METROPOLITAN AND LONDON HISTORY SEMINARS
The Seminar on Metropolitan History is held in the Autumn and Spring Terms. The programme for 2008-9 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.
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, Dr James Moore
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 2008
| 8 October | Mark Latham (Leicester) Finance and urban improvement: estate revenue and the London Bridge Improvement Act of 1756 |
| 22 October | Julie Atkinson (Warwick/IHR) Office politics: representing the city in revolutionary New York |
| 5 November | Deborah Colville and Rosemary Ashton (Bloomsbury
Project, UCL) A tale of two squares: Russell Square and Gordon Square in the 19th century |
| 19 November | Kathrin Pieren (CMH) From 'Ost und West' to East and West End: London's role in the discourse on Jewish art at the beginning of the 20th century |
| 3 December | Vivian Bickford-Smith (CMH/University of Cape
Town) Metropolitan pretensions in the South: comparing the claims of Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg in apartheid era city histories |
Spring Term 2009
| 14 January | Ben Heller (Oxford) A user-friendly metropolis? Transportation, individual mobility, and the distribution of recreational spaces in Georgian London |
| 28 January | Jim Galloway (CMH) London and the tidal Thames: flooding, economy and environment in the later middle ages |
| 11 February | Henry Meier (Oxford) Nursing the sick poor in seventeenth-century London |
| 25 February | Katrina Gulliver
(CMH) Outposts of Empire? Urban identity in colonial port cities |
| 11 March | Christoph Heyl (Frankfurt) German immigrants and refugees in London, 1848-1945 Please note: this seminar will be held in Room NG16 (Ground Floor, North Block, Senate House) |