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Governments-in-Exile and the Jews during the Second World War

Date: 
21 March 2010 - 22 March 2010

The Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations at the University of Southampton is organizing a research project which will explore the responses of the anti-Hitler Allies to the Jewish plight during the Second World War.

URL: 
http://www.soton.ac.uk/parkes/news/conf-10-exile_symposium.shtml
Conference organiser(s): 
The Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations, University of Southampton
Location: 
Southampton, UK

Modern Records:challenges and opportunities

Date: 
22 March 2010

The Conference will examine the challenges and opportunities posed by modern records of religion.

URL: 
http://rylibweb.man.ac.uk/rag2/activities/conference/
Conference organiser(s): 
Religious Archives Group
Location: 
St Pancras, Euston Road, London NW1

"Refugees' Journeys"

Date: 
24 March 2010
Hanna Diamond, author of 'Fleeing Hitler', on 'Photographic Narratives of Refugees in France. 1939-40' and Christophe Declercq on 'Horsemeat on your Table: the Peculiar Intricacies of Belgian Refugees in Britain during WWI'.
Conference organiser(s): 
Dr Caroline Perret (Group for War and Culture Studies)
Location: 
University of Westminster - 309 Regent Street - London W1B 2UW.

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

Neighbourly Denunciation

Date: 
26 March 2010

Neighbourly Denunciation 

Fratricide and Fraternité: Understanding and Repairing Neighbourly Atrocity Mellon Sawyer Seminar Series

2:00pm Session 1

URL: 
http://www.sas.ac.uk/710.htm
Conference organiser(s): 
Human Rights Consortium, School of Advanced Study
Location: 
London, UK

The 'Wind of Change': Fifty years on. Britain and the End of Empire in the 1950s and 1960s

Date: 
26 March 2010 - 27 March 2010

A Conference organized by the Departments of History at University of East Anglia and King’s College London to mark the 50th Anniversary of Harold Macmillan’s Landmark Speech To be held at the University of East Anglia

URL: 
https://www.uea.ac.uk/his/eventsnews/events/wind+of+change
Conference organiser(s): 
Larry Butler, UEA, and Sarah Stockwell, KCL
Location: 
University of East Anglia. Norwich, England

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

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