'Greek Temples in Crowded Lanes: Pugin in the Strand’, a public lecture by Rosemary Hill

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:03:39 +0000

Date:

13 February 2012

The Centre for Life-Writing Research at King's College London is pleased to announce a forthcoming lecture in its StrandLives series: six distinguished lectures, discussing life stories associated with London’s famous road, the Strand.

On Monday 13th February, Dr Rosemary Hill, author of God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain, will be speaking about:

'Greek Temples in Crowded Lanes: Pugin in the Strand’

Organiser(s):

Centre for Life-Writing Research, King's College London

Political History Network Seminar (University of Reading)

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 17:25:53 +0000

Date:

15 February 2012

The Political History Network is a seminar group organised for postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers working in modern political history. The network provides a forum to present papers, share ideas and network. For more information and to register for email updates please visit our website.

Our next seminar will take place at the University of Reading on Wednesday 15th February 2012 and will feature the following papers:

'The party's over: Political responses to fascism in the 1930s' Dr Coleen Weedon, University of Reading

Organiser(s):

Jason Parry (University of Reading)

CFP: Political History Network 2012 Seminar Series

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:03:22 +0000

Date:

15 February 2012 - 30 April 2012

The Political History Network provides an informal forum for modern political historians to present papers, discuss ideas and network. We particularly welcome postgraduate and post-doctorate students working in 19th and 20th century political history, but anyone with an interest in political history is very welcome to take part in our events. Our regular events consist of termly symposiums which feature three or four papers from postgraduate or post-doctorate students working in political history on a variety of themes.

Organiser(s):

Political History Network

Transgressive Behaviour: 100 years of rule-breaking in Manchester's parks 1840 – 1940

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:21:50 +0000

Date:

23 February 2012

The Friends of the Manchester Centre for Regional History warmly invite you to:

Transgressive Behaviour: 100 years of rule-breaking in Manchester's parks 1840 – 1940

By Carole O'Reilly, University of Salford

Organiser(s):

Manchester Centre for Regional History, Manchester Metropolitan University

Digital Humanities Symposium: Virtualisation and Heritage

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:06:36 +0000

Date:

25 February 2012

We are very pleased to announce that The University of York, UK, will be hosting the event Digital Humanities Symposium: Virtualisation and Heritage on the 25th of February 2012. This event seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners in the digital humanities who focus on different aspects of heritage. We are interested in paper presentations, posters and workshop proposals. The topics may include, but are not limited to:

Organiser(s):

Mariana Lopez, Oliver Jones and Gavin Kearney

New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies 2012

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 08:02:52 +0000

Date:

8 March 2012 - 10 March 2012

Organiser(s):

Dr Nova Myhill and Dr Carrie Benes

Gendering the history of charity and voluntary effort: A workshop for postgraduate and early-career researchers

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 23:41:58 +0000

Date:

9 March 2012

From medieval and early modern elite understandings of charitable virtue to industrial cultures of mutual aid or contemporary understandings of community engagement, gender has been critically implicated in the history of voluntary action whether through the lens of experience, performance or social systems.

Organiser(s):

Tosh Warwick and Eve Colpus

New Researchers in Maritime History Conference 2012

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:45:45 +0000

Date:

9 March 2012 - 10 March 2012

The British Commission for Maritime History's (BCMH) New Researchers in Maritime History conference is an established forum for those that have recently become engaged in research in maritime history or related disciplines to meet other new and established scholars and to present a paper in a supportive environment. The BCMH is the British branch of the International Commission for Maritime History, which was founded in 1965 as a constituent of the International Congress of Historical Sciences.

Organiser(s):

British Commission for Maritime History

NMRN Research Seminar. Those they left behind: Naval families during the Napoleonic wars

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:45:19 +0000

Date:

14 March 2012

Dr Helen Doe, University of Exeter, will give a seminar paper on naval families during the Napoleonic period as part of the ongoing National Museum of the Royal Navy's Research Seminar series.

