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...

Due to the boycott of Senate House, most* sessions take place in 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’ February 6: Helen Tyson (Sussex): ‘”Forebodings about fascism”: Marion Milner and Virginia Woolf'. February 20: Joanna Ryan (psychoanalytic psychotherapist; Site ...

Convened by Rob Waters (Birmingham) and Camilla Schofield (UEA) Part of the Conversations and Disputations seminar series, held at the IHR and supported by the Raphael Samuel History Centre. The sessions invite two or more speakers to consider the politics of decolonization in European history. 19 October 11:45 Conference: After Multiculturalism? Conversations between History and Sociology    Venue: IHR Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR   16 November 17:30   Decolonizing Europe Series:...

A seminar series sponsored by the ‘Pathologies of Solitude’ Project, Queen Mary UL and the Raphael Samuel History Centre.  Part of the ‘Conversations & Disputations’ Seminar Series, Institute of Historical Research Tuesdays, 6-8pm Venue: room 320, Arts Two, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End, London E1 4NS. For information please email C.Whitehead@qmul.ac.uk 22 January: David Vincent (OU). ‘Solitude and Loneliness. The Making of a Modern Panic’. Location: to be announced 19 Febru...

Time: Thurs 6 December 2018 at 5.45pm Place: Room QA063 (Council Room), Queen Anne Court, University of Greenwich, Old Royal Naval College, Park Row, London SE10 9LS (getting to Greenwich http://www2.gre.ac.uk/about/travel/greenwich) Booking: All are welcome  but please register here on Eventbrite in case the room becomes fully booked: https://how-to-give-up-plastic-greenwich-rshctalk.eventbrite.co.uk About the talk: The shocking images of plastic pollution in our oceans has exploded into the...

History Acts 13: DECRIMINALISING SEX WORK Tuesday 27 November 6pm-8pm Archaeology Lab, Birkbeck College, 26 Russell Square, London WC1E 7HX History Acts workshops are led by activists, who give a short talk or presentation about their work. A historian or historians working on a relevant topic will then respond, before opening it up to group discussion. ACTIVISTS SWARM (Sex Worker Advocacy and Resistance Movement) is a collective founded and led by sex workers who believe in self-determinati...

History and Environment seminar series in association with the Sociology seminar, University of Glasgow Dawn Hollis, (St Andrews University) 4.00pm, Wednesday, 21 November 2018  Venue: Room 513, Boyd Orr Building, University Avenue, Glasgow  G12 8QQ Chair: Neil Davidson, University of Glasgow All welcome, no need to book. For more information contact George Yerby george.yerby@googlemail.com  or Neil Davidson neil.davidson@glasgow.ac.uk The History and Environment seminar series looks at politic...

University of East Anglia in collaboration with the Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, University of London and the Runnymede Trust Speakers include Bill Schwarz, Queen Mary, University of London and Satnam Virdee, University of Glasgow Date: Friday 19 October 2018, 12:15pm - 5:30pm Institute of Historical Research (Wolfson Room 1), Senate House, Malet Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HU

This event is from Conversations and Disputations Stream One: ‘Decolonizing Europe’ 5.30pm, Friday 16 November 2018 Venue: Pollard Room N301, 3rd floor, North block, Senate House, Institute of Historical Research, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Everyone welcome, no need to book For further information please contact Rob Waters (r.william.waters@gmail.com)