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Tue 29 Oct 13 · The Private Diary and Public History (Museum of London, London)
Wed 6 Jul 11 · Researching London Ancestors (Shoe Lane Library, London)
Tue 14 Jun 11 · Firefighters and the Blitz (Shoe Lane Library, London)
Tue 10 May 11 · The London Underground (Shoe Lane Library, London)
Wed 13 Apr 11 · From Lamplighters to Puttymakers: the Story of the London Tradecard (Shoe Lane Library, London)
Tue 15 Mar 11 · Smithfield Market (Shoe Lane Library, London)
Tue 15 Feb 11 · Danger UXB - the Bomb that Almost got St.Pauls (Shoe Lane Library, London)
Tue 4 Jan 11 · London's Disasters: from Boudicca to the Banking Crisis (Shoe Lane Library, London)
Tue 7 Dec 10 · Leprosy and the City: civic responses to leprosy in Medieval London and Rouen (Shoe Lane Library, London)
Thu 2 Dec 10 · Capital Affairs: London and the Making of the Permissive Society (Bishopsgate Institute, London)
Tue 9 Nov 10 · A Rotten Apple or a Diseased Orchard? Corruption and the Metropolitan Police since 1829 (Bishopsgate Institute, London)
Thu 28 Oct 10 · Execution City: the rituals of death and ghosts (Shoe Lane Library, London)
Tue 12 Oct 10 · 'My Word is my Bond' - But can we really trust the City of London? (Bishopsgate Institute, London)
Tue 12 Oct 10 · How Londoners Reacted to Danger: from Bonnie Prince Charlie to the Blitz (Shoe Lane Library, London)
Thu 7 Oct 10 · Violent London: 2000 Years of Riots, Rebels and Revolts (Bishopsgate Institute, London)
Tue 21 Sep 10 · Camden's Railway Heritage (Shoe Lane Library, London)
Tue 13 Jul 10 · Barnardo's Philanthropy and Photography (Bishopsgate Institute, London)
Thu 17 Jun 10 · Photographing the East End in the 1930s (Bishopsgate Institute, London)
Tue 15 Jun 10 · Plague and Pestilence in London (Shoe Lane Library, London)
Thu 3 Jun 10 · London: The Story of a Great City (Bishopsgate Institute, London)
Tue 18 May 10 · A History of East End Photography (Bishopsgate Institute, London)
Tue 11 May 10 · Wren, Hooke and Willis: Divine Geometry and Natural Design (The Museum of London, London)
Tue 13 Apr 10 · The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave-Robbery in 1830's London (Shoe Lane Library, London)
Tue 13 Apr 10 · London and Orwell - The Journalist (Bishopsgate Institute, London)
Tue 30 Mar 10 · The Wapping Strike (Bishopsgate Institute, London)
Thu 11 Mar 10 · Town and Crown: Why London never became an imperial capital (The Museum of London, London)
Mon 8 Mar 10 · Building East London: The Technological Revolution in London's Lea Valley (Bishopsgate Institute, London)
Mon 8 Mar 10 · Canaletto - Grand Designs (The Museum of London, London)
Fri 5 Mar 10 · Building East London: The Legacy of Social Housing (Bishopsgate Institute, London)
Thu 4 Mar 10 · Building East London: Silk-weavers' Tenement Housing in Georgian Spitalfields (Bishopsgate Institute, London)
Mon 1 Mar 10 · Foreign Artists in 16th Century London (The Museum of London, London)
Tue 16 Feb 10 · The Hub? Print Journalism in 19th Century London (Bishopsgate Institute, London)
Thu 11 Feb 10 · The Politics of Architecture in Tudor and Stuart London (The Museum of London, London)
Tue 19 Jan 10 · Jack Sheppard: the Surprising Life, Crimes and Escapes of an 18th Century Criminal (Shoe Lane Library, London)
Tue 8 Dec 09 · Gothic London: City of the Deranged and Disorderly Dead (Bishopsgate Institute, London)
Tue 1 Dec 09 · Dickens's Tales of the City (Bishopsgate Institute, London)
Tue 24 Nov 09 · Hauntology: Tracking the Londoners Nobody Wants to See (Bishopsgate Institute, London)
Thu 19 Nov 09 · Sport and Identity in East London (Bishopsgate Institute, London)
Tue 10 Nov 09 · Investigating the City: London in Detective Fiction from the Victorian Era to the 'Golden Age' (Bishopsgate Institute, London)
Mon 12 Oct 09 · Newgate: London's Prototype of Hell (The Museum of London, London)
Thu 1 Oct 09 · 'Those Lovely Trans-Atlantic Invaders': American Women in Victorian London (Bishopsgate Institute, London)
Tue 29 Sep 09 · London's Docklands: the Lost Quarter (Shoe Lane Library, London)
Tue 15 Sep 09 · Health and Medicine on the Home Front: London 1939-45 (Shoe Lane Library, London)
Tue 23 Jun 09 · The Museum and its Public in 19th Century Britain (Bishopsgate Institute, London)
Tue 16 Jun 09 · Shopping for All - The Development of the Department Store in Edwardian London (Bishopsgate Institute, London)
Tue 9 Jun 09 · The Whole Place Deserved Destruction: the Old Nichol Slum in the 1880's (Shoe Lane Library, London)
Tue 2 Jun 09 · Struggles over Public Space: The History of Parks in East London (Bishopsgate Institute, London)
Tue 19 May 09 · A Penny for the Pictures (Bishopsgate Institute, London)
Thu 7 May 09 · My East End: In Conversation with Steven Berkoff (Bishopsgate Institute, London)
Tue 5 May 09 · Little Italy: the story of London's Italian Quarter (Shoe Lane Library, London)
Thu 16 Apr 09 · The Phoenix: The Men Who Made Modern London (Bishopsgate Institute, London)
Thu 26 Mar 09 · Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire - A Confidential Report (Bishopsgate Institute, London)
Tue 20 Jan 09 · The Siege of Sidney Street by Don Rumbelow (Shoe Lane Library, London)
Tue 9 Dec 08 · Cocaine Girls in the West End (Bishopsgate Institute, London)
Thu 4 Dec 08 · Livery Company Records for Family Historians (Shoe Lane Library, London)
Tue 25 Nov 08 · Opium Dens in Late 19th Century London (Bishopsgate Institute, London)
Tue 18 Nov 08 · The Blackest Streets: The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum (Bishopsgate Institute, London)
Fri 7 Nov 08 · Pain and Degradation in Georgian London: Life in Marshalsea Prison (Bishopsgate Institute, London)
Tue 24 Jun 08 · Building St.Paul's Cathedral (Shoe Lane Library, London)
Thu 22 May 08 · Shoe Lane: monks, murder and mummery (Shoe Lane Library, London)
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