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If you would like to advertise a conference or event on this page, please email Linda Persson
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‘Jute and Dundee’
19 March 2010, University of Dundee
Organisers: Dr Carlo Morelli, Professor Jim Tomlinson and Dr Valerie Wright.
This workshop will consider the history of the jute industry and its impact on the city of Dundee and surrounding geographical areas from a range of perspectives, economic, industrial, social and cultural. The main aim of this workshop is to present and discuss on-going research from the Leverhulme funded project ‘Jute & Dundee: The management of industrial decline’ with academics and local historians who have completed research on an aspect of, or have an interest in, the evolution and subsequent industrial decline of jute as an industry and employer in Dundee. Individuals who had associations with the jute industry in Dundee in the post war years will also be present. The organisers have close connections with local archivists who will attend and participate as will curators from local museums and libraries. An important feature of this workshop will be the attendance of academics who have completed research on the jute industry in India. This will be a unique opportunity to discuss the connections between the intertwined development of jute in Dundee and India, which will be beneficial to all delegates. We are particularly keen for postgraduates to attend this event, and there is no registration fee.
For a provisional programme, see
http://www.gellius.net/downloads/org_3/juteprog.doc
If you are interested in attending please contact v.wright@dundee.ac.uk.
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Recruitment of examiners
Edexcel is Recruiting Examiners for:
GCE Government and Politics
GCSE/ GCE History
Edexcel is currently recruiting teachers to join our assessment team and assist in the marking of the 2010 examinations.
Joining Edexcel’s Assessment Associate Team offers an opportunity to gain greater insight into the assessment of candidates, and can inspire fresh ideas and new approaches to teaching your subject. If you are a qualified teacher, with experience teaching either Government and Politics or History, this will enable you to enhance your expertise within the classroom and will help you in preparing your students for their exams.
The marking period is between May – July. As well as payment, all examiners receive full training and support throughout the marking period, and have the flexibility to work from home.
Examiners can expect to earn between £750 and £1000 per examination series.
To apply please visit www.edexcel.com/aa-recruitment
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Call for Papers: Charity Begins at Home: Approaches to the History of Domestic Space and Voluntary Action
27 March 2010, University of Warwick
Postgraduates and early career researchers are invited to propose papers for this one day workshop. Voluntarism in the domestic sphere presents particular methodological and evidential challenges. We welcome papers that discuss the speaker’s experience addressing these issues in their own research on charity and the home. The aim of the event is to encourage an open and friendly forum for discussion on problems and possible solutions that researchers have encountered or anticipate, and for collective discussion on possible solutions and methodologies. Submissions are invited from all periods and locations. Papers might address the relationship between charity and the home in diverse ways:
· Charity emanating from the home, e.g., the home as a location for fundraising, a place for coordinating charity, the locus of collective action by families or neighbours
· Charity targeting the home, e.g., social work, religious outreach, benevolent funds), or as charity for those rejected from the home, e.g., unmarried mothers, foundlings
· Charity as the home, e.g., almshouses, nursing homes, hospices, or places of refuge and boarding
Proposals of up to 300 words (and any informal queries) should be e-mailed to Stephen Soanes at [email:workshop@vahs.org.uk by 10 February 2010.
For further details seehttp://www.gellius.net/downloads/org_3/charity.pdf
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Association of Business Historians - Coleman Prize 2010
To be awarded at the ABH Annual Conference
16-17 July 2010, The York Management School
The Association of Business Historians invites submissions for consideration for the 2010 Coleman Prize. This prestigious prize is open to PhD dissertations in Business History either having a British subject or completed at a British University. All dissertations completed in the calendar years 2008 and 2009 are eligible (with the exception of previous submissions). The value of the prize is £200. Named in honour of the British Business Historian Donald Coleman, this prize is awarded annually by the Association of Business Historians to recognise excellence in new research in Britain. The Prize is now sponsored by Adam Matthew Publications Limited, a scholarly publisher which makes available original manuscript collections, rare printed books and other primary source materials in microform and electronic format. It is a condition of eligibility for the Prize that short-listed finalists present their findings at the Association’s annual conference, to be held at the York Management School, 16-17 July 2010. For more information see http://www.gellius.net/downloads/org_3/coleman2010.pdf
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Recording Leisure Lives: Holidays and Tourism in Twentieth-Century Britain
30th March 2010, Bolton Museum
The annual Recording Leisure Lives conferences are presented by the University of Bolton and Bolton Museum and are structured around the Museum’s collection of photographs taken in Bolton by Humphrey Spender for Mass Observation in the late nineteen-thirties. Spender produced over 900 images of everyday life in Bolton (or Worktown as it was referred to by Mass Observation), many of which record leisure settings and practices such as drinking in pubs, football matches, dance halls and theatres. Spender also visited Blackpool to observe and capture ‘Worktowners’ on holiday, and the 2010 conference relates to these images by adopting as its theme ‘Holidays and Tourism in 20th Century Britain’.
