Two weeks ago the IHR held its 80th Anglo-American conference. This topic was Health in History which presented the opportunity for historians to discuss a variety of health related histories and in some cases relate that research to current medical demands and...
Hello and welcome to this week’s SPOT Newsletter. Today we have two papers on Britain. The first focuses on gambling laws in the early twentieth century whilst the second discusses the proliferation of museums in the nineteenth century. Although these topics do not...
Global History seminar7 March 2011Peter BarberThe Image of the globe in the RenaissancePete Barber discusses the depiction of Earth in the Renaissance stressing that the Renaissance man took his knowledge from studying manuscripts and objects from ancient Greece and...
After a short absence the SPOT Newsletter is back! Over the last few weeks we have been uploading to the IHR website some of our back catalogue from the last few months as our new platform, History SPOT, is still not quite ready. I’ll report more on that soon. In...
This week we present various papers from the IHR and from external sources, all summarised here. In addition we have finally uploaded the final segment from last year’s Blocked Arteries Conference. The roundtable involving all of the plenary speakers is now ready...
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