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January 2010	Centre for Urban History

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Welcome to Urban History News - a monthly digest of news and information for the urban history community. Open Meeting: City of London Archives 2.00pm 28 January 2010 • IHR, London Significant changes to the provision of library and archive services in the City of London have been announced which mean that all manuscript material will be housed permanently at London Metropolitan Archives in Clerkenwell. This includes the collections of the Guildhall Library Manuscript Section as well as the collections formerly housed in the Corporation of London Record Office. David Pearson, Director of Libraries, Archives and Guildhall Art Gallery, has agreed to talk about these changes at an open meeting hosted by the Centre for Metroploitan History. There will be an opportunity to ask questions about the new archive arrangements, and about the provision of archive services in general, particularly for academics. Directions to IHR PhD Studentship in 18th Century Chapbooks University of Leicester Applications are invited from eligible candidates for a fees-only PhD Studentship in 'National identity, popular culture and eighteenth-century chapbooks'. The successful candidate will be based in the School of Historical Studies. Applications are encouraged from candidates with a background in eighteenth-century studies, book history, or any field of early modern social or cultural history. Applicants will be expected to have completed a relevant Masters degree by 01 October 2010. The studentship will cover tuition fees (at the UK/EU rate only) for three years starting in October 2010. Further information on Chapbooks Research Project More Historical Studies studenthips at Leicester PhD Studentships University of Melbourne & Deakin University, Australia Applications are sought from suitably qualified persons for three Australian Research Council funded PhD scholarships to commence in 2010. These scholarships arise from a Discovery Grant awarded to a multidisciplinary team comprising Professor Tim Murray and Associate Professor Susan Lawrence (La Trobe University), Associate Professor Andy May (University of Melbourne), and Dr Linda Young (Deakin University), entitled "Suburban archaeology: approaching an archaeology of the middle class in nineteenth century Melbourne". Religion and Society symposium 27 March 2010 • Edinburgh, UK 'Religion and Modern British History' is part of the Modern British History Network funded by the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland. The Network serves as a means of communication and a focal point for those working in the field of modern British history, supporting both postgraduates and established scholars in new collaborative research projects. Papers are invited from academics or postgraduates on any topic related to the influence of religion in Britain since c.1750. They may cover national or local developments in any aspect of the British past down to c.2000, but must be planned to last no more than 25 minutes in delivery. Bad Women 24 April 2010 • Worcester, UK Through out history women have often been labelled as deviant, deranged, dangerous, difficult, or even daring when their behaviour did not conform to contemporary notions of how femininity should be represented. Whether or not they were really 'bad' is debatable. Women's History Network Midlands Region invites papers of 30 minutes which explore any of these themes. Papers may represent completed research or research in progress. Cityscapes in History: Creating the Urban Experience 29-30 July 2010 • Munich, Germany The conference aims at bringing scholars from various disciplines together to study the history of the urban experience. One of the main themes will be the performative and ritual aspects of urban life, and the built environment. Proposals are invited for individual (20 minute) papers or 3 paper panels. Formation and persistence of townscapes Seventeenth International Seminar on Urban Form 20-23 August 2010 • Hamburg, Germany The general theme of the conference is 'Formation and persistence of townscapes'. The conference will include a New Researchers’ Forum, in which researchers new to the field of urban morphology are invited to take part. Contributions by graduate students are particularly welcome. Papers are invited on themes including: * Urban morphological theory * Methods of analyzing and mapping the development of townscapes * Historic preservation, sympathetic architecture, and innovative design as strategies for the development of urban areas * The morphology of urban open space in history and planning * Defensible architecture and gated communities in the past and the present * Townscape problems in growing or shrinking towns Ordnance: War, Architecture and Space 16-18 September 2010 • Cork, Ireland This international interdisciplinary conference seeks to explore the often hidden relationship between militarism and the design and construction of architecture and space in the modern period. Historically, military imperatives have been embedded in the way society is organized and, from the Renaissance onwards, the needs of offence and defence played an increasingly influential role not only in the physical shaping of the city and landscape, but also on the means by which they were represented. Recent events, notably the "War on Terror" have reinforced these impulses within the city, extending and deepening systems and architectures of surveillance. Proposals are sought for analytical and interpretive papers from architects, historians, geographers, urbanists, designers, sociologists, and others who share an interest in the ways in which space, architecture, knowledge and technology have been deployed. Suburbanisation in Global Society Research in Urban Sociology, Volume 10 Academics and researchers are invited to submit papers for volume 10 of Research in Urban Sociology (Emerald Press) on comparative suburbanisations around the world. In Europe and the United