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Draft programm The International Commission for the History of Towns to be held at Institute of Historical Research ( (Unless otherwise stated, the meetings will take place in the Wolfson Room on the first floor of the Institute) Draft programme 12 July(Thursday) or 13 July morning (Friday): Arrival 13 July (Friday) 14.00 - 15.00 Anngret Simms, Finn-Einar Eliassen and Derek Keene,
Introductory discussion to the theme of communication between towns and between towns and their hinterlands 15.00 – 15.30 Prof. Hubert Houben, Lecce, Towns and communication in medieval south Italy 15.30 Questions 15.40 – 16.10 coffee/tea 16.10 – 16.40 Prof. Roman Czaja, Torun, Communication between the Prussian towns and their hinterlands in the 14th and 15th centuries17.30 - 18.30 Commission general meeting 17.15–18.15 Drinks 17.15–18.15 Commission bureau meeting (Germany Room, 2nd floor) 18.15–19.45 Commission general meeting (Wolfson Room) 20.15 Dinner for Commission members and speakers 14 July (Saturday) Judit Majorossy, Budapest Pilgrima ge as a form of communication between towns Sylvain Malfroy, Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse, Berne Transports et communication à travers les Alpes et entre Rhône et Rhin: ressources du Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse <www.dhs.ch> pour l'approfondissement de ces questions Károly Goda, Budapest The Tale of Two Cities:Conflict and Co-operation between Wiener Neustad t and Sopron in late medieval Western Pannonia Neil Barton, London The electric telegraph and communication between English towns, 1837–1869 10.35–11.00 Discussion 11.00–11.30 Coffee 11.30–12.00 Prof. Kaoru Ugawa, Tokyo The Shogun's Highway System from the 17th to the mid 19th Century 12.00–12.30 Prof. Franz Irsigler, Trier Letters as a medium of communication among late medieval merchants. 12.30–13.00 Dr. Mirela Altić, Zagreb The impact of changes in the Croatian borders on traffic between towns, 1500–1820 13.00–13.30 Discussion 13.30–14.30 Lunch 14.30–15.00 Prof. Karlheinz Blaschke, Dresden Die Oberlausitzische Städtebund als System zwischentädtischer Kommunikation von 1346 bis 1865 (The Upper-Lusatian league of towns as a system of communication, from 1346 to 1865) 15.00–15.30 Finn-Einar Eliassen, Tonsberg Postal statistics as evidence of urban networks: Norway c.1800 15.30–15.50 Discussion 15.50–16.20 Coffee/tea 16.20–16.50 Prof. Pim Kooij, Wageningen Interurban relations around a green heart: the Dutch Randstad in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries 16.50–17.05 Discussion [Senate House closes at 17.15 on Saturdays] 15 July, Sunday 10.00–13.00 Walking tour of the City of London, with a focus on communications, A.D. 50–2007 led by Derek Keene and Laura Wright (University of Cambridge). 13.00 Departure
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