Editors Note: This is an archived blog post from 23/5/2014. June 20 conference ‘Objects and Remembering’ You are cordially invited to attend a one-day conference on ‘Objects and Remembering‘ being held on the 20th June in the Graduate School, Ellen Wilkinson, room C1.18 from 9am-5pm. The conference is open to all and is of particular interest to…

Editors Note: This is an archived blog post from 14/4/2015. “News of Modernity: Early Modern Commercial News Networks” 17 April 2015 9am – 5pm John Rylands Library Deansgate, Manchester This workshop proposes to investigate the role of news in mercantile networks in Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Atlantic World. The importance of news for…

Editors Note: This is an archived blog post from 7/5/2014. “In the Shadow of the First World War: Social and Cultural Dimensions of Conflict in Global Perspective”  History Department conference plus two Plenaries:  Dr Santanu Das (Kings)  “Archive, Body, and Memory: India and Empire in the First World War“ 15th Thurs 5pm University Place Theatre A …

Editors Note: This is an archived blog post from 17/5/2014 History after Hobsbawm 29 April to 1 May 2014 Birkbeck, University of London Conference report by Hannah Robb & Sarah Wood  (History, University of Manchester) In 1962, Eric Hobsbawm obtained funding from the Rockefeller Foundation for a research trip which enabled him to travel –…