Social History Society Annual Conference
Social History Society Annual Conference
Portsmouth University, 31 March - 2 April 2015
Day One: 31 March 2015
Registration will be in
9.30 a.m. onwards / Registration11.30 – 1.00 / Session One
Deviance, Inclusion & Exclusion / Chair: Louise Jackson
After Care: Youth Justice and Its Impacts in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century England
Zoe Alker
Pam Cox
Heather Shore / After Care: Youth Justice and Its Impacts in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century England.
Breaking Bad and Making Good: Reconstructing the life‐course of 600 juvenile offenders in Victorian and Edwardian England
‘I can look back on my record in school with a feeling of pride’: Revisiting young men and institutional regimes in Victorian and Edwardian England.
Economies, Culture & Consumption / Chair:
Experiences of Poverty in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Megan Doolittle
Sara Pennell
Robyn Atcheson / Work and the workhouse: labour, gender and the Poor Law in local context 1880-1914.
Happiness in things? Plebeian experiences of chattel ‘property’ ownership in the eighteenth‐century household economy.
“The wretchedness of their situation would be difficult to describe”: Investigating the voices of the poor in pre‐Poor Law Belfast
Global & Transnational Approaches / Chair: Daniel Laqua
Humanitarian Relief Work in Asia during and after World War II
Maria Framke
Alexandra Pfeiff
Daniel Schumacker / Non-state humanitarian relief during World War II: the Indian Burma refugees.
Chinese humanitarian organizations at the turn of war: reconstruction and adaptability.
Mending the wounds of war: post-conflict humanitarian relief and remembrance in Hong Kong and Singapore.
Life-cycles
Life-styles / Chair: Vicky Holmes
School, Work, and Retirement
Alice Violett
Sian