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Research Training Materials Forthcoming Palaeography Digital Tools (text mining and semantic data) Data preservation Online and traditional archive catalogues Databases for Historians (chargeable) Podcasts Research Seminars, Lectures, Conferences, Workshops Over 60 seminar groups run about 700 seminars per year Variety of workshops, lectures, conferences held at the IHR External seminars, lectures, and conferences Over 200 audio podcasts video podcasts Live Streamed events

“What may be a mere curiosity from one point of view becomes a vital link from another; and it is only by the production of such references, facts, and documents for discussion in seminars that their true importance and perspective is perceived.” Source: Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, vol. 2 (1925), pp

Browse by tag: London Wednesday, 1 February 2012 Flaring Lights and Urgent Cries: London street markets c Victoria Kelley (University for the Creative Arts) Wednesday, 18 January 2012 Running the River Thames: oral history and the environmental governance of the Thames, Vanessa Taylor (Greenwich) Wednesday, 7 December 2011 Applying new spatial techniques in the study of late medieval London Justin Colson (CMH) Wednesday, 9 November 2011 Cultures of giving and charity: the Clothworkers Company in early modern London Annaleigh Margey (Maynooth) Tuesday, 1 November 2011 Nine and a half years: The impact of London Metropolitan Archives LGBT History and Archives Conference Jan Pimblett (London Metropolitan Archive) Wednesday, 26 October 2011 Worse than Cimmeran Darkness: fog and the representation of Victorian London Joseph de Sapio (Oxford) Friday, 21 October 2011 Locating London's past: a geo-referencing tool for mapping historical and archaeological evidence, Professor Robert Shoemaker (Sheffield) Wednesday, 19 October 2011 Chancery Lane: politics, space and the built environment, c Francis Boorman (IHR)

Browse by tag: London Wednesday, 12 October 2011 The Survey of London: methods and sources for recording the development of London's fabric Peter Guillery and Philip Temple (Survey of London, English Heritage) Monday, 10 October 2011 Two Tier Philanthropy: the Philanthropists who funded the Bishop of London's Fund and the work that the Fund financed, 1863 to 1914 Sarah Flew (The Open University) Monday, 14 March 2011 Urban Green Spaces in Britain Dr Carole O’Reilly and Matti Hannikainen Wednesday, 2 March 2011 Lost London: managing change in a World City Philip Davies (English Heritage) Thursday, 17 February 2011 A disaster in slow motion: The case of smoke pollution in industrial Britain Stephen Mosley (Leeds Metropolitan University) Wednesday, 16 February 2011 Sites of knowledge and instruction: London's museum environments and civic identity Joanna Marchant (CMH/IHR) Wednesday, 2 February 2011 Water Management in eighteenth-century London Carry van Lieshout (KCL) Thursday, 18 November 2010 Institutionnalisation des sciences socials au tournant du vingtième siècle: le cas de la London School of Economics ( ) Arnaud Page

Browse by tag: London Thursday, 4 November 2010 'That hideous head': Politics and Visual Culture in Edwardian London James Thompson (University of Bristol) Tuesday, 26 October 2010 The Constable and the Crowd. Policing Public Behaviour in Late-Victorian London Peter Andersson (Lund/CMH) Tuesday, 12 October 2010 Gender and sociability in early modern London Tim Reinke-Williams (Northampton) Saturday, 23 January 2010 Special Seminar Commemorating a Century of Councils for Voluntary Service Keith Laybourn (University of Huddersfield); Colin Rochester (Roehampton University); Oliver Blaiklock (IHR); John Lansley (former employee of the LCVS)

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