Call for Papers No End to the War: Cultures of Violence and Care in the aftermath of the First World War Thursday 24-Friday 25 January, 2019, The University of Manchester Organisers: The Centre for the Cultural History of War, The University of Manchester War, Conflict and Society Research Group, Manchester Metropolitan University …
Category: Conferences, Workshops and Events (CFPs, Reports, Announcements and anything else)
Douglas Johnson Memorial Lecture 2018 – Malcolm Crook (Keele), How the British & French Learned to Vote
Date & Place: Monday 8 January, at the Institut Français, South Kensington Speakers: Professor Malcolm Crook (Keele) Paper Title: How the British and French Learned to Vote Chair: Professor David Andress (Portsmouth) To listen to a recording of the event, click here (right click to save as MP3) On January 8th, 2018, at the Institut Français, the SSFH and ASMCF held …
The First World War 100 Years On: Roundtable discussion at the IHR
THE FIRST WORLD WAR: Reflections on Scholarship and Commemoration 100 years on MONDAY 6 NOVEMBER 2017 5.30pm, Institute of Historical Research, Wolfson Room (NB02) How has the historiography of the First World War changed since the early twentieth century? What controversies animate contemporary historians today, and what roads are researchers currently travelling? How has commemoration …
Domesticating the Goddess Liberty: French history at the British Library (Monday 20 Nov 2017)
DOMESTICATING THE GODDESS LIBERTY Take a journey back in time through the British Library’s French poster collection. Join Collaborative PhD student Cherie Prosser (British Library/University of Sheffield) for the unravelling of a mystery that takes us to First World War Paris, as we reveal the historical significance of the changing female representation of ‘Liberty’: https://www.bl.uk/events/domesticating-the-goddess-liberty …
BEYOND POLITICS. New Directions in French History.
On 27 January 2017, Chris Millington (Swansea) led a one-day workshop at the Institute of Historical Research funded by the British Academy where doctoral and early career French historians met to discuss their research and approaches to teaching. Organised in conjunction with the French History Network and New Directions workshops, it showcased the work of …
TRANSNATIONAL ACTIVISM. New Directions in French History.
On 27 January 2017, Chris Millington (Swansea) led a one-day workshop at the Institute of Historical Research funded by the British Academy where doctoral and early career French historians met to discuss their research and approaches to teaching. Organised in conjunction with the French History Network and New Directions workshops, it showcased the work of …
TIME AND SPACE: New directions in French history
On 27 January 2017, Chris Millington (Swansea) led a one-day workshop at the Institute of Historical Research funded by the British Academy where doctoral and early career French historians met to discuss their research and approaches to teaching. Organised in conjunction with the French History Network and New Directions workshops, it showcased the work of …
Europe: A history of migration (repost)
We will be re-posting the reports from the conference A DATE WITH HISTORY: DID YOU SAY EUROPE? over the next few weeks. The reports were originally published on the French embassy website. Read the fourth and final report by Megan Crane and Alastair Brunton below: EUROPE: A HISTORY OF MIGRATION. The fourth and final session of the day began with …
Perspectives on Franco-British Relations (repost)
We will be re-posting the reports from the conference A DATE WITH HISTORY: DID YOU SAY EUROPE? over the next few weeks. The reports were originally published on the French embassy website. Read the third report by Nigel Ritchie and Katherine Barrowman below: PERSPECTIVES ON FRANCO-BRITISH RELATIONS. Renaud Morieux (Cambridge) discussed the notion of ‘foreigners’ in eighteenth century Britain and …
What is Europe? (repost)
We will be re-posting the reports from the conference A DATE WITH HISTORY: DID YOU SAY EUROPE? over the next few weeks. The reports were originally published on the French embassy website. Read the second report by Matthew Brown and Howard Chae below: WHAT IS EUROPE? On 9th June, leading historians from France and the UK were invited by the …
