Browse events by 'Social History'

Unlock the secrets of the British Library’s sport collections in this Olympic & Paralympic year by joining British Library curators and academic experts in a one-day conference at St Pancras...

This symposium will look the history of invention, technology and philosophy in the early modern era, the ways in which material life changed in the period. It will consider how the period...

Conference CFP EXTENDED DEADLINE: 16 January 2012

Papers are invited from across the Humanities, analysing any aspect of the productions and representations of British...

This lecture will address three themes: the place of the Great War in popular memory; the shift in historical treatments of the Great War from the political to the social and the cultural domain;...

The Centre for South Asian Studies and the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cambridge are hosting a two-day conference on colonial violence.

Scholars have long accepted the...

Since the first Policy History Conference in St. Louis, Missouri, the primary goal behind the conference has been to provide an interdisciplinary forum for scholars of policy history, American...

This two-day symposium will explore material cultures of religious belief and faith in modern Britain. As Birgit Meyer, David Morgan, Crispin Paine and S. Brent Plate have recently pointed out,...

Swansea University Postgraduate History and Classics Forum are inviting postgraduates and early career researchers to submit proposals for short, ten-minute presentations for workshops on teaching...

This colloquium, the fifth in a biennial series, offers an opportunity for scholars from a variety of disciplines to work together to enrich their mutual understanding of the intersections between...

This interdisciplinary and cross-period conference seeks to examine the continuities and changes visible between the medieval and early modern periods in the care and cure of sick and disabled...

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...

Revivalism in art and architecture is a fundamental though often overlooked aspect of modernity. From the nineteenth century to the present, styles, ideologies, techniques and approaches have been...

Vocation, Education and Care: Histories and Archives of Women Religious

The annual conference of the H-WRBI will take place at University College Dublin, in June 2012.  Over...