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A one-day Interdisciplinary Conference at the King's Manor

Saturday 24 January 2004

LONDON ENCOUNTERS Interactions with the Metropolis 1750-1837

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Convenor: Angus Whitehead

The aim of this interdisciplinary conference is to consider the unique variety of interactions that took place between London and its inhabitants, visitors and correspondents from the mid-Georgian period until the eve of the Victorian era. These often unfamiliar narratives and microcultures provide a context for understanding the wider intellectual, social, religious and political aspects of the metropolis during this period.

Subjects to be discussed include London's homeless, the practice of pregant women travelling there to give birth, the nationwide dissemination of ideas about the capital via the press, and the extreme reactions of various British visitors to the sights of the city. The speakers will be John Barrell, Tim Hitchcock, Ruth Larsen, Brian Maidment, Gillian Hughes, Troy Gregory, Geraint Jenkins, David Alexander, Corinna Wagner, David Worrall, David Higgins and John Mee.


Programme

9.00 -9.30 Registration

9.30-10.30 John Barrell (York) 'London in the 1790s' (Chair: Jim Watt)

10.30-11.50 PANEL 1 'Lives in London' (Chair: Alex Watson, York)

Tim Hitchcock (Hertfordshire) 'Sleeping Rough on the Streets of Eighteenth Century London'

Ruth Larsen (York) 'Spectacle, Security and Status: Elite Mothers' Encounters with London, 1750-1837'

Brian Maidment (Salford)'Reflections in a Print Shop Window'


11.50-12.05 Coffee


12.05-1.25 PANEL 2 'Crossing Boundaries' (Chair: Ruth Stewart, York)

Gillian Hughes (Stirling) 'Dead Larks and a Live Lion: James Hogg's 1832 London Visit'

Troy Gregory (Western Ontario)'Pealing Bells and Barking Hounds: The (Con)fusion of Town and Country in 1830s London'

Geraint H. Jenkins (Aberystwyth)'"London like a monstrous and filthy cancer corrodes Britain to the heart": London through the eyes of the incomparable Welshman Iolo Morganwg (1747-1826)'


1.25-2.25 Lunch


2.25-2.55 David Alexander (York) 'The Reception of Immigrant Engravers and Print Sellers in the Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century London Print Trade' (Chair: Helen Pierce, York)

2.55-4.15 PANEL 3 'Sensational London' (Chair: Jane Moody)

Corinna Wagner (York) 'I Spy: Politics, Scandal and the London Press in the 1790s'

David Worrall (Nottingham Trent) 'Fireworks, Freemasonry and Philip De Loutherbourg'

David Higgins (York) ' 'Barbarism', 'Effeminacy', and the New Monthly Magazine: Hazlitt's 'The Fight' in Context'


4.15-4.30 Tea


4.30-5.15 Jon Mee (Oxford) ' "The Press and the Danger of the Crowd", Godwin, Thelwall and Wordsworth' (Chair: Kate Davies)