Novel Approaches: A Virtual Conference

Tomorrow around 4.30pm you’ll find me running around setting up audio equipment in preparation for the first part of the IHR’s Novel Approaches: from academic history to historical fiction conference.  The conference seeks to look at the intersection and...

SPOT Newsletter: 9 November 2011

Hello and welcome to this week’s SPOT Newsletter.  Today we’ll be looking at two seminars from our collaboration with seminar groups outside of the IHR taken from the previous academic year.  We have been very fortunate to build ties with the...

Technical problems in last night’s live streamed seminar

Last night was the IHR’s eighth live streamed event, the fourth for our Digital History seminar, and the second since the launch of History SPOT.  Unfortunately on this occasion things did not go as planned.  This blog post is, therefore, part apology to all of you...

SPOT Newsletter: 26 October 2011

Sport and Leisure History20 June 2011Football and National Identity in Post-War England Christoph Wagner (De Montfort University)Huns vs Inselaffen: Anglo-German Football Rivalry, 1954-2000 In the 1950s and 1960s how was the rivalry between England and Germany in...

Live Stream on History SPOT today

Locating London’s past: a geo-referencing tool for mapping historical and archaeological evidence, 1660-1800 Today History SPOT will play host to a live stream of this workshop on Locating London’s Past.  This should prove an interesting and exciting event...