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IHBCM Call for Papers

The International HongKongers' Board and Councils of Musicology and Musics now invite scholars around the globe to submit a paper on the following themes for the publication of a music magazine of the IHBCM. Please submit your paper to ko_kashing@hotmail.com. The word limit should be 1500-2000 (including bibliography). Please also include your biography between the cover page and the content page of your submission. The selected paper will be included in the book that is to be registered in Hong Kong in September 2012.

Royal Museums Greenwich

As you may have seen on the Museum’s website, the Caird Library will close to all visitors from Monday 2 July until Tuesday 4 September 2012 inclusive for the preparation and holding of the Olympics and Paralympics in Greenwich Park.  

During this period there will be no access to the Library as the reading room will be in use by LOCOG (London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games). Written and telephone enquiries and the remote reprographics service will also be unavailable from this date.

Ex Historia call for papers

Ex Historia is the online journal published by postgraduate history students at the University of Exeter. It publishes original, refereed articles and book reviews by postgraduate students from all universities, on any historical topic, but especially topics reflecting the interests of the University of Exeter's history community.

The current volume is now available online.

History teacher?

With your knowledge of History and teaching skills, you could become an Edexcel examiner for Pearson and help to shape the future of thousands of students. Being an examiner would give you valuable insight into national standards and keep you in touch with developments in education.

We are are especially keen to recruit examiners with an interest in the following units:

Society for Renaissance Studies

Undergraduate Essay Prize

The Society for Renaissance Studies is pleased to announce that it will be awarding a prize for the best undergraduate student essay on a Renaissance topic submitted for the academic year 2011-2012. The essay will be for outstanding academic merit. Entries will be judged by members of the Council of the Society who will consult with other eminent scholars in the relevant field where necessary. The prize will be £200.

Conditions of Entry

Postdoctoral Research Associate: Comparative History of European and Chinese Politics (ca. 800-1600)

Postdoctoral Research Associate:

Comparative History of European and Chinese Politics (ca. 800-1600)

£31,020 per annum, plus £2,323 London Allowance  per annum. 

 

Department of History

School of Arts & Humanities

International scholarship 17th-18th century economic history

Applications are invited for an international scholarship (2013) to work at the Dubois rare books collection at the University of Poitiers.

More than 40000 books and pamphlets published from the second half of the seventeenth century to the first years of the nineteenth century in French, English, Italian, Latin are deposited there. The collection in English, largely concerned with economics or political economy, is mainly composed of pamphlets, some of which are extremely rare.

Fully funded AHRC PhD: the effect of parental marital status on childhood experiences in 20th century Britain

The effect of parental marital status and family form on experiences of childhood in 20th century Britain

St Peter's College, Oxford: College Lectureship in Modern European History

St. Peter’s College, University of Oxford, invites applications for a two-year  part-time College Lectureship in Modern European History (excluding Britain) since 1700. Applicants should have recently submitted, or be close to submitting, a doctoral dissertation in this subject. The position will be very suitable for a scholar seeking to gain experience in teaching. 

Fully Funded PhD project: News from elsewhere - Gemini News Service, journalism and the decolonization of knowledge (Department of Geography, University of Hull)

The project focuses on the Gemini News Service -a pioneering news service active 1967-2002 whose archives are held by the Guardian newspaper. Emerging in the context of rapid decolonisation, Gemini focused on reporting social, political and environmental issues from the developing world to press outlets in the UK and across the Commonwealth. In particular, it challenged the practice of ‘parachute’ reporting of developing countries by western correspondents who represented these regions from European perspectives.

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