Browse events by '20th Century'

Jan 2012
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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 Authorship, memory & manuscripts, 2012: Modern Papers at the Bodleian Libraries

2012 Modern Papers Seminar Series: Authorship, memory & manuscripts

Four seminars exploring the writing of political biographies. Each speaker will introduce a document from the...

Oxford, 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
20 Authorship, memory & manuscripts, 2012: Modern Papers at the Bodleian Libraries

2012 Modern Papers Seminar Series: Authorship, memory & manuscripts

Four seminars exploring the writing of political biographies. Each speaker will introduce a document from the...

Oxford, United Kingdom
22 25 years after: Soviet lessons for security transition in the Afghanistan of 2014

How do we remember the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1989, and how does history relate to today’s state of affairs in that country? The documentary ‘Afghanistan, Land of Wonders’ (2009) by...

London, 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
27 Authorship, memory & manuscripts, 2012: Modern Papers at the Bodleian Libraries

2012 Modern Papers Seminar Series: Authorship, memory & manuscripts

Four seminars exploring the writing of political biographies. Each speaker will introduce a document from the...

Oxford, 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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03 Mondrian, Nicholson and 20th Century Abstraction

09.30 – 18.00 (with registration from 09.00)

Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN

In 1936 Alfred H. Barr Jr’s history-...

London, United Kingdom
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
09 - 10 Women and the Media 2012: Representations Past and Present Belfast, 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
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 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
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 - 30 Transforming Pregnancy Since 1900

A conference to be held in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.

Around 1900, few pregnant women in Europe or North America had any contact with a...

Cambridge, 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
03 Recording Leisure Lives: Sports, Spectacles and Spectators in 20th century Britain

The 2012 Recording Leisure Lives conference explores themes of consumption, active and passive practices, representation, identity and physical culture in leisure in inter-war Britain with a...

Bolton, United Kingdom
11 - 14 European Social Science History Conference 2012 - Material and Consumer Culture Network

The ESSHC 2012 will take place in Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Information about the European Social Science and History Conference can be found at: http://www....

Glasgow, United Kingdom
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