[Graduate-research-list] FW: 'Telling the National Time' - History of Ideas Seminar

-----Original Message----- From: Michelle Keown Sent: 19 May 2003 18:27 Subject: FW: 'Telling the National Time' - History of Ideas Seminar Dear all, I'm forwarding a message from Mark Nixon, co-ordinator of the 'History of Ideas' seminar series at Stirling, regarding a session which may be of interest to many of you. All the best, Michelle. ---------- From: Mark Nixon {PG} Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 12:26 PM To: Michelle Keown Subject: 'Telling the National Time' - History of Ideas Seminar Michelle - could you please forward this to the CCWS mailing list for me? Peter's paper will deal with issues of empire and national identity, and will undoubtedly be of interest to many CCWS regulars. Thanks Mark The History of Ideas Seminar Series will host Peter Yeandle of Lancaster University on Monday 26th of May. Peter's paper, entitled 'Teaching turn-of-the-twentieth-century schoolchildren to tell the national time: continuity, identity and national sameness in lessons in historical literacy', will compare the teaching of history in Britain in the 1880s and the 1980s, with reference to the role the Empire and ideas of Empire played in the ideological constructions of Britain's past that have been presented to schoolchildren. The Seminar will take place in Pathfoot H3, from 4pm to 6pm. Refreshments are provided. All welcome! For more information, please contact Mark Nixon, Dept of History. Mark Nixon Dept of History University of Stirling Stirling FK9 4LA Scotland +44 1786 467965 mn4(a)stir.ac.uk Every man of us has all the centuries in him. - John Morley O mighty stream we cannot arrest thee. -Dante