25-27 March 2010, University of Leeds.

The conference looks at mainstream and alternative representations of the miners’ strike at the time, and subsequently, across the broad range of cultural expression such as the press, TV, film, performance, photography and music and song. Plus, 25 years on, how both archive study and new creative work lead us into new insights and perspectives. The conference is organised into four strands - Memory, Legacy, Media and Popular Culture, and Witness - to help compare and contrast the personal and the objective study, the artefact and the heritage industry, cultural memory and the creative. Online Registration

We will also be holding two very special events in conjunction with Opera North at the Howard Assembly rooms. These are also open to all. http://www.operanorth.co.uk/events/film-battle-of-orgrave/ and http://www.operanorth.co.uk/events/songs-at-years-end/

17-18 June 2010, University of Liverpool, School of History

The conference sets out firstly to investigate the unique nature of nuclear culture in twentieth century Britain and, secondly, to rethink the conceptualisation of nuclear culture more generally. We are seeking to explore the impact nuclear culture had on British society, and the ways in which the scientific community, political decision-makers, consumerism, works of popular science, literature, journalism and film combined to create an identifiable nuclear culture. Also, because established studies have focused predominantly on the socio-cultural and political implications of nuclear energy and weapons, our conference aims to move towards a broader conceptualisation of nuclear culture in general.

Please send your 250-400-word proposal by 1 March 2010 to the co-organisers: Dr Jonathan Hogg jgh@liv.ac.uk or Dr Christoph Laucht c.laucht@liv.ac.uk

20 July 2010, British Library Conference Centre

This conference aims to explore the impact of the large scale digitisation of
newspapers, considering the effect that this has had on research and
researchers and the implied changes to research methodologies. Not only has
the digitisation of historical newspapers made it easier to discover information
about events from the past, but the way in which they have been digitised
makes it possible to discover how those events were represented, debated
and sold as news. It will debate current limitations as well as opportunities for
future development.

September 10-11, Wellcome Collection, London

The conference will be open themed. Papers should be a maximum of 20 minutes in length with ten minutes for questions and discussion. Abstract should be no lonfer than 200 words and should be sent to The Conference Committe (bsshconference@googlemail.com) by Friday 9 April 2010. Ideas for specialist panels will be strongly considered. 

25-27 March, University of Leeds

Registration is now open for this conference, which is aimed at both HE scholars and the public, with keynote speakers representing different approaches to the ‘re-telling’ of the strike. The conference looks at mainstream and alternative representations of the strike at the time, and subsequently, across the broad range of cultural expression such as the press, TV, film, performance, photography and music and song.  Plus, 25 years on, how both archive study and new creative work lead us into new insights and perspectives.

For more information, and to register: Online registration

Or contact Dr. Eleri Pound at ics-conferences@leeds.ac.uk or on 0113 343 5805.

Space, Place and Translating the Past in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Britain, University of Warwick, Saturday 27 February. TRAVEL BURSARIES STILL AVAILABLE.

Speakers include Prof. Nigel Thrift, Dr Lynne Walker, Prof. Elizabeth Edwards and Prof. Gillian Rose.

Envisioning Community is a one-day conference exploring how multidisciplinary approaches to the study of community can better inform our understanding of the historical past. Featuring renowned scholars from the fields of history, historical geography and anthropology, the day offers an opportunity to interrogate research wrought by the spatial turn and the new challenges of representation and the visual in telling and writing history.  A range of papers will engage with spatially located communities as well as those established thorough material or political practices, testing the ways in which community has been conceptualised.  They also offer new ways of considering how community has been, and continues to be, made and imagined through walks, photography, film and town planning.

23-25 March 2010, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford

The Annual Conference of the History Subject Centre has now reached its twelfth successful year. The conference brings together a diverse range of speakers and covers all aspects of teaching and learning. The common objective is to drive forward teaching and learning practices in History at Higher Education level.

Please submit a 300 word abstract by 31 January 2010, to Antony Bounds antonybounds@googlemail.com. Travel and accommodation bursaries are available for speakers. For more information on the conference please email the History Subject Centre HEAHistorysubjectcentre@warwick.ac.uk or visit our website www.historysubjectcentre.ac.uk.

19th Annual Conference of the Women's History Network, University of Warwick 10-11 September 2010

The idea that selfhood is performed has a very long tradition. This interdisciplinary conference will explore the diverse representations of women's identities in the past and consider how these were articulated.

Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words by 5th March 2010 to whnconference2010@googlemail.com. For more information please contact Dr Sarah Richardson, sarah.richardson@warwick.ac.uk, Department of History, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL.