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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

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

British Association of South Asian Studies Annual Conference

Date: 
29 March 2010 - 31 March 2010

British Association of South Asian Studies Annual Conference

URL: 
http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/basas2010
Conference organiser(s): 
Clare Anderson, David Arnold, Hazel Rice
Location: 
Coventry, UK

Recording Leisure Lives: Holidays and Tourism in 20th century Britain

Date: 
30 March 2010

This is the third annual ‘Recording Leisure Lives’ conference presented by the University of Bolton and Bolton Museum and Archive Service in partnership with the Leisure Studies Association. Drawing its inspiration from Humphrey Spender’s Mass Observation photographs of Worktowners in Blackpool, this conference focuses on the leisure experiences of people on holiday – both at home and away.

URL: 
www.bolton.ac.uk/conferences/leisurelives
Conference organiser(s): 
University of Bolton and Bolton Museum and Archive Service
Location: 
Bolton, Greater Manchester

Pepys and Chips: Dockyards, Naval Administration and Warfare in the Seventeenth Century (The Naval Dockyards Society Conference, 2010)

Date: 
17 April 2010

The seventeenth century saw the development of the royal dockyards into larger, more sophisticated and permanent entities.

URL: 
www.navaldockyards.org
Conference organiser(s): 
The Naval Dockyards Society
Location: 
London, UK

CHORD workshop: 'Commerce and Illegality, 1500-2000'

Date: 
21 April 2010

The Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution invites participants to a workshop devoted to a discussion of illicit and illegal commercial practices, from 1500 to the present.Proposals are invited covering any form of dodgy dealing and any geographical location.Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

URL: 
http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/illegcom.html
Conference organiser(s): 
Laura Ugolini
Location: 
Wolverhampton, UK

Making Democracy: Violence, Politics, and the American Founding

Date: 
22 April 2010 - 23 April 2010

The newly opened George Washington Forum on American Ideas, Politics, and Institutions, which has its home at Ohio University, invites paper proposals for a conference and subsequent edited volume on violence, politics, and the American founding. The conference will be held at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio (April 22–23, 2010).

URL: 
www.ohio.edu/washingtonforum
Conference organiser(s): 
Robert G. Ingram, Brian D. Schoen
Location: 
Athens, Ohio, USA

"Femininities" The University of York's 10th Cultural History Conference

Date: 
22 April 2010 - 24 April 2010

Tenth York Cultural History Conference – FEMININITIES

Department of History, University of York, 22-24 April 2010

URL: 
http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/hist/research/conf/femininities/
Conference organiser(s): 
Henrice Altink, Jeremy Goldberg, Hannah Greig, Joanna de Groot.
Location: 
York, UK