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...
Beyond the interviews the virtual exhibition (which is well worth a look) includes various statistics (largely gathered from the 1990s London PhD project that looked into the history of History doctorates between 1921 and 1990 at the University of London and the more...
Last year I was interviewed about my experiences of the PhD as part of the IHR’s celebration of the 90th anniversary of the PhD in Britain. I don’t claim to be an expert or necessarily to have anything particularly interesting to say on the subject as every...
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