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Britain and Ireland Conferences

History and the Headlines: Contemporary Coverage and the Reassessment of Historical Events in Newspapers and Periodicals’

Date: 
20 November 2009 – 21 November 2009

The second annual conference of the Newspaper and Periodical History Forum will be hosted by the School of Media at Dublin Institute of Technology.

URL: 
http://www.newspapersperiodicals.org
Conference organiser(s): 
Michael Foley (DIT), Caroline Connolly (DCU)
Location: 
Dublin, Ireland

The History of Rural Housing: New Approaches and Old Problems

Date: 
5 December 2009

This is the Winter Conference of the British Agricultural History Society, with papers from Margaret Yates on an interdisciplinary approach to housing history using cybernetics; Matthew Johnson on rural houses from the Reformation to the Georgian Order; John Broad on the nineteenth century rural housing crisis; and Barbara Linsley on the problem of affordable rural housing in the twentieth and

URL: 
http://www.bahs.org.uk/
Conference organiser(s): 
Dr Jane Whittle
Location: 
London

Researching Lives: Medicine, science and archives

Date: 
8 December 2009

The British Records Association is pleased to hold its 2009 annual conference at, and in assocation with, the Wellcome Collection.  The theme is the use of medical and scientific archives in researching lives and the day is full of informative and exciting talks.  We hope you will be able to join us. 

URL: 
http://www.britishrecordsassociation.org.uk/pages/events.htm
Conference organiser(s): 
British Records Association in association with Wellcome Collection
Location: 
London, UK

Prehistoric Minds: Darwinism, Culture and Human Origins during the 19th Century

Date: 
11 December 2009

A one-day conference organised by the Royal Society Centre for the History of Science in conjunction with the University of Durham.

URL: 
http://royalsociety.org/event.asp?id=8663&month=12,2009
Conference organiser(s): 
Dr Matthew Eddy, Durham University, and Dr Felicity Henderson, Royal Society
Location: 
London, UK

Fiction and British Politics Conference

Date: 
11 December 2009

A conference organised by the Centre for British Politics, University of Nottingham in association with Parlimentary Affairs and the PSA Art and Politics Specialist Group, will take place at the British Academy, London on 11th December, 2009.

URL: 
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/politics/cbp/FBP/FBPIndex.php
Conference organiser(s): 
Prof Steven Fielding, Centre for British Politics, University of Nottingham
Location: 
London SW1Y 5AH

Christian Fundamentalism and British Evangelicalism: Exploring the Relationship

Date: 
15 December 2009

The Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism in Britain Project is hosting a one-day conference for scholars, ministers and the interested public at King’s College Chapel, London, on Tuesday,15 December 2009.

URL: 
http://www.eauk.org/efb/events.cfm
Conference organiser(s): 
David Bebbington and Andrew Tooley
Location: 
London

We the Peoples: Democratizing International Relations in Britain and Beyond, 1870-1950

Date: 
8 January 2010 – 9 January 2010

This conference will explore the varied locations and formulations through which the broad notion of ‘democratization’ found expression in international politics between c.1870 and 1950.

URL: 
http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/seminars_events/conferences/democratizing.html
Conference organiser(s): 
Helen McCarthy (QMUL) and Peter Mandler (Cambridge)
Location: 
Cambridge

Margins of Print: Ephemera, Print Culture and Lost Histories of the Newspaper

Date: 
15 January 2010

This one-day conference/symposium will address the significance of transitory, elusive texts in Britain, Europe and America, including textual artifacts that have eluded traditional categories of print, or have been dismissed as short-lived, disposable, or valueless.

Conference organiser(s): 
Dr Harry Cocks and Dr Matthew Rubery
Location: 
Nottingham, UK

The History of the Book: Culture, Community, Criticism

Date: 
21 January 2010

Chetham’s Library and the University of Manchester are pleased to announce their third one-day interdisciplinary history of the book and material culture conference at Chetham's Library, Manchester, taking place Thursday 21st January

Location: 
Manchester, United Kingdom

Wenceslaus Hollar Conference

Date: 
27 January 2010

Papers/presentations are invited from faculty/graduate students for a one-day conference on Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677) and the culture of his times. The focus of the conference extends beyond Hollar's own work, to encompass topics relevant to his work.

URL: 
http://bookhistory.fis.utoronto.ca/Hollar.pdf
Conference organiser(s): 
Dr. Anne Thackray
Location: 
Toronto, Canada