Editors Note: This is an archived blog post from 9/9/2013. Public History Event: Prof. Michael Wood “in Conversation with” Tristram Hunt MP Wednesday Sept 18 at 18:30 University Place Lecture Theatre B For thirty years now, Michael Wood has made compelling journeys into the past, which have brought history alive for countless readers and viewers….
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Tobacco in the Early Modern Imagination – Symposium
Editors Note: This is an archived blog post from 8/3/2013. Tobacco in the Early Modern imagination An afternoon symposium at Chetham’s Library, Manchester, all welcome 15 March 2013 12.30 arrival and coffee 1.00 Opening remarks (Jerome de Groot) 1.15 Lauren Working (Durham) Unnatural Disobedience: Sedition and the Literature of Tobacco in Jacobean England 1.45…
Photographic Archives, Technologies and Methods of Recording Workshop
Editors Note: This is an archived blog post from 6/2/2013. A day workshop at The John Rylands Library (Deansgate) exploring the status and uses of photographic archives, collections, and technologies. Talks through the day will examine how photographic technologies are viewed as artworks or research objects in themselves, and how methods of photographic recording are…
Inequality in China and India Conference
Editors Note: This is an archived blog post from 26/4/2013 “Rising Powers/Inequalities: China and India” A Round Table Discussion AHRC ResearchNetwork on Inequality, Social Science and History Brooks WorldPoverty Institute, University of Manchester 22 May 2013, Samuel Alexander Building A202 1-4.40pm (Sandwich Lunch 1-2pm) Despite their differences, India and China’s transition to the status…
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