States, most urban growth over the last several decades has been in suburban areas, but research in urban sociology and other urban disciplines remains focused on the city (the global city, the networked city, the post-industrial city). The editors are looking for new and innovative contributions in suburban studies for urban regions not just in Europe and the United States, but also including emerging metropolitan regions in China, India and other areas of the world. The time-frame should be limited to the years since 1945, with a particular focus upon social and cultural change in suburbanisation processes in developed as well as emerging urban countries. For past volumes of Research in Urban Sociology visit Emerald Press Commemorative Plaques: Celebrating People and Place 18-19 February 2010 • London, UK This conference is hosted by English Heritage, which is responsible for running London's blue plaques scheme, founded in 1866. It aims to consider and celebrate the large number of plaques across the country, to share experiences, and to consider future developments. The event, the first of its kind, will be held in London over two days, and will include discussion of key areas such as selection criteria, plaque design and inscription, historical research, the gaining of consents, and the promotion of plaques and plaque schemes.There will be talks from people involved in running schemes – some well-established, others more recent initiatives – and a series of walks exploring some of the plaques of central London. Civic societies and historical trusts, local authority conservation officers and heritage managers, archivists and museum curators are among the delegates already confirmed at this unique event. Famine, Diet and Nutrition 17th April 2010 • St Albans, UK The Local Population Studies Society Annual Conference 2010 will be held at the University of Hertfordshire, St Albans. Conference themes cover "Food, Famine and Warfare", "Surfeit" and "Diet in Industrial Britain"
	URBAN HISTORY GROUP ANNUAL CONFERENCE Transgressive Cities: Practices and Place 25-26 March 2010 • Durham, UK Please note: the call for papers deadline has been extended to 15 January 2010 Online Registration is now open through the Economic History Society. Late booking fee applies after 12 February 2010. The David Reeder Prize, 2009 The winner of the 2009 David Reeder Prize for the best Dissertation in Urban History at the Centre for Urban History is Tom Hulme for his Dissertation entitled ‘Safe for Democracy: Civic Festivals and the Production of the Citizen in 1920s Chicago and Manchester’. Following the award, Tom commented: "‘I feel honoured to have won the David Reeder Prize. David was a respected, well-liked and very influential historian. I have found his research on Leicester in the twentieth century especially useful and interesting. I hope to utilise his important studies in the field of urban education for my ongoing PhD. My research concerns issues of citizenship and civic culture in the interwar period in Manchester and Chicago and education is a very important facet of this. Winning this prize has further spurred my desire to research in urban history and to try to work in the same vein as historians such as David". Tom was awarded an ESRC 1+3 studentship in 2008 and is now studying for a PhD at the Centre for Urban History on civic culture in interwar Manchester and Chicago. As part of an exchange between Leicester and the Montreal History Group he has been invited to give papers based on his research at Montreal and Toronto in February 2010. upcoming events... 08-09 January 2010 Borders and Identities Newcastle, UK 15-16 January 2010 Early Modern Dis/Locations Newcastle, UK 28 January 2010 Open Meeting: City of London Archives IHR, London, UK 30 January 2010 PRE MODERN TOWNS GROUP ANNUAL CONFERENCE London, UK 30 January 2010 Transcending the Boundaries Leicester, UK 11-13 February 2010 Labour as resource Paris, France 26 February 2010 Policing, Media and Civil Liberties Milton Keynes, UK approaching deadlines... 08 January Multiple Belongings: Diaspora and Transnational Homes 15 January URBAN HISTORY GROUP ANNUAL CONFERENCE (extended deadline) Space, Place and Environment 22 January Cityscapes in History: Creating the Urban Experience 25 January Identity and the Other British Isles 29 January University of Leicester PhD scholarships Australian Research Council funded PhD scholarships 30 January Suburbanisation in Global Society 31 January Religion and Society symposium Formation and persistence of townscapes 01 February Gender and the Pre-Modern City A Second City Remembered: Rethinking Bristol's History, 1400-2000 Ordnance: War, Architecture and Space 05 February Policing, Media and Civil Liberties in Interwar Britain (registration) 12 February URBAN HISTORY GROUP ANNUAL CONFERENCE (Early bird registration) 15 February Lived Space in Past and Present (applications) 28 February Re-appraising the Neo-Georgian 1880-1980 recent publicaton... Fighting Fires Creating the British Fire Service, 1800-1978 Shane Ewen (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) As the first full-length academic history of the British fire service, Fighting Fires is based on a wealth of original archival material. Ewen argues that the fire service was, for the most part, created by its fire-fighters, becoming part of the fabric of local government by the turn of the twentieth century. Ever since, the service's history has been fraught with infighting between fire-fighters and their employers, erupting in 1977 with the first national strike. Ewen assesses these professional tensions in their long-term context, tracing the incremental growth of a British fire service into one of the country's most important, though neglected, emergency services. CUH seminars... CUH Seminar Series 2009-10: 2009-10 marks the 25th Anniversary Year at CUH. other seminar series... Historical Perspectives: Work in Progress Seminars Glasgow, UK Birkbeck Urban Studies Group London, UK IHR Sport & Leisure History London, UK

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