2.00 -3.30 Session Two Deviance, Inclusion & Exclusion Chair: Constructing 'abuse' Helen Cowie Louise Jackson Rosemary Elliot & Annmarie Hughes ‘A Disgusting Exhibition of Brutality’: Animals, the Law and the Warwick Lion Fight of 1825 Historicising ‘historical child sexual abuse’ cases. Legal and social constructions of child sexual abuse in early twentieth century Scotland Economies, Culture & Consumption Chair: Penny Summerfield Examining Rationing: Perspectives in War, Post-War and Popular Memory Kelly Spring Karen Hunt Hayley Cross 'Keep Calm and Carry On': The popular memory of Second World War rationing and gender history in the Imperial War Museum. Women and the Invention of Rationing in the First World War. From 'Austerity' to 'Affluence': Remembering rationing in Scotland Global & Transnational Approaches Chair: Joseph Lawson Pierre Fuller Yvonne Liao Conceptions of rural underemployment in China. Beijing newsprint as a charitable space, circa 1920. ‘Die gute Unterhaltungsmusik’: Musical cafés in wartime Shanghai’s ‘Little Vienna’ and the ir/relevance of military control. Life-cycles & Life-styles Chair: Sasha Handley Care of the Body and Soul Leah Astbury Jennifer Evans Hannah Newton ‘Drawing Away the Purgations’: Childbirth, Recovery and Maternal Health in Early Modern England. ‘Patients, Practitioners, and Lodgers: Treating men in the home and beyond in seventeenth century England’ The Art of Recovery: Spiritual Responses to Deliverance from Disease in Early Modern England.
Political Cultures, Policy & Citizenship Chair: Political responses to migration Lucia Morawska Terry McBride Brian Wallace Ruth Macdonald ”A dash of the Rhine…” German Jews of Victorian Bradford and their political engagement. Migrants and the public world in Scotland, 1885-1939. Resisting the “Yellow Peril” in Britain, 1893-1900. ”Love and law”: the emigration work of The Salvation Army Spaces & Places Chair: Erin Beeston Tosh Warwick Catherine Flinn Goldie Tommaso Bobbio A terminus on the periphery? Liverpool Road Goods Station and the Cottonopolis, 1830 to 1900. Bridging the Gap between Heritage and Regeneration: Rediscovering and Reinventing the ‘Infant Hercules’. Forgetful or Purposeful? Memory and the Remaking of Place After the Blitz. The encounter of the colonial and the local in the construction of a prospective colonial metropolis: Migration, Citizenship, and Epidemics in Ahmedabad, India (1812‐1870). Executive Committee Meeting 6.30-7.30 Reception hosted by Bloomsbury 7.45 Dinner - eat out in Portsmouth Day Two: 1 April, 2015 9.00-10.30 Session Four Deviance, Inclusion & Exclusion Chair: Controlling the body, controlling the mind: sites of contestation Jack Davies Oisin Wall Kate Law ‘For the good of England’: Crime and Deviance in the Stately Home Hospital in First World War Britain. ‘Remember When to Keep Your Mouth Shut’: (Anti‐) Institutional Silence and the European Avant‐Garde. ‘What has happened to our principles and the lessons we learnt from our grandmothers and mothers’: Black Women,
Economies, Culture & Consumption Chair: Jim Van der Meulen Matthew Pawelski Daniel O’Brien Urban or rural? Social relations and industrial industry of the Flemish Heuvelland in the sixteenth century. “Women”, “Lads” and “Workmen”: Gender and the Derbyshire Lead Industry, 1700-1800. 'A necessary sort of people', The Undertaking Trade in the West of England, 1750‐1820. Global & Transnational Approaches Chair: The Transnational Spaces of Colonialism and Empire Tim Soriano Lori Lee Oates Julia Laite Geoffrey Levett The Royal Navy, legal pluralism, and authority in early colonial Sierra Leone: 16701810. Wisdom from the east: British imperialism in India and nineteenth-century theosophy. Women, mobility, and trafficking in the British World in the early twentieth century. Jouez le Jeu! Rugby Union and imperialism in Belle Époque France. Life-cycles & Life-styles Chair: Rachel Rich Jane O’Neill Helena Mills What time is it? Re‐thinking the history of timekeeping in nineteenth‐century Europe. Youth Remembered: Coming of Age in 1950s‐1970s Scotland. 'The Cool Four Million': Popular Media and the Meaning of Youth in 1960s Britain. Narratives, Emotions and the Self Chair: Collective Memory, Identity and Nostalgia Alison Twells Chris Jeppersen Sophie Cooper Laura Crombis ‘Derby lost to Stoke (3‐0) Bad. Good’: culture, identity and class transition in the 1938 diary of an English scholarship girl. ‘Guardians of the colonial record’: the Overseas Service Pensioners’ Association (OSPA) & the battle for the popular memory of empire. Compromised identities: nineteenth‐century demonstrations of Irishness abroad. War, national identity and urban communities; the changing emotional experiences of Tournai c.1450‐1521. Political Cultures, Policy & Citizenship Chair: Youth culture and politics.
Stephen McDowall Charlotte Carrington Shugborough’s Chinese House: rethinking Chinoiserie in the eighteenth‐century British landscape. The horse trade: America and the early modern Atlantic World. Life-cycles & Life-styles Chair: Oliver Betts Sleeping Bodies Louise Falcini Sasha Handley Vicky Holmes Carceral repose: beds, bedding and bugs in London’s eighteenth‐century workhouses and prisons. Sleeping Habits and Sociability in Early Modern England. Bedtimes and Bedfellows through the Life‐Cycle: the 19th Century Working‐Class Home. Narratives, Emotions and the Self Chair: Religion and Emotion Alana Harris Carmen Mangion David Geiringer Michael Smith The 'Catholic Marie Stopes': Dr Anne Biezanek, Contraception and Westminster Cathedral, 1964 Community voices and ‘community scripts’. 'At some point in the 1960s, Hell disappeared’; everyday Catholic understandings of Hell in post‐war Britain. “A means to make mee the more watchful over the frame of my heart”; Diary‐keeping, Feeling and Identity in England. Political Cultures, Policy & Citizenship Chair Popular politics in the British Isles. Philip Lloyd Rebekah Moore Jonathan Moss Daniel O’Connell and John Mitchel: Two contrasting influences on Irish political culture. Contested space: Palace Yard and the decline of popular politics, 1830-70. Popular understandings of politics in Britain, 1937-2014 Political Cultures, Policy & Citizenship Chair: Brad Beaven Cultures of Health and Safety: politics, participation and legitimacy in post-1960 Britain Ryan Arthur Mike Esbester Laura Mayne Paul Almond & Carmen d’Cruz Why Government refuses to get its hands dirty: the ‘hands-off’ approach to health and safety practice, 1960-80. ‘”They never bother about safety, never”: occupational health and safety in port towns in post-1960 Britain. Accessing women’s experiences of occupational health and safety in post-1960 Britain’ People talking about regulation: public perspectives on the changing legitimacy of health and safety. Spaces & Places Chair: Hannah Baxter ‘Heritage of the Tenement Dweller’: Allotments in Scottish Cities.