SPOT Newsletter: 17 November 2010

“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...

SPOT Newsletter: 3 November 2010

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...

SPOT Newsletter: 19 October 2010

 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...

New podcasts and project update

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...

The History SPOT – New Project Name announced

On Friday 3rd September I announced on the IHR ‘History’ website and via Twitter that the Seminars and Research Training Project has been given a new name.  The name that we have selected is The History SPOT.  SPOT stands for ‘seminar podcasts and...