Browse events by '16th-17th 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
10 - 11 Nationalism and the City

Blame it, perhaps, on a hangover from nationalism’s early mingling with European romantics, but the primacy of ‘the rural’ in nationalist imaginaries remains well established, recurring in...

Cambridge, United Kingdom
11 Protest, Memory, and Public History: a workshop

Protest, Memory, and Public History: a workshop at the University of the West of England, Bristol.

The aim of this workshop is to establish dialogue between academic historians, community...

Bristol, United Kingdom
11 Georgian Coffeehouse Tour: with actors, musicians, and gritty black coffee

Join actors, musicians, and Dr Matthew Green for a caffeinated tour of London’s original – and best – coffeehouses: from the City’s warren of medieval streets, through St Paul’s Churchyard, down...

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
18 Fools and Folly in Early Modern Europe

This one-day symposium on Fools and Folly in Early Modern Europe will bring together historians, art-historians and literary scholars from the UK, Europe and beyond to discuss their recent...

Alton, 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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06 Lecture by Charles Webster: 'Paracelsus: Chemistry and Revolution'

CHARLES WEBSTER was senior research fellow at All Souls College and previously Reader in the History of Medicine and Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine,...

Oxford, 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
08 - 10 New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies 2012 Sarasota, United States
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
10 Herbal History Research Network Study Day – South and West Region

The aim of this day is to bring together current and interested researchers in herbal history to report on progress in current projects and share ideas and problems. Our theme for the day will be...

Bradford-on-Avon, 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
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 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
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
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
12 The Many Headed Hydra: Plebeians in the World c.1660-1820

This conference explores the role of plebeians in the colonial and commercial expansion across the world from c.1660-1820. Inspired by the themes of Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker’s The...

London, United Kingdom
13 - 15 Aberystwyth’s Fifth Annual Postgraduate Historical Studies Conference: ‘Ritual, Symbolism, and Identity.’

This years’ conference theme is ‘Ritual, Symbolism, and Identity’: a theme that we hope will generate a wide scope of interest. The conference provides an ideal friendly environment for students...

Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
14 The World Turned Upside Down - 40 years on

Christopher Hill’s classic work, The World Turned Upside Down, was published in 1972.  The book, though much criticised, remains one of the most popular books on the...

Sheffield, United Kingdom
18 - 19 Postgraduate Forum for the History of Medicine: 3rd Annual Summit

Swansea University is hosting the third annual summit for postgraduate students and early-career researchers working in the History of Medicine. Following on from the success of two previous...

Swansea, United Kingdom
19 - 20 Kings and Queens: Politics, Power, Patronage and Personalities in Medieval and Early Modern Monarchy

The institution of Monarchy was absolutely central to the political developments and events of the medieval and Early Modern world. This conference aims to celebrate monarchy in all of its various...

Corsham, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
24 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
27 Desiring Statues: Statuary, Sexuality and History

Statuary has offered a privileged site for the articulation of sexual experience and ideas, and the formation of sexual knowledge. From prehistoric phallic stones, mythological representations of...

Exeter, United Kingdom
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