Jun 19, 2012
Anglo-American conference 2009What is a City? The English experience John Beckett (Centre for Local History, IHR)2 July 2009Abstract: This paper will present an overview, concluding that England has two leagues of cities: a largely medieval league of what are now...
Mar 7, 2012
Metropolitan History26 October 2011Joseph de Sapio (Oxford)Worse than Cimmerian Darkness: fog and the representation of Victorian London What do tourists say about London in the nineteenth century? Representations of the London fog are common in the nineteenth...
Feb 13, 2012
British History in the Long 18th Century22 June 2011Bob Harris (Worcester College, Oxford)Scottish townscapes and ‘improvement’ in the age of enlightenment c. 1720-1820 Did the enlightenment reach provincial Scottish towns in the Georgian period? What, if any,...
Feb 6, 2012
Metropolitan History The Survey of London: methods and sources for recording the development of London’s fabricPeter Guillery and Philip Temple (Survey of London, English Heritage)12 October 2011 Peter Guillery starts by telling his listeners what the survey of London...
Jul 13, 2011
Two weeks ago the IHR held its 80th Anglo-American conference. This topic was Health in History which presented the opportunity for historians to discuss a variety of health related histories and in some cases relate that research to current medical demands and...