Browse events by '18th-19th Century'

Jan 2012
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09 - 27 Rousseau 300: Nature, Self, and State

This exhibition at the UCL Art Museum features rare items from UCL’s art and book collections to mark the 300th anniversary of the birth of one of the most controversial authors in the...

London, United Kingdom
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
13 'Greek Temples in Crowded Lanes: Pugin in the Strand’, a public lecture by Rosemary Hill

The Centre for Life-Writing Research at King's College London is pleased to announce a forthcoming lecture in its StrandLives series: six distinguished lectures, discussing life stories associated...

London , 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
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 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
28 Swansea University Postgraduate Seminar Series 2011/12

We are in the process of organising our seminar series for the academic year 2011/2012.  These will be held in the James Callaghan Conference Room (JC B02/3)  of Swansea University....

Swansea, 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
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 Dissenting Studies Seminar Series

The seminar will meet monthly on Wednesdays from January to July (excepting April) from 5.15 to 6.45 pm in the Lecture Hall, Dr Williams's Library, 14 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0AR. All are...

London, 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
16 - 18 New Perspectives on the Global Eighteenth Century: Postgraduate Workshop

The University of Liverpool’s Eighteenth-Century Worlds research centre, in conjunction with the History Lab North West postgraduate network, is pleased to announce the first...

Hawarden, 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
19 - 20 "Oikonomia, Economy and War", Fifth Cambridge Graduate Conference in Political Thought and Intellectual History

Paper proposals are invited for the fifth Cambridge Graduate Conference in Political Thought and Intellectual History, to be held on 19-20 March 2012 at the University of Cambridge. The theme of...

Cambridge, 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
27 Swansea University Postgraduate Seminar Series 2011/12

We are in the process of organising our seminar series for the academic year 2011/2012.  These will be held in the James Callaghan Conference Room (JC B02/3)  of Swansea University....

Swansea, 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 Neale Lecture 2012: Prof Robin Blackburn, Slavery and Finance in Britain's Empire of Free Trade

We are pleased to announce that Professor Robin Blackburn (Essex) will give this year's UCL Neale Lecture in British History, on 'Slavery and Finance in Britain's Empire of Free Trade'...

London, 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 - 04 The Royal Body

The idea of the king’s two bodies, the body natural and the body politic, founded on the distinction between the personal and mortal king and the perpetual and corporate crown, has long been of...

Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom
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