Organiser(s):

Dr Duncan Redford

Migration, Ethnicity and Identity: Perspectives from the Celtic Nations

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:14:38 +0000

Date:

2 April 2012 - 3 April 2012

Organiser(s):

Bangor University

The Oxford Movement & its Legacy

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:04:14 +0000

Date:

14 April 2012

A Kent Archaeological Society study day looking at the Oxford Movement and its legacy, especially in Kent, through a combination of lectures (in the morning) and workshops (in the afternoon). Among the speakers will be Dean Michael Chandler, an expert on the Movement. Using Holy Trinity Church in Folkestone, two of the three workshops will focus on the church and its documents to allow participants to explore how the Movement's ideas were deployed at the level of the parish.

Organiser(s):

Jackie Davidson

Consuming the country house: from acquisition to presentation

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:32:57 +0000

Date:

18 April 2012 - 19 April 2012

The country house can be seen as a palimpsest: generations of owners adding their own material objects and layers of meaning. This presents challenges to both historians and curators – how to understand the relationship between new and old goods; how to assess the meaning of goods in different contexts, and how to present a coherent narrative of the house and its contents to the visitor today.

Organiser(s):

University of Northampton / English Heritage

Seals and their Context in the Middle Ages

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:25:21 +0000

Date:

27 April 2012 - 29 April 2012

This conference seeks to explore the functions of seals in medieval Britain and Western Europe in the broadest possible context. Themes will include the use of seals in law and administration, the act of sealing and the recording of this act as well as questions relating to how, why and by whom seals were employed. A further important theme will be the manner in which seals relate to other sources: visual, material and documentary.

Organiser(s):

Prof. Phillipp R. Schofield; Dr Elizabeth New; Dr John McEwan

Spaces of Work 1770-1830

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:24:38 +0000

Date:

28 April 2012

Spaces of Work 1770-1830 will address the relationships between workers and spaces in Britain. We aim to showcase current research and are particularly interested in interrogating under-analyzed types of work and space. For example, we hope to develop the theorization of types of work that critics have not conventionally understood as ‘work’ (the performance of music as practical activity, for instance). We also aim to bring attention to under-analysed spaces.

Organiser(s):

Joseph Morrissey & Kate Scarth

'Retailing and Distribution in Hard Times'

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:19:08 +0000

Date:

2 May 2012

CHORD (the Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution) invites proposals for papers that explore retailing and distribution cultures and practices during economic downturns, busts and hard times, in Britain and beyond. Papers focusing on all historical periods and based on any methodological perspective are welcome as are papers that focus not only on the impact of poverty, but also on impoverishment and declining living standards.
Themes of interest include – but are not limited to:

Organiser(s):

Laura Ugolini

The Making of Landscapes in Modernity

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:00:33 +0000

Date:

10 May 2012 - 11 May 2012

This is a call for papers for a workshop on the making of landscapes in modernity. We will have a keynote address on the first day followed by a day consisting of three to four panels on the second. We aim to produce a special issue for a journal as a result of this this workshop.

Organiser(s):

James Koranyi, Bernhard Struck

The Experience of Neighbourliness in Europe, c.1000-1600

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 15:56:06 +0000

Date:

17 May 2012 - 18 May 2012

Bath Spa University, 17-18 May 2012

Organiser(s):

Dr Bronach Kane (Bath Spa University)

The Changing Experience of Time in the Long Nineteenth Century: Local, Regional, (Trans)National and Global Perspectives

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:14:00 +0000

Date:

18 May 2012 - 19 May 2012

Event Announcement

Centre for Transnational History

University of St Andrews

Organiser(s):

Marie Ventura, PhD Candidate, University of St Andrews

Unofficial Histories: Examining how society produces, presents, and consumes history beyond official and elite versions of the past.

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:30:15 +0000

Date:

19 May 2012

A free public conference to discuss how society produces, presents, and consumes history beyond official and elite versions of the past.

Call for Papers

Organiser(s):

Fiona Cosson, University of Northampton, & Ian Gwinn, University of Liverpool

Space and Social Relations in Historical Perspective

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:42:06 +0000

Date:

7 June 2012

The relationship between space and social relations is a prominent topic in current affairs. This innovative one-day workshop will address how space is defined and organised. It will focus especially on how historical perspectives can inform our understandings of how people use and experience space. Papers will be pre-circulated and the workshop will emphasize discussion and relaxed debate, offering presenters and participants an opportunity to consider how we can more effectively define and think about space in historic contexts.

