“Crossing Oceans to Cross Rivers: Trans-Atlantic Knowledge & Capital in Tunnelling History”

Nov 28, 2013

Going Underground: Travel Beneath the Metropolis 1863-2013Tim White”Crossing Oceans to Cross Rivers: Trans-Atlantic Knowledge & Capital in Tunnelling History”18 January 2013 Abstract: Not long after the London Underground opened, American railroad...

1820: disorder and stability in the United Kingdom

Nov 21, 2013

1820: disorder and stability in the United KingdomMalcolm Chase (Leeds)Franco-British History seminar30 May 2013  Abstract: 1820 was a year of European revolutions. The events of these twelve months were probably the greatest test any British peacetime government...

Applying new spatial techniques in the study of late medieval London

Nov 14, 2013

Metropolitan History7 December 2011Applying new spatial techniques in the study of late medieval LondonJustin Colson (CMH/IHR)As part of the postmodern turn in the study of history, the focus on space (alongside the usual questions of who, when, why) has become a...

The advantage of a trip abroad. The emergence of architectural Modernism

Nov 7, 2013

Going Underground: Travel Beneath the Metropolis 1863-2013Ulrike WeberThe advantage of a trip abroad. The emergence of architectural Modernism17 January 2013Abstract: English Modernism has been neglected for a long time. It is only recently that researchers developed...

‘Springing from the double head of Monarchy and Democracy’: The Persistence of Monarchical Republicanism and the Rise of Democracy in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Britain and France

Oct 31, 2013

Rachel Hammersley (Newcastle)Franco-British History seminar21 March 2013  Abstract: This paper seeks to widen and complicate understandings of early-modern republicanism by challenging two of the most deeply entrenched assumptions about it: that it was inherently...

The First Lady Almoner: The Appointment, Position and Findings of Miss Mary Stewart at the Royal Free Hospital, 1895-1899

Oct 24, 2013

Voluntary Action HistoryThe First Lady Almoner: The Appointment, Position and Findings of Miss Mary Stewart at the Royal Free Hospital, 1895-1899Lynsey Cullen (Oxford Brookes University)27 September 2009  Abstract: The work of the Almoning profession within the...