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Forthcoming Events

• Conference on the History of Leisure, Nottingham University Business School, 25th May 2012
  For more more details please see the programme.

• PG Conference - "Learning From Mistakes: The History of Failure and the Failure of History”, 14 June 2012
  History can often focus on the successful, the popular and the unchallenged. It is important for historians to explore what has not worked in history and to learn which historical perspectives or approaches have been questioned. Stories of success, victory and progress are frequently found in writings on history; however, the study of the failures and 'losers' of the past is of equal importance, and indeed is intrinsic in understanding and contextualising those more famous successes of history. We are especially hoping to receive proposals on topics relating to "business failure". 
  For more information, please see a poster of this workshop  and the programme .

• Members of the CIBH will be presenting at the Association of Business Historians Conference, Birmingham July 2012.

Previous Activities

• Workshop on The Car in Modern Society, 16th May 2012
  Cars have become a consumer good, a status symbol and in some instances an economic necessity. They have had a huge impact on society itself, and the urban structure. This workshop aims to complicate our understanding of the assumed ‘good’ of the car through a series of global case studies.  For more information, please see a poster of this workshop.

• Seminar: Dr Sheryllynne Haggerty, 'The British Slave Trade: Easy Money?' (part of the seminar series of The Historical Association, Nottingham Branch). Thursday 1st March 2012, B14, Department of History, 7.30-9.00pm.

• Workshop on Metropolitan Networks with Professors Robert Bennett (Cambridge) Mark Casson (Reading), and John Wilson (Liverpool), 16 November 2011.  
       - More information about the workshop.
       - Photos taken at the workshop.

• Panel Sustaining Business Networks in the Eighteenth-Century British-Atlantic World at Association of Business Historians Conference, Reading 30 June - 2 July 2011. 
       - More information about the conference.
       - Photos taken at the conference.

• Sheryllynne Haggerty - paper entitled Merely for Money’? Business Culture in the British-Atlantic, 1750-1815 at International Colloquium on Merchant Practice in the Age of Commerce, 1650-1850, Paris, June 2011.

• ISOS workshop on ‘Sights and Sites of Slavery 1750-1834’
  CIBH co-hosted with the Institute for the Study of Slavery a two-day workshop on a project entitled ‘Sights and Sites of Slavery 1750-1834’. This ran 11th and 12th July 2011, and many leading scholars attended including Profs. Simon Smith, Kenneth Morgan, Miles Ogborn, Geoff Quilley and Anita Rupprecht.

• Conference - 'Smoking, Advertising and Consumer Culture'
  CIBH was one of the organisers of a well attended day conference entitled ‘Smoking, Advertising and Consumer Culture’ on 18 May 2011 which consisted of high quality papers by leading academics and museum staff, including Professor Virginia Berridge, Dr Penny Tinkler and Professor Howard Cox.

• Conference - ‘New Perspectives on Post-war Banking and Finance’
  CIBH ran a major one day conference on 18 March 2011 entitled ‘New Perspectives on Post-war Banking and Finance’, This conference, organised by Mark Billings and Sheryllynne Haggerty, included lectures by three very distinguished academics in this area, Professor Forest Capie (City University), Professor Philip Cottrell (Leicester University) and Professor Alan Booth (Exeter University).