{"id":5572,"date":"2016-03-23T19:11:35","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T19:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbc.org.uk\/events\/?p=5572"},"modified":"2016-03-23T19:11:35","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T19:11:35","slug":"before-the-docks-london-river-and-port-in-the-18th-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/events200826230.live-website.com\/?p=5572","title":{"rendered":"Before the Docks &#8211; London River and Port in the 18th Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>7 May 2016<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>London<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Dockland History Group has organised a conference on the Port of London in the Eighteenth Century which will take place on Saturday 7th May 2016, at the Museum of London Docklands.<br \/>\nThe main focus of the day will be on the port and working river before the coming of the new trading docks. A wide range of papers will be presented which will reflect the rich diversity of the world\u2019s leading port at a time of rapid growth and change.<\/p>\n<p>The programme will include papers on: London River and the Sea (Professor Sarah Palmer); Picturing the Port (Professor Markman Ellis); On the Waterfront \u2013 Working the 18th Century Port (Chris Ellmers); From Tyne to Thames \u2013 the Life of an 18th Century Merchant (Jenny Collett); The London World of the East India Company (Dr. Margaret Makepeace); Scientific Instrument Making in the Port (Dr. Alexi Baker); The Merchant Trader, &#8216;Ann&#8217;, in Port and Beyond, 1794-1796 (Alex Werner). London and the Slave Trade (Dr Nuala Zahedieh) and Women and Crime in the Riverside Parishes (Dr Margarette Lincoln).<\/p>\n<p>Full details can be found on the Group\u2019s website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.docklandshistorygroup.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\">www.docklandshistorygroup.org.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7 May 2016 London The Dockland History Group has organised a conference on the Port of London in the Eighteenth Century which will take place on Saturday 7th May 2016, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/events200826230.live-website.com\/?p=5572\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Before the Docks &#8211; London River and Port in the 18th Century<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-areas-of-competence-professional","category-event"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/events200826230.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/events200826230.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/events200826230.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events200826230.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events200826230.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/events200826230.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5573,"href":"https:\/\/events200826230.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5572\/revisions\/5573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/events200826230.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events200826230.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events200826230.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}