IHR seminars > Metropolitan History
Metropolitan History
Convenors: Dr Matthew Davies, Professor Vivian Bickford-Smith, Dr Richard Dennis, Dr Carlos Lopez Galvis
Venue: Gordon Room G34, Senate House, Ground floor
Archive: previous seminars
| 18 January | Vanessa Taylor (Greenwich) Running the River Thames: oral history and the environmental governance of the Thames, 1960-2010 |
| 1 February | Victoria Kelley (University for the Creative Arts) Flaring Lights and Urgent Cries: London street markets c.1850-1939 |
| 15 February | Mary Lester (CMH/IHR) 'It is so essentially a London district, though it has grown to the dignity of a borough in itself.' The making of suburban identities in east London, c.1885-1925 |
| 29 February | Matthew Neale (IHR) The prevention of crime in late eighteenth-century Bristol: policing, the public, and the city |
| 14 March | Imogen Lee (Goldsmiths) A neighbourhood of this sort. How Southwark shaped ideas of child and school: Orange Street Elementary 1870-1914 |
