Urban Spaces

28 January 2012

Roy Griffiths Room
Keble College, Oxford, OX1 3PG

We would like to invite you to the 34th annual meeting of historians, geographers, archaeologists and others working on the medieval and early modern town.

As our usual rooms at the Institute are unavailable we are relocating this year’s meeting to Oxford, but this has enabled us to reduce the booking fee. The meeting will be held on Saturday 28 January 2012 in the Roy Griffiths Room, Keble College, Oxford. If coming by car please use Water Eaton Park and Ride (every 20 minutes, alight Keble Road; journey time 12 mins). If coming by train the college is a 20 minute walk from the train station. On arrival, please ask at porters’ lodge for directions. Postgraduate students are as always particularly welcome.

Programme

10:30     Registration

11:00-1:00pm  
Sarah Rees Jones (York)
Public and private: urban space and gender in medieval Europe

Sara Pennell (Roehampton)
Kitchens in the early modern city

1:00-2:00     LUNCH

2:00-3:30       
Matt Neale (Leicester)
Crime and the ordering of public space in eighteenth-century Bristol

Marion Pluskota (Leicester)  
"At their window, in the street, on the quay and at the theatre": The spatial dimensions of prostitution in 18th C. Nantes

3:30-4:00     TEA

4:00-5:30
Bob Shoemaker (Sheffield) and Tim Hitchcock (Hertfordshire)
Locating London’s Past

There is a registration fee of £16.00 (£10.00 for registered students and the unwaged), to include coffee and biscuits, and lunch of sandwiches and fruit. Water and wine will be on sale by the glass. It is essential to book in advance, by returning the registration slip.