Administrative 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

Modern Records:challenges and opportunities

Date: 
22 March 2010

The Conference will examine the challenges and opportunities posed by modern records of religion.

Conference organiser(s): 
Religious Archives Group
Location: 
St Pancras, Euston Road, London NW1

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

Pepys and Chips: Dockyards, Naval Administration and Warfare in the Seventeenth Century (The Naval Dockyards Society Conference, 2010)

Date: 
17 April 2010

The seventeenth century saw the development of the royal dockyards into larger, more sophisticated and permanent entities.

Conference organiser(s): 
The Naval Dockyards Society
Location: 
London, UK

Postgraduate Conference in the History of Political Thought

Date: 
3 May 2010 - 4 May 2010

A new postgraduate forum in Intellectual History and the History of Political Thought based in London would like to invite proposals for papers for our first postgraduate conference, to be held in in early May 2010.

Conference organiser(s): 
Stephen Dean, Elliott Karstadt, Robin Mills
Location: 
London, UK

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.

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

Historical Perspectives Postgraduate Conference

Date: 
21 May 2010 - 22 May 2010

Historical Perspectives is a history society established and run by postgraduates for postgraduates.

Conference organiser(s): 
Historical Perspectives
Location: 
Dundee

The State and Social Identity in Early Modern England

Date: 
22 May 2010

This one-day colloquium will focus on the relationship between the English state and the languages, loyalties, actions and symbols by which early modern people defined their social positio

Conference organiser(s): 
The Centre for Early Modern British and Irish History, Oxford University History Faculty
Location: 
Oxford, UK