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Location: University of East Anglia Date: 4 Jan 2013 – 6 Jan 2013 Organiser: BASEES and UEA School of History The XXXIX Conference of the BASEES Study Group of the Russian Revolution will take place from Friday 4 - Sunday 6 January 2013 at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. The conference will bring together 35-40 scholars from Europe, Asia and North America to present and discuss new research into the history of the revolutionary period between the 1880s and 1932. ...

The School of History will be soon launching new Employability Bursaries, totalling £25,000 per year, to assist undergraduates in their career development. Full details of the new Employability Bursaries will be announced later in the year. The intention is that this money will be available to assist undergraduates in gaining internships in businesses, commerce, non-profit groups and organisations, government departments or international bodies. In the modern labour market graduates...

Thanks to a partnership between the School of History and the School of Political, Social and International Studies, eleven HIS students will be able to gain work experience in Brussels during 2012. The programme comprises: Five one-month Policy Officer training placements (unpaid) during 2012, located in the East of England Brussels Office, which represents the region's interests in the European Parliament. Six places for HIS undergraduates on a Brussels employability...

Following his election last year as a Fellow of the British Academy, Professor Nick Vincent has now been elected a member of the Commission Internationale de Diplomatique. Based in Paris, but with a truly international membership, the Commission is supposed to comprise the world's fifty leading experts on medieval documents, their edition and use. Professor Vincent becomes one of only three English members of the Commission below retirement age.