Going Underground: Travel Beneath the Metropolis 1863-2013 conference17 January 2013Richard DennisLetting off steam: the perils and possibilities of underground travel in Victorian and Edwardian LondonAbstract: Operating steam-hauled trains underground, even with...
Adaptees aux milieux canadiens-francais et catholiques: Educating Librarians to be Censors at the Universite de Montreal, 1937-61 Geoffrey Little (Concordia University Libraries)History of Libraries seminar 7 May 2013 Abstract: The narrative of North American public...
Franco-British History seminarGaby Mahlberg (Northumbria University)4 April 2013Les Juges Jugez, ses Justifians (1663) and Edmund Ludlow’s protestant network in seventeenth-century Switzerland Abstract: This paper aims to locate English republican thought and writing...
Sport and Leisure History14 January 2013Robin Mills (University of Cambridge)How the British Isles Became British: The Residential Class in Jersey, c. 1815-1850sIn 1788 there were 20,000 people living on Jersey. By 1851 this figure had trebled. Immigration – largely...
Metropolitan History16 January 2013Robin WoolvenThe rise and fall of John Sperni, Mayor of St Pancras, 1937-1938 John Sperni was mayor of the St Pancras municipal Borough during the 1930s. He began life as an impoverished Italian immigrant, but slowly worked his...
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