Events calendar

Here you can find out about forthcoming events organised by History & Policy and our partners.

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June 2010

Bloody Sunday and the Saville Inquiry

Conference, 25 June 2010, King's College London

A symposium aiming to situate the events of Bloody Sunday in their historical context, to analyse the politics of memory in Northern Ireland since the 1990s and the debate over ways of 'dealing with the past'. The symposium is open to graduate students, faculty and others. Speakers: Prof. Paul Bew (QUB), Dr Graham Dawson (Brighton), Dr Thomas Hennessey (Canterbury Christ Church), Prof. Kieran McEvoy (QUB), and Dr Simon Prince (QUB). Cost: £10 (lunch and refreshments). All attendees must RSVP by 11 June as places are limited. For further details, and to RSVP, please contact Dr Ian McBride: ian.mcbride@kcl.ac.uk.

Themes in global environmental history

Workshop, 29 June 2010,

A Centre for World Environmental History workshop on 29 June, from 2pm - 5.30pm. For information, please see the workshop programme, and contact Vinita Damodaran if you would like to attend.

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July 2010

Environments

Conference, 1 - 2 July 2010, Institute of Historical Research, London

The Institute of Historical Research's flagship annual event, the Anglo-American Conference of Historians is taking as its theme Environments. Over the last two decades environmental history has developed at an amazing pace, broadening and deepening our understanding of human interaction with nature, climate, landscape and resources across two millennia of historical time. Our conference will explore where environmental history has been and where it is going, its relationship to other scholarly disciplines, and the ways in which historians of the environment can inform global green awareness today. Keynote speakers include: William Beinart, Alfred Crosby, Harriet Ritvo, and Donald Worster and the conference will also host several major book launches over the two days. Within the programme there will be a focus on four strands:-

  • Changing attitudes over time towards the environment (including the animal world)
  • What the historical record and measurement of climate change in past epochs can tell us: for example, seasonality and agriculture, extreme weather events, the oceans and the atmosphere, and the effects of environment on health, material culture and settlement
  • The politics past and present of contested finite natural resources and their sustainability, particularly water, fossil fuels and fisheries
  • The shaping and reshaping of landscape in a historical context (including the built environment)

For further details please see the conference webpage.

Can policy makers today learn from histories of the environment?

Conference session, 1 July 2010, Institute of Historical Research, London

A policy forum will be held as part of the IHR's Environments conference, on 5.45pm on Thursday 1 July in the Beveridge Hall, Senate House. Chair: Paul Warde, UEA. Speakers: Deborah Lamb (Policy Director, English Heritage), Georgina Endfield (Honorary Secretary for Research, Royal Geographical Society), Alastair Fitter CBE (ecologist and Fellow of the Royal Society), Jim Bamberg (author of the official history of BP), Ian Christie (Centre for Environmental Strategy, University of Surrey, Green Alliance and co-author of Church and Earth) and Mark Levene, (founder of Rescue! History). For further details please see the conference webpage.

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History in the Headlines: postponed

Workshop, 6 July 2010, Senate House, University of London, London

With apologies for the short notice, this event has now been postponed until Autumn 2010. Please look out for further publicity on this page and via our newsletter and the H&P Network of Historians. If you have any queries about a provisional booking, please contact mel.porter@sas.ac.uk.

Reassessing the Seventies

Conference, 7 - 9 July 2010, Institute of Historical Research, London

The Centre for Contemporary British History summer conference on 'Reassessing the Seventies'. The 1970s marked a watershed in post-war British history with economic crises and profound political and social discord precipitating major social, cultural, political and economic changes with enduring consequences. Three decades after the 'winter of discontent' and the election of Margaret Thatcher, and with the papers now fully open, this major interdisciplinary conference will reassess developments in this crucial decade, placing them in the context of postwar British history as a whole. Subjects covered include the Labour Party, the Conservative Party, devolution, the environment, social policy, civil liberties, economic policy, Empire and decolonisation, women and work, Northern Ireland, trade unions and politics and literature. For further details please see the CCBH website.

Lord David Lea in conversation with Professor Peter Ackers: Industrial Democracy in the 1970s

Conference session, 9 July, Institute of Historical Research, London

The H&P Trade Union Forum will hold this session at the CCBH conference on Friday 9 July, 3.30-5.00pm. David Lea is a former Assistant General Secretary of the TUC and became a Labour life peer in 1999. He was a member of the Bullock Committee on Industrial Democracy 1975-77. Peter Ackers is Professor of Industrial Relations and Labour History at Loughborough University. This session will be chaired by John Edmonds, former General Secretary of the GMB Union and chair of the History & Policy Trade Union Forum.

August 2010

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