Thursday 7th March 2019, 6.00 – 7.30pm, wine reception to follow. Imperial soldiers played a significant and increasingly well acknowledged part in the Second World War, but what about the women of the British empire? What stories might global and feminist histories of the Second World War reveal? Along the thoroughfares of empire, from Aden to Calcutta and Hong Kong, women’s lives were transformed by the pressures of the global war. This lecture will consider some of the most marginal and forg...

Speakers: Daniel Gordon, AbdoolKarim Vakil January 25, 2019, 6.00pm - 8.00pm Venue: Room MAL 632, Birkbkeck main building, Malet St, (entrance on Torrington Square), Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HX* *Please note change of venue to that previously advertised.

Date: Tuesday 22 January 6.00PM-8.00PM Venue: Birkbeck, University of London, Room GOR 327, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD For information contact Guy Beckett  (gbecke01@mail.bbk.ac.uk) ACTIVISTS Incarcerated Workers Organising Committee (IWOC) is a prisoner-led section of the Industrial Workers of the World. IWOC struggles to end prison slavery along with allies and supporters on the outside. On September 9, 2016 it was part of a coalition of inside and outside groups that launched the l...

Psychoanalysis and History Seminar, Spring 2019  Wednesdays 5.30 – 7pm Venue: room 320, Arts Two, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End, London E1 4NS. No booking required, all welcome March 6, Akshi Singh (Queen Mary UL): '”The Call of the Mother”: Assassination and Psychoanalysis in Colonial India’  

Psychoanalysis and History Seminar, Spring 2019 Wednesdays 5.30 – 7pm Venue: room 320, Arts Two, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End, London E1 4NS. No booking required, all welcome February 20, Joanna Ryan (psychoanalytic psychotherapist; Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis): ‘Class and Psychoanalysis: the ideas, practices and legacies of the Vienna and Berlin free clinics of the early 20th c’

Psychoanalysis and History Seminar, Spring 2019 Venue: room 320, Arts Two, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End, London E1 4NS. No booking required, all welcome Wednesdays 5.30 – 7pm February 6, Helen Tyson (Sussex): '"Forebodings about fascism”: Marion Milner and Virginia Woolf'.  

Psychoanalysis and History Seminar, Spring 2019 Venue: room 320, Arts Two, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End, London E1 4NS. No booking required, all welcome  Wednesdays 5.30 – 7pm January 23, Rhodri Hayward (Queen Mary UL): ‘R. G. Collingwood and Margaret Lowenfeld: 'Toys, Magic and the Making of Interior Worlds’    

History Acts are looking to recruit a few people to be part of the core organisational team. Currently, History Acts organises a workshop once a month during the academic year at the Institute of Historical Research.  We are looking to add two or three people to our core team, to help organise and chair the monthly workshops and to expand our activities. As well as help with running the workshop we are particularly interested in: Podcasts to reach wider audiences; Developing this website in...

At the British Library on the 14 November 2018, we celebrated the conclusion of the “Queer Beyond London: Sexualities and Localities 1965-2010” project and discussed the importance of local LGBTQ history work with a panel of experts. You can link to the sound recording on the QBL website here or copy and paste this address: http://queerbeyondlondon.com/uncategorized/queer-beyond-london-places-people-and-community-history/    

Convened by the Raphael Samuel History Centre No booking required, just turn up. Seminars usually take place in the Pollard Seminar Room N301, unless otherwise stated*. The Pollard Room is on the third floor of the main IHR building in Senate House, London. PLEASE NOTE THAT VENUES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE DUE TO A BOYCOTT. SEE HERE FOR UPDATED VENUE DEATILS For further information, please contact Craig Griffiths at c.griffiths@mmu.ac.uk Seminar web page at the IHR https://www.history.ac.uk/eve...