Dr Richard Dennis, Dr David Green, Dr Derek Keene
Theme: 'Metropolitan Attractions'
9 October 1996
David Feldman (Birkbeck College, London)
Migrants in urban Britain, 1840-1950
23 October
Janet Polasky (University of New Hampshire/Catholic
University, Leuven)
British workers and Belgian peasants on the railways:
a comparative perspective on Workmen's Trains in the urban
housing crisis at the turn of the nineteenth century
6 November
Jennifer Davis (Wolfson College, Cambridge)
Race and the residuum: the Irish origins of the English
underclass
20 November
Donatella Calabi (Istituto Universitario di Architettura di
Venezia)
From the Jewish district to the ghetto in Venice, Florence
and Rome: spatial architectural characteristics
27 November
Gerry Kearns (Department of Geography, University of
Cambridge)
The political uses of history in the modern urban landscape:
Chicago and the quincentenary of Columbus
[NB: this will be a joint meeting with the History of the United States of
America seminar]
4 December
Perry Gauci (Centre for Metropolitan History)
The London merchant and public life: 1660-1720
15 January 1997
Iain Black (Cheltenham and Gloucester College)
Money, architecture and identity: bank office building in the
City of London, 1830-1870
29 January
Andrew Crowhurst (Department of Geography, De Montfort
University)
Empire theatres and the Empire: images of race and class in
London's music halls
12 February
Claire Hancock (Universite de Paris-Sorbonne)
Travellers' descriptions of Paris and London during the
nineteenth century
26 February
Bill Luckin, Graham Mooney and Andrea Tanner (Centre for
Metropolitan History)
Mortality in the metropolis, 1860-1920
12 March
Patricia Garside (University of Salford)
Fragments of London: selling the capital as a place to visit,
1919-1939