Pre-Modern Towns Conference 2014: The Child in the City

Saturday, 25 January 2014
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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LRS: Early Modern Childhood and Adolescence: Histories, Fictions and Performances

Early Modern Childhood and Adolescence:

Histories, Fictions and Performances

London Renaissance Seminar

Birkbeck College, 2 April 2011, 1.30pm-5.00pm

Room 252, Main Building, Malet Street, WC1.

Organiser: Lucy Munro

The last decade has seen a remarkable surge of scholarly interest in early modern childhood and adolescence.  It has also seen the revival of a number of plays originally performed by boy actors, notably through Globe Education’s Read Not Dead project and in productions with all-boy casts at schools such as King Edward VI Grammar School, Stratford-on-Avon, and Magdalen College School, Oxford.  The seminar will assess recent developments and explore new approaches.

 

The afternoon will feature papers by Kate Chedgzoy (Newcastle University), Sarah Knight (University of Leicester) and Katie Knowles (University of Liverpool), and a roundtable discussion on children’s company plays in performance, with Andy Kesson (University of Kent), Shehzana Mamujee (Globe Education/Central School of Speech and Drama) and Perry Mills (King Edward VI Grammar School, Stratford-on-Avon).

The London Renaissance Seminar meets at Birkbeck College regularly to discuss the literature, culture and history of the English Renaissance. It is free and welcomes all students, academics and people with an interest in the Renaissance or early modern period. The steering committee are Tom Healy, Margaret Healy, Gordon McMullan, Lucy Munro, Michelle O’Callaghan and Sue Wiseman.  For further information please contact Lucy Munro (l.munro@engl.keele.ac.uk).