Digital HistoryFrom Cradle to Antipodean Grave: Reconstructing 19th Century Criminal LivesHamish Maxwell-Stewart (Tasmania)8 May 2012 In this session of the Digital History seminar, streamed live on 8 May Hamish Maxwell-Stewart gave a fascinating talk about...
Latin American History8 January 2013Ben Smith (Warwick)La Dictablanda: Soft Authoritarianism in Mexico, 1940-1968 In 1929 the National Revolutionary Party (PNR) was formed and later renamed Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Between 1940 and 1970 this...
Just a quick post today to draw your attention to the minor updates to the blog layout. It’s nothing major; I would like to do more and really give the History SPOT blog a fresh look, but that will have to wait for another time – perhaps the summer when...
Digital History seminarBen Schmidt (Princeton University)Unintended consequences: digital reading and the loci of cultural changeTuesday 12 March 2013, 5.15pm GMT Live Stream (click here on Tuesday to view the live stream) Abstract: Large scale digital reading is, as...
Studies of Home9 January 2013Abigail Williams (University of Oxford)Sighs and settees: recovering the lost history of reading aloud in the eighteenth century What did we do before television? Radio, of course! But what did we do before Radio? In the fifteenth...
Latin American HistoryRothschild, Quicksilver and Mining: A Global Monopoly from a Bolivian PerspectiveTristan Platt (St Andrews)29 November 2011 The trade in quicksilver (more commonly called Mercury) was a potentially lucrative business at the turn of the...
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