Anglo American Conference of Historians 2009: Cities

This conference, held at the Institute of Historical Research, deals with cities throughout the world, with papers examining the network of cities and their role in cultural formation, relations between cities, territories and larger political units.

Ideas of the Metropolis

Institute of Historical Research, Derek Keene

07-01
51:25

What is a city? The English experience

Institute for Historical Research, John Beckett

07-01
22:40

Cities and peripheries

Institute of Historical Research, Swati Chattopadhyay

07-01
56:12

Imagining low life before the East End's invention, c.1780s to 1840s

Institute of Historical Research, Vic Gatrell

07-01
28:32

Imagining the East End in literature and social survey, 1880–1900

Institute of Historical Research, Richard Dennis

07-01
33:24

Multicultural London: Past, Present and Future-A History & Policy discussion Part 1

Institute of Historical Research, Jerry White (Birkbeck)

07-01
15:47

01 Welcome

Institute of Historical Research 01 Welcome Miles Taylor (IHR) The welcome to the 2009 Anglo-American conference by the Director of the Institute of Historical Research. Anglo-American Conference of Historians 2009: Cities

07-01
05:51

Multicultural London: Past, Present and Future-A History & Policy discussion Part 3

Institute of Historical Research Multicultural London: Past, Present and Future-A History & Policy discussion Part 3 Rob Berkeley

07-01
19:47

09 Poor man, sick man, beggarman, thief: plebeian lives and the making of modern London

Institute of Historical Research 09 Poor man, sick man, beggarman, thief: plebeian lives and the making of modern London Tim Hitchcock (University of Hertfordshire) Through the digitisation of some 40 million words of manuscript sources about...

07-01
27:41

10 The rich becoming the poor: from riches to rags in Georgian workhouse

Institute of Historical Research 10 The rich becoming the poor: from riches to rags in Georgian workhouse Jeremy Boulton (University of Newcastle) Contemporary men and women, as Michael Mascuch reminded us in a pioneering article in Social H...

07-01
31:05

Women and the city: investment, banking and the spread of women's financial activity in early eighteenth-century England

Institute of Historical Research 11 Women and the city: investment, banking and the spread of women's financial activity in early eighteenth-century England Anne Laurence (Open University) The tale of the financial revolution in early eightee...

07-01
22:11

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