Institute of Historical Research,
Senate House, London WC1
We would like to invite you to the 36th annual meeting of historians, geographers, archaeologists and others working on the medieval and early modern town. The meeting will be held on Saturday 25 January 2014 in the Court Room (first floor), Senate House. Postgraduate students are as always particularly welcome.
10.30am Registration
11.00-12.00 pm Margaret Pelling, Oxford: John Graunt and the Health of Children in Mid-Seventeenth London
12.00-1.15 pm Catherine Rose, QMUL: Infancy in Urban Mamluk Society (1250-1517)
Adele Ryan, RHUL: Civic attitude to urban wardship: an appraisal of the practice of the Court of Orphans in later medieval London
1.15-2.15 pm LUNCH
2.15 – 3.15pm Caroline Withall (Oxford) 'Child workers in English port towns during the industrial revolution')
Rose McCormack, Aberystwyth: Locating children at the eighteenth-century spa: A case study of Bath and Tunbridge Wells.
3.30-4.30pm Martin Ingram , Oxford: Bridewell, Bawdy Courts and Bastardy in Early Seventeenth-Century London’.
There is a registration fee of £25 (£15 for registered students and the unwaged), to include lunch of sandwiches and fruit, and afternoon tea and biscuits. Wine will be on sale by the glass at lunch. It is essential to book in advance, by returning the slip below.
SLIPS AND CHEQUES (made out to Ian Archer) should be sent by 18 January 2014 to Dr Ian Archer, Keble College, Oxford, OX1 3PG. LATE REGISTRATIONS WELCOME
Ian Archer (Keble, Oxford), Caroline Barron (Royal Holloway, London), Jonathan Barry (Exeter), Peter Borsay (Aberystwyth), Vanessa Harding (Birkbeck, London), Christian Liddy (Durham), Julia Merritt (Nottingham), Roey Sweet (Leicester)
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