Overview

Since its founding in 1921, the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) at the University of London has seen students and teachers come together, socially and intellectually, to engage in lively academic seminars. But for what purpose and with what value? Talking History provides a defence of the seminar as a central element in historians’ teaching, research and sense of community. Covering a range of the IHR’s long-running seminar series, the book presents the seminars as a local, national and international hub for scholarship that emerges from and is sustained by the ongoing learning practices of historians as scholars and people. It bears witness to a seminar culture of evolving, multifarious synergies between teaching, researching and learning, historiography and participation – intertextual, interpersonal, intergenerational and intercultural. Viewed as such, the seminars constitute a living tradition, stimulating and incorporating dynamic change over time to contribute not just to the development of historiography but to intellectual life more generally, often in conversation with major political events and cultural phenomena. This original and significant book delivers fresh insight into the evolution of historical research and its role in wider society today.

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Author:   David Manning (University of Leicester (United Kingdom))
Publisher:   University of London
Imprint:   University of London Press
ISBN:  

9781914477614

ISBN 10:   1914477618
Pages:   278
Publication Date:   09 May 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction David Manning 1 A History of the History Seminar: The ‘Active Life’ of Historiography at the Institute of Historical Research David Manning 2 The Italy 1200–1700 Seminar Trevor Dean and Kate Lowe 3 The Economic and Social History of the Early Modern World Seminar David Ormrod 4 The British History in the Seventeenth Century Seminar Jason Peacey 5 The British History in the Long Eighteenth Century Seminar Penelope J. Corfield 6 The Low Countries History Seminar Ulrich Tiedau 7 The Modern French History Seminar Pamela Pilbeam with David Manning 8 The Imperial and World History Seminar Sarah Stockwell 9 The Postgraduate Seminar in Theory and Method (1986–2008) Rohan McWilliam 10 The Women’s History Seminar Kelly Boyd 11 The IHR’s Seminar Culture: Past, Present and Future — A Roundtable Discussion David Bates, Alice Prochaska, Tim Hitchcock, Kate Wilcox, Ellen Smith and Rachel Bynoth, and Claire Langhamer Afterword Natalie Thomlinson

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‘Together, the contributors to this excellent book trace the evolution of the IHR's seminars across a hundred years, describe and evoke the ‘seminar culture’ that has always been so vivid and vital part of its purpose and mission, and candidly recognize the challenges that such a ‘seminar culture’ faces today. This is a very timely and very important work.’ — David Cannadine, President of the British Academy (2017–21) and Director of the Institute of Historical Research, University of London (1998–2003) ‘All historians, no matter what their career stage or area of research, will be enriched and stimulated by reading a volume that shows how historical topics arise and shift alongside the composition of the profession, its political and economic contexts and social conventions. The authors offer a distinctive perspective on both history and historiography. Historians have to start from their own times: Talking History helps us understand the past of our field; it offers inspiration and hope for the future.’ — Ludmilla Jordanova, Emeritus Professor of History and Visual Culture at Durham University, UK. Author of History in Practice (3rd edition, 2019)

Author Information

David Manning is a historian at the University of Leicester, UK. His expertise pertains to the history of Christian thought and culture in Britain and the wider English-speaking world, c.1600–c.1800, and the history of historiography.

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