Metropolitan History16 January 2013Robin WoolvenThe rise and fall of John Sperni, Mayor of St Pancras, 1937-1938 John Sperni was mayor of the St Pancras municipal Borough during the 1930s. He began life as an impoverished Italian immigrant, but slowly worked his...
In January 2013 we launched our first comprehensive online training course that enables you to learn why you might wish to use databases for historical research and how you would go about it. The course takes you through the basics of creating the databases and shows...
Just a quick reminder of tonight’s live stream: Web archives: a new class of primary source for historians ?Peter Webster (British Library) and Richard Deswarte (University of East Anglia) Joint Archives and Society and Digital History seminar11 June 2013,...
The next live stream will be a joint session from the Digital History seminar and Archives and Society seminar. Details follows: Web archives: a new class of primary source for historians ?Peter Webster (British Library) and Richard Deswarte (University of East...
Going Underground: Travel Beneath the Metropolis 1863-2013 Ximena Alarcón Listening and Sounding in the London Underground: sonic memories as embodiments of technological infrastructure ABSTRACT: From 2004 to 2005, I undertook ethnographic research with twenty-four...
Going Underground: Travel Beneath the Metropolis 1863-2013 Piers Connor “A Job For Life” Changes seen in a 50-year career on London Underground 1916-1966 ABSTRACT: In August 1966, when the author was working as a “Motorman” (a train driver) for London Underground, one...
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