Institute of Historical Research 11 Women and the city: investment, banking and the spread of women's financial activity in early eighteenth-century England Anne Laurence (Open University) The tale of the financial revolution in early eighteenth-century England is usually told in terms of the development of financial institutions following the foundation of the Bank of England in 1694 and the expansion of the stock market, especially during the period of the South Sea Bubble of 1720. But...

Institute of Historical Research, Swati Chattopadhyay

Institute of Historical Research 09 Poor man, sick man, beggarman, thief: plebeian lives and the making of modern London Tim Hitchcock (University of Hertfordshire) Through the digitisation of some 40 million words of manuscript sources about the lives of plebeian Londoners between 1690 and 1800 and the creation of an integrated search facility to trace individuals through these and other electronic sources, the ESRC-funded Plebeian Lives project is creating biographies of hundreds of...

Institute of Historical Research 10 The rich becoming the poor: from riches to rags in Georgian workhouse Jeremy Boulton (University of Newcastle) Contemporary men and women, as Michael Mascuch reminded us in a pioneering article in Social History more than a decade ago, were much more likely to fear downward social mobility than expect social advancement. The principal aim of his middling autobiographers was to make ‘the family secure in an unstable physical environment’. Fears that...

Institute of Historical Research, Kate Gavron

Institute of Historical Research, Derek Keene

Institute of Historical Research, Alex Werner

Institute for Historical Research, John Beckett

Institute of Historical Research, Vic Gatrell

Institute of Historical Research, Richard Dennis

Institute of Historical Research, Jerry White (Birkbeck)

Institute of Historical Research 01 Welcome Miles Taylor (IHR) The welcome to the 2009 Anglo-American conference by the Director of the Institute of Historical Research. Anglo-American Conference of Historians 2009: Cities

Institute of Historical Research Multicultural London: Past, Present and Future-A History & Policy discussion Part 3 Rob Berkeley