by Talking Humanities | Jan 25, 2021 | Features, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications
Dr Elizabeth Dearnley discusses the eerier side of the capital and her recent book Into the London Fog, ahead of her upcoming online talk at the City of Westminster Libraries and Archives. Near the beginning of Hitchcock’s 1927 silent chiller The Lodger, respectable,...
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 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...
