第六期|世界史学术动态

1. 伦敦大学历史研究所：'England's Places' App将于2020年1月15日发布

This event launches ‘English Places’: the exciting new app from the Victoria County History, which puts authoritative histories of places across England at your fingertips, whether you’re browsing at home or out and about exploring. Please join us to celebrate the launch, and for our broader discussion of digital mapping projects, place and public history.  The launch will be introduced by Catherine Clarke, Professor in the History of People, Place and Community, IHR and will follow a panel session which will discuss digital mapping platforms in academic and public history contexts.

Chair: Matt Bristow (IHR/Historic England)

Panel:

Peter Insole (Principal Historic Environment Office, Know Your Place Bristol)

Sarah Jones (Head of Geomatics, Museum of London Archaeology)

Seif El Rashidi (Project Manager, Layers of London, IHR)

Professor Andrew McCrae (University of Exeter, Co-Director Places of Poetry)

The challenge for digital mapping platforms like Layers of London and Know Your Place, and for national projects which focus on the local, such as the Victoria County History, is to move beyond the immediate locality towards crowd sourced national histories.  The potential for digital mapping platforms to be ‘franchised’, allowing expansion beyond the geographical and organisational boundaries of an individual project, opens up exciting possibilities for the creation of interconnected, multi-layered resources which combine to speak to our collective national history.  How can academics, community groups and members of the public harness the potential of digital mapping platforms to expand the horizons of our histories from the local to the national?

原文链接：https://www.history.ac.uk/events/digital-mapping-and-national-histories

2. 英格兰郡史资料 Victoria County History

Explore England's Rich History

The Victoria County History (VCH) was founded in 1899 as a national project to write the history of every county in England. At its inception, the project was dedicated to Queen Victoria, which is how it derives its name.

The VCH aims to complete authoritative, encyclopaedic histories of each county, from the earliest archaeological records to the present day, as well as topics such as topography, landscape and the built environment. Some VCH volumes were published over a century ago, while others are now in progress or planned for the future.

The Victoria County History is a series of publications: the iconic Red Books of county history, as well as the VCH Shorts, which focus on single parishes and towns. 

The VCH is also a vast, diverse and lively community of historians, researchers and local groups, working on county histories across England. The project is led and managed in London at the Institute for Historical Research, but is driven by local County Trusts and their members, most of whom are volunteers. Contact us to find out how you could get involved.

About the Red Books Series

Based at the Institute of Historical Research since 1933, the VCH is written by historians working in counties across England and published in a series of ‘big red books' by Boydell and Brewer for the University of London.

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About Victoria County History Shorts

The Victoria County History Shorts series of parish and urban histories produced in paperback aims to bring local research to publication as swiftly as possible, and to inspire readers to get involved with VCH ventures in their own localities. The series grew out of The Victoria County History 1899-2012: A Diamond Jubilee Celebration experimental publication which was published in 2012 in both print and digital formats.

原文链接：https://www.history.ac.uk/research/victoria-county-history

3. 新刊：《资本主义：历史和经济学的视角》

About Capitalism: A Journal of History and Economics

Capitalism: A Journal of History and Economics offers a trans-disciplinary forum for the examination of the history of economic phenomena broadly conceived. It features original and peer-reviewed contributions by authors from across the humanities and social sciences on the historical dimensions of markets, capitalism, political economy, and economic thought. It is also interested in how economic questions interact with those of power, knowledge, race, class, and gender, as well as the interplay between the environment and the economy, in any region of the world. The journal aims to publish canon-questioning research that challenges and denaturalizes existing categories and modes of analysis. To those ends, we welcome any methodological or theoretical approach so long as there is a historical dimension to the analysis.

发刊词

By Marc Flandreau

A NEW ECONOMIC HISTORY is emerging. It needs a new journal. Capitalism: A Journal of History and Economics finds its roots in the resurgence of interest for the economic past that has been a characteristic feature of recent years, accelerating after the outbreak of the global financial crisis in 2008. The crisis, and the recession that ensued, brought to the forefront the centrality of the capitalist economy as a powerful historical factor. Popular and intellectual perceptions of the instability of the capitalist economy and of the inherent inequality which it may breed, not to mention the corollary of political and social problems that accompanied the subprime crisis, reopened old and important debates. Entrenched assumptions pertaining to the efficiency of the capitalist system came under scrutiny. This perception transcends the value judgment on the system under discussion and, transcending as well political cleavages, history has been called to make sense of the times. At the onset of the crisis, the "precedent" of the interwar economic crisis became the template against which new events were read, and central banks were asked to make sure there would be no repetition of the interwar disasters. The conversation is far from over and it has already succeeded in inspiring the formation of a new school of thought in American history, known as the "New History of Capitalism."

2019年秋季第一期目录与内容详见：https://cap.pennpress.org/home/

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