Prosopography

Our next meeting will be on Friday June 8th, at 5pm, in Birkbeck Room 261, Malet Street.

The topic will be Prosopography or, group biography, as a tool for History.

Please look at the articles by Lawrence Stone and Steven Shapin & Arnold Thackray.

• Stone, Lawrence. “Prosopography.” Daedalus. 100.1 (1971): 46-79.
• Shapin, Steven, and Arnold Thackray. “Prosopography as a Research Tool in History of Science: The British Scientific Community 1700-1900.” History of Science. 12 (1974): 1-28.

Koselleck

For the first meeting of term, on Friday 4th May, we will be reading Reinhart Koselleck: please look at both the first and the last chapters of his Futures Past (Columbia Univ. Press, 2004).

“Modernity and the Planes of Historicity” & “‘Space of Experience’ and ‘Horizon of Expectation’: Two Historical Categories”.