EXPLORING THE
METROPOLIS:
NEW IDEAS IN LONDON HISTORY
A conference to
celebrate the tenth anniversary of the
Centre for Metropolitan History
Room 349, Third
floor, Senate House, Malet Street,
London WC1E 7HU
15 October 1998
It is impossible to cover the full range of the Centre's activities over the past ten years in one day. Instead, the conference focuses on a few themes, each spanning several centuries, which have been characteristic of the Centre's attempt to understand the impact of London on the country at large, the essence of its creativity and commercial culture, and some of the problems of metropolitan life. There will be brief responses to each session, followed by lively discussion.
[The papers, or summaries, from this conference are now available in the Centre's Annual Report for 1997-8 (printed version available free from the Centre). Please follow the li nks to individual papers below. The conference was reviewed by Dr Patricia Croot in the London Journal, volume 23, No. 2 (1998), pp. 76-79.]
PROGRAMME
| 09.15 | Registration |
| 09.30 | Metropolitan history: identity and information |
| 'Ten years of Metropolitan history', Dr Derek Keene (Director, CMH); 'Signposts and milestones: ten years of bibliography and information work at the Centre', Miss Heather Creaton (Deputy Director, CMH) | |
| 10.15 | Coffee |
| 10.30 | London and its territory: markets, supplies and economic integration, 1300-1600 |
| 'Food, fuel and the agrarian hinterland in the fourteenth century: approaches and achievements of the Feeding the City projects 1988-94', Dr Margaret Murphy (CMH); 'Market networks: London, hinterland trade, and the economy of England', Dr Jim Galloway (CMH); 'Markets and Fairs in England and Wales', Dr Samantha Letters (CMH) | |
| Respondent: Dr Caroline Barron (Royal Holloway, London) | |
| 12.00 | Lunch |
| 13.00 | Innovation, mercantile culture and the environment: the City from dependency to Big Bang, 1500-1987 |
| 'Innovation and the Skilled Workforce of London', Mr Michael Berlin (Birkbeck College, London); 'The City as Exchange: merchant culture 1660-1720', Dr Perry Gauci (Lincoln College, Oxford); | |
| Respondent: Dr Ian Archer (Keble College, Oxford) | |
| 'Spaces of business in the City of London in the nineteenth century', Dr Iain Black (King's College, London), 'Living memory: creating an historical source', Dr Bernard Attard (University of Leicester) | |
| Respondent: Dr David Kynaston | |
| 15.00 | Tea |
| 15.15 | Metropolitan penalties: the plague of 1665, and new patterns of mortality, 1860-1920 |
| 'Revisiting the visitation: epidemics and urban society', Dr Justin Champion (Royal Holloway, London); 'New patterns of mortality, 1860-1920', Dr Graham Mooney (CMH) | |
| Respondent: Dr John Landers (All Souls College, Oxford) | |
| 16.45 | Close |
17.00-18.00
Celebration drinks at the Centre for Metropolitan History