Browse events by 'Urban History'

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
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