Anglo-American conference 2009’An architectural peepshow’: visualising and recreating the city in exhibitions and museums Alex Werner (Museum of London) In 1888, William Morris in A Dream of John Ball described a dream of ‘an architectural...
Today History SPOT looks back to 2009 to when we held our annual Anglo-American conference on the subject of Cities. The first two podcasts (the welcome by the IHR Director Miles Taylor and the plenary paper entitled Ideas of the Metropolis by Derek Keene) are now...
Sir Walter Raleigh (c. 1554-1618) well known as an Elizabethan explorer and soldier, is also known to have written a sonnet entitled Fortune Hath Taken Thee Away, My Love. It is believed that Raleigh wrote this sonnet as a response to the rise of Robert Devereux,...
At the moment there are only a few podcasts on History SPOT specifically looking at the British monarchy and none on Elizabeth II. So, a special series of blog posts wasn’t possible for the History SPOT blog during this week of the Queen’s Diamond...
Occasionally History SPOT plays host to podcasts created beyond the IHR. The Global History seminar and Franco-British seminar are excellent examples of this. Most recently, we have played host to the proceedings of a 2011 conference by the Historians of Education...
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