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CHORD workshop: The Retailing and Distribution of Books and Printed Material: Historical Perspectives

Date: 
17 March 2010

The Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution invites participants to a workshop devoted to a discussion of the retailing and distribution of books and all other printed material, from the inception of the printing press to the present.

URL: 
http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/books.html
Conference organiser(s): 
Laura Ugolini
Location: 
Wolverhampton, UK

‘Jute and Dundee’

Date: 
19 March 2010

This workshop will consider the history of the jute industry and its impact on the city of Dundee and surrounding geographical areas from a range of perspectives, economic, industrial, social and cultural.  The main aim of this workshop is to present and discuss on-going research from the Leverhulme funded pr

Conference organiser(s): 
Dr Carlo Morelli, Professor Jim Tomlinson and Dr Valerie Wright, all of the University of Dundee.
Location: 
Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee, Nethergate, Dundee, DD1 4HN

Urban History Group Annual Conference - Transgressive Cities: Practices and Place

Date: 
25 March 2010 - 26 March 2010

This conference explores the relationships between practices of resistance and transgression and the exercise of authority in urban spaces.

URL: 
http://www.le.ac.uk/ur/uhg/index.html
Conference organiser(s): 
Dr David Green and Dr Shane Ewen
Location: 
Durham, UK

Poetry, Politics and Pictures in the Nineteenth Century

Date: 
26 March 2010 - 27 March 2010

This interdisciplinary conference at the University of Sheffield aims to bring together the different scholarly ways of approaching the Victorian period and to examine their points of crossover and divergence.

URL: 
https://sites.google.com/site/poetrypoliticspictures/
Conference organiser(s): 
Tim Baycroft, Ingrid Hanson, Erin Snyder, Jack Rhoden, Marjorie Cheung, Kirsten Harris and Barry Orr
Location: 
Sheffiled, United Kingdom

Charity Begins at Home: Approaches to the History of Domestic Space and Voluntary Action

Date: 
27 March 2010

Postgraduates and early career researchers are invited to propose papers for this one day workshop. We welcome papers that discuss the speaker’s experience addressing  issues in their own research on charity and the home.Voluntarism in the domestic sphere presents particular methodological and evidential challenges. The aim of the event is to encourage an open and

Conference organiser(s): 
Stephen Soanes, Voluntary Action History Society Postgraduate Sub-Committee
Location: 
Coventry, UK

Religion and Modern British History Symposium

Date: 
27 March 2010

Following the success of similar day conferences in 2009, the Modern British History Network is planning an exciting new event for next year’s schedule.

URL: 
www.mbhn.org.uk
Conference organiser(s): 
Modern British History Network
Location: 
Edinburgh, UK

Recording Leisure Lives: Holidays and Tourism in 20th century Britain

Date: 
30 March 2010

This is the third annual ‘Recording Leisure Lives’ conference presented by the University of Bolton and Bolton Museum and Archive Service in partnership with the Leisure Studies Association. Drawing its inspiration from Humphrey Spender’s Mass Observation photographs of Worktowners in Blackpool, this conference focuses on the leisure experiences of people on holiday – both at home and away.

URL: 
www.bolton.ac.uk/conferences/leisurelives
Conference organiser(s): 
University of Bolton and Bolton Museum and Archive Service
Location: 
Bolton, Greater Manchester

FROM THE GRAND TOUR TO MASS TOURISM The Modern History of the British Abroad

Date: 
1 April 2010 - 2 April 2010

FROM THE GRAND TOUR TO MASS TOURISM

The Modern History of the British Abroad

Newcastle, 1-2 April 2010

URL: 
http://tiny.cc/IrNaJ
Conference organiser(s): 
Dr Martin Farr, Dr Xavier Guegan, Newcastle University UK
Location: 
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK

Explaining Supernatural Nature: Mediations Between Image, Text and Object in the Middle Ages

Date: 
9 April 2010 - 11 April 2010

This is an AHRC funded three day postgraduate conference organized under the Beyond Text Student-Led Initiatives Project. The content of the sessions is flexible to allow the presentations to be as innovative and exciting as possible. We may move sessions to early morning or night, or to locations outside the conference room.

URL: 
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/school/conferences.html
Conference organiser(s): 
Trish Stewart, University of St. Andrews and Diane Heath, University of Kent
Location: 
St. Andrews, Scotland

Pepys and Chips: Dockyards, Naval Administration and Warfare in the Seventeenth Century (The Naval Dockyards Society Conference, 2010)

Date: 
17 April 2010

The seventeenth century saw the development of the royal dockyards into larger, more sophisticated and permanent entities.

URL: 
www.navaldockyards.org
Conference organiser(s): 
The Naval Dockyards Society
Location: 
London, UK