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...
Going Underground: Travel Beneath the Metropolis 1863-2013 Ximena Alarcón Listening and Sounding in the London Underground: sonic memories as embodiments of technological infrastructure ABSTRACT: From 2004 to 2005, I undertook ethnographic research with twenty-four...
Going Underground: Travel Beneath the Metropolis 1863-2013 Piers Connor “A Job For Life” Changes seen in a 50-year career on London Underground 1916-1966 ABSTRACT: In August 1966, when the author was working as a “Motorman” (a train driver) for London Underground, one...
Michael Gove’s Island Story – why history teachers are up in armsAndrew StoneSocialist History seminar13 May 2013Every now and then the Institute of Historical Research has a seminar that is not about research into History itself but about present day concerns and...
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