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CALL FOR PAPERS 
 
On Time: History, Science, Commemoration 
at National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside (NMGM), Liverpool 
 
a British Society for the History of Science (BSHS), Royal Historical 
Society (RHS) and NMGM conference 
 
16-19 September 1999 
 
The approach of the millenium has heightened awareness of the 
conventions and cultures of time. But what is time? This question has 
 been of growing interest amongst historians. Their research is 
 markedly interdisciplinary, spilling over the boundaries between 
 social, economic and cultural historians, and historians of science, 
 technology, medicine and mathematics. 'On Time', organised by the 
 British Society for the History of Science (BSHS), Royal Historical 
 Society (RHS) and NMGM responds to this interdisciplinarity. 
 
 The conference will be held at the NMGM (which includes the Merseyside 
 Maritime Museum, in the heart of Liverpool's historic Albert Dock), a 
 holder of a highly significant collection of timepieces. 
 
 Papers with a wide interest and historiographical scope are invited. 
 Possible sessions include: 
 
     Beginnings and Origin Stories 
     Commemoration 
     Maritime Time 
     Timetables and Technology 
     Workplaces and Time 
     Lifetimes and Servitude 
     Units of Time 
     Calendars 
     Time and Political Economies 
     Scientific Instruments and Time 
     Cultures of Time and Space 
     Religion and Time 
     Nostalgia 
     Rhythms and Cycles in the Natural Sciences 
     Evolution 
     Relativity 
     Anthropology and Time 
     Past-Futures 
     Ends of Time 
     Immortality 
 
 Roughly thirty minutes will be given for each paper chosen. Abstracts of 
 50-100 words should be sent before 1 September 1998 to either: 
 
 Dr William J. Ashworth (BSHS) 
 Department of Economic and Social History, The University of 
 Liverpool, 11 Abercromby Square, Liverpool, L69 3BX. 
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 or 
 
 Dr Roland Quinault (RHS) 
 School of Historical, Philosophical and Contemporary Studies, 
 Faculty of HTE, University of North London, 166- 220 Holloway Road, 
 London N7 8DB, England 
 
 Interested speakers will be informed by the end of September 1998 as to 
 whether their paper has been accepted. The On Time programme committee 
 are: Dr Jon Agar (University of Manchester), Dr Jeff Hughes (University of 
 Manchester), Dr Roland Quinault (University of North London), Dr William 
 J. Ashworth (Liverpool University) 
 
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