Franco-British History5 January 2012Rosemary Sweet (University of Leicester)British Travellers in Italy in the 18th centurySummary: Both the Georgians and the Victorians were fascinated by Italy, but they saw the country with very different eyes. Eighteenth-century...
Just a quick advertisement for our upcoming workshop specifically designed for up and coming authors of historical fiction: How to Get the History Right in your Historical Fiction: A workshop for authors. As you may be aware, last year the IHR hosted a conference...
Sports History31 October 2011Dr Dean Allen (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa)The Race for Supremacy: The Politics of ‘White’ Sport in South Africa, 1880-1910 When in 2010 South Africa became the first African nation to host the Fifa world cup...
Metropolitan History26 October 2011Joseph de Sapio (Oxford)Worse than Cimmerian Darkness: fog and the representation of Victorian London What do tourists say about London in the nineteenth century? Representations of the London fog are common in the nineteenth...
Metropolitan History and British History in the Long 18th Century16 March 2011Jerry White (Birkbeck)City Rivalries and the making of modern London, 1720-1770In March 2011 the IHR attempted its first two live streamed seminars. The idea for the live stream is to show...
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