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...
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...
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