Re. conf follow-ups: for anyone who cdnt attend #mbs2015, @book_learning has storified some plenaries/panels - check her tweets for details
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Home, cuppa, fought impulse to live-tweet tv prog! Major thanks for such a stimulating #mbs2015. Looking forward to #mbs2016 already!
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Nice point - British history *is* the history of empire; no matter what you're looking at, empire infuses, impels #mbs2015
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Interesting discussions abt capacity to disseminate work & need to subvert structures of knowledge (HE) we inhabit #mbs2015
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Comment being made that we don't do, & therefore can't have been doing "British history", as historians ignore so many experiences #mbs2015
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In panel discussion (w/ nine participants) on 'future histories of race' #mbs2015
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....but also abt how natl charity conceptualised/framed.Religion not mentioned,yet elite still actors&direct fundraising thru faith #mbs2015
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Taithe is absolutely right - elite fundraising in GB becomes subsumed into/co-opted by national charities & campaigns #mbs2015
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Taithe on the Stafford House Committee (& w/ slides) which acts as venture capitalist company + last eg of elite-led fundraising? #mbs2015
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Speaking now Julie-Marie Strange & Bertrand Taithe (&, in project, Roddy) on the monetising of compassion #histhumn #aidhist #mbs2015
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Roddy's methodology (familiar to #familyhistory) part of wider trend, combing all forms of source to retrieve lost lives/intentions #mbs2015
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Roddy: Using financial records of Irish RC Church post-1850, what can laity funding tell us abt concerns, potential, obligations? #mbs2015
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Sarah Roddy (w/ slides, hence I actually know her title), 'Paying & praying: the meanings of religious fundraising' #mbs2015
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Next up Toby Harper on 'the strange career of the imperial honours system' #mbs2015
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Ooooo - Raianu: Jamshedpur envisaged at one point a garden city #mbs2015
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Webbs major fans of the Tatas - Bea thought they cd become technocrats (obviously 'w/ the right sort of advice') #mbs2015
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Hoorah! SLIDES! Thank u Mircea Raianu! Talking history of Tata firm #mbs2015
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Linstrum: non-lethal gas seen as way to medicate a hostile mob #mbs2015
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Not permissable on battlefield, but allowed at home - not UK civilians, but was felt Indian citizens wd accept. Double standards #mbs2015
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Linstrum: gas considered a humane alternative by some. Not every kind of chem warfare fell afowl of internatl protocols #mbs2015
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Erik Linstrum is talking abt 'visions of chemical warfare as a form of colonial counterinsurgency' #mbs2015
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In 'Technologies of Rule between Colony & Metropole' panel at #mbs2015
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Pondering if "the themes" of the conference have been structurally engineered (skewed) by CfPs for panels not papers...? #mbs2015
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Cohen: the global can be beholden to the everyday - big history needs microhistory to understand the wellbeing of nations/empires #mbs2015
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Cohen: family love (desire for a quiet life) trumped wise business decisions every time #mbs2015
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Cohen's paper: smattering of #sporthistory w/ Anglo-Argentine families importing football & polo (a/w/a goods frm metropole) #mbs2015
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Deborah Cohen on Anglo-Argentine families & informal empire - arguing that their motivation was capital/business not empire #mbs2015
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Plenary on day 3 of #mbs2015 - ICYMI, am at Modern British Studies conference at UoB, so am off-road in terms of tweet subjects (great!)
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Interestng q frm @helenrogers19c (&echoing limited framing of conscience earlier): how to provoke empathy for past religious lives? #mbs2015
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Listening to @helenrogers19c reading 1 of her blog posts, which she prefaced by explaining how blogging has transformed her history #mbs2015
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