Mar 17, 2021
By Davide Martino Environment & History, essay no. 8 In the eighth contribution to our ‘Environment & History’ series, post-graduate researcher Davide Martino reflects on his research into hydraulic philosophy in early modern European cities,...
Nov 26, 2018
By Francis Calvert Boorman London has long been thought of as the archetypal conurbation; a vast and unbroken metropolis nevertheless made up of distinctive localities. As the writer and politician Joseph Addison (1672-1719) mused in The Spectator in 1712, ‘When I...
Feb 12, 2013
British History in the Long 18th CenturyChancery Lane: politics, space and the built environment, c. 1760-1815Francis Boorman (IHR)19 October 2011 Sandwiched between the west and east ends of London, Chancery Lane was a focus point in England’s capital city and...
Jul 4, 2012
Today we present the final episode from the 2009 Anglo-American conference. It is a timely wrapping up from that conference as tomorrow the IHR engages the topic of Ancients and Moderns at this year’s Anglo-American. It should be fun! We have papers looking...
Jun 19, 2012
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...
