Metropolitan History seminar

Shopping for pets in nineteenth and twentieth-century London

Jane Hamlett , Royal Holloway, Rebecca Preston , Royal Holloway

Ghostly geographies: in search of medieval Swansea today

Catherine Clarke (IHR)

The city under the railway arches: Infrastructures of social value in Victorian London

Peter Jones, IHR

Roland Quinault, IHR

This conference, organised by the Centre for Metropolitan History, aims to explore the shifting experiences, representations and status of vagrancy in relation to the history of British settlement. How can exploring the images and realities of vagrancy sharpen our understanding of the histories of ‘settled’ communities, cities and parishes, which have otherwise been articulated from a sedentary perspective?

Plenary speakers are:

Professor Patricia Fumerton (University of California, Santa Barbara), Crossing the limits of the Shakespearean stage: roguery, mobility, and balladry in "The Winter's Tale";

Professor Nicholas Crowson (University of Birmingham), Vagrant life stories: rediscovering the tramp between the 1880s and 1930s;

Professor Tim Hitchcock (University of Sussex), Hard choices and bad laws: Navigating crime, vagrancy and poverty in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

This conference, organised by the Centre for Metropolitan History, aims to explore the shifting experiences, representations and status of vagrancy in relation to the history of British settlement. How can exploring the images and realities of vagrancy sharpen our understanding of the histories of ‘settled’ communities, cities and parishes, which have otherwise been articulated from a sedentary perspective?

Plenary speakers are:

Professor Patricia Fumerton (University of California, Santa Barbara), Crossing the limits of the Shakespearean stage: roguery, mobility, and balladry in "The Winter's Tale";

Professor Nicholas Crowson (University of Birmingham), Vagrant life stories: rediscovering the tramp between the 1880s and 1930s;

Professor Tim Hitchcock (University of Sussex), Hard choices and bad laws: Navigating crime, vagrancy and poverty in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Institute of Historical Research

Making sense of the problem of dereliction in 1980s Dublin

Erika Hanna

(University of Bristol)

Metropolitan History seminar series

Institute of Historical Research

Making sense of the problem of dereliction in 1980s Dublin

Erika Hanna

(University of Bristol)

Metropolitan History seminar series

Institute of Historical Research

Young people and the rhythms of the city: towards a transurban history of modern walks (1850-1914)

Simon Sleight

(King's College London)

Metropolitan History seminar series

Institute of Historical Research

Young people and the rhythms of the city: towards a transurban history of modern walks (1850-1914)

Simon Sleight

(King's College London)

Metropolitan History seminar series