METROPOLITAN AND LONDON HISTORY SEMINARS
The Seminar on Metropolitan History is held in the Autumn and Spring Terms. The programme for 2005-6 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
Both the Metropolitan History and Medieval and Tudor London History seminars are part of a large and wide-ranging programme of regular seminars held at the Institute of Historical Research. A full list is available on the Institute's website.
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 2005
| 12 October | No meeting Please note: All are welcome at the British History in the Long Eighteenth Century seminar (Wolfson Room, IHR, 5.15 pm) for Dr David Green's paper on 'Pauper Protests: power and resistance in early nineteenth-century London workhouses' [Further information] |
| 26 October | Leonard Schwarz, Jeremy Boulton, John Black and
Peter Jones (Birmingham and Newcastle) The Poor in Westminster, 1725-1825: the feminisation of poverty? |
| 9 November | Kate Bradley (CCBH) Growing up with a City: urban youth in London and Chicago 1880-1950 |
| 23 November | Luke McKernan (Birkbeck and British Universities
Film & Video Council) Diverting Time: London cinemas and their audiences, 1906-1914 |
| 7 December | Tim Strangleman and Bridget Henderson (London Metropolitan
University) Guinness was good for us: London, labour and stout, 1935-2005 |
Spring Term 2006
| 18 January | Barry Venning (Open
University) Turner's London |
| 1 February | John Chalcraft (LSE) The road to Beirut: Syrian migrant labour in Lebanon since 1945 and the politics of disposable labour |
| 15 February | Simon Dixon (Devon Record Office/University
of Exeter) |
| 1 March | Katia Pizzi (Institute
of Romance and Germanic Studies) The pasts and futures of a liminal metropolis: Trieste, 1910-90 |
| 15 March | Georg Leidenberger (Universidad Autónoma
Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco, México) |