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Final call for papers: Cities and nationalisms
The Centre for Metropolitan History invites individual and panel proposals for a two-day conference in June 2010 on ‘Cities and Nationalisms’. Possible themes might include how festivals and parades, or the built environment, or literary and visual accounts of the city, have promoted or maintained nationalisms. The deadline for proposals is 30 November 2009. Click here for full conference details.
Early English Laws website
We are delighted to announce that the Early English Laws website is now live. This three-year, AHRC-funded project (a collaboration with King's College London) will publish new editions and translations of all English legal codes, edicts and treatises produced up to c.1215.
Global History seminar series 2010
Beginning in February 2010, and presented by the IHR, the University of Notre Dame and the History Department of the University of Warwick, the Global History seminar 2010 will explore global aspects of Trust, Technology, Racism, The Consumption of Culture, Environmental History and Music and Culture. For further details click here.
The RHS Bibliography of British and Irish History database update
The Royal Historical Society Bibliography of British and Irish History has added 8,000 records in its most recent update, including just over 3,000 relating to Irish history, mostly originating from Irish History Online. This will be the last RHS Bibliography data upgrade before the launch of the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) on 1 January 2010. Trial subscriptions are now available from Brepols Publishers, contact brepolis@brepols.net for futher information.
Call for papers: Environments: the 79th Anglo American Conference of Historians, 1-2 July 2010
Over the last two decades environmental history has developed at an amazing pace. Next year’s Anglo-American conference will explore where environmental history has been and where it is going, its relationship to other scholarly disciplines, and the ways in which historians of the environment can inform global green awareness today. For further details or to submit your paper, please visit the AAC2010 website.
Study at the Institute of Historical Research – Britain’s national centre for history
The IHR now offers MA degrees in Historical Research, Contemporary British History, Local and Regional History and Urban and Metropolitan History, as well as PhD opportunities. Click here for details.
