Urban modernity and the historic city c. 1700 to 1840

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Speaker

Roey Sweet is professor of urban history at the University of Leicester and the co-editor of Urban History published by Cambridge University Press. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the English Historic Towns Trust and belongs to the International Commission for the History of Towns. She was a member of the organising committee of the European Association of Urban Historians from 2008–16 and has been on the organising committee of the Pre-Modern Towns Group since 1999 and the Urban History Group since 2006.  She has published widely on aspects of 18th century urban and cultural history. Her most recent book was Cities and the Grand Tour: The British in Italy c. 1690–1820  (Cambridge, 2012) and she is currently writing a monograph on the invention of the historic town, c. 1750–1850. Since March 2018 she has also been on a secondment to the AHRC where she is Director of Partnerships and Engagement. 

The lecture will officially open the Irish Historic Towns Atlas Seminar 'Modernising Townscapes: Urban Evolution in Ireland and Great Britain from the Reformation to Industrialisation, 1540–1840.