METROPOLITAN AND LONDON HISTORY SEMINARS
The Seminar on Metropolitan History is held in the Autumn and Spring Terms. The programme for 2007-8 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 at 5.15 pm on Thursdays during the Summer Term, usually in the Wolfson Room, First Floor, Institute of Historical Research. 2008 Programme
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 2007
| 17 October | Paul Dobraszczyk (Reading) Out of sight, out of mind? Representing London's Victorian sewers |
| 31 October | David Marsh (Birkbeck) Changing perceptions of public and private open spaces in early modern London |
| 14 November | Daniel Antoine (Institute of Archaeology, UCL) Growing up in London from the 11th to 19th century: the bioarchaeological evidence |
| 28 November | Erik Spindler (Oriel College, Oxford) Suburban prostitution and marginality in late medieval London and Bruges Please note: this session will take place in room ST274, Stewart House 2nd Floor |
| 12 December | Quentin Russell (Royal Holloway) Greeks in Victorian London: 'A Cowardly and Dishonest Race', from marginalisation to acceptance |
Spring Term 2008
| 9 January | Catherine Wright
(Centre for Metropolitan History) Dutch and Anglo-Dutch social networks in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century London |
| 23 January | Philip Baker and Mark Merry (Centre for Metropolitan
History and Birkbeck) Parishioners, pews and perimeters: residence and status in early modern London |
| 6 February | Laurence Scott (King’s College London,
Comparative Literature Programme) The aesthetics of terror in the novels of London and Paris |
| 20 February | Göran Rydén
(Uppsala University) Impressions of London – Visions of Progress: Swedish eighteenth-century visits to London |
| 5 March | Carlos López Galviz (Centre for Metropolitan
History) On maps, timetables, cities and railways. London and Paris, c.1860-1900 |