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EXTERNAL EVENTS
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The year 2001 is the centenary of Queen Victoria's death, and as such there are many other activities external to the museum which also commemorate this event
- VICTORIA'S IRELAND
20-22 April 2001
University of Southampton
Victoria's Ireland is a conference organised by the Society for the study of 19th Century Ireland, at the University of Southampton.
For further information please contact Dr. Peter Gray Dept. of History pg2@soton.ac.uk
- MARITIME EMPIRES
2-3 July 2001
National Maritime Museum Greenwich
A two-day international conference exploring Britain's imperial maritime trade during the long nineteenth century. The growth of British commerce in this period was accompanied by increased territorial expansion overseas and the creation of an enlarged formal and informal Empire. Maritime Empires will highlight the significance fo the relationship between Britian, imperial enterprise and the sea through an interdisciplinary focus on issues of control, technology, commerce, culture and communication
For further information please contact Helen Jones, Research Administrator research@nmm.ac.uk
- THE SEA
4-6 July 2001
Institute of Historical Research
Anglo-American Conference on the theme of 'The Sea', at the Institute of Historical Research
For further information see http://www.ihrinfo.ac.uk/ihr/conferences/aach01.html
- THE ROSSETTIS: COSMOPOLITANS IN VICTORIAN LONDON
9-10 July 2001
St. Johns College, Cambridge
An international conference on the Rossettis, their works and their times. Offering early twenty-first century views on the Rossettis as cosmopolitans in Victorian London.The conference provides an occasion and an opportunity to hear what the four keynote speakers and eight panels of persons with professional and personal research interests in the Rossettis have to say about their perceptions of the family
For further information please see www.english.cam.ac.uk/rossetti/index.htm
- LONDON IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
10-11 July 2001
Museum of London
For more information please see http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/london/
- FRINGE SCIENCE
11 July 2001
University of Westminster
This conference concerns alternative (unorthodox, non-mainstream) sciences as they appear in Victorian (nineteenth-century) literature
For more information about the topic please contact Dr. Martin Willis at the University of Westminster
- LOCATING THE VICTORIANS:
12 - 15 July 2001
Science Museum, South Kensington
Locating the Victorians is a major international conference commemorating 150 years since the Great Exhibition and the centenary of Queen Victoria's Death. The conference has been structured so as to be interdisciplinary, broadly-based and summative and has been organised into 21 strands in seven parallel sessions over the three days (with plenary meetings in the evenings of 12 -15 July). It is intended to foster communication between students of all branches of Victorian history, culture and literature.
For further information please contact the Science Museum
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/researchers/victorians
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