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 –…

Editors Note: This is an archived blog post from 14/3/2015. Cultures of diplomacy 14 May 2015, 2pm-6pm (C1.8 Graduate School, Ellen Wilkinson Building, University of Manchester) All welcome, but please note that seats are limited and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. No reservations can be taken. Workshop organised by Christian Goeschel, Frank…

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…

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…