Cities (Anglo-American conference 2009)
Today History SPOT looks back to 2009 to when we held our annual Anglo-American conference on the subject of Cities. The first two podcasts (the welcome by the IHR Director Miles Taylor and the plenary paper entitled Ideas of the Metropolis by Derek Keene) are now...Ancients and Moderns
The 81st Anglo-American conference will be held by the IHR at the beginning of July on the topic of Ancients and Moderns. How does the modern world (in respective periods) look upon the ancient past? How is it used to validate the present or inform the discourse? ...Elizabethan Courtly Love: Sir Walter Raleigh and Elizabeth I
Sir Walter Raleigh (c. 1554-1618) well known as an Elizabethan explorer and soldier, is also known to have written a sonnet entitled Fortune Hath Taken Thee Away, My Love. It is believed that Raleigh wrote this sonnet as a response to the rise of Robert Devereux,...Recreational Music-Making and the Fashioning of Political or Diplomatic Relationships at the Court of Elizabeth I
At the moment there are only a few podcasts on History SPOT specifically looking at the British monarchy and none on Elizabeth II. So, a special series of blog posts wasn’t possible for the History SPOT blog during this week of the Queen’s Diamond...