of a social historian
For a good few years now, I've been popping up at conferences and workshops and seminars, making the case for adopting a cross-disciplinary way of thinking about money in modern life. So I guess I'd put my views on money histories on the radar by the time the Social History Society and the Economic History …
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My latest contribution to the Manchester University Press blog is a write-up of my recent book launch seminar for Payment and Philanthropy in British Healthcare, 1918-48, hosted by the Voluntary Action History Society at Institute of Historical Research in London. You can read about what my fab panel of historians - Professors Pamela Cox, Pat Thane …
One of the things I enjoy most about academic life is organising conferences. It's something I've done quite a bit of ever since the first year of my PhD. For the most part this was a mix of smaller workshops with medium-sized international specialist gatherings. But two years ago I was elected (helpfully unopposed) as Communications …
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