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29 - 01 75 Years of Penguin Books: An International Multidisciplinary Conference
In 2010, Penguin Books will be 75 years old and Puffin Books will be 70 years old.  Organised by the AHRC Penguin Archive Project, the International Penguin Conference is occasioned by these two anniversaries of what is arguably the most... 		Bristol, UK
01 - 03 I-CHORA 5: Fifth International Conference on the History of Records and Archives
The I-CHORA series began in Toronto in 2003 and continued in Amsterdam, Boston and Perth; it has become the pre-eminent conference for the history of all aspects of recordkeeping principles and practice.  I-CHORA 5 will be held in London, with... 		London, UK
01 - 02 Anglo-American Conference of Historians 2010: Environments
Next July the Institute of Historical Research’s flagship annual event, the Anglo-American Conference of Historians is taking as its theme Environments. Over the last two decades environmental history has developed at an amazing pace, broadening and... 		London
02 4th Annual Conference of the York History Research Society: Material Culture in History
4th Annual Conference of the York History Research Society: Material Culture in HistoryFriday 2 July 2010 In recent years, the use of material culture as a source for reconstructing the past has become increasingly important to historical research.... 		York, UK
05 - 06 Scholarly Networks in the British Empire: Transnational & Imperial connections after 1850
This two-day conference to be held at the University of Oxford in July 2010, will examine the nature and extent of scholarly networks connecting academics and universities in the British Empire after 1850. In recent years historians of various... 		Oxford, UK
05 Second Conference, Society for the History of Linguistics in the Pacific
The conference is open to all interested in linguistics and its history. We are particularly keen to solicit interest from historians, and for this reason we are running the conference concurrently with the Australian Historical Association Biennial... 		Perth, Western Australia
06 - 07 The Body on Display, from Renaissance to Enlightenment
An interdisciplinary symposium for early career researchers, supported by the Society for the Social History of Medicine, the Royal Historical Society, and the Centre for Seventeenth-Century Studies.Keynote speaker: Dr. Peter Mitchell (Department of... 		St Chad's College, Durham University, Durham, England
07 - 09 Thinking the human in the era of Enlightenment
Keynote speakers: Associate Professor Sankar Muthu, University of Chicago; Associate Professor Vanessa Agnew, University of Michigan Confirmed speakers include: Professor Peter Cryle (University of Queensland), Professor Iain McCalman (University of... 		Canberra, Australia
08 - 11 Wellington Congress 2010
The fourth in a sequence of congresses based around the career of the first Duke of Wellington, as well as the wider context in Britain, Ireland, the Empire and continental Europe, 1780 to 1850. There will also be a special focus on the Peninsular... 		Southampton, UK
08 - 10 Circulating Ideas in Seventeenth-Century Europe: Networks, Knowledge, and Forms
This interdisciplinary three-day conference, presented to mark the 350th Anniversary of the Royal Society explores the intellectual networks and coteries of seventeenth-century Europe. It examines the relationship between the... 		London, UK
08 - 10 European clerics and vernacular culture in the long nineteenth century
From Herder onwards (and indeed before), clerics were among the leading collectors of vernacular culture, and major contributors to ethnography in Europe and beyond.  A roll-call of clerical folklorists would include such luminaries as Percy (... 		Amsterdam, The Netherlands
08 - 10 Locating the Hidden Diaspora: The English in the Anglo-Phone World
Although English emigration became one of Europe’s most significant population movements, there is virtual silence on the English Diaspora. This conference seeks to locate this hidden diaspora and the English in the Anglo-Phone World. Compared to... 		Newcastle upon Tyne
08 - 10 A Cultural History of English Pantomime: The "Sister Arts' in the Popular Theatre, c.1820-1919
As part of the AHRC-funded project ‘A Cultural History of English Pantomime, 1837-1901’ we invite proposals for papers on the Victorian theatre and the ‘sister arts’ of spectacle, painting, music, and dance. Our particular, but not exclusive, focus... 		Birmingham
09 Contact and Conflict in Frankish Greece and the Aegean: Trade, Crusade and Religion amongst Latins, Greeks and Muslims, 1204-1453
'Contact and conflict in Frankish Greece and the Aegean, 1204-1453: Crusade, trade and religion amongst Latins, Greeks and Muslims’ 9 July 2010 (Institute of Historical Research, London) A conference organised by Dr. Nikolaos Chrissis and... 		London, UK
