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of the Man Booker Prize to Hilary Mantel, her second in a row, for Bring Up the Bodies, the sequel to her previous winner, Wolf Hall, has placed historical fiction firmly in the public eye. Sir Peter Stothard, chair of…
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…