Military History Conferences

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.

Conference organiser(s): 
Dr D'Maris Coffman and Dr Anne Murphy
Location: 
Cambridge, UK

"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.

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.

Conference organiser(s): 
Jeremiah Dancy (University of Oxford), Gabriela Frei (University of Oxford), Hiraku Yabuki (King's College London)
Location: 
Oxford, UK

British Association of South Asian Studies Annual Conference

Date: 
29 March 2010 - 31 March 2010

British Association of South Asian Studies Annual Conference

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

Conference organiser(s): 
Dr Martin Farr, Dr Xavier Guegan, Newcastle University UK
Location: 
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK

The fighter along the history: identity, perception and representation.

Date: 
1 April 2010 - 2 April 2010

The Faculty of Arts and Science are inviting abstracts and expressions of interest for a conference to be held at the University of Cantabria, Spain, 01-02 April 2010.

Conference organiser(s): 
Professor Fidel Gómez Ochoa / Ph.D José María Aguilera Manzano / M.A. Daniel Macías Fernández. Delegation of Students
Location: 
Santander, Cantabria, Spain.

Hitler's Scandinavian Legacy: the wartime and post-war consequences of the German invasion of 9 April 1940

Date: 
8 April 2010 - 10 April 2010

Conference organiser(s): 
John Gilmour, Hon Fellow, Scandinavian Studies (on behalf of Professor Jill Stephenson)
Location: 
Old College, University of Edinburgh

The 1641 depositons: Politics, Society and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms

Date: 
9 April 2010 - 10 April 2010

The 1641 depositions: Politics, Society and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms

Conference organiser(s): 
Eamon Darcy, Edda Frankot, Annaleigh Margey, Elaine Murphy
Location: 
Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Call for Papers: Unarmed on the Battlefield: Non-Combatants and the Experience of Combat in Modern War

Date: 
15 April 2010 - 16 April 2010

University of Glamorgan, 15th-16th April 2010

Keynote Speaker: Professor Keith Jeffery (Queen's University Belfast)

Conference organiser(s): 
University of Glamorgan / Centre for War Studies, Trinity College Dublin
Location: 
Pontypridd, UK

The Battlefields Trust Annual Conference at York 2010 - Battlefields of Yorkshire

Date: 
16 April 2010 - 18 April 2010

York 2010

The Battlefields Trust - - Yorkshire Battlefields - History and Heritage

Friday 16th, Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th April 2010 Venue:  The Great Western Monkbar Hotel with a short walk from The Shambles and Minster.

Conference organiser(s): 
Mrs Sarah Baker Events Trustee
Location: 
York, United Kingdom