by admin | Feb 6, 2014 | Events, The Social Scholar
The next Social Scholar seminar will take place at 1pm on 19 February 2014 in room 246 (Senate House). This month we will be looking at how two different museums use social media and how this might be of interest to academics, archivists, librarians and other related...
by bcoleman | Feb 4, 2014 | Events
Screening of La forma exacta de las islas [The exact shape of the islands], by Edgardo Dieleke and Daniel Casabe. 85 m. Argentina. Introduced by Edgardo Dieleke. This series invites both the academic community and the general public to reflect on contemporary...
by admin | Feb 4, 2014 | Events, Graduate Study
If you are a History postgraduate or early career researcher and would like to learn more about managing your research, then please sign up to the Institute of Historical Research’s forthcoming workshop on managing your research. The workshop includes presentations...
by bcoleman | Jan 27, 2014 | Events
The arrival of the Huguenots in Britain and their importance to the domestic silk industry is well known. The French refugees took with them new weaving skills, new designs, and a large workforce. As a result, the English silk industry was able to compete with France...
by admin | Jan 23, 2014 | Events
A guest post by Justin Bengry (Birkbeck/McGill) While numerous seminars at the Institute for Historical Research have long welcomed papers from historians of sex and sexuality, no single seminar provided for a broader dialogue on the subject across region, period and...
by bcoleman | Jan 20, 2014 | Events
Integrating information across the senses is critical for effective interactions with the environment. Over the past decade, evidence has accumulated that multisensory integration is not deferred to later processing in association cortices but starts already in...
