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Call for Papers: Gender, Sexuality and Adult Friendship
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A conference to be held on Friday 2nd of July 2010 at the Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies, Lancaster University. The conference will bring together researchers who examine contemporary, empirical material on adult friendship, who view friendship as a social, temporal and cultural relationship with a specific focus on gender and sexuality.
Read the full Call for Papers here. Closing date for abstracts: 30 March 2010.
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Call for Papers: FROM THE GRAND TOUR TO MASS TOURISM. The Modern History of the British Abroad
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Interdisciplinary and trans-national perspectives on British travel experience and its impact from the eighteenth to the early twenty-first century.
Conference to be held 1-2 April 2010
Newcastle University
Keynote speakers:
Jeremy Black
Pablo Mukherjee
Jill Steward
For more details 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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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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Professor Saki Dockrill
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It is with deep regret that we note the death of Saki Dockrill, who was a great friend of CCBH and those who worked for the institution.
Dr Effie Pedaliu has very kindly prepared an obituary, which may be found here.
From the perspective of CCBH, we would also like to add that Professor Dockrill was for many years a stalwart friend of the Centre and participated in many of our witness seminars and conferences, including this summer’s conference on ‘Britain and the Cold War’. She closed the conference on 25 June 2009 with a plenary on ‘Britain and the 1968 Czech Crisis’. This lecture was one of the highlights of the conference and was one which all those attending will always remember not only because of the high scholastic calibre but also because she demonstrated that she retained her wonderful sense of humour, despite her long illness.
She will be greatly missed by all.
Michael D Kandiah
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Professor Nina Fishman
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CCBH is very sad to note the death of Nina Fishman on 5th December 2009. She was a great friend of CCBH and involved in many of its activities. The announcement on the University of Westminster website can be read here. Her obituary in the Guardian can be read here.
She spoke at the 2009 CCBH Summer Conference on Britain and the Cold War, giving a fascinating lecture on 'British trade unions in a cold war climate, 1948-68', and chaired several sessions at the conference. Other events she was involved in included the witness seminar, 'The Historiography of the Communist Party of Great Britain', which can be read online here.
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Professor Nina Fishman
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CCBH is very sad to note the death of Nina Fishman on 5th December 2009. She was a great friend of CCBH and involved in many of its activities. The announcement on the University of Westminster website can be read here. Her obituary in the Guardian can be read here.
She spoke at the 2009 CCBH Summer Conference on Britain and the Cold War, giving a fascinating lecture on 'British trade unions in a cold war climate, 1948-68', and chaired several sessions at the conference. Other events she was involved in included the witness seminar, 'The Historiography of the Communist Party of Great Britain', which can be read online here.
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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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Penguin Conference
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CALL FOR PAPERS: 75 Years of Penguin Books - An International Multidisciplinary Conference
29 June - 1 July 2010
In 2010, Penguin Books will be 75 years old and Puffin Books will be 70 years old. Organised by the AHRC Penguin Archive Project, the International Penguin Conference is occasioned by these two anniversaries of what is arguably the most distinctive and the most significant publishing house in the twentieth century and beyond. The conference will seek to cover the diversity of Penguin's publication history, including the ways in which Penguin shaped social, cultural, and/or intellectual history and the relationship between Penguin and public policy.
Please send proposals of max 200 words by 1 February 2010 to penguin-project@bristol.ac.uk. For full details see the webpage here.
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