That is a great #CfP promising to push the #archivalturn further, not least along the dialectic of #archives = sites of scribal power versus of "nescience or unknowing: empires, past and present, were often built on ignorance as much as on knowledge." #histarchives #histempire #blueskystorians

2015 George Richardson Lecture Until the 1760s, few authors dedicated entire volumes to ...

Programme includes public lecture by @Brycchan abt natural history, Quakers, & anti-slavery http://bit.ly/1L3PK2q #histSTM #histempire

CfP: Empire and Humanitarianism, 13 and 14 June 2016, Uni... Cross-posted from: http://imperialandglobal.exeter.ac.uk/...

CfP: Empire & #Humanitarianism (Univ of Exeter, 13-14 Jun 2016) http://hhr.hypotheses.org/980 #twitterstorians #aidhist #histmed #histempire