SEMINAR ON METROPOLITAN HISTORY
Convenors: Dr Richard Dennis, Dr David Green, Dr Derek Keene
Alternate
Wednesdays at 5.30 pm
in the Training Room in the basement of the
Institute of Historical Research, Senate House,
Malet Street,
London WC1E 7HU
Theme for 1998/9: 'Commercial and imperial metropolises'
Autumn Term 1998
| 14 October | Bill Day
(London School of Economics) Florence: the growth of a metropolis, 1200-1300 |
| 28 October | Michela
Rosso (Turin) John Summerson as an historian of London |
| 11 November | Professor
Shizuya Nishimura (Hosei University) The development of a commercial metropolis: trade and banks in Shanghai, 1870-1914 |
| 25 November | David
Barnett (University of Nottingham) Fountainhead of consumerism: wholesale and retail distribution in London in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries |
| 9 December | Alan Cox
(Survey of London) Harvey Nichols and Harrods: two shopping cultures |
Spring Term 1999
| 20 January | Graham Twigg
(Centre for Metropolitan History/Royal Holloway) Epidemics and the plague: London, 1540-1720 |
| 10 February | Peter Whitehouse
(Birkbeck College) Freedom and regulation: situating Middlesex petrol stations |
| 24 February | Catherine Brice(Ecole Francaise de Rome) The Vittorio Emmanuele Monument, other Roman monuments, and the forging of national identity |
| 10 March | Professor
Jonathan Schneer (Georgia Institute of Technology) Anti-Imperial London: The Pan-African Conference of 1900 |
| 24 March | Scott R Fletcher (University of Reading) Yankees on the make: American immigrant entrepreneurs in Edwardian London |