Dear All,
I really am unhappy that this conference is taking place on a Friday.
Living in Stoke it is hideously expensive to attend on Fridays because of the cost of the train fare. I've just looked at the Network Rail Web site and note that the cheapest return ticket that would get me there in reasonable time to attend the conference is £168.00! This compares with only £27.00 on Saturdays.
I would also add that many of us in the new universities have heavy teaching loads and other responsibilities which make it very difficult for us to get away from our institutions on weekdays.
Please in future years revert to Saturdays, or if it must be a weekday consider a conference in say Birmingham or Manchester.
David
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Subject: Conference: Digital Deluge: History in the 21st Century, IHR, 17 November 2006
Dear All,
Registrations can now be made for the 2006 AHC-UK conference 'Digital
Deluge: History in the 21st Century' on 17 Nov at the IHR, London.
Organised by the AHC-UK and AHDS - History this conference explores the
challenges facing historians from the increasing volume of electronic and
digital sources. These sources can often be incomplete, difficult to acce ss
and to preserve, but they also provide new opportunities for research,
teaching and collaboration. Five experts in their field will provide
perspectives from archiving, scholarship, research, teaching and e-scienc e.
Together, these perspectives may enable historians to harness the digital
deluge rather than be swamped by it. The format of the conference will al low
presenters to cover issues in depth and provide participants ample time f or
discussion.
Programme, abstracts and registration information can be found here:
http://www.ahc.ac.uk/conf.htm
Ian Anderson
Convenor AHC-UK
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