Browse events by 'Social History'

Jan 2012
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19 University of Edinburgh research seminar in Scottish History

These seminars will take place at 5.15pm.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Feb 2012
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01 - 07 Department of History Film Season 2012 (University of Reading)

The past is a four-letter word…and it’s film

How do film-makers capture the past on the big screen?  Is it possible to be historically accurate without...

Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom
15 - 17 Crisis: Interruptions, Reactions and Continuities in Central and Eastern Europe. The 11th International Postgraduate Conference on Central and Eastern Europe

Crises have been common in the history of Central and Eastern Europe. The term crisis implies that a particular order, whether financial, social or political is thrown into a state of...

London, United Kingdom
15 Political History Network Seminar (University of Reading)

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...

Reading, United Kingdom
15 - 30 CFP: Political History Network 2012 Seminar Series

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...

Reading, United Kingdom
18 Fools and Folly in Early Modern Europe

This one-day symposium on Fools and Folly in Early Modern Europe will bring together historians, art-historians and literary scholars from the UK, Europe and beyond to discuss their recent...

Alton, United Kingdom
23 Transgressive Behaviour: 100 years of rule-breaking in Manchester's parks 1840 – 1940

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

Transgressive Behaviour: 100 years of rule-breaking...

Manchester, United Kingdom
25 Cambridge Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic 2012: Junctions and Crossroads

The Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at the University of Cambridge is pleased to announce the date for its annual interdisciplinary postgraduate conference, the theme of which...

Cambridge, United Kingdom
25 Digital Humanities Symposium: Virtualisation and Heritage

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...

York, United Kingdom
Mar 2012
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07 Goldsmiths History Seminar 2011/12

Goldsmiths History Seminar programme (and related events), 2011/12

Time: Wednesdays, 5:30-7:00pm (unless otherwise stated)

Venue: Room 143, Richard Hoggart Building (unless...

London, United Kingdom
08 - 10 New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies 2012 Sarasota, United States
09 - 10 New Researchers in Maritime History Conference 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...

Glasgow, , United Kingdom
09 Gendering the history of charity and voluntary effort: A workshop for postgraduate and early-career researchers

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...

Huddersfield, United Kingdom
14 NMRN Research Seminar. Those they left behind: Naval families during the Napoleonic wars

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...

Portsmouth, United Kingdom
14 Goldsmiths History Seminar 2011/12

Goldsmiths History Seminar programme (and related events), 2011/12

Time: Wednesdays, 5:30-7:00pm (unless otherwise stated)

Venue: Room 143, Richard Hoggart Building (unless...

London, United Kingdom
14 History of Women in the Americas

The Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW, formerly known as British Historians of Women in the Americas) will hold their fifth annual conference on Wednesday 14 March 2012 at...

London, United Kingdom
17 - 18 PG Colloquium: Cultural Construction in the USSR and States of the Former Soviet Bloc

On March 17-18, 2012, the School of History at the University of Nottingham is hosting a postgraduate colloquium, initiated and organised by its own doctoral students, on the theme of cultural...

Nottingham, United Kingdom
17 Women, Health and Welfare: Women’s History Network Southern Region Study Day

Sessions, spanning the early modern, Victorian and modern eras, in Ireland, England and Italy, include women and mental health, women and reproductive health, women as health care practitioners,...

Kingston on Thames, United Kingdom
22 - 23 Irish agrarian radicals, c. 1850-1930

 Agrarian issues and the land question have always seemed to dominate discourse in Ireland and the Land movement of the 1870s onwards saw the land and national questions becoming inextricably...

Dublin, Ireland
22 Promoting Engagement with the Teaching of Economic History

How can we engage students with economic history? The subject has become increasingly marginalised from many university history curricula in recent years, but it remains a fundamental part of the...

Oxford, United Kingdom
23 - 24 Gender and Irish Society in the 19th and 20th century: new perspectives and new ideas

Two-day conference – 23rd and 24th of March, 2012

Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences

National...

Galway, Ireland
23 - 24 On the margins? Rethinking the problem and place of 'outsiders', 1400-1800

This event is designed to challenge and rethink existing ideas about the ‘social margins’.  It is not all-encompassing in terms of the 'outsider' groups considered.  Instead, it is...

Oxford, United Kingdom
25 - 27 Bury St Edmunds and the Norman Conquest

This conference brings together some leading authorities to examine the relative importance of the Norman Conquest in shaping the fortunes of St Edmund's monastic community. Hosted at the...

Bury St Edmunds, United Kingdom
29 - 31 UCL Neale Colloquium 2012: Emancipation, slave-ownership and the remaking of the British imperial world

The colloquium aims to present the findings of the Legacies of British Slave-ownership project...

London, United Kingdom
29 Sowing the Seeds Network and the Centre for Economic History at the University of Reading: An Early-Career Workshop on Medieval Urban Community and Public Space

Registration: Free. Furthermore, travel bursaries are available subject to certain criteria

Duration: 10am-5pm (followed by an optional...

Reading, United Kingdom
29 - 30 Transforming Pregnancy Since 1900

A conference to be held in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.

Around 1900, few pregnant women in Europe or North America had any contact with a...

Cambridge, United Kingdom
30 - 31 Solidarities that know no boundaries? Transnational Advocacy in Historical Perspective

What inspires activists to embrace causes that do not directly affect them? What drives professions of solidarity for an individual, community or nation? This conference will explore the ways in...

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom
31 Deviance in Modern Irish History Workshop

The study of deviance illuminates a ‘hidden’ history of human behaviour. Definitions of deviance and attitudes about what was the ‘norm’ reveal much about society and the conduct of people, both...

Limerick, Ireland
Apr 2012
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02 - 03 Migration, Ethnicity and Identity: Perspectives from the Celtic Nations Bangor, United Kingdom
03 - 05 Social History Society Annual Conference

The Annual Conference of the Social HIstory Society is pleased to announce the call for Papers for its 2012 Annual Conference which will be held at the University of Brighton, UK, 3-5 April 2012...

Brighton, United Kingdom
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