The loom, the ridge & the pit: A symposium on eighteenth and nineteenth century social history.

kildare | history and heritage | event notice Friday January 14, 2011 01:59 by T

A short one day symposium featuring presentations on themes such as funerary monuments from south Ulster associated with the linen industry, case studies of mining between 1750 and 1850, pre-famine popular protest and a Marxist analysis of the rundale system of communal tenure.

Starts at 11 a.m. on Saturday the 12th of February 2011 in the Sociology Department of N.U.I. Maynooth (located in the North Campus see map here http://www.nuim.ie/location/maps/NUIM-Map-booklet-v3.pdf)

Sponsored by the Historical-Comparative Research Cluster of the Sociology Department of N.U.I. Maynooth.

There is no registration fee but please let us know if you are coming before hand by e-mailing classconferencenuim@gmail.com