The Impeachment of Warren Hastings: The First Governor General of India

About the organisers

Dr Chris Monaghan is a Principal Lecturer in Law and the Director of Constitutions, Rights and Justice Research Group at the University of Worcester. He has published on impeachment, the UK constitution and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is currently editing a volume on the Leading works in Constitutional History for Routledge.

School of Law, University of Worcester aims to produce high calibre Law graduates, equipped with a good grasp of substantive legal subjects and current legal issues, a questioning mind and the ability to engage in high level problem solving, combined with a strong sense of community engagement and client care. Students have many opportunities throughout their studies to participate in mentoring, work placements and mini pupillages.

Dr Robin Eagles is the Editor of the House of Lords (1660-1832) section at the History of Parliament. He has written extensively on parliament and politics in the 17th and 18th centuries, and co-edited volumes on themes across the period. His latest book is a biography of the radical MP John Wilkes.

The History of Parliament is a research project creating a comprehensive account of parliamentary politics in England, then Britain, from their origins in the thirteenth century. It is generally regarded as one of the most ambitious, authoritative and well-researched projects in British history. The History’s staff is currently researching the House of Commons from the early 15^th to the mid-19^th centuries, and the Lords from the 16^th to the 18^th centuries. Since 1995, the History has been funded principally by the two Houses of Parliament. 

Conference sponsors

The conference organisers are very grateful for the support from Parliamentary History.

“Parliamentary History provides a forum for current research and general interest articles covering the history of parliamentary institutions in the British Isles (including the Scottish and Irish Parliaments) from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century. The journal also encompasses legislatures of British colonies before independence, their origin, development and historical importance.”

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Conference schedule

All sessions take place in the School of Law on the first floor in Jenny Lind Building in JL1005. Speakers will have a maximum of 20 minutes to present their paper. Questions to the presenters will be at the end of each session if time permits. 

Keynote Speaker

Professor Dame Linda Colley, Princeton University

Linda Colley was born in Chester, England. She studied history at Bristol University, before completing a PhD at Cambridge, where she became the first female Fellow of Christ’s College. Her career has since taken her to Yale, the London School of Economics, and – since 2003 - to Princeton, where she is the Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 Professor of History.. 

Her books include In Defiance of Oligarchy: The Tory Party 1714-1760 (1982); Namier (1988); Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837 (1992), which won the Wolfson Prize; Captives: Britain, Empire and the World 1600-1850 (2002); The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh (2007), named by the New York Times as one of the year’s ten best books; Acts of Union and Disunion (2014) based on a 15-part BBC Radio 4 series.  She received a Guggenheim Fellowship to complete her most recent work, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World (2021) which was profiled in the New Yorker.

Colley writes on history, politics and art for the Financial Times, the London Review of Books and the New York Review of Books. She has served on the Board of the British Library, the Council of Tate Britain, the Advisory Board of the Yale Center of British Art, and the Research Committee of the British Museum, and has been a Trustee of Princeton University Press.

Over the years, Colley’s expertise has earned her eight honorary degrees. She has delivered the Trevelyan Lectures at Cambridge University, the Wiles Lectures at Queen’s University Belfast, the Robb Lectures at the University of Auckland, and the Prime Minister’s Millennium Lecture at 10 Downing Street.  A Fellow of the British Academy and the American  Academy of Arts and Sciences , she was made a DBE for services to history in the late Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Honors List.

Conference speakers

Confirmed conference speakers are listed below. 

Booking Link

 The conference is free to attend. You may attend both days or either day one or day two.

You must arrange your own travel and accommodation.

You can register your place for the conference.

Travel and accomodation

Travel

By train: The nearest station is Worcester Foregate Street, a five-minute walk from the Jenny Lind Building.

By car: Worcester may be reached from junctions 6 or 7 of the M5. Follow signs to the University’s City Centre campus, and thereafter to ‘The Hive’ (the University’s library). The Jenny Lind Building is a very short walk from The Hive, and there is ample public parking in the area. 

Accommodation

Please access details of some hotels close to the conference venue on the Worcester Accommodation Guide

Further information

Refreshments and Cloakroom

 Refreshments can be found in JLG008. There is a locked cloakroom to store suitcases and coats during the daytime (JLG002). 

Trade stands and Displays

 Trade stands and conference displays are located in the Jenny Lind Building Reception area. Feel free to explore the School of Law; the Courtroom and Jury room will be open.

Photography and Social Media

Photography will be taking place throughout the Conference. All speakers will be asked to sign a photo consent form during registration. Photos from the Conference may be shared on social media platforms and website belonging to the University of Worcester, The History of Parliament Trust and Parliamentary History.  

Any Further Questions?

Any questions about the presentations, conference sessions and research, please contact either Dr Chris Monaghan, c.monaghan@worc.ac.uk, or Dr Robin Eagles, reagles@histparl.ac.uk.

Any questions about the conference organisation, travel and accommodation please contact the conference administrator, Dr Clare Rhoden, c.rhoden@worc.ac.uk.