METROPOLITAN AND LONDON HISTORY SEMINARS
The Seminar on Metropolitan History is held in the Autumn and Spring Terms. The programme for 2004-5 is given below. Proposals for papers, or for themes to be pursued, are welcomed. Please submit them to ihrcmh@sas.ac.uk.
The Seminar on Medieval and Tudor London History is held weekly during the Summer Term. For further details and a programme for this seminar, please contact Dr Vanessa Harding at Birkbeck College. Email: v.harding@bbk.ac.uk
SEMINAR ON METROPOLITAN HISTORY
Convenors: Dr Matthew Davies, Dr Richard Dennis, Professor Derek Keene, Dr Patrick Wallis
Alternate
Wednesdays at 5.30 pm
in the Pollard Room, First Floor
Institute of Historical Research
Senate House, Malet Street,
London WC1E 7HU
Autumn Term 2004
| 13 October | Graeme Davison (Monash) The first Australian suburbs |
| 20 October | Jerry White (Local Government Ombudsman) Trouble in Arcadia: the London suburb, 1840 to the present |
| 3 November | Brigitte Flickinger (Heidelberg) Silent spectators: going to the cinema in London, Berlin and St Petersburg before 1918 |
| 17 November | Laura Ugolini (Wolverhampton) The passing of the 'nut'? Masculinity, youth and consumption in World War I London |
| 1 December | Brenda Assael (Swansea) Conspicuous Consumption: dining out in the Victorian West End |
Spring Term 2005
| 12 January | Mark Merry and Philip
Baker (Birkbeck/CMH) 'For the house her self and one servant': households and houses in late seventeenth century London |
| 26 January | Michelle Johansen (IHR and East London) Struggling heroes: the public librarian in late Victorian London |
| 9 February |
Mike Finn (Cambridge) Please note the change of title from that previously advertised |
| 23 February | Stefan Goebel (University
of Kent and CMH) Coventry and Dresden: the politics of transnational remembrance after 1945 |
| 9 March |
Jose Luis Oyon (U.P.C. Barcelona) NB: This seminar will be held in the Low Countries Room, 3rd floor, IHR |