Level 1B and 2B Introductory Meetings
The introductory lectures for Level 1B and 2B will take place at the following times:
Level 1B - Monday 12 January 3-4 pm in Boyd Orr Lecture Theatre 2
Level 2B - Monday 12 January 3-4 pm in Room T415, Adam Smith Building
ESRC Quota Award Competition 2009
The Department of Economic and Social History, the Department of History and Strathclyde Department of History will be offering 3 ESRC-funded studentships to pursue PhD research from 2009/10. The studentships are for four years, including one year MSc training and three years of study toward a PhD. The eligible MSc programmes include the MSc Contemporary Economic History or the MSc Social History or MSc History (SocSci). The studentships cover fees, subsistence for four years and some research funding. ESRC Quota Award Competition 2009
Book Launch
The Department of Economic and Social History is pleased to announce the publication of two books by members of staff: The Industrial Politics of Devolution by Jim Phillips, and St Albans: A History by Mark Freeman.
You are invited a reception to celebrate the launch of these books. This will take place in the seminar room, Lilybank House, on Thursday 27 November at 5pm.
For catering purposes, please email k.mcfadden@arts.gla.ac.uk by Thursday 20 November, if you would like to attend.
More details of The Industrial Politics of Devolution can be found here:
http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/catalogue/book.asp?id=1204006
Copies of The Industrial Politics of Devolution will be available for sale at a 50 per cent launch discount price of £30.
and of St Albans: A History here:
For details of how to get to campus map. Lilybank House is location D9.
Financial Crises and Regulation: Lessons from the Past?
Financial Crisis and Regulation: Lessons from the Past?
Friday 24th October 2008, Sir Charles Wilson Building
This half-day workshop hosted by the Centre for Business History at the University of Glasgow will explore the past experience of banking and financial crisis to determine what lessons these episodes offer for current difficulties.
The Industrial Politics of Devolution: New Book by Jim Phillips.
In August 2008 Manchester University Press published The Industrial Politics of Devolution: Scotland in the 1960s and 1970s, by Jim Phillips, Senior Lecturer in Economic and Social History. Jim's book examines devolution, explaining this central phenomenon in Scottish and British political life since the 1960s in terms of economic developments and industrial struggles. Its emphasis on popular pressures 'from below', and business and trade union activism, distinguishes it from standard accounts of devolution that privilege high politics and personalities. It is based on unpublished government, business and trade union records unused by previous authors.
The Society for the Social History of Medicine 2008 Annual Conference
The 2008 Annual Conference, History and the Healthy Population: Society, Government, Health and Medicine, September 2008 will be jointly organised by the Centre for the History of Medicine and the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare Glasgow. Further information.
PhD Studentship "Business, Banking or Financial History"
The Centre for Business History in Scotland is pleased to announce the award of a three year PhD Studentship to Mr Enea Gjika, an EU student from Greece. The studentship commenced in September 2008 and will finish in June 2011.
Centre for Business History in Scotland to host the 2010 European Business History Association conference
The Council of the European Business History Association (EBHA) has announced that it will hold its 2010 annual conference in the United Kingdom for the first time, and it will be hosted by the Centre for Business History in Scotland at the University of Glasgow. The EBHA, dedicated to fostering a network of researchers in business history in Europe, was founded in 1996 with considerable support from the Centre for Business History, and the largest single group of members is from the UK. It is fitting, therefore, that Glasgow should be the venue for its first annual meeting outside of continental Europe. The theme of the conference will be: Business beyond the firm
While it is not unusual for business people to move from firm to firm, they also routinely move into -or sometimes create - organisations located outside the business world, ones linked to politics, government, education, philanthropy and other pursuits. Movement in the opposite direction is also possible, while those involved exclusively in organisations beyond the firm are often characterised as "entrepreneurial" Increasingly over time, organisations beyond the firm seek to learn and to deploy business methods and practices, frequently hiring management consultants to advise them. As its main theme, this conference will explore the interrelationships between business practice, the firm and the entrepreneur on the one hand and the actors, organisations and institutions of the broader social and political environment on the other. More details will follow.Bid to host the 2012 World Economic History Congress in 2012 submitted
Bid to host the 2012 World Economic History Congress in 2012 submitted
2008 Women's History Network conference being hosted by the School of Historical Studies
The 17th annual conference of the Women's History Network will be
held at the University of Glasgow, 5 - 7th September 2008, on the theme
'Gender and Generations: women and life cycles'. Keynote speakers
include Professor Lynda Coon (
Project on the international history of industrial gases: History of Industrial Gases Industry
This is a joint venture between the Centre for Business History in Scotland, University of Glasgow and The Linde Group. For further details please visit our news page and the Linde web pages.