The Deana & Jack Eisenberg Lecture in Public History 2017

The Second Founding:  How the Civil War and Reconstruction Changed the American Constitution Speaker: Professor Eric Foner (Columbia University) The preservation of the American nation and the destruction of slavery, the two most profound consequences of the Civil...

What is Microhistory Now?

2 June 2017, Wolfson Conference Suie, IHR Microhistory rose to prominence more than three decades ago after the publication of Carlo Ginzburg’s Cheese and the Worms (1976) and Natalie Davis’s Return of Martin Guerre (1983).  It highlighted the agency as well as...

The book in the Low Countries: New perspectives, hidden collections

21-22 June 2017, Wolfson Conference Suite, IHR Great Britain and the Low Countries share a large part of their histories. There are countless stories of political and economic rivalries and wars, stories of religious and political exile in both directions, but also of...

Thomas Frederick Tout: Refashioning History in the 20th Century

9-10 June 2017, IHR, Wolfson Conference Suite Thomas Frederick Tout was a remarkable medieval historian who forged the distinctive and distinguished history school at Manchester University in the early years of the twentieth century. His own research made extensive...

Eric Hobsbawm Memorial Lecture 2017

Russia’s Revolution and the Destruction of the Past Speaker: Catherine Merridale Annual lecture in memory of Professor Eric Hobsbawm. Catherine Merridale is the author of numerous award-winning books on Russian history. Her latest work, Lenin on the Train...