by Talking Humanities | Apr 5, 2016 | Analysis & Comment, Digital, Features, History & Classics
Dr Matthew Phillpott looks back on examples of narratives that focus on the experience of walking around 18th-century London, such as John Stow’s 16th century survey of London to Virginia Woolf’s essays on The London Scene published in the 1930s. He says these works...
by Talking Humanities | Jan 5, 2016 | History & Classics, Interviews, Research & Resources, Researcher Series
Dr Tom Hulme, early career lecturer in urban history at the School of Advanced Study’s Institute of Historical Research (IHR), explains how ‘shock cities’ and those that used to be shocking (such as Manchester and Chicago in the first half of the 20th century), shape...
by aseifert | Jun 24, 2013 | Events, History & Classics, PotW
As a growing metropolis, London is in the middle of a severe housing crisis, widely evidenced in the press and featuring in political debates. The problem of creating adequate homes for a growing demand is not new. The Centre for Metropolitan History (IHR), in...
