{"id":269,"date":"2012-09-12T20:44:21","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T19:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slbbhi.co.uk\/?p=269"},"modified":"2019-04-24T19:09:10","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T18:09:10","slug":"the-beresford-hutchinson-memorial-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/?p=269","title":{"rendered":"2012 September meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thursday, 6th September\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Beresford Hutchinson Commemorative Lecture 2012<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The heart of the world\u2019: Charlton, Greenwich and the global time network<\/p>\n<p>David Rooney<br \/>\n<em>\u2018What we are concerned with here is the fundamental interconnectedness of all things \u2026 the connections between causes and effects are often much more subtle and complex than we with our rough and ready understanding of the physical world might naturally suppose.\u2019<\/em> Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently\u2019s Holistic Detective Agency.<\/p>\n<p>David Rooney\u2019s academic interests revolve\u00a0around technological networks and their relationship with people. The interaction between humans and technology over long periods and wide geographical areas offers intriguing glimpses into the modern world.<\/p>\n<p>In this commemorative lecture, David will examine aspects of horology in the local histories of two London districts, Charlton and Dollis Hill. He will then explore the impact these time-related industries had on global trade, politics and science in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.<\/p>\n<p>In doing so, he hopes to demonstrate the value of the Douglas Adams school of historical research for the particular case of horology.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"DSCF0053\" src=\"http:\/\/slbbhi.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DSCF00531-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, 6th September\u00a0 The Beresford Hutchinson Commemorative Lecture 2012 \u2018The heart of the world\u2019: Charlton, Greenwich and the global time network David Rooney \u2018What we are concerned with here is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/?p=269\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2012 September meeting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meetings-2012-2013"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2155,"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions\/2155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}