For further information see http://www.bolton.ac.uk/conferences/leisurelives
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Women in Britain in the 1950s: ESRC Seminar Series
*Call for participants*
This two year seminar series is hosted by the University of Winchester (Dr Stephanie Spencer), University of Manchester (Dr Penny Tinkler) and the University of Sussex (Dr Claire Langhamer).
The aim of the series is to shed light on a neglected generation of girls and women. It includes four one-day seminars that use popular stereotypes from the fifties - the teenage girl, the suburban housewife, the glamorous young woman and the woman in love – as starting points for exploring the diversity and complexity of the lives and experiences of girls and women in this period. The series also includes two one-day workshops which explore neglected sources for researching women and gender in the 1950s, namely material culture, sound and photography.
For further details see http://www.gellius.net/downloads/org_3/SHScall2010.doc.
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History of Crime - Historical Criminology: British Crime Historians Symposium 2
2 - 3 September, 2010, ICOSS Interdisciplinary Centre of the Social Sciences, University of Sheffield
In recent decades, the historical study of crime has become a significant topic within social history and criminology. This is the second symposium that seeks to bring together historians of crime and criminologists engaged in historical research to review current cholarship. Like the symposium at Leeds Metropolitan University in September 2007, it will be a 'single strand' event organised around themed panels, keynote adddresses and roundtable discussion. This year a key aim is to address the inter-disciplinary engagement between history and criminology. However we welcome panel presentations on the broad range of issues concerning sources of, and response to, crime, from the 17C to the 20C. We are also keen to include postgraduates students undertaking research in the history of crime and criminal justice.
We aim to organise panels concerning:
. Methods and Interpretation
. Comparative Histories
. History and Current Policy
. Criminal Lives
. Empire and Internationalism
. Place and Space
Keynote speakers: Louise Jackson, Geoffrey Pearson, Robert Shoemaker, Pieter Spierenburg
Proposals (not more than 200 words please) should be sent by 28 February 2010 to Lisa Burns at the Centre for Criminological Research: l.k.burns@sheffield.ac.uk
For further information, contact Paul Knepper, University of Sheffield, p.knepper@sheffield.ac.uk or Heather Shore, Leeds Metropolitan University, h.shore@leedsmet.ac.uk.
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Children and Youth at Risk: a special issue of Paedagogica Historica
The issue of children and youth at risk does not seem to need the support of history of education to justify its relevance and importance. Nonetheless, the discipline can offer an important contribution by demonstrating, reflecting and disseminating awareness of the fact that threats to children and youth do not simply constitute an ahistorical constant, but take on different shapes under different social conditions. Circumstances which one society would not even perceive as dangerous may be viewed as a significant threat in another. To order a copy of this special issue, please visit: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/spissue/cpdh-si.asp
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Economic History Society annual conference 2010: call for new researcher papers
The 2010 annual conference of the Economic History Society will be hosted by the University of Durham from 26 to 28 March. Accommodation and some meetings will be located in Collingwood College and the majority of sessions in two adjacent buildings on the Science Site. The College is a 10-minute walk from the Science Site and shuttle buses will be provided at certain times of the day.
The annual conference opens with papers presented by new researchers. They offer those completing doctorates the opportunity to present their work before professional colleagues and to benefit from informed comment.
The session will be held on the afternoon of Friday 26 March 2010. Those wishing to be considered for inclusion in the programme must submit a synopsis by 7 September 2009. This should provide a firm title, a succinct summary of the principal themes and methodology of the paper, and an outline of probable conclusions.
For further information click here
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Women's History Network (UK) book prize
The Women’s History Network (UK) will award annually (until further notice) a prize of £500 for an author’s first single authored book which makes a significant contribution to women’s history or gender history and is written in an accessible style that is rewarding to the general reader of history.
For further details click here.
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Continuity and Change
Special rate for members of the Social History Society. Members of the Social History Society may subscribe to the journal at £28 for an individual rather than the normal rate of £35.
For further information contact the Administrative Secretary, the Social History Society, Furness College, Bailrigg, Lancaster LA1 4YG, or by email.
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