Media, essays, guest features
Oct. 2021: “Precedent Thinking in 2020s Britain,” for New Socialist “Ecologies” edition.
Dec. 2019: “In excess: myths of floods and scarcity in Australia’s border regime”, 3CR Radio, Earth Matters.
Mar. 2019: “Come to Milton Keynes!” Tribune Magazine, 16 March.
Feb. 2019: “Imagining England, Imagining the Centre”, Progress in Political Economy: University of Sydney.
Dec. 2017: with Evan Smith, “The South-East Regional Divide in Blair’s Britain,” New Historical Express.
Jan. 2017: “Milton Keynes and the edges of Britishness,” KCL History.
Apr. 2016: “Emerging urban historians: Lauren Pikó,” interview for Unstable Praxis.
Research assistance and public history contributions
2019: PastPort: Citizen Heritage of the City of Yarra
I researched and wrote a number of tours for the City of Yarra iteration of the PastPort website:
Food and Drink in the City of Yarra: Collingwood
Food and Drink in the City of Yarra: Fitzroy
Heritage from the Tram: Route 11
Heritage from the Tram: Route 86
Industrial heritage in the City of Yarra
Neon signage in Richmond and Abbotsford
Retail, theatre and live music in the City of Yarra
Art, activism and social movements in North Carlton, Fitzroy and Collingwood
2017: PastPort: Citizen Heritage of Port Melbourne
I researched and wrote two walking tours of Port Melbourne for the Citizen Heritage local history mapping project:
Football in Port Melbourne
Women in Port Melbourne
2014: Civic Treasures: an eMelbourne exhibition
I digitised and coded two volumes of civic correspondence from Melbourne’s early history held by the Public Records Office Victoria. These are freely and publicly available as part of the eMelbourne online encyclopaedia project.
VPRS 3621/1: Official correspondence to the Town Clerk from Charles La Trobe, 1842-44
VPRS 3622/1: Miscellaneous letters to the Town Clerk
Transcripts and recordings:
I endeavour to transcribe and record my conference presentations and invited talks to make them more accessible, however these are often of works in progress.
Please contact me if you are interested in finding out whether a transcript, written paper, slide deck, video recording or audio recording is available for a conference paper or presentation I have made.
Dr. Lauren Pikó 