‘A world of repositioning and dispersal’ is how Professor David McKitterick describes libraries in the UK in his discussion on present day difficulties that are facing libraries and in particular their rare book collections. This is our first podcasted session from...
With all of this snow and wintery weather affecting the majority of the UK you might be looking forward to your next summer beach holiday more than ever. To help pass the time towards next summer this week’s SPOT newsletter begins with two short papers from the...
“Wrong target, using the wrong methods” is the message in the first of this fortnight’s SPOT Newsletter podcasts. From a lifetimes’ involvement in sport policies largely at the universities of Loughborough and Gloucestershire, Michael Collins discusses the sports...
How is it that a man cannot avoid getting drunk with washer women when he knows his job is threatened by it? Why does a thief running from a crime scene stop to buy a hat? These are just some of the questions that Peter Andersson asks in his exploration of social...
27 September – 15 October 2010 On 27 September Clare Mulley presented a paper to the Voluntary Action History Seminar on the philanthropist and founder of Save the Children, Eglantyne Jebb . Based upon her recent award-winning biography: The woman who save the...
Hello. After the summer hiatus the IHR research seminars began in earnest again last week. Thus, so too did our podcasting efforts. This academic year we hope to expand upon our already successful podcast series and, in semester two, experiment with some live...
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