A live stream – with a difference!

Next Tuesday evening Dan Cohen from George Mason University, Washington will be presenting to the Digital History seminar here in Senate House, London.  As per usual the seminar will also be streamed live across the world on History SPOT.  The topic is finding meaning...

Seminars on Film – a fast learning curve in video production

When I first came to the IHR two years ago I had to learn pretty fast all about podcasting – how to use the recorder, post-production, metadata and so forth.  I quickly learnt the first rule of audio recording – get the audio volume clear whilst recording as there is...

Mexican Nationalism: History and Theory

Latin American HistoryMexican Nationalism: History and TheoryDavid Brading (Cambridge)4 October 2011 In 1821 Mexico gained independence from Spain and formed a Republic.  By the 1880s a ‘reformation’ had begun to occur in the Mexican church, trade had moved primarily...

Great wealth in Argentina, 1810-1930

Latin American History15 November 2011 Roy Hora (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes/Conicet, Argentina)Great wealth in Argentina, 1810-1930 Very little research has been done on the very wealthy of Argentina between the late colonial period and the beginning of the...

Live streaming Digital History seminars

Yesterday was the first Digital History seminar this term and, as what has become a continuing thread for many of the papers, the focus was again on the Old Bailey Proceedings.  However, this time the topic was rather different – at least from an historian’s...

Digital History live stream tonight (Tuesday) at 5.15pm GMT

Just a quick reminder that we will be live streaming the Digital History seminar tonight at 5.15pm GMT.  Tonight’s session is given by Magnus Huber (Giessen) who will be talking about spoken English in the 18th and 19th centuries derpived from evidence in the...