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CCBH hosts a regular programme of conferences, lectures and seminars and supervises postgraduate teaching and training. This includes an MA in Contemporary British History, PhD supervision, and training courses in oral history open to researchers at any level. It also manages research projects, including the collection of oral testimony for the use of present and future historians.
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Contemporary British History Seminar
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The next Contemporary British History seminar will take place on 17 February 2010. Lord Hurd of Westwell and Edward Young will speak on
'Choose your Weapons'. British Foreign Secretaries and their arguments, 1809-2009' to mark the launch of their book on this topic.
The seminar will take place in the Wolfson Room on the first floor of the IHR at 5pm. All are welcome.
The full seminar programme for 2009/10 is available here and if you need directions for the IHR you can find the venue details and a map here.
If you would like to sign up for the CCBH email newsletter, which includes details of forthcoming seminars and conferences, please email ccbhinfo@sas.ac.uk
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Reassessing the Seventies: CCBH Summer Conference 2010 Call for Papers
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The call for papers for the CCBH Summer Conference is now available.
The 1970s marked a watershed in post-war British history with economic crises and profound political and social discord precipitating major social, cultural, political and economic changes with enduring consequences. Three decades after the ‘winter of discontent’ and the election of Margaret Thatcher, and with the papers now fully open, this major interdisciplinary conference will reassess developments in this crucial decade, placing them in the context of postwar British history as a whole. The conference will include keynote addresses from notable academics and contemporary figures.
Proposals are invited for panels and for individual papers addressing themes related to Britain in the 1970s in a wide range of fields of enquiry across political, economic, social and cultural history. In addition to proposals from contemporary historians, we encourage submissions from colleagues in a wide range of related fields in the social sciences.
To read the full Call for Papers please click here.
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IHR/ TNA Research Training Programme: Using Archival Sources To Inform Contemporary Policy Debates
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A two day programme for doctoral students at The National Archives on 16-17 February 2010.
Speakers include:
· Chris Bowlby (BBC)
· Mel Porter (History & Policy)
· R M Morris (Home Office 1961-97)
· Steve Hindle (Warwick)
· Sue Onslow (LSE)
· Philip Withington (Cambridge)
· Kate de Bourcier (MOD)
· Michael Kandiah (CCBH)
The full programme and booking details are available on the TNA website here.
For a report on the first training course, click here
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British Society for Sports History Conference
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The British Society of Sports Historians will this year be holding their annual conference at the Wellcome Collection in central London, on September 10th & 11th 2010. The Call for Papers is available here.
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History & Policy - connecting history, policy and the media
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History & Policy is an innovative project working to improve public policy through a better understanding of history. It is the only organisation in the UK that makes policy-relevant work by historians accessible to non-academic audiences and increases the links between historians and those analysing, discussing and deciding public policy in the UK today. We share a philosophy that public policy in the UK could be more effective, resilient and beneficial to the community if it were generated in a more reflective and far-sighted environment, which we believe historians can help to create.
For more details of who we are and what we do please visit www.historyandpolicy.org or email ruth.evans@sas.ac.uk
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CCBH Spring Newsletter
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The CCBH Spring Newsletter is now available as a pdf file to download here.
It includes the full spring seminar programme, short articles by Kathleen Sherit, CCBH PhD student, on her research into 'Women’s Service in the Navy and the Air Force' and Katharine Thomson and Andrew Riley of the Churchill Archives Centre, on ‘Left and Right’: Modern Political Archives', a round-up of recent History & Policy papers, and information on forthcoming events, including the Call for Papers for the next CCBH summer conference on Britain in the 1970s
If you are on the CCBH email newsletter mailing list, you should have received a copy. If you would like to be on the mailing list (emails are normally sent out once a fortnight in termtime) please email ccbhinfo@sas.ac.uk to request this.
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CCBH is moving offices
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As part of the Senate House refurbishment project, CCBH moved offices on Monday 30th November, to Stewart House, which is next to Senate House by the Russell Square entrance.
If you are visiting, Professor Richard Roberts will now be in room ST106 and Professor Pat Thane in ST106a, both on the first floor, with History & Policy in ST103 on the same corridor. Dr Michael Kandiah and Dr Virginia Preston will be on the ground floor in STG01, just inside the main entrance to the right.
Our phone numbers and emails will remain the same, and it is not necessary to use these room numbers to write to us; mail sent to: CCBH, IHR, Senate House, Malet St, London WC1E 7HU will still reach us as usual.
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Contact the CCBH: Centre
for Contemporary British History at the Institute of Historical Research,
University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Telephone:
020 7862 8740 Fax: telephone office for number E-Mail: ccbhinfo@sas.ac.uk
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