Metropolitan History
Archived podcasts from the IHR's Metropolitan History seminar series
13 Mar 2019
Shopping for pets in nineteenth and twentieth-century London
Jane Hamlett (Royal Holloway); Rebecca Preston (Royal Holloway)
30 Jan 2019
The city under the railway arches: Infrastructures of social value in Victorian London
Peter Jones, IHR
15 Mar 2017
Making sense of the problem of dereliction in 1980s Dublin
Erika Hanna (University of Bristol)
1 Mar 2017
Young people and the rhythms of the city: towards a transurban history of modern walks (1850-1914)
Simon Sleight (King's College London)
15 Feb 2017
The ancient city of Rome as a site for diplomacy
Hannah Cornwell (Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study)
12 Oct 2016
Department stores and the discourse of modernity in early 20th-century Berlin fiction
Godela Weiss-Sussex (Institute of Modern Languages Research)
17 Feb 2016
Only a local affair'? Local identities and communities in London 's Boer War Carnivals of 1900
Dion Georgiou (Queen Mary, University of London)
3 Feb 2016
The City as Phoenix: ruination and recovery in 20th-century Tokyo
Mark Pendleton (Sheffield)
20 Jan 2016
Richard Smyth of London, 1590-1675: a quiet life in a turbulent century?
Professor Vanessa Harding (Birkbeck)
9 Dec 2015
The practice of property: The Draper's Company estate, c. 1540 - 1640
Sarah Ann Milne (University of Westminster)
18 Feb 2015
Selling Paris: The Commerce in Real Estate in the Fin-de-siecle
Alexia Yates (Cambridge)
10 Dec 2014
West End girls and East End boys: the Survey of London's current research
Colin Thom (Survey of London, UCL)
26 Nov 2014
Idealising the Early Modern City: Festival Design in Theory and Practise in Late Seventeenth-Century London and Paris
Elaine Tierney (V&A)
20 Nov 2013
Localism in turn-of-the-century London? The development of the Minet Estate in Lambeth c.1870-1910
David Kroll (CMH/IHR)
6 Nov 2013
Selling on the streets: food and urban space in eighteenth-century Naples
Melissa Calaresu (Cambridge)
23 Oct 2013
Segregating the city: class, the railways, and Greater London 1880-1920
Simon Abernethy (Cambridge)
9 Oct 2013
Providing for Londoners: interventions by the authorities at times of crisis in the early seventeenth century
David Carmichael (CMH/IHR)
13 Mar 2013
"Riding on Top of the Car": The cinematic tram and urban transformation
Karolina Kendall-Bush (University College London)
27 Feb 2013
Auctions, maps, leases and "narrations" of property: representing commodified space in Delhi, 1911-47
Anish Vanaik (Oxford)
13 Feb 2013
Whose Home? Jewish migration and local reaction in the East End of London 1870-1914
Oliver Betts (York)
30 Jan 2013
The stormy latitude of the law: Chancery Lane and spatial politics in late eighteenth-century London
Francis Boorman (IHR)