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Dame Fiona Reynolds, the National Trust and the English Literature Festival Sophie and I were invited by Iain Robertson to attend a lecture by Dame Fiona Reynolds at the English Literature Festival. It is worth noting that Dame Fiona Reynolds…
Coinciding with the beginning of a new academic year, the History Society at the University of Gloucestershire is being re-launched. The History Society seeks to bring together students with an interest in history at all levels, for both academic and…
Fifty Years Ago Today …I was sitting on a bus going to school in Edinburgh and my pals Tumsh (a Scottish thing – Turnbull!) and Ginge were talking about this record they had heard by a group with the strange…
St Deniol’s Library This summer I visited Gladstone’s Library, St Deniol’s at Hawarden in Flintshire. Staying for a few nights for a conference, the experience was quite unique – I have never been to a residential library with accommodation before,…
Every year I try to persuade students to read newspapers to see the variety of ways in which History appears in the public domain. Usually I point them to reviews of history texts or of historical literature – see Max…
Melanie Ilic: Vilnius conference At the beginning of September 2012, I travelled to Lithuania for a conference I had co-organised on ‘The Soviet Past in the Post-Soviet Present: the Ethics of Oral History and Memory Studies’. My co-organiser, Prof Dalia…
By Tom Carter (PhD Student, History) Dr Iain Robertson and I have just returned from delivering papers at the week-long International conference of Historical Geographers, held at Charles University in the beautiful Czech capital Prague. Here is a brief report…
I hope to use this space to offer a semi-regular round-up of early modern goings-on across the web and blogosphere – the spirit of Gutenberg is very much alive online, and though as early modernists we may spend inordinate amounts…
I guess we all bring something back with us as souvenirs of our summer holidays in the sun – I know I do! Additions to a collection of Americana, or a memento of some seaside resort in Italy. All those…