Pre-modern Towns Group Annual conference 2010

Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, London WC1

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We would like to invite you to the 32nd annual meeting of historians, geographers, archaeologists and others working on the medieval and early modern town. This year's meeting will be held on Saturday 30 January 2010 at the Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, London, WC1. Postgraduate students are particularly welcome.

9:45-10:15            Registration 

10.15-11.30            Hannah Skoda (Merton College, Oxford) ‘Theatres of Violence: Urban Uprisings in North-East France, c.1270-1320’

Jan Dumolyn and Jelle Haemers (Ghent) ‘Political Factions and Revolts in Late Medieval Flemish Towns’ 

11.30-12.00             COFFEE

12:00-1:15            Andy Wood (UEA) ‘Conceptualizing Popular Politics in Jacobean Malmesbury’ 

Laura Stewart (Birkbeck) ‘Urban Protest and the Civic Community in Mid-Seventeenth Century Scotland’

1:15-2:30            LUNCH

2:30-3:05                Martyn Powell (Aberystwyth) ‘Houghers and Chalkers: Maiming the Military in Eighteenth-Century Dublin’

3.05-4.00             Sam Cohn (Glasgow) ‘Popular Revolt: The Late Medieval-Early Modern Divide’

4:15                        END--please note that we have to clear the Institute by 4:30 

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