SPOT Newsletter: 16 December 2011 (Novel Approaches special)

Today I am very pleased to announce that videos from our Novel Approaches conference were added to the History SPOT platform (see here for the videos pages), to Youtube and iTunes-u. So you now have the option of watching or simply listening to what our panelists had...

Novel Approaches (15): Histories of Historical Fiction

In my first post on the topic of a history of historical fiction I asked where should such a history begin?  I thought perhaps a definition of the term historical fiction?  While useful such definitions could only get me so far.  Then I thought that such a study...

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...

A Novel Approaches prelude: A Brief History of Historical Fiction

In late November the IHR will be hosting two interlinked events on the topic of academic history and historical fiction. The conference (17-18 November) and virtual conference (21-25 November) is entitled Novel approaches: from academic history to historical fiction....