Ottoman Palestine on film

Link to YouTube to watch archive footage of Jerusalem (late 19th century?) and Bethlehem and Gethsemane (1920s)

1. Jerusalem (said to be made in 1896)
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vaIK8wlAl0>

2. Bethlehem and Gethsemane (mid 1920s)
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqqY_apdIXc&feature=fvwp&NR=1>

"Histories of Partition": guide to online resources posted on BLE

A guide to online resources in SOAS Library to support the course "Histories of Partition: India and Palestine, 1947-1948" has just been posted on the BLE
The guide also includes links to selected websites, including the newly released film and oral history archive from Cambridge University Institute of South Asian Studies, which has amateur film of Partition refugees, and interviews discussing Partition


The Guide can be found on the Library Information Skills section of the BLE. Go to the History pages and look under Research Guides

History Seminar programme 10th-14th December

The last History department seminars of 2010!
TODAY
Commemorating Constantinople's conquest: appropriating the imperial past for the national present - Gavin Brockett (Wilfred Laurier University)
12 Noon to 2 p.m.
Russell Square Campus, College Buildings, Room 116
Contact Dr. Benjamin Fortna (bp@soas.ac.uk)

MONDAY 13th DECEMBER
The ethnic cleansing of Palestine: past and present  - Ilan Pappe (University of Exeter)
5.15 p.m - 7.15 p.m.
Russell Square Campus, College Buildings, Room G3
Contact Teresa Bernheimer (tb31@soas.ac.uk)


TUESDAY 14th DECEMBER
Making Ayurveda modern: framing indigeneity and the biopolitical in inter-war North India - Rachel Berger (Concordia University)
5.00 p.m. - 6.30 p.m
Russell Square Campus, College Buildings, Room G2
Contact Dr Eleanor Newbigin (en2@soas.ac.uk)