Relations and Work Ethics 1500–2000.”
