SEMINAR ON METROPOLITAN HISTORY

AUTUMN & SPRING TERMS 1993/1994

Convenors:
Dr Richard Dennis, Dr Derek Keene, Professor Michael Port

Alternate Wednesdays at 5.30 pm in the Old Bindery at the
Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet Street
London  WC1E 7HU

THEME FOR 1993-4: 'INTERPRETING METROPOLITAN SPACE'

AUTUMN TERM 1993

13 October     Michael Berlin (Centre for Metropolitan History)
              'Places of skill in early modern London'

27 October     Miles Ogborn (Lampeter)
               'The street as a space of modernity: eighteenth-
               century London and the public sphere'

10 November    Julienne Hanson
           (Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning, UCL)
               'Interpreting the metropolitan network'

24 November    Mona Domosh (Florida Atlantic)
               'Interpreting New York's nineteenth-century retail
district'

  8 December   David Watkin (Peterhouse, Cambridge)
               'Sir John Soane's view of London'


SPRING TERM 1994

19 January     Andrew Saint (English Heritage)
               'Ecclesiastical space: Anglican church building
          and the parish system in nineteenth-century London'

  2 February   Pascal Brioist
             (Istituto Universitario Europeano, Florence)
            'Two geographies of seventeenth-century London:
              Samuel Pepys and Robert Hooke'

16 February    Roland Quinault (University of North London)
               'Charles Dickens and London'

  2 March      Janet Barnes and Craig Spence
               (Centre for Metropolitan History)
               'An atlas of late seventeenth-century London'

16 March       John House (Courtauld Institute of Art)
               'Pissarro in Paris: anarchist or aesthete?'