The 82nd Anglo-American conference of historians starts today. This is a busy time for the IHR, the culmination of all of this year’s events rolled into a three day conference. This year the topic is food and I therefore feel that it right that I should be writing...
Going Underground: Travel Beneath the Metropolis 1863-201318 January 2013Carlos López GalvizElectricity Underground: the politics of a new technology in London and Paris at the turn of the twentieth century Abstract: Using electricity in railway operation became a...
Going Underground: Travel Beneath the Metropolis 1863-2013 conference17 January 2013Richard DennisLetting off steam: the perils and possibilities of underground travel in Victorian and Edwardian LondonAbstract: Operating steam-hauled trains underground, even with...
Adaptees aux milieux canadiens-francais et catholiques: Educating Librarians to be Censors at the Universite de Montreal, 1937-61 Geoffrey Little (Concordia University Libraries)History of Libraries seminar 7 May 2013 Abstract: The narrative of North American public...
Franco-British History seminarGaby Mahlberg (Northumbria University)4 April 2013Les Juges Jugez, ses Justifians (1663) and Edmund Ludlow’s protestant network in seventeenth-century Switzerland Abstract: This paper aims to locate English republican thought and writing...
Sport and Leisure History14 January 2013Robin Mills (University of Cambridge)How the British Isles Became British: The Residential Class in Jersey, c. 1815-1850sIn 1788 there were 20,000 people living on Jersey. By 1851 this figure had trebled. Immigration – largely...
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