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Alsatia

Liberties and Sanctuaries of London

John Levin

Resource: John Howard’s The State of the Prisons 21 Sep 2020
Resource: Cobbett’s Parliamentary History 8 Oct 2019
Resource: Journals of the House of Lords 20 Nov 2018

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Faith in the Town: Lay Religion, Urbanisation and Industrialisation in England, 1740-1830

An AHRC funded project at the University of Manchester

Project blog

Launching the Faith in the Town teaching and learning resources 26 Nov 2021
Signing off for Faith in the Town 22 Nov 2021
‘This little Book important truths shall teach, / Its plan instruct you, and its... 7 Sep 2021

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Intoxicating Spaces

The Impact of New Intoxicants on Urban Spaces in Europe, 1600–1850

Project blog

Love and Intoxication in a Renaissance Pleasure Palace 23 Jan 2023
Our Virtual Exhibition is Now Live! 21 Dec 2022
‘It Brought Much Slime Out of the Gutts and Made Me Cheerfull’: Defining Intoxicants... 5 Mar 2022

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Metropolitan Science

Places, Objects and Cultures of Practice and Knowledge in London, 1600-1800

Project blog

Science in the City – Survey Results in! 21 May 2020
A rapid-turnaround online conference 7 May 2020
Session 8: 16:00-16:45 – Concluding Discussion 7 Apr 2020

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Migrant Histories

Understanding Georgian Lives on the Move

Adam Crymble

Rudolph Ackermann, I am an Immigrant 9 Oct 2017
True crime: why the Irish counterfeiting wave of the late 18th century was a myth 19 May 2017
Were the Irish in 19th century London more criminal, or just easier to catch? 19 Feb 2017

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Romantic London

exploring life and culture in London using Horwood's ‘PLAN of the Cities of LONDON and WESTMINSTER’

Matthew Sangster

A new Life in London 7 Nov 2020
New Updates 17 Jul 2017
John Tallis’s London Street Views 26 May 2017

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The Freedom of the Streets

Group blog

New Book on Amsterdam Street Life 28 Sep 2023
New Book on Early Modern Streets. 7 Feb 2023
Staying in One's Own Lane: A Pattern of Residential Marriage Mobility 10 Nov 2022

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