Conference title: Data for the social historian of 18th-century English
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CFP deadline: 13 January 2017, 5pm
Conference date: 27 June 2017
Website: http://www.the-imr.uk/becky-gribble
Venue: Senate House, University of London
Details: 300 words
Keynote speaker: Simon McVeigh, Goldsmiths University
This one-day conference aims to bring together early career researchers,
postgraduate students and family historians, interested in using archival,
bibliographic and other kinds of primary source data to illuminate the
social history of culture in eighteenth-century England.
This conference will invite scholars and students from all disciplines who
are looking to expand their knowledge of the data available from the long
eighteenth century. The programme will be selected to promote different
types of data and information, to refresh the possibilities open to
scholars, and forge new collaborations in the inclusion of these documents
within wider historical studies.
Proposals are invited for 20-minute papers, or for alternative formats of
presentations such as short demonstrations of databases (10 minutes) or
workshop sessions (30 mins), on topics related to the theme of the
conference, including (but not limited to):
· Insurance records from around the country
· Banking records
· Newspapers
· Journals/Diaries
· Personal correspondences
· Archives and their holdings
· Business archives
· Existing databases and how to build your own
· Computerised analysis of primary sources, including techniques
from Big Data research
Abstracts of less than 200 words, with a short biography of less than 100
words, and AV requirements, should be submitted as an email attachment to
[log in to unmask] by 5.00pm on 13 January 2017. Applicants will be
notified for decisions in February. Please also state what format your
proposal would take.
A limited number of travel bursaries will be available for those within
three years of completing their PhD. If you would like to be considered for
one of these, please include a paragraph of no more than 300 words on why
attending the conference will improve your personal development and
research project and the expected travel cost.
This conference is supported by the Institute of Musical Research.
Dr Rebecca Gribble
ECR Fellow
Royal Holloway, University of London
https://soton.academia.edu/RebeccaGribble
@RebeccaGribble
07858 379 115
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