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...

Podcast and Online seminar survey results

The summer hiatus has proven very useful to completing work on several reports. The most significant of which is my analysis of the survey that I advertised back in May/June on this blog. The results were fantastic. We received a response from 301 academics. Most were...

Brand new podcasts from the IHR

The IHR research seminars may have ended for the term but we are still in the process of editing audio recordings from the final sessions.  Today we have added an excellent mixture of historical topics.  We have papers recorded from a conference on Canadian military...