LAMAS 53rd Local History Conference

'An Emporium for many Nations': London shaped by trade

Date and Time

November 17, 2018 - 10.30am – 6.00pm

Location

Weston Theatre, Museum of London

Timetable
  • Time Content
  • 11.10 Session 1: Shaped by Trade
    Shaped by trade: the changing topography of the medieval port – Dr Gustav Milne, Project Leader, CITiZAN
  • 12.20 Keynote Lecture: Eric Williams and William Forbes: copper, colonies, and capital accumulation in London during the Age of Revolutions
    Prof Nuala Zahedieh, University of Edinburgh
  • 2.30 Session 2
    Trading Relationships
    The craftsman, the merchant and the labourer: comparing the formation and early history of the Girdlers’, Woolmen and Carters’ – Dr Claire Martin, Independent Researcher
  • 4.15 Session 3
    Islands and Pearls

It is all happening at the western end of the tidal Thames! – Dr Fiona Haughey, Archaeologist and Archaeological Illustrator

The shell trade of London in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries – Prof William G Clarence-Smith, SOAS, University of London