Programme schedule

09:30

Wolfson Room

10:00

Hearths and the Hearth Tax

Andrew Wareham (Roehampton University)
The London and Middlesex Hearth Tax

Anthony Williams (Roehampton University)
The transition to a modern city: the people and their environment in later Stuart London

Sara Pennell (Roehampton University)
Home is where the hearth is? Making modernity in the later Stuart London household

Lunch

13:00

Life and Living

Newton Key (Eastern Illinois University)
Courting the crowd: patrician-plebeian interactions in Restoration London political culture

Alison Montgomery (Durham University)
The bodily signs of men’s lives and living as men in Restoration London

Ian Warren (Queen’s College, Oxford)
Accommodating the elite family in Restoration London

15:30

Location and Relocation

Jacob F. Field (Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure)
Rebuilding and relocation: residential patterns after the Great Fire of London, 1666–75

Catherine Wright (Centre for Metropolitan History, IHR)
‘Many... that abide and plant amongst us in London’: Dutch migrants in later Stuart London

Simon Dixon (Queen Mary, University of London)
Quaker conceptions of space in later Stuart London

09:45

Wolfson Room

10:00

Houses and Residency

Peter Guillery (Survey of London, English Heritage)
Houses in London's suburbs in the 1660s

John Hepp (Wilkes University)
Restoration London as an urban model: William Penn’s Philadelphia and its American legacy

John Schofield (formerly of Museum of London)
The Myth of the Great Fire

Lunch

13:00

Business and Patronage

Richard Brabander (Brandeis University)
Greater Restoration London: the nexus of the enterprising spirit prevalent in privateering consortiums during the Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665-1667)

Ruth Selman (Roehampton University)
Prosperity and poverty on the great Essex road

Helen Draper (Centre for Metropolitan History, IHR)
Mary Beale and her ‘paynting room’ in Restoration London

15:30

Work and Occupation

Patrick Wallis and Chris Minns (London School of Economics)
Apprenticeship and work in Restoration London

Laurie Lindey (Centre for Metropolitan History, IHR)
Furniture makers in Restoration London

David Marsh
‘The feete of the Body Politique’: the social and economic status of professional gardeners in later seventeeth-century London

17:30

IHR Common Room

Wine Reception