Royal Historical Society's Regional Symposium 2011

Event Date November 3, 2011 – November 4, 2011

Location – Postgraduate Centre, Ty Crawshay, University of Glamorgan, Llantwit Road, Treforest, CF37 1DL

The Royal Historical Society‘s regional symposium for 2011 is to be hosted by the University of Glamorgan on behalf of History Research Wales, the alliance between the five research-led History Departments in Welsh HE.

Day 1 of Visualising the Past:
History, Heritage and Technology

• Thursday 3rd November 2011
• Fee: Free of charge
• Book online

Programme Download: Day 1 Programme (PDF, 112KB)

Day 1 (Thursday, 3 November) of Visualising the Past: History, Heritage and Technology will include a plenary lecture by Dr Richard Suggett (Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales) and a series of presentations that bear upon ‘visualising the past’ by researchers from across Welsh HE.

Royal Historical Society Plenary Lecture

Richard Suggett, ‘Landscape and Mindscapes: Visualising the Historic Environment of Late-Medieval and Early-Modern Wales’.

Other papers

• Raimund Karl (Bangor), ‘Visualising the Iron Age: Buildings, Settlements and the Landscape’

• Rhianydd Biebrach (Swansea), ‘Mapping the Estates of Neath Abbey’

• Jonathan Durrant (Glamorgan) and Spike Sheppard (Glamorgan), ‘Representing Early Modern Space at St Fagans: National History Museum’

• Peter Borsay (Aberystwyth), Louise Miskell (Swansea) and Owen Roberts (Aberystwyth), 'Visualising the Resort: Pictorial Representations of Tourists and their Destinations c.1750-1914’.

The keynote address and other presentations are open to all and free of charge, but please register using the form below. A detailed programme will be sent out to all registered participants.

Day 2 of Visualising the Past:
History, Heritage and Technology

• Friday 4th November 2011
• Fee: £20
• Book online

Programme Download: Day 2 Programme (PDF, 120KB)

Day 2 (Friday, 4 November) of Visualising the Past: History, Heritage and Technology will involve specialised training workshops in IT and digital technologies for postgraduate researchers, led by tutors from the Institute of Historical Research, London.

There will be sessions on:

• Databases
• Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis
• Maps, Spatial Analysis and GIS
• Sources, Citation and Referencing
• Using Visual Sources

Payment

Most of the costs of this event are being met by a generous grant from the Economic History Society, but there will be a charge of £20 per head.

Please register for Day 2 using the form below and send a cheque for £20 made payable to the 'University of Glamorgan’ and send to Chris Evans, Faculty of Business and Society, University of Glamorgan, Treforest, CF37 1DL.

Partners

For more information about event and others like it, please visit our History Research Unit website. If you’re interested in studying History at the University of Glamorgan, please visit our pages on history.

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