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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

York 1190: Jews and Others in the wake of Massacre

Date: 
22 March 2010 - 24 March 2010

This conference will  use the events of 1189-90 as a lens through which to reassess society in England in the later twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. The York massacre was not just a local event but one of a series of violent attacks on local communities of Jews across England in 1189-90.

Conference organiser(s): 
Dr Sarah Rees Jones and Dr Sethina Watson
Location: 
York, UK

Modern Records:challenges and opportunities

Date: 
22 March 2010

The Conference will examine the challenges and opportunities posed by modern records of religion.

URL: 
http://rylibweb.man.ac.uk/rag2/activities/conference/
Conference organiser(s): 
Religious Archives Group
Location: 
St Pancras, Euston Road, London NW1

"Refugees' Journeys"

Date: 
24 March 2010
Hanna Diamond, author of 'Fleeing Hitler', on 'Photographic Narratives of Refugees in France. 1939-40' and Christophe Declercq on 'Horsemeat on your Table: the Peculiar Intricacies of Belgian Refugees in Britain during WWI'.
Conference organiser(s): 
Dr Caroline Perret (Group for War and Culture Studies)
Location: 
University of Westminster - 309 Regent Street - London W1B 2UW.

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

Neighbourly Denunciation

Date: 
26 March 2010

Neighbourly Denunciation 

Fratricide and Fraternité: Understanding and Repairing Neighbourly Atrocity Mellon Sawyer Seminar Series

2:00pm Session 1

URL: 
http://www.sas.ac.uk/710.htm
Conference organiser(s): 
Human Rights Consortium, School of Advanced Study
Location: 
London, UK

Poetry, Politics and Pictures in the Nineteenth Century

Date: 
26 March 2010 - 27 March 2010

Poetry, Politics and Pictures in the Nineteenth Century

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

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