Anglo-American conference 2009What is a City? The English experience John Beckett (Centre for Local History, IHR)2 July 2009Abstract: This paper will present an overview, concluding that England has two leagues of cities: a largely medieval league of what are now...
Anglo-American conference 2009’An architectural peepshow’: visualising and recreating the city in exhibitions and museums Alex Werner (Museum of London) In 1888, William Morris in A Dream of John Ball described a dream of ‘an architectural...
For the UK, 2012 is turning into one of those years where celebrations mingle with fears of recession and global economic catastrophe. It’s an odd mix. The hosting of the Olympics and Paralympics Games this summer alongside the recent celebration of Queen Elizabeth...
Today History SPOT looks back to 2009 to when we held our annual Anglo-American conference on the subject of Cities. The first two podcasts (the welcome by the IHR Director Miles Taylor and the plenary paper entitled Ideas of the Metropolis by Derek Keene) are now...
The 81st Anglo-American conference will be held by the IHR at the beginning of July on the topic of Ancients and Moderns. How does the modern world (in respective periods) look upon the ancient past? How is it used to validate the present or inform the discourse? ...
Sir Walter Raleigh (c. 1554-1618) well known as an Elizabethan explorer and soldier, is also known to have written a sonnet entitled Fortune Hath Taken Thee Away, My Love. It is believed that Raleigh wrote this sonnet as a response to the rise of Robert Devereux,...
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