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European History Research Centre (EHRC)


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The European History Research Centre (EHRC) has been established by the Department of History to encourage inter-disciplinary research and collaboration at the University of Warwick. It sees its scope in broad terms, ranging across at least the last fifteen centuries and taking a very wide view of the borders of Europe and European connections and influence. Its central intellectual principle is that encouraging people to think outside their natural disciplinary and period comfort zones pays dividends in terms of intellectual advances, innovative research, funding applications, and wider impact.

The Centre’s first formal conference, Napoleon’s Last Stand: 100 Days in 100 Objects, was held on July 1st 2014 and exemplifies the Centre’s aspirations. There were twenty-six papers in the course of the day, from specialists in French, English, Italian and German studies; historians, political scientists, and musicologists; contributors from North America, France, Italy, Belgium, Ireland, Spain and from all over Britain; and with discussions of everything from military planning and organisation, domestic diaries and letters, women pamphleteers in Belgium, romantic poetry and painting, millenarian prophecy, Egyptian national anxieties, popular catechisms in Germany, local elections and national plebiscites in France, the battle of Waterloo, and English, French, Dutch, Spanish and Russian caricature. Moreover, the day concluded with a concert of English, French and German songs relating to the 100 Days and the battle of Waterloo, and a performance of scenes from a play written by a British soldier in captivity in France during the 100 days. Cross-national, interdisciplinary, innovative, and bringing together a wide audience of scholars, the event was an auspicious start to the Centre’s activities. The papers from the conference will form the basis for the web-exhibition that will be launched in January 2015and will trace the events of the 100 days and worldwide reactions to them over the subsequent six months.

For more details of the European History Research Centre and its activities, please see the EHRC website.
 

Wed 09 Jul 2014, 13:13 | Tags: Research Announcement