18th-19th Century
27 Jun 2013
'Miles of silly little dirty houses': Victorian Battersea and the making of a working-class suburb
Colin Thom (Survey of London)
27 Jun 2013
'Improved dwellings for the industrious classes': H.A. Darbishire's Peabody model and its relevance for contemporary housing
Irina Davidovici (Kingston University)
3 Jun 2013
Herr Winkelmeier, Tom Thumb and the Hilton Sisters: Uncovering the 'freaks' of the Wellcome Library
Ross MacFarlane (Wellcome Trust)
29 May 2013
Loose, Idle and Disorderly: Vagrant Removal in Late Eighteenth-Century Middlesex
Tim Hitchcock (Herts), Adam Crymble (King's) and Louise Falcini (Reading)
28 May 2013
From computers and history to digital history: a retrospective
Sir Roderick Floud (Gresham College), Professor Robert Shoemaker (Sheffield), and Dr Don Spaeth (Glasgow)
23 May 2013
A Plea for the Weak Against the Strong : l'anti-impérialisme d'Annie Besant (1847-1933)
Muriel Pécastaing-Boissière (Paris IV-Sorbonne)
15 May 2013
Material Culture Panel: The Significance of Things.
Margot Finn (UCL) and John Styles (Hertfordshire)
19 Apr 2013
Production and the missing artefacts: candles in the early modern Scottish town
Aaron Allen (Edinburgh)
18 Apr 2013
'I know the lute'/'I know thee, lute': musical instruments as domestic objects on the early modern stage
Simon Smith (Birkbeck, University of London)
18 Apr 2013
Exercise in the early modern Italian city: health, objects and emotions
Tessa Storey (Royal Holloway, University of London)
18 Apr 2013
Dispossession and material insecurity in the early modern city
Sara Pennell (Roehampton)
17 Apr 2013
The 'active lives' of objects on the urban domestic scene: cross-referencing archaeological and iconographic sources in early modern Europe
David Gaimster (University of Glasgow)
21 Mar 2013
'Springing from the double head of Monarchy and Democracy': The Persistence of Monarchical Republicanism and the Rise of Democracy in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Britain and France
Rachel Hammersley (Newcastle)
13 Mar 2013
Reading Lives of English Men and Women, 1695-1830
Polly Bull (Royal Holloway, University of London)
11 Mar 2013
A permanent environment of brightness, warmth and homeliness: children's experiences of institutional care in the Waifs and Strays Society, 1881-1914
Claudia Soares (University of Manchester)
6 Mar 2013
Whose house is it anyway? Public history and contemporary art in a Georgian home
Karen Harvey (University of Sheffield)
27 Feb 2013
'For the benefit of example': hanging felons at the scene of their crime in the long eighteenth century
Steve Poole (University of the West of England)
13 Feb 2013
Whose Home? Jewish migration and local reaction in the East End of London 1870-1914
Oliver Betts (York)
11 Feb 2013
'The People's Popular Emporium': A Short History of Gamages of Holborn, Cycling and Athletic Outfitters, 1878-1935
Dr Geraldine Biddle-Perry (Central St Martins College of Art and Design)
7 Feb 2013
La régulation des pollutions à Londres au 18e siècle : perspectives comparatistes avec Paris
Thomas Le Roux (CNRS - Maison Française d'Oxford)