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Category Archives: Conference
June Announcements
Hello, and happy Sunday! A fly-by update of announcements today — two publications that caught my eye lately, two conference programs in my recent past to highlight, and one forthcoming publication of interest — with, as always, the hopes of … Continue reading
Posted in Conference, Publications
Tagged adoption, Australia, Canada, conferences, England, feminist history, law, marriage, New Zealand, organizations, religion, United States, women's history
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Legacies of British Slave-Ownership Project – the database has gone live, plus conference announcement!
Last spring, we had the pleasure of two guest posts from Kate Donington, a researcher on the Legacies of British Slave-Ownership Project at University College London. You can read her discussions of the project here, and of her research here. … Continue reading
Posted in Conference, Databases and Websites
Tagged abolition, biography, Britain, Caribbean, legacies, memory, microhistory, research, Slavery
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Announcements: Workshop on Intimacy and Mission History, and Recent Publications
You might be interested in this workshop on the role of emotions and intimacy in the history of Christian missions. >> Investigating the Intimate in Mission Histories 17 October 2012 (9 am – 5 pm) and 18 October 2012 (9 … Continue reading
Posted in Conference, Publications
Tagged Australia, Britain, children, Denmark, emotions, gender, Greenland, India, material culture, memory, missionaries, Papua New Guinea, settler colonialism, sexuality, South Africa, South Seas
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‘Home and Away: Girls of the British Empire’ and other announcements
This is a very belated announcement about the Girl Museum‘s fabulous new exhibition, ‘Home and Away: Girls of the British Empire.’ I was lucky to be in Melbourne at the excellent conference on colonial girls and colonial girlhood when the … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Calls for Papers, Conference, Databases and Websites
Tagged British Empire, childhood, gender, girlhood
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On conference book fairs: new publications of interest
Last week, I touched down in Waterloo, Ontario, for a far-too-brief time at the 2012 Canadian Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. A big thank you and congratulations to the organizers, particularly of the Canadian Historical Association’s annual meeting, … Continue reading
Conference registration: New Histories of Love and Romance, c.1880-1960
You might also be interested in the one-day symposium, ‘New Histories of Love and Romance, c.1880-1960,’ to be held at the University of Glamorgan, Cardiff, on 25 May 2012. Registration is now open, and free! Places are limited, though, and … Continue reading
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Family & Colonialism Research Network 