By Cristina Sasse Nowadays, when we are new to a town or need to find information about a doctor or a certain type of shop, we use internet search engines, web mapping services, and mobile navigation apps to find what we want. We use social media, online...
By Philip Carter As a survey of domestic experience, the IHR’s 2018 Winter Conference—‘Home: new histories of living’ (8-9 February)—ranges widely in its locations and forms of historical dwellings. At the same time, individual properties stand out. These include No....
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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