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PROGRAMME AND SCHEDULE
8.45 Registration and Coffee
9.45 Welcome and Opening Address
10.00 Keynote Presentation [Lecture Theatre]
- Professor John Walton (Institute for Northern
Studies, Leeds Metropolitan University) 'Tourism and holidays
between the wars: approaches and opportunities'?
10.45 PARALLEL SESSIONS
Whose leisure lives? Social identities
and leisure.
- Cara Aitchison (University of the West of
England) Gender, generation and tourism: UK social and cultural
histories of 'the holiday' in three generations of young women
- Stella Moss (Oxford University) Spitting
and sitting: Mass Observation, gender and the interwar public
house.
- Dan Laughey (Leeds Metropolitan University)
Dancing by Mass Observation: evaluating the second phase of the
Worktown project.
- Karl Spracklen, Jonathan Long and Stan Timmins
(Leeds Metropolitan University) Remembering, telling and reconstructing:
oral histories of the northern working class at leisure in rugby
league.
Leisure customs: heritage and nostalgia
- Kimberly Bernard-Stacey (Independent Scholar)'Heritage
versus Modernity: The National Eisteddfod as an example of Welsh
leisure customs in the twentieth century'.
- Rob Lewis (Manchester Heritage and Information
Services) 'Our Lady Specialists at Pikes Lane': female football
spectators in early English professional football.
- John McGoldrick (Lancashire Museums) 'The
same brick': comedy heritage and museums.
Mapping the history of leisure spaces
- Simon Allen and Scott Fleming (University
of Wales Institute, Cardiff) Public baths and wash houses in
Cardiff: A case study of public health in 1900.
- Brett Lashua and Sara Cohen (University of
Liverpool) 'Live @ The Moonstone: mapping popular music in 1970s
Liverpool.
- Fiona Reid (University of Stirling) Mapping
the history of a Scottish sporting landscape.
- Barry Worthington (Abertay University) 'The
Passion Wagon': the heyday of the Blackpool Dance Specials.
12.30 Lunch
Return to Recording Leisure
Lives Main Page
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1.30 PARALLEL SESSIONS
Archiving and representing leisure
- Ian Beesley (University of Bolton) 'You're
not singing any more': twenty-first century football photography.
- Colin Harding (National Media Museum) Smiling
on a sunbeam twentieth century beach photography in Margate.
- Paul Hermann (Redeye) Mass Observation in
Bolton: Humphrey Spender's photographic method.
- Dorothy Sheridan (University of Sussex) Working
with the Mass Observation Archive: the archivist's perspective.
Mass Production and Mass Consumption
- Alexander Jackson (Leeds Metropolitan University)
Early collectable sporting cards.
- Sarah Norris (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Mass Observation at the dance hall: a democracy of fashion?
- Jacqueline Dagnall (Independent Scholar)
The social significance of cinema in Bolton during the 20th Century.
- Paul Jennings (University of Bradford) The
pub and the people.
Everyday leisure practices
- Malcom Henson (University of Staffordshire)
The leisure lifestyles of young people in the Potteries in the
late 1980s.
- Owain Rhys (St. Fagan's National History
Museum) Dynamic music and myths: contemporary culture and the
role of pop in forming national identities.
- David Rudd (University of Bolton) Reading
Enid Blyton: twentieth century children's reading in microcosm.
- Diane Sedgley (University of Wales Institute,
Cardiff) The role of biographical interviews in understanding
current and previous leisure lives.
3.15 Tea
3.30 Keynote Presentation
- Mike Huggins (University of Cumbria) Quantifying
leisure trends: the problems and possibilities of census data
1900 1951.
4.15 Keynote Presentation
- Matthew Constantine (Bolton Museum and Archive
Service) "Souvenirs, Snaps and Soundbites": Museums
and the heritage of leisure.
5.00 Plenary and Conclusion
5.30 Launch of Exhibition of Humphrey Spender's
Worktown Photographs, and Wine Reception
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