Metropolitan History and Britain in the Long 18th Century 16 March 2011, 5.15pmWolfson Room, IHRJerry White (Birkbeck)City Rivalries and the making of Modern London, 1720-1770As advertised last week the IHR will be presenting this seminar ‘live’ via webcam...
This week we present various papers from the IHR and from external sources, all summarised here. In addition we have finally uploaded the final segment from last year’s Blocked Arteries Conference. The roundtable involving all of the plenary speakers is now ready...
Metropolitan History and Britain in the Long 18th Century 16 March 2011, 5.15pmWolfson Room, IHRJerry White (Birkbeck)City Rivalries and the making of Modern London, 1720-1770The Institute of Historical Research is pleased to announce that our first live streamed...
We start off this SPOT Newsletter by going back to the early modern period with an interesting paper from Natalie Deibel on the role that recreation took in the founding of early American colonies. The Sports and Leisure History seminar heard how recreation and...
This week we have two papers focused on eighteenth-century Britain. In the first Carry van Lieshout discusses the commercialisation of water management in eighteenth-century London for the Metropolitan History seminar. The focus of the paper is on the supply side of...
Welcome to this week’s edition of SPOT Newsletter. Before we begin with our summary reviews I would just like to apologise for the late posting of this entry. It’s been a busy couple of weeks for the History SPOT project. Hopefully we will be back on track next...
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