STREETS AND STREET-LIFE IN THE PRE-MODERN TOWN

10.00-10.30 Registration and coffee

10.30 – 12.45 Charlie Taverner, Birkbeck: Senses of the street in the London Cries, c. 1600-1750 Kate Davison, Sheffield: Ned Ward and London Streets Adam Crymble, Hertfordshire: Demobilisation as Vagrancy in London, 1750-1820

12.45 – 13.45 Lunch

13.45 – 15.00 Ian Archer, Oxford: The carmen of London and stereotypes of the labouring poor

15.00 – 15.15 pause

15.15 – 17.00 Charlotte Berry, IHR: Moving to and through the city: vagrancy, mobility and reputation in London, c. 1470-1530 Stefania Perring, York: In the shadow of a cathedral: street space and everyday life around York Minster, c. 1500-1640

17.00-17.15 Concluding discussion

There is a registration fee of £20 (£10 for registered students and the unwaged), to include tea/coffee, and lunch of sandwiches and fruit. It is essential to book in advance, by returning the slip below.

SLIPS AND CHEQUES (made out to Ian Archer) should be sent by 20 January 2018 to Dr Ian Archer, Keble College, Oxford, OX1 3PG.

Ian Archer (Keble, Oxford), Jonathan Barry (Exeter), Peter Borsay (Aberystwyth), Justin Colson (Essex), Vanessa Harding (Birkbeck, London), Christian Liddy (Durham), Julia Merritt (Nottingham), Roey Sweet (Leicester)