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...
Sport and Leisure History5 June 2011Professor Peter Bailey (University of Manitoba)Entertainmentality! Modernising Pleasure in a Victorian Leisure Industry, or Did Foucault Ever Play the Hackney Empire?What is entertainmentality? That was my first question when I...
Dispensations and Conversations11 November 2011 Biology, Brain Theory and History: What, if anything, can historians learn from biology?Speakers: Dr Lisa Blackman (Goldsmiths, University of London), Dr Hera Cook (University of Birmingham) and Professor Roger Cooter...
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...
Today two new podcasts have been added to History SPOT. The first is from our Sports and Leisure History seminar and looks at women racers in the early twentieth century at Brooklands race track. The second is from our Voluntary Action History seminar which takes a...
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