Symposium: The English Urban Renaissance Revisited

Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester, UK Friday 18 July 2014

A symposium to celebrate 25 years since the publication of Peter Borsay’s book and to explore the continuing relevance of the concept of the ‘English Urban Renaissance’.

Tickets for this event are available at https://shop.le.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?compid=1&modid=1&catid=745

Programme:

10.00 Registration (tea/coffee available)
10.30 Roey Sweet, Welcome and Introduction
10.40 Adrian Green, The Big House in the English Provincial Town
11.15 Rose McCormack, ‘Racing, raffling and rioting’: Leisured women and the English Spa Town in the Long Eighteenth Century
11.50 Coffee
12.10 Bob Harris, Was there a Scottish ‘urban renaissance’ in the Georgian period?
12.45 Zsuzsi Kiss, The ‘Urban Renaissance’ in Hungary
1.20 Lunch
2.00 Ann-Marie Akehurst, ‘The 2nd Citty of England, fairely Waled’: early modern York, urban renaissance and national identity
2.35 Paul Elliott, Enlightenment and Urban Renaissance: Literary and Philosophical Culture in the Georgian Town
3.10 Tea
3.30 Jonathan Barry, The English Urban Renaissance in Historiographical Context
4.05 Peter Borsay, The English Urban Renaissance Revisited
4.45 – 5.15 Discussion forum, chaired by Roey Sweet

The workshop will take place in an upstairs room in the Marc Fitch Historical Institute. Unfortunately this space is not wheelchair accessible.

Please direct any enquiries to Professor Roey Sweet (rhs4@le.ac.uk) or Dr John Hinks (jh241@le.ac.uk).