History and Today

London Quaker Thomas Shillitoe's visit to Luddite widows in the Spen and Calder valleys, February-March 1813 - Journal of the Life, Labourers and Travels of Thomas Shillitoe (London, 1839) , pp.184-191. Plotted onto Jeffrey's map of Yorkshire and Google Earth:

Stefan Collini in the LRB: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n21/stefan-collini/brownes-gamble James Vernon in InsideHigherEd: http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/globalhighered/the_end_of_the_public_university_in_england

Deadline is now extended to 25 October. Please submit proposals for papers via the Social History Society website – http://www.socialhistory.org.uk/annualconference.php http://www.manchester.gov.uk/galleries/gallery/9/item/62/m69193    The Society's conference has no single theme. It is organised in six strands: ·       Deviance, Inclusion and Exclusion ·       Life-cycles and Life-styles ·       Markets, Culture and Society ·       Political Cultures, Policy and Citizenship ·       Narratives, Emotions and the Self ·       Spaces and Places Postgraduate students are encouraged to offer papers. Details of bursaries and the postgraduate paper prize are available on the conference website. 

The Social History Society annual conference takes place at the University of Manchester, 12-14 April 2011. Call for papers link here . Deadline is 4 October. For further information also see the conference website.