Going Underground: Travel Beneath the Metropolis, 1863-2013Simon Abernethy (University of Cambridge)Class and commuting on the Underground, 1863 – 1939 Abstract In the 21st Century London’s Underground is effectively “classless”. Builders and clerks, managers...
British History in the Long 18th Century7 November 2012Kate Retford (Birkbeck, University of London)What’s in a Name?: The ‘Conversation’ Piece in Eighteenth-Century Britain For the uninitiated (that would include me, I’m afraid!) ‘conversation’ pieces is a term...
Public History seminarOliver Stone and Peter Kuznick3 April 2013The Untold History of the United States Film director Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick discuss their book and forthcoming television series. The Untold History of the United States re-examines...
British History in the Long Eighteenth Century30 January 2013Giorgio Riello (University of Warwick)The World is not Enough: Global History, Cotton Textiles and the Industrial Revolution Although the title of this paper might remind you of a James Bond film, this...
Metropolitan History30 January 2013Francis Boorman (IHR)The stormy latitude of the law: Chancery Lane and spatial politics in late eighteenth-century London Francis Boorman has discussed Chancery Lane before in a previous podcast on History SPOT called Chancery...
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