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Sep 2010
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08 - 09	Pasold Research Fund and CHORD Conference: 'Distribution Networks for Textiles and Dress, c. 1700-1945' The Pasold Research Fund and the Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution (CHORD) invite proposals for a conference exploring the retailing and marketing of...	Wolverhampton, UK
10 - 11	Museums and the Market Ever since the historian Frank Herrmann first directed attention to the important role that the market has played in the changing fashions for collecting, in his The English as Collectors...	Leeds
10 - 12	The Perils of Print Culture Over the past twenty years the study of print culture has become prominent in the disciplines of history, literary studies and languages. The study of print culture has many advantages, but there...	Trinity College Dublin
13 - 15	Potent Substances: on the Boundaries of Food and Medicine The author of the Hippocratic treatise ‘Ancient Medicine’ deemed medicine a branch of food and highlighted culinary practice as foundational to medical knowledge and practice. Nonetheless,...	London, United Kingdom
22 - 23	Restoration London The Centre for Hearth Tax Research, in collaboration with the Centre for Metropolitan History, Institute of Historical Research, and Birkbeck, University of London, will host an international...	London, United Kingdom
23	Before and After Toynbee: conceiving the Industrial Revolution in the long nineteenth century "Before and After Toynbee: conceiving the Industrial Revolution during the long nineteenth century". A one-day symposium hosted by the Cambridge Victorian Studies Group, comprising a...	Cambridge, United Kingdom
24	Belfast: the urban experience 1613-1939 As Belfast approaches the 400th anniversary of the granting of corporate borough status in 1613, the Institute of Irish Studies and the School of History and Anthropology at Queen’s University,...	Belfast
30 - 15	Methodologies in the Study of War: Trinity College Dublin, 2010/11 The organising committee is pleased to announce its call for papers for the inaugural 2010-11 session of its monthly seminar series - this year to be held on the theme of “Methodologies in the...	Dublin, Ireland

Oct 2010
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09	Memories of War: New Narratives and Untold Stories This one- day conference forms part of a wider social history project which has examined alternative narratives and previously untold stories of war. The project has encompassed a series of...	Greenwich, London, United Kingdom
11 - 20	Sport and Leisure History Seminar: Call for Papers	London, United Kingdom
16	Cold War Encounters: National, International, and Transnational History in the 20th Century Cold War Encounters: National, International, and Transnational History in the 20th Century The 17th Annual Tri-University History Conference will be held at the University of Waterloo (...	Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
23	The Useable Past in Seventeenth-Century England An interdisciplinary colloquium that will showcase cutting-edge work in the field of early-modern perceptions of the past, including the archaic, antiquity, the county and civic past, family...	Coventry, West Midlands
29 - 30	Scratching the Surface: the history of skin, its diseases and their treatment An international conference hosted by the History of Medicine Unit, University of Birmingham, and sponsored by the Wellcome Trust and the Society for the Social History of Medicine. Skin and...	Birmingham, United Kingdom

Nov 2010
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18 - 20	"Natural, Unnatural, & Supernatural" - 36th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association The Thirty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association will take place November 18-20, 2010, at the Hotel Roanoke, located in the southwest corner of Virginia in the picturesque...	Roanoke, VA (USA)
25 - 26	Blocked arteries: circulation and congestion in history For centuries congestion has constituted a significant part of the travelling experience of peoples within and between cities, regions and nations. Meanwhile, for governments and planners,...	London, United Kingdom
27	Labour History: Class, Cultures and Communities in Action Huddersfield University, School of Music, Humanities and Media, in association with, The Society for the Study of Labour History, is holding a one day post-graduate conference, Labour...	Huddersfield, United Kingdom
28 - 31	8th Annual International Conference on History: From Ancient to Modern The History Research Unit of the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) will organize its 8th Annual International Conference on History in Athens, Greece on 28-31 of December 2010....	Athens, Greece

Dec 2010
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09 - 11	Portrait of the City: Framing the significance of historic urban landscapes In December 2010 the School of Architecture, Landscape and Civil Engineering, University College Dublin and the Office of Public Works will host a multi-disciplinary international conference to...	Dublin, Ireland

Mar 2011
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31 - 01	Urban History Group Annual Conference - Leisure, Pleasure and the Urban Spectacle This conference theme broadly explores the pursuit of "pleasure" in the context of the history of towns and cities. The conference organisers are interested in investigating the significance of...	Cambridge, UK

Apr 2011
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19 - 21	Perception, Reception and Deception: The Role of the Media in Society The 4th biennial Media History conference will focus on the ways in which people have understood the social, cultural and political roles of the media over the past five centuries. The...	Dublin, Ireland

May 2011
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20 - 21	Material Culture, Craft & Community: Negotiating Objects Across Time & Place This interdisciplinary conference will explore the varied expressions of craft – material, cultural, social – in past and present societies. Craft practice has a rich history and remains...	Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Jun 2011
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16 - 18	Food and Drink: their social, political and cultural histories Food and drink are essentials – yet they also represent luxuries. We must eat to live, sometimes may live to eat, and alcoholic drink can be seen either as a blessing which enlivens...	Preston, United Kingdom
20 - 22	Council for European Studies 18th International Conference Eighteenth Conference of Europeanists Organized by the Council for European Studies To be held at various university venues in Barcelona, Spain June 20-22, 2011...	Barcelona, Spain
22 - 25	New Light on Vernacular Architecture: Studies in Britain, Ireland, and the Isle of Man The University of Liverpool's Centre for Manx Studies and Manx National Heritage, will...	Douglas, Isle of ManDouglas, United Kingdom

Jul 2011
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07 - 08	Documenting the early modern book world: inventories and catalogues in manuscript and print The Third St Andrews Book Group Conference, 7-8 July 2011 It has become customary in documenting the world of early printed books to rely primarily on surveys of...	St Andrews, United Kingdom