Graduates
Urban history
The Urban History Workshop is a new forum in Cambridge for graduate students working on historical aspects of towns and cities, across all time periods, to present and listen to papers of around 20-30 minutes based on ongoing research, before questions and further informal discussion. Meetings will take place at 4pm on Monday afternoons in the Castlereagh Room, Fisher Building, St John's College. Wine and refreshments will be served, and all are welcome.
The next meeting will be a paper from Kristen Klebba (History Faculty & Queen's College) on Moorfield Gardens during the Seventeenth Century, at 4pm Monday 27 February, in the Castlereagh Room, St John's College. Wine will be served in the Fisher Building foyer.
Thank you to everybody involved for making the first meeting so successful! The roundtable discussion about the nature of urban history, the type of research currently being pursued in Cambridge, and how everyone would like to see the series develop was fascinating - probably because it involved people from so many disciplines. It occurred on Monday 6 February at 5pm in Trinity Hall (Leslie Stephen Room). Particular thanks to Martin Daunton, Professor of Economic History and one of the editors of the Cambridge Urban History of Britain series for his contribution.
Research-active students from other departments such as Land Economy, Architecture, History of Art, Archaeology & Anthropology, and Geography are especially welcome to both attend and present papers, as are registered postgraduates from other universities.
If you would like to present a paper, please contact the convenors.
A full programme of meetings will be posted here soon.
Convenors: