Feb 9, 2021
By Ian Jackson Environment & History, essay no. 3 In the third part of our ‘Environment & History’ series, post-graduate researcher Ian Jackson discusses his research into hydropower on the River Derwent. Inspired by his involvement in a local...
Mar 26, 2012
Histories of Home9 November 2011 Trevor Keeble (Kingston University)Living in the past: Acquisition and display in late nineteenth century homemaking Trevor Keeble looks at the Victorian home through the lens of design as an act or process rather than the binary lens...
Mar 14, 2012
Franco-British History5 January 2012Rosemary Sweet (University of Leicester)British Travellers in Italy in the 18th centurySummary: Both the Georgians and the Victorians were fascinated by Italy, but they saw the country with very different eyes. Eighteenth-century...
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...
Jan 26, 2012
Sport and Leisure History5 June 2011Professor Peter Bailey (University of Manitoba)Entertainmentality! Modernising Pleasure in a Victorian Leisure Industry, or Did Foucault Ever Play the Hackney Empire?What is entertainmentality? That was my first question when I...
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