May 14, 2012
Hello all. Just a brief abstract today from the Franco-British history seminar. For the last few weeks updates to the blog and History SPOT has been a little on and off due to a busy couple of weeks here at the IHR and due to the fact that we had finally caught up...
May 3, 2012
British History in the Long 18th CenturyRethinking the interests of eighteenth-century BritainJulian Hoppit (University College London)5 October 2011Julian Hoppit looks at the current state of research into eighteenth-century Britain. His assessment is not entirely...
Jan 30, 2012
Archives and SocietyFreedom of InformationBen Worthy (University College London)4 October 2011Ben Worthy explains the benefits, limitations and difficulty of the Freedom of Information Act brought in by the Blair administration in 2000. The act would subsequently...
Jan 18, 2012
Podcasts now available (click here):The History PhD: Past, Present and Future conference28 January 2011 Last year marked the 90th anniversary of the PhD in Britain. I must admit I was initially surprised at the modernity of the PhD. Having worked my way through the...
Nov 9, 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...
