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  1. 28 May 17:15 seminar: Geoffrey Levett 'Following the urban alchemist. The tour guide and the history of London' - bit.ly/gKRkAX 8:33 AM May 22nd via web
  2. Another interview from our 'Last of the Jobbers' collection is now available for download: Kenneth Pitcher - bit.ly/IUfOKB 10:20 AM Apr 26th via web
  3. CMH Conference (Jan 2013) marking 150th anniversary of the London Underground: Call for Papers now available bit.ly/K5kyM6 5:03 AM Apr 24th via web
  4. Tonight 17:30 seminar: Imogen Lee, 'How Southwark shaped ideas of child and school: Orange Street Elementary 1870-1914' bit.ly/n3r30z 7:30 AM Mar 14th via web
  5. @katrinagulliver good to see you too - and many congratulations on your book! 7:22 AM Mar 8th via web in reply to katrinagulliver
  6. 29 Feb 17:30 Metropolitan History Seminar: Matt Neale, 'Prevention of crime in late 18th-century Bristol'. All welcome bit.ly/n3r30z 8:19 AM Feb 28th via web
  7. Tonight 17:30 Metropolitan History Seminar: Mary Lester 'The making of suburban identities in east London, c.1885-1925' bit.ly/n3r30z 8:07 AM Feb 15th via web
  8. Marking its rededication to Elizabeth II, the Victoria County History has launched a Diamond Jubilee microsite - see bit.ly/AAjz1H 5:45 AM Feb 6th via web
  9. Today's Metropolitan History seminar 17:30 - Victoria Kelley, 'London street markets c.1850-1939'. All welcome - see bit.ly/n3r30z 3:02 AM Feb 1st via web
  10. Next Metropolitan History seminar 18 Jan 17.30, 'Oral history and the environmental governance of the Thames 1960-2010' bit.ly/n3r30z 9:40 AM Jan 16th via web
  11. IHR Sport & Leisure seminar 23 Jan: La Salada Fair (Buenos Aires) as a place of recreation & construction of identities bit.ly/gKRkAX 9:36 AM Jan 16th via web
  12. Exciting new resource for mapping a wide variety of social and economic data for early modern London now available at locatinglondon.org 3:37 AM Dec 12th, 2011 via web
  13. The final tale from 16th-century St Botolph Aldgate is a reflection on the memoranda books and their digital rendition bit.ly/vLr4J1 3:41 AM Dec 9th, 2011 via web
  14. Today at 17:30: Justin Colson, 'Applying new spatial techniques in the study of late medieval London' - all welcome bit.ly/n3r30z 2:59 AM Dec 7th, 2011 via web
  15. 7 Dec Metropolitan History seminar: Justin Colson, Applying new spatial techniques in the study of late medieval London bit.ly/n3r30z 6:11 AM Dec 1st, 2011 via web
  16. Not exactly Captain Jack Sparrow but pirates feature in the latest 16thC tale from the St Botolph Aldgate parish clerks bit.ly/sfSnIS 4:10 AM Nov 28th, 2011 via web
  17. 23 November IHR Metropolitan History seminar 17:30: Toby Lincoln on 'Urbanizing China in war & peace, Wuxi 1911-1945' bit.ly/n3r30z 8:34 AM Nov 15th, 2011 via web
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