May be subject to minor changes before 5 July, but this is how things should line up.

9:00-9:30: Coffee and Registration

9:30-10:15: Robert Shoemaker: Criminal Lives and the Making of Modern Criminal Justice

10:15-10:45: Coffee

10:45-12:30: Eight short presentations (8 minutes each).

  • Becky DiBiasio: Ghosts and the Old Bailey
  • Janice Turner: “Shifting it for themselves”: Working Women on Rosemary Lane 1737-1755
  • Ernesto Priego: “The Harlot’s Progress”: Bell’s Life in London and the Birth of the British Cartoon
  • Susan Gane: Irish Silk Weavers
  • Melanie Winterbotham: William Winterbotham (1763-1829), Political Prisoner and Ordinary Londoner
  • Margaret Makepeace: The East India Company’s Warehouse Labourers
  • Rachel Ramsey: From Casement to Sashes: How Windows Redefine Crime in Early Modern England

12:30-1:30: Lunch

1:25-3:00: Two Parallel Sessions comprising three 20 minute papers each.

    Panel one:

  • Heather Shore: Criminal Connections: Uncovering Plebeian Networks in the Metropolis
  • McDara Dwyer: The Irish Crime Explosion of the 1740’s: Its Origins, Course and the Response, 1736 – 1756
  • Dominic Green: ‘Extraparliamentary Organisation and the Gordon Riots: Who were the Protestant Association?’
    Panel two:

  • Simon Dixon: The Quakers of St Dionis Backchurch, 1690-1714: A Micro Study
  • Ben Heller: Finding Pleasure in Plebeian Lives
  • Louise Falcini: Washerwomen, Laundresses, Barbers and Boot Blacks: the Business of Cleanliness

3:00-3:30: Tea

3:30-4:30: Workshops

  • Shekhar Krishnan: How Urban Historians Can Use the Geospatial Web.
  • Sharon Howard: London Lives and Bastardy

4:30-5:30: Conference panel discussion, shout out

6:00-7:00 Drinks and a light dinner

7:00-8:15: Tim Hitchcock, Renegotiating the Bloody Code: London in the 1780s.

8:15-9:00: Drinks and canapés

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