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'Songs for the Millions: Chartist Songs and Popular Aural Tradition' (joint paper with Kate Bowan), Chartism Conference, University of Wales, Newport, 7 June 2008.
'The Enourmous Condecension of Posterity Revistied: Labour Heritage and Public Memory', Remembering Harvester 1907-2007 Conference, University of Melbourne, 8 November 2007.
‘Art and Re-enactment: An Agenda’, Art and Re-enactment, Humanities Research Centre, The Australian National University, 5 June 2007.
‘The Highway to Comfort and Independence: A Case Study of Transnational Radicalism’, Humanities Research Centre, 30 May 2006.
'Jeremy Bentham and the Commemoration of the Self', Commemoration, Monuments and Public Memory, Humanities Research Centre,
The Australian National University, 4 August 2005.
'A Tale of Two Press Conferences: Radical Politics, Re-enactment and Commemoration', Extreme and Sentimental History Conference,
Huntington Library, San Marino, California, 14 May 2005.
'Politics, Commemoration and Re-enactment', Re-enactment and the Question of Realism Workshop, California Institute of
Technology, Pasadena, 10 May 2005.
'Imagining the Nation: From Eureka to Federation Arch', New Directions in History, Civics and Law Summer School,
Australian National University, 19 January 2005.
'A Running Sore on the National Psyche: An Overview of the History Wars', Democracy And Australia: Rights and Wrongs, Australian National University, 21 January 2004.
'Tom Paine's Bones', Work-in Progress Seminar, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, 17 October 2003.
'Visions of Democracy: British Chartists in Australian and New Zealand', UK-Australian Labour History Conference, Manchester University, 17 July 2003.
'Loyalty and Rebellion in colonial Politics: the Campaign against Convict Transportation', British World II Conference,University of Calgary, 10 July 2003.
'Lang and the League', Rev. John Dunmore Lang (1799-1878): Freedom and Independence for the Golden Lands of Australia: A Sesquicentenary Seminar, Manning Clark House, Forrest ACT, 22 November 2002.
'Chartism in Stone: Commemorating Feargus O'Connor', Mid-West Conference on British Studies, Columbus, Ohio, 19 October 2002.
'Betrayal and Exile: A Forgotten Chartist Experience, 1840-1880', Manchester Metropolitan University Department of History and Economic History Seminar Series, 8 October 2002.
'Loyalty and Rebellion: Popular Constitutionalism in Early Colonial Radicalism', The People and Their Rights, Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, London, 5 October 2002.
'Under Two Flags: British Radical Responses to the Eureka Stockade', Work-in Progress Seminar, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, 17 May 2002.
'Chartism Abroad: Case Studies in International Labour History', New Zealand Political Studies Association Conference, Massey University, Palmerston North, 7 December 2001.
'From Marylebone to Melbourne: A Case Study in the Decline of London Radicalism', Monuments and Dust Conference, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, 10 July 2001.
'From Reading Room to Rifle Club: Sydney's democratic vistas, 1848-1856', Work, Organisation, Struggle: seventh National Labour History Conference, Australian National University, 20 April 2001.
'The Queen of New Made Graves: Radical Attitudes to Monarchy in Early Victorian Britain', Australasian Modern British History Association Conference, La Trobe University, Melbourne, 4 February 2001.
'The Oak of English Liberty', Work-in Progress Seminar, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, 2 February 2001.
'The Finger of God: the impact of gold on colonial New South Wales', History Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, 16 November 2000.
'British Colonial Identity: Radicalism in Victoria and New South Wales c.1850-60', Regional Identities: Shifting Boundaries and Contested Meanings, Manchester Metropolitan University, 14 September 2000.
'Chartism in Colonial Australia', Futures in the Past, Australian History Association Conference, Adelaide, 5 July 2000.
'Beyond Economics: Rescuing the Anti-Corn Law League', History Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Seminar, ANU, 11 November 1999.
'Reform and Popular Politics in early Victorian Britain: the Anti-Corn Law League and the Chartists re-assessed', School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Staffordshire University, 6 October 1999.
'Understanding the League: Themes in Modern British History, 1832-67', Department of History, University of Queensland, 2 September 1999.
'"And Your Petitioners &c": Petitions and petitioning in popular politics 1838-1848', 11th Australasian Modern British History Association Conference, ANU, February 1999.
'Irish MPs and the Repeal of the Corn Laws', Ireland and Australia 1798-1998 Conference, La Trobe University, 30 September 1998.
'Feargus O'Connor and Ireland, 1849-50', 4th Annual Chartism Conference, Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Birmingham, 12 September 1998.
'"The Two Repeals": Agitation against the Corn Laws and the Irish Union', History Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Seminar, ANU, August 1998.
'Pressure Grouping in Early Victorian Britain: the Case of the Anti-Corn Law League', La Trobe University Staff Seminar, May 1997.
'O'Connor's 'Mission to Ireland' in 1849', Australasian Modern British History Association Conference, Trinity College, Melbourne, February 1995.
1990 Roger Joyce Memorial Lecture, Annual General Meeting of the History Institute of Victoria.
'The Languages of Chartism', Combined Victorian Universities Seminar in Modern British History, La Trobe University, March 1984.