Franco-British History8 December 2011Steven Pincus (Yale University)Gulliver’s Travels, Political Economy, and Empire: The Reconfiguration of the British Empire in the Age of WalpoleAbstract (taken from the Franco-British History progamme): Why did Jonathan...
Franco-British History24 March 2011Jennifer Pitts (University of Chicago)Uniformity, difference, and hierarchy in the context of empire: Bentham’s “Place and Time”This paper was jointly written by Jennifer Pitts and Stephen G. Engelmann (University of Illinois,...
Archives and SocietyFreedom of InformationBen Worthy (University College London)4 October 2011Ben Worthy explains the benefits, limitations and difficulty of the Freedom of Information Act brought in by the Blair administration in 2000. The act would subsequently...
Just a quick follow on post about the History in Education conference that I talked about on 12 January 2012 (click here for that blog post). The History Today magazine has now posted an article by David Cannadine (the project manager of the History in Education...
Sport and Leisure History5 June 2011Professor Peter Bailey (University of Manitoba)Entertainmentality! Modernising Pleasure in a Victorian Leisure Industry, or Did Foucault Ever Play the Hackney Empire?What is entertainmentality? That was my first question when I...
Dispensations and Conversations11 November 2011 Biology, Brain Theory and History: What, if anything, can historians learn from biology?Speakers: Dr Lisa Blackman (Goldsmiths, University of London), Dr Hera Cook (University of Birmingham) and Professor Roger Cooter...
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