Why does the British monarchy matter? Were the ceremonies enacted earlier this year for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee really as traditional and ancient as they appear? How similar were these enactments to the previous diamond jubilee celebrations for Queen Victoria? ...
Anglo-American conference 2009: CitiesHistory & Policy ForumThe Policy forum was made up by Jerry White (Birkbeck), Kate Gavron (Young Foundation) and Rob Berkeley (The Runnymede Trust). Rob Berkeley began with a discussion on the future of London as a place and...
Yesterday was a busy day for podcasting here at the IHR. Throughout the day we were recording the Local History Summer School with talks by Professor John Beckett on the history of local history, Dr Simon Trafford on sources for local history, Amy Proctor on the...
Anglo-American conference 2009: CitiesImagining the East End in literature and social survey, 1880-1900 Richard Dennis (UCL)This paper will explore the emergence of ‘East End’ as a category of description and analysis in fiction and social scientific...
Anglo-American conference 2009: CitiesImagining low life before the East End’s invention, c.1780s to 1840s Vic Gatrell (University of Cambridge)Abstract: This paper looks at East London life before Victorian observers ‘invented’, ‘ideologically...
Anglo-American conference 2009: CitiesSwati Chattopadhyay (University of Southern California Santa Barbara)Cities and peripheriesWhen we talk about cities and urban spaces we are in the habit of using a specific language that we generally believe to provide acceptable...
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