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13.05.2013: Transformation of Urban Britain since 1945

Conference at the Centre for Urban History in Leicester in July.

07.05.2013: Call for papers: City Margins, City Memories

Conference in London 7-8 April 2014.

23.04.2013: Conference: Perceiving the city

Conference in Catania, Italy in September with the theme "Visible and invisible: perceiving the city between descriptions and omissions."

21.01.2013: International Conference: Gender in the European Town

Conference in Odense 22-25 May 2013.

05.09.2012: Conference paper online

Read paper from Prague-conference online: Modernism and urban renewal in Denmark.

06.06.2012: Call for papers: Gender in the European Town

Call for papers and posters to conference in Odense in May 2013 focusing on 'Gender in the European Town: Medieval to modern.'

23.08.2011: Committee launches its new website

The Danish Committee for Urban History’s website merges with byhistorie.dk

16.08.2011: Call for paper proposals

The Organizing Committee of the 11th International Conference on Urban History 'Cities & Societies in Comparative Perspective' which will be held in Prague, Czech Republic from 29 August until 1 September 2012 invites you to propose papers to more than 80 sessions, which have been selected by the International Committee.

01.08.2011: Seminar on the Moderne City Centre

International seminar in Odense on 14 September on the development and cultural heritage of city centres.

04.07.2011: Centre director becomes city archivist

Centre director becomes city archivist
The director of The Danish Centre for Urban History, Søren Bitsch Christensen, will on 1 August start in a new job as director of Aarhus City Archives.
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30.06.2011: Metropolises and Urban History on Danish radio

Centre director Søren Bitsch Christensen talks about Danish urban history in the programme ‘Apropos’ on the Danish radio P1.

29.06.2011: Information about research now in English

A new detailed text about the centre’s ongoing and ended research projects is now available on the English section of our website.

Urban Historical session on The Nordic Historians Conference

On the conference in Tromsø in Norway in August the centre will contribute to a session about the post-industrial town.

09.05.2011: Conference in Oslo: Urbanization in the Northern Commonwealth 1500-1800

Conference in June focusing on the urbanization of the Oldenburg Monarchy.

07.04.2011: Three new theses now in the online Bibliography

Three theses written by students at The Danish Centre for Urban History can now bee seen online in Byhistorisk Bibliografi (Urban Historical Bibliography).

23.02.2011: Invitation to conference: New projects on the Medieval Town

A conference on 10th June at Aarhus University will seek to strength the research on the medieval town.

14.02.2011: New general view of the industrial heritage

Analysis given by the company Bygningsarv A/S has helped the Realdania Fund to form a generel view of the Danish industrial heritage.

14.02.2011: New PhD fellow at the Danish Centre for Urban Histroy

On the 1st of February Kristian Buhl Thomsen began working on his PhD-project about the Danish slum clearance policy and urban renewal policy from 1939 to 1990.

20.01.2010: The Centre presents its new homepage

Byhistorie.dk with new design and with more content in English

11.12.2009: Thesis about the creation of the modern Viborg published

Kristian Buhl Thomsen's thesis about the town planning, the development of housing and the settlement patterns in Viborg 1938-74 has been published.

10.12.2009: Book nominated to the title as Historical Book of the Year

Museum curator Peter Dragsbo's book about the development of Danish quarters of detached houses has been nominated.

02.12.2009: Conference about the Town, Industry and Welfare

The program is now ready for the conference.

24.09.2009: Professor gives his accession lecture

Newly appointed honorary professor in urban history Finn-Einar Eliassen will give his accession lecture on October 2.

02.09.2009: Important thesis about the deindustrialisation of Danish towns

A new thesis gives the best documentation so far of the development of Danish towns during the industrial decline 1960-2001.