Mar 18, 2013
Digital HistoryFrom Cradle to Antipodean Grave: Reconstructing 19th Century Criminal LivesHamish Maxwell-Stewart (Tasmania)8 May 2012 In this session of the Digital History seminar, streamed live on 8 May Hamish Maxwell-Stewart gave a fascinating talk about...
Nov 7, 2012
Imperial and World History seminar15 October 2012Tom Bentley (University of Sussex)Reshaping the past: the lingering colonial presentThis podcast is about 20 minutes long. Violence is a driving force of colonialism, but it is not the only narrative available. There...
Feb 1, 2012
Franco-British History8 December 2011Steven Pincus (Yale University)Gulliver’s Travels, Political Economy, and Empire: The Reconfiguration of the British Empire in the Age of WalpoleAbstract (taken from the Franco-British History progamme): Why did Jonathan...
Jan 19, 2012
Today we have two abstracts from the Franco-British History seminar held at the Sorbonne, France. Both sessions look at Empire, in particular the British Empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. However, there the similarities end. The first paper...