Monthly Archives: June 2013

We will be tweeting throughout the day today and tomorrow from the conference ‘European Perspectives on Cultures of Violence’ hosted by the University of Winchester, the University of Leicester and the Economic History Society, We would be glad of any … Continue reading →

In what was apparently the coldest March for 50 years in Helsinki, over 40 scholars from across Europe and the United States gathered to discuss how people in the late medieval and early modern periods prepared for their death. It … Continue reading →

Michael Hicks, Cindy Wood and Angela Clark (research student) attended this one-day conference at the Institute of Historic Research, London on Thursday 20th June 2013. The organisers, two Institute fellows (completing research students) had assembled a distinguished caste and a large … Continue reading →

Just a reminder that today is the application deadline for a very substantial fee discount on alumni registering for the MA in Historical Studies and the MA in Regional and Local History and Archaeology.   All alumni starting Masters programmes … Continue reading →

Joanna Arman, Ellora Bennett and Ryan McLellan have been awarded Winchester Research Apprenticeships to  work on the inquisitions post mortem. Inquisitions or IPMs were the principal way that monarchs managed the feudal system from 1236-1642. Every time a feudal tenant  … Continue reading →

On the 27th and 28th June the Centre for English Local History in Leicester will host an interdisciplinary conference, ‘European Perspectives on Cultures of Violence’. This collaborative venture between the University of Leicester and the University of Winchester seeks to … Continue reading →

Over Easter I was lucky enough to join scholars from around the world for a conference in Cape Town on ‘Jews, Colonialism and Post-Colonialism’. Aimed at beginning a dialogue between Jewish and post-colonial studies, the conference heard a rich range … Continue reading →