AGENCY: History Lab Annual Conference 2012

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:16:45 +0000

Date:

13 June 2012 - 14 June 2012

Who makes history? What is the role of the individual, and how much influence can they have? While historians have long debated the meaning and implication of agency, events such as the Arab Spring, in which traditional structures are overturned by collective and individual action, gives the notion of agency fresh urgency.

Organiser(s):

historylab2012@gmail.com

BALH Local History Day 2012

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:14:07 +0000

Date:

16 June 2012

BALH annual lecture 2012 will be given by Professor Karen Hunt, Keele University, 'The local and the everyday: inter-war women's politics'. This will be preceded by a morning presentation and discussion 'Records of the Victorian poor - Poor Law Union Correspondence: an underused source for local historians' by Dr Paul Carter, the BALH AGM and presentations of Awards.

Organiser(s):

Dr Jane Howells British Association for Local History

The Great War: Localities and Regional Identities

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:52:05 +0000

Date:

20 June 2012

As the centenary of the Great War approaches and it slips from first-hand experience, shelves on military history in high-street bookshops testify to the misty-eyed mythical appeal it continues to have for many. This conference forestalls the coming public history bonanza by concentrating on the under-researched responses to the crisis from the regions and localities of Britain. Was there a common national response to unprecedented events or did strong local and regional identities cause significant variations?

Organiser(s):

Craig Horner and Nick Mansfield

Markets, Law, and Ethics, 1400-1850.

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 10:24:32 +0000

Date:

22 June 2012 - 24 June 2012

This call seeks papers addressing market culture in the late medieval and early modern periods, conceived broadly as the norms, laws, customs and practices of exchange, 1400-1850. Scholars have made the case for distinctively late medieval/early modern instantiations of social and economic life, for example as “competence and competition,” a “competitive household economy,” or a “baroque economy”. But what is next?

LONDONICITY 2012: The Second Annual London Studies Conference - 'London: City of Transformations?'

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:30:43 +0000

Date:

22 June 2012 - 24 June 2012

This conference seeks to explore, celebrate and critique the great world city of London in the context of Olympic and Jubilee Year. The title for the 2012 event is 'London - City of Transformations?', but a wide range of themes and topics is embraced within the Call for Papers.

Organiser(s):

Phillip Drummond

2012 Annual Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society Conference

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:46:05 +0000

Date:

22 June 2012 - 24 June 2012

The 2012 annual Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society conference will be held in The Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin, from 22-24 June 2012. Confirmed plenary speakers include Christine Casey (Trinity College Dublin), James Chandler (University of Chicago), and Moyra Haslett (Queen's University Belfast).

Organiser(s):

Christina Morin

There and Back Again: Writing Spaces, Mapping Places in the Medieval World

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:36:20 +0000

Date:

22 June 2012

The Oxford Medieval Geographies Research Group invites papers for a conference to be held at the University of Oxford on June 22, 2012. This is a one-day event investigating the role of geography in medieval literature and the wider cultural milieu.

Organiser(s):

Oxford Medieval Geographies Research Group

UNDERSTANDING BRITAIN 2012: The First Annual British Studies Conference - 'Great Britain: A United Kingdom?'

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:44:27 +0000

Date:

22 June 2012 - 24 June 2012

This conference seeks to explore, celebrate and critique the varied dimensions of the nation amidst the challenges of past and present. The title for the inaugural event is 'Great Britain - A United Kingdom?', but a wide range of themes and topics is embraced within the Call for Papers.

Organiser(s):

Academic Conferences London Ltd

Envisioning Landscapes: Adaptation and Renewal

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:07:22 +0000

Date:

22 June 2012

Landscape features prominently in perceptions and interpretations of the past. Whether depicting a specific location in its own right, or providing a backdrop for historical action, the physical environment pervades modern reconstructions of past places, peoples and events. Thus, just as rural and urban landscapes are active in the construction of memory and ideas in the lived environment, historical landscapes play a crucial role in shaping present-day conceptions of the past.

FILM AND MEDIA 2012: The Second Annual London Film and Media Conference - 'The End of Representation?'

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:54:29 +0000

Date:

22 June 2012 - 24 June 2012

This conference seeks to explore, celebrate and critique the screen-based traditions of film, TV and digital media. The title for the 2012 event is 'The End of Representation?', but a wide range of themes and topics is embraced within the Call for Papers.

Organiser(s):

Academic Conferences London Ltd