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"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.

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

Explaining Supernatural Nature: Mediations Between Image, Text and Object in the Middle Ages

Date: 
9 April 2010 - 11 April 2010

This is an AHRC funded three day postgraduate conference organized under the Beyond Text Student-Led Initiatives Project. The content of the sessions is flexible to allow the presentations to be as innovative and exciting as possible. We may move sessions to early morning or night, or to locations outside the conference room.

URL: 
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/school/conferences.html
Conference organiser(s): 
Trish Stewart, University of St. Andrews and Diane Heath, University of Kent
Location: 
St. Andrews, Scotland

Women Readers/Educational Texts 1500-1800

Date: 
15 April 2010 - 16 April 2010

The recent upsurge in interest in the history of reading has opened numerous new interpretative avenues for scholars. Women’s reading has attracted particular attention, in specific regions and time periods. Much of this critical interest has focussed on the idea of leisure reading, however, with the reading of literary texts an especially common theme.

URL: 
http://www.liv.ac.uk/soclas/conferences/WomenReaders/index.htm
Conference organiser(s): 
Dr Mark Towsey and Dr Pollie Bromilow
Location: 
Liverpool, UK

"Femininities" The University of York's 10th Cultural History Conference

Date: 
22 April 2010 - 24 April 2010

Tenth York Cultural History Conference – FEMININITIES

Department of History, University of York, 22-24 April 2010

URL: 
http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/hist/research/conf/femininities/
Conference organiser(s): 
Henrice Altink, Jeremy Goldberg, Hannah Greig, Joanna de Groot.
Location: 
York, UK

'New Perspectives on Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Scotland', ESHSS Annual Conference,

Date: 
7 May 2010 - 8 May 2010

In recent years, the historiography in seventeenth and eighteenth century Scotland has flourished, especially amongst new scholars, bringing insight and nuance into many areas of Scottish life that have long been ignored.

URL: 
www.eshss.co.uk
Conference organiser(s): 
Economic and Social History Society of Scotland
Location: 
Dundee, Scotland.

Histfest 2010

Date: 
14 May 2010 - 16 May 2010

Now in its fifteenth year, Histfest provides an ideal forum for presenting postgraduate research at any stage of progress to a supportive and constructive audience. The conference welcomes papers from any field of historical research and related disciplines. This year we are also inviting submissions of poster displays.

URL: 
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/histfest
Conference organiser(s): 
James Bowen, William Cook, George Lincoln, Emily Mead, Alexander Wilkinson, Oliver Wilkinson
Location: 
Lancaster, UK

Society for the Study of Labour History 50th Anniversary Conference

Date: 
15 May 2010

Fifty Years of Labour History: Past Achievements, Future Prospects

Location: 
Manchester, UK

Renaissance Cultural Crossroads:Translation, Print and Culture in Britain 1473-1640

Date: 
20 May 2010 - 21 May 2010

On 20-21 May 2010, the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick will host an international conference on translation, print and culture in Renaissance Britain.

URL: 
http://go.warwick.ac.uk/rccconference
Conference organiser(s): 
Professor Brenda Hosington, Dr Sara Barker and Ms Susanna De Schepper
Location: 
University of Warwick, Coventry