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CCBH staff are moving to KCL
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King’s College London and the Institute of Historical Research are pleased to announce that from 1 August 2010 staff currently working in the Centre for Contemporary British History at the IHR will transfer to KCL. There they will join a cross-school unit in contemporary history within King’s Arts and Sciences Schools.
The transfer includes CCBH’s MA and PhD programmes and its witness seminars.
Special arrangements are being made for the transfer and ongoing supervision and tuition of current CCBH students.
Professor Miles Taylor, Director of the IHR, says of the move, ‘For the last decade the CCBH, supported by the IHR, has really put contemporary history on the map, and I am delighted that its future will be secured by this move’.
Professor Keith Hoggart, Vice-Principal (Arts and Sciences) at King’s commented, ‘I am pleased to welcome these distinguished historians of the IHR to King’s and am confident that their work will considerably strengthen historical scholarship at the College’.
From October 2010 the MA in Contemporary British History will be offered at KCL. See the Postgraduate Study pages on this website for more details, including information on the new History & Policy option courses, or click here to go straight to the MA on the KCL site.
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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 Summer Newsletter
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The CCBH Summer Newsletter is now available as a pdf file to download here.
It includes the summer seminar programme, a short article by Meghan Fitzpatrick, CCBH MA student and now doing a PhD at King's, a round-up of recent History & Policy papers, and information on forthcoming events, including 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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