SPOT Newsletter: 11 October 2011

British History in the Long 18th Century30 March 2011Sarah Lloyd (Hertfordshire)Ephemeral Lives: On writing a ticket-centred history of 18th-century BritainTickets: lottery tickets, theatre tickets, turnpike tickets, admission tickets and so forth.  In the eighteenth...

SPOT Newsletter: 30 September 2011

Sport and Leisure History 23 May 2011Nick Piercey (University College London)Football Club Membership in Rotterdam in 1914: Walking through the Historic City in Search of the Individual In one week of August 1914 the lives of ordinary people began to change as war...

SPOT Newsletter: 26 September 2011

 British History in the Long 18th Century8 June 2011Isabelle Cosgrave (Exeter University)A Quaker convert and the writing of fiction: the case of Amelia OpieAmelia Opie was a prominent English author who wrote novels, short stories, and poems between 1790 and 1834. ...

SPOT Newsletter: 22 September 2011

Franco-British History19 May 2011Catherine Hall (UCL)Troubled Memories: histories of the British slave trade and slavery Catherine Hall asks and answers a lot of questions about the construction and reconstruction of histories and memory of the British slave trade. ...

History SPOT has launched!

I have been waiting to write that title for well over a year now.  After a delay of over 5 months History SPOT is finally ready to launch!    Research Seminars, Lectures and Conferences History SPOT is brimming full of podcasts from IHR seminars, conferences and...