CENTRE FOR METROPOLITAN
HISTORY
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Issue No. 1
March
2003
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Email:ihrcmh@sas.ac.uk
ABOUT
THE
NEWSLETTER
Welcome
to the
first issue of the Centre for Metropolitan History’s periodic electronic
newsletter. Our intention is to keep you informed about the latest news
from
the Centre for Metropolitan History, other research centres and
local history
societies, record offices and libraries which may be of
interest. So as not to
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but links are provided to
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1.
NEWS FROM
THE CMH
·
The Centre's AHRB-funded project ‘London’s
Past
Online’ is now available on the
internet at: http://www.history.ac.uk/cmh/lpol. The
database
contains some 30,000 records, supplemented by additional London
records from
the Royal Historical Society Bibliography, and will be
updated periodically to
include newly published titles and other material
collected from specialist
libraries in London and beyond. Discussions are
under way with the Museum of
London and the British and Irish
Archaeological Bibliography regarding an
experimental import of selected
archaeological records.
·
A conference on
‘London
Politics, 1789-1914’ will be held at the Institute of
Historical Research
on Saturday 28 June 2003. The Call for Papers is now
at: http://www.history.ac.uk/cmh/londpol.html. Programme and booking details will be available at
the
same URL shortly.
·
Following the very
successful
conference held in April 2000 on ‘Livery Companies in Early
Modern London’, a two-day
conference entitled ‘Guilds:
London…England…Europe’ will be take place on
31 October-1 November
2003 at Senate House, London. The Call for Papers
(closing date 31 March)
is at: http://www.history.ac.uk/cmh/guilds2.html
·
The collection of
papers
given at the April 2000 conference, Guilds, Society &
Economy in
London 1450-1800 (eds. I Gadd and P. Wallis), is
proving very popular.
Details at http://www.history.ac.uk/cmh/cmhpubs.html#livery
·
The second Leverhulme Lecture on Comparative
Metropolitan History will be given by Professor Kenneth Jackson of
Columbia
University on ‘Empire City: the impact of history and September
11 on the
present circumstances and future prospects of New York’ on 29
May 2003 at 5.30
pm in the Beveridge Hall, Senate House, Malet Street,
London WC1E 7HU. All
welcome.
2.
NEWS FROM
OTHER CENTRES
·
Birkbeck, University of London, Faculty of Continuing Education is
organising a History Summer School on ‘Crime and Punishment in London’ from
9 June to 13 June 2003. Cost will be £160 for the week, or £40 per day.
·
The Faculty also runs a number of
diploma/certificate
courses, short courses, seminars and weekend events
on various aspects of
London history, history in general and geneaology.
These are detailed at: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/study/fce2002/history/idxhistory.html
·
The Centre of East Anglian Studies (CEAS), is holding a conference
on medieval East Anglia on 8-12 September 2003. Papers include: archaeology
of medieval Norwich, the social and economic history of late medieval East
Anglia, aspects of medieval environmental history, financial reform in late
medieval Norwich, parish church architecture in fifteenth-century Norfolk
and East Anglians abroad: fifteenth-century travel narratives.
·
The CEAS also holds an annual lecture series on Thursday evenings each February.
The theme for February 2004 is ‘The History of Norwich’. The CEAS conference
13-18 September 2004 will be on ‘The World of Henry II’.
·
The Manchester Centre for Regional
History,
based at Manchester Metropolitan University has a new
website at: http://www.mcrh.org.uk/
3.
MUSEUMS AND
LOCAL STUDIES LIBRARIES
·
The
Guildhall
Library’s Manuscripts stores are currently undergoing
major building works.
Many original documents will therefore be
unavailable for consultation from
February to June 2003. The Reading Room
will remain open and documents on
microfilm will continue to be
available. (Guildhall Libary)
·
Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre
will be
closed on 14-15 April so that staff can be trained in the use of
the new IT
cataloguing system (Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre)
4.
NEW ONLINE
RESOURCES
·
The ‘Proceedings of the Old Bailey London 1674
to
1834’ project, directed by Tim Hitchcock and Robert Shoemaker at
the
Universities of Hertfordshire and Sheffield, have just made available
a fully
searchable online edition of the accounts of 22,000 trials from
December 1714
to December 1759 at http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/.
·
A concise online catalogue of the collection of
drawings built up by Sir John Soane (1753-1837) is now accessible
on the
the Sir John Soane’s Museum’s website: http://www.soane.org
5.
NEW
PUBLICATIONS
·
The London Record Society has recently
published
a volume of letters from a London merchant trading largely with
the West
Indies: Selected Letters of William Freeman, 1678-85, ed.
D. Hancock.
·
Heather Creaton’s Checklist of Unpublished
Diaries
by Londoners and Visitors, a guide to and bibliography of
little-used
sources for the social history of London from collections
world-wide, is due to
be published by the LRS at the end of March. Both
volumes are available to
non-members from the Hon. Secretary
Information
on the
London Record Society is available at http://www.history.ac.uk/cmh/lrs/LRSinfo.html
·
The next issue of the London Journal will
include papers on: the role of
lobbying
and interest groups in Parliamentary activity in early Stuart
London;
protecting domestic privacy in post-Fire middle-class London; the
exploration
of successful and failed amalgamations between gas companies
in late
nineteenth-century London; London's response to the influenza
pandemic of
1918-19; and the changes at Exmouth Market during the
1990s.
Lists
of contents,
abstracts from recent issues, and more information on the London
Journal
is available at: http://www.history.ac.uk/cmh/londonjournal
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