Oct 16, 2012
Histories of Home (now renamed Studies of Home)Practices of inhabitance in large houses: Comfort, privacy and status in Sydney, AustraliaRobyn Dowling (Macquarie University)12 October 2011 Since the 1980s house size has increased by around 50% in Sydney, Australia. ...
Aug 16, 2012
Histories of HomeHome-making in pre-modern EnglandSara Pennell (Roehampton University)7 March 2012 The house or home as a person’s castle is a common way to looking at a property that belongs to a family or individual. The image conjures up thoughts of wealth...
Mar 28, 2012
Histories of Home6 December 2011Helen Schneider (University of Oxford)Domestic responsibilities: the discipline of home economics in twentieth century China The development of home economics education in China in the early twentieth-century was in part a parallel to...
Mar 26, 2012
Histories of Home9 November 2011 Trevor Keeble (Kingston University)Living in the past: Acquisition and display in late nineteenth century homemaking Trevor Keeble looks at the Victorian home through the lens of design as an act or process rather than the binary lens...
Sep 12, 2011
The 2011-2012 IHR research seminars are just around the corner. Last month I updated this site with a list of seminar groups who had already posted their new programme online and new locations due to the relocation of the IHR. It looks to be a fantastic and diverse...
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