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...
Sport and Leisure HistoryJe suis Quinziste et Socialiste: Rugby, Wine and Socialism in the Aude since 1976Andrew Smith (Queen Mary, University of London)17 October 2011 Sport can be a passionate thing! This is as true of Rugby as any other but perhaps in twentieth...
Sport and Leisure History23 January 2012 Adriana Massidda (University of Cambridge)The ‘La Salada’ Fair (Buenos Aires) as a Place of Recreation and Construction of Identities Note: The audio for this podcast is of low qualitySpeakers abstract: ‘La Salada’...
Sport and Leisure History9 January 2012 Dr Emma Peplow (University of Glamorgan/Marylebone Cricket Club)Taking the Field: Telling the Stories of Grassroots Cricket Most histories of cricket ignore the grassroots game in favour of the bigger teams. Emma Peplow...
Digital History seminar21 February 2012Magnus Huber (Giessen)The Old Bailey Corpus: Spoken English in the 18th and 19th Centuries The Old Bailey Proceedings Online is a heavily used resource by historians of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who want to look at...
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