• Picture of the Week #191

    Updated: 2012-08-31 16:08:21
    Gardens at Penshurt Place. Photo May 2003.

  • Macmillan’s secret role in the Cuban Missile Crisis

    Updated: 2012-08-31 16:07:24
    Much of the study of the Cuban Missile Crisis focuses on the Soviet–US confrontation. However, it is important to remember that the UK was the third nuclear party involved in the crisis. This excellent article from Total Politics examines the role played by the British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan during the Cuban Missile Crisis - it seems he was more closely involved than is typically thought. Macmillan’s secret role in the Cuban Missile Crisis

  • CFP: Sensing the Sacred, York, 2013

    Updated: 2012-08-30 19:49:55
    Sensing the Sacred: Religion and the Senses, 1300-1800 The University of York 21-22 June 2013 Confirmed keynote addresses from: Nicky Hallett (University of Sheffield), Matthew Milner (McGill University) & Chris Woolgar (University of Southampton) Religion has always been characterised as much by embodied experience as by abstract theological dispute. From the sounds of the adhān [...]

  • The Birkbeck Early Modern Society’s AGM and 6th Annual Students’ Conference: Science, Magic and Religion

    Updated: 2012-08-28 18:04:04
    SCIENCE, MAGIC and RELIGION  A one day conference to mark the retirement from Birkbeck of Prof. Michael Hunter  Saturday 22 September 2012, 10.30-16.30 Malet St, Room B18  10.30  AGM 11.00 Coffee break 11.15  Key Note Speech  Prof. Michael Hunter, ‘Reflections on My Career as an Early Modern Historian’ 12.30  Lunch, room B04 13.30 Panel One: [...]

  • CFP: Gender in Material Culture, Bath Spa, Jan 2013

    Updated: 2012-08-10 16:33:57
    Gender in Material Culture Annual Gender and Medieval Studies conference Bath Spa University 4th-6th January 2013 Keynote Speakers Prof. Catherine Karkov, University of Leeds Dr Simon Yarrow, University of Birmingham From saintly relics to grave goods, and from domestic furnishings to the built environment, medieval people inhabited a material world saturated with symbolism. Gender had [...]

  • MarineLives: Call for Project Volunteers

    Updated: 2012-08-08 20:41:57
    MarineLives, a project using collaborative transcription, linkage and enrichment of High Court of Admiralty primary manuscripts, 1650-1669, is recruiting volunteer project experts, project facilitators and project associates. MarineLives is an innovative academic project for the collaborative transcription, linkage and enrichment of primary manuscripts, which were originated in the High Court of Admiralty, London, 1650-1669. The [...]

  • Folger Institute: Early Modern Cities in Comparative Perspective

    Updated: 2012-08-08 20:28:32
    Registrations for the Folger Institute’s September conference, Early Modern Cities in Comparative Perspective, will be accepted through 14 September (assuming space remains.) Support from The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation extends grants-in-aid to conference participants from U.S. institutions who are not affiliates of the Folger Institute consortium. The application deadline is 4 September 2012. Please visit [...]

  • Toolkit to Assess Research Impact

    Updated: 2012-08-06 14:25:45
    An open access toolkit to support bibliometric training and awareness has been produced by a number of Dublin based university libraries.  The toolkit provides a useful overview of bibliometrics and how to assess research impact.

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