09 - 11 Masculine Identifications: An Interdisciplinary Conference
Masculine Identifications: An Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Huddersfield 9-11 July 2010 Plenary speakers: Dr Paul Baker, Lancaster University, Dr Dawn Hadley, University of Sheffield, Professor Andrew Smith, University of... 		Huddersfield, United Kingdom
12 - 15 Journeying along Medieval Routes at the International Medieval Congress 2010
Following on from the round table ‘Navigating Space’ at the International Medieval Congress 2009, we are planning a series of interdisciplinary sessions and a round table on ‘Routes’ for IMC 2010’s theme ‘Travel and Exploration’. The proposed... 		Leeds
13 - 14 Absolutism, Monarchism and Despotism. Historiographical issues and theoretical developments in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in European context
Absolutism has been studied in its practical (that is, legislative, executive, administrative) dimensions, but there is need for further scholarly work on its theoretical components, and on the relationships between the languages of absolutist... 		Falmer, Brighton (Sussex)
14 - 16 Florence Nightingale. Influence and Inpspiration
The conference has been organised to commemorate the centenary of the passing of Florence Nightingale in 1910.  It will be held at the former nightingale home of Embley Park in Hampshire, now Hampshire Collegiate School.  A number of... 		Romsey, UK
14 - 16 Voluntary Action History Society Conference
The next Voluntary Action History Society conference will be held at the Canterbury Campus of the University of Kent in partnership with the Centre for Philanthropy, Humanitarism and Social Justice. Keynote speakers are confirmed as Professor... 		University of Kent, Canterbury Campus
17 "Where there is no ruler the people falls". England's road to regicide, 1317-27
The National Archives will be hosting a one day conference at Kew focusing on the tumultuous last decade of Edward II’s reign, a period that culminated in the unprecedented deposition of a post-Conquest English king and his probable murder. In... 		London, UK
17 - 19 Authority and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Chronicles: Cambridge International Chronicles Symposium (CICS)
Authority and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance ChroniclesCambridge International Chronicles Symposium (CICS)17-19 July 2010, University of CambridgeThe second biennial Cambridge International Chronicles Symposium (CICS)follows the success of our... 		Cambridge, UK
19 - 22 Thirteenth International Conference, Durham Centre for 17c Studies: Ideals and Values in the 17th Century
Ideals and Values in the Seventeenth Century, 19-22 July 2010, Durham Castle, University of DurhamProposals are invited for the Thirteenth International Conference of the Durham Centre for Seventeenth-Century Studies, which will focus on the general... 		Durham, UK
20 Digitised History: the impact of digitisation on research into 18th and 19th Century Britain
For decades, even hundreds of years after publication, researchers of all kinds have turned to newspapers for information relating to a wide variety of research needs including historical, cultural, social and political trends. The British Library... 		The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DB
20 - 22 Engendering Gender: Production, Transmission and Change 1450-1950
This interdisciplinary conference will explore concepts of gendered identities across the period 1450-1950. Breaking free of the traditional constraints of periodization, this conference will promote discussion that transcends period boundaries (i.e... 		Exeter, UK
20 - 22 INTOXICANTS AND INTOXICATION IN CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
Abstracts are invited for a major international conference funded by the ESRC. Its aim is to gain some perspective on the nature and scope of intoxicants and intoxication as enduring and ubiquitous social and cultural phenomena, by bringing together... 		Cambridge, UK
25 - 27 Textus Roffensis: Law, Language and Libraries in Early Medieval England
Textus Roffensis is a Rochester Cathedral book of the early 12th century that holds some of the most significant legal texts issued by England’s various early medieval kingdoms going back to the laws of King Æthelbert of Kent (c. 604).  It also... 		Medway Campus of University of Kent, UK
26 - 29 Catholic Record Society
The 53rd Annual Conference of the Catholic Record Society will be held from Monday 26 July to Thursday 29 July at Leeds Trinity University College. The aim of the Catholic Record Society's Conference in 2010 is to focus particularly on the... 		Leeds
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