Historical geography
26 Apr 2016
The Muses of War: Terror, Anger, and Faith during the Bombing of British and Japanese Cities, 1940-1945
Chair: Naoko Shimazu (Birkbeck), Aaron Moore (University of Manchester)
20 Jan 2016
Richard Smyth of London, 1590-1675: a quiet life in a turbulent century?
Professor Vanessa Harding (Birkbeck)
7 Dec 2015
Migration, Motherhood, and Mortality: Yellow Fever and Gender Constructions in the Deep South, 1800 to 1830
Kathryn Olivarius (University of Oxford)
16 Nov 2015
Witness Seminar: A Place in a Community
Michael Locke (Ex University of East London and Volunteering England)
11 Nov 2015
Northern Lights and Welsh Peasants: New Perspectives on the Late Hanoverian Clergy
Sara Slinn (University of Lincoln)
20 Oct 2015
Digital approaches to late medieval buildings in south-eastern England
Catriona Cooper (Southampton)
15 Oct 2015
'Islands in Asian History': an opening roundtable event
Dr Zoltan Biedermann | UCL; Dr Paul Kreitman | IHR; Dr Jeppe Mulich | LSE; Dr Jan Rueger | Birkbeck
5 Oct 2015
Magazines, gender, and hospitality in Canada and the US
Professor Faye Hammill (University of Strathclyde)
15 Jun 2015
Volunteer Tourism: Development, Altruism or Narcissism?
Jim Butcher (Canterbury Christ Church University)
19 May 2015
Soviet Sport at the Fall of Communism
Manuel Veth (King's College London) and Dr Sevket Akyildiz (School of Oriental and African Studies)
12 May 2015
Why are we obsessed with the Nazis? The Third Reich in History and Memory: Sir Richard Evans and Sir Ian Kershaw in conversation with Professor Nikolaus Wachsmann
Sir Richard J. Evans, Wolfson College, Cambridge and Gresham College, London and Sir Ian Kershaw, Emeritus Professor of Modern History, University of Sheffield, in conversation with Professor Nikolaus Wachsman, Birkbeck, University of London
5 Mar 2015
The Ecology of War in China: Henan Province, the Yellow River, and Beyond
Dr Micah Muscolino (University of Oxford)
2 Mar 2015
Women and Slavery and Monticello
Annette Gordon-Reed (Harvard University / Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History, Queen's College, Oxford University)
2 Dec 2014
Creighton Lecture: Was the 'Final Solution' Unique? Reflections on Twentieth-Century Genocides
Professor Sir Richard Evans (Regius Professor of History, Wolfson College, Cambridge)
20 Nov 2014
Historical Geographies of the Prime Meridian: the Case of France and Britain in the Eighteenth Century
Charles WJ Withers (Edinburgh)
20 Nov 2013
Localism in turn-of-the-century London? The development of the Minet Estate in Lambeth c.1870-1910
David Kroll (CMH/IHR)
28 May 2013
The summits of modern man: mountaineering after the Enlightenment
Peter Hansen (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)
8 Jan 2013
Mapping Everyday Life: Digital Harlem, 1915-1930
Stephen Robertson (University of Sydney)
27 Mar 2012
The Historical Geography of Philanthropy in England and Wales
Professor Nigel Goose (University of Hertfordshire)
21 Oct 2011
Locating London's past: a geo-referencing tool for mapping historical and archaeological evidence, 1660-1800
Professor Robert Shoemaker (Sheffield)