Editors Note: This is an archived blog post from 17/1/2012. The past in today’s politics: a debate on the state of history-writing as a political act A panel debate hosted by the Raphael Samuel History Centre and the British Library Eliot Room, British Library Conference Centre, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB, 5 March 2012,…

Reading Workshop Reading (the activity not the place) Thursday 13th December, 5pm, Seminar room, John Rylands Deansgate (meet in the café by reception to be shown the way to the room)   What do you imagine when you read? Do you read to feel happy, safe, reassured? Reading is both an intimate and public activity,…

Editors Note: This is an archived blog post from 30/5/2012. Parties, People and Elections: Political Communication since 1900 A one day conference at the People’s History Museum, Manchester, hosted by the Centre for British Politics, University of Nottingham: Parties, People and Elections: Political Communication since 1900 The event is free to attend – please email…

Editors Note: This is an archived blog post from 15/11/2012. The Humanitarianism and Conflict Response Institute is hosting a conference to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Henry Mayhew, social reformer, journalist and social researcher whose work London Labour and the London Poor (1851) provides a vivid account of mid-nineteenth century London and…