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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

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

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

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

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.

URL: 
http://cihbe.wordpress.com
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.

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

URL: 
https://www.tcd.ie/history/1641/index.php
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

Making Democracy: Violence, Politics, and the American Founding

Date: 
22 April 2010 - 23 April 2010

The newly opened George Washington Forum on American Ideas, Politics, and Institutions, which has its home at Ohio University, invites paper proposals for a conference and subsequent edited volume on violence, politics, and the American founding. The conference will be held at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio (April 22–23, 2010).

URL: 
www.ohio.edu/washingtonforum
Conference organiser(s): 
Robert G. Ingram, Brian D. Schoen
Location: 
Athens, Ohio, USA