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18th-19th Century Conferences

Making the British Empire, 1660-1800

Date: 
19 March 2010 - 20 March 2010

This conference will bring together a number of leading scholars of imperial history, in order to offer new perspectives on the early phase in the development of the British empire.

URL: 
www.ucl.ac.uk/history/events
Conference organiser(s): 
UCL History Department
Location: 
London, UK

Questioning 'Credible Commitment': Re-thinking the Glorious Revolution and the Rise of Financial Capitalism

Date: 
20 March 2010 - 23 March 2010

In 1989, North and Weingast argued that the establishment of parliamentary supremacy over public finance created an environment in which investors could rely upon the state to meet its financial promises.

URL: 
http://www.newnham.cam.ac.uk/credcom2010
Conference organiser(s): 
Dr D'Maris Coffman and Dr Anne Murphy
Location: 
Cambridge, UK

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

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

The Hudson Trust Conference in Naval History - Navies in War and Peace, 1754-1989

Date: 
26 March 2010 - 27 March 2010

Recent years have seen a new expansion of naval history. With new aspects of the subject being researched and current perspectives being expanded, the attraction of the subject to new scholars has grown, and in response fresh and innovative questions are being addressed.

URL: 
http://www.navalhistory.jp/hudsontrustconf/
Conference organiser(s): 
Jeremiah Dancy (University of Oxford), Gabriela Frei (University of Oxford), Hiraku Yabuki (King's College London)
Location: 
Oxford, 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

Religion and Modern British History Symposium

Date: 
27 March 2010

Following the success of similar day conferences in 2009, the Modern British History Network is planning an exciting new event for next year’s schedule.

URL: 
www.mbhn.org.uk
Conference organiser(s): 
Modern British History Network
Location: 
Edinburgh, UK

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

FROM THE GRAND TOUR TO MASS TOURISM The Modern History of the British Abroad

Date: 
1 April 2010 - 2 April 2010

FROM THE GRAND TOUR TO MASS TOURISM

The Modern History of the British Abroad

Newcastle, 1-2 April 2010

URL: 
http://tiny.cc/IrNaJ
Conference organiser(s): 
Dr Martin Farr, Dr Xavier Guegan, Newcastle University UK
Location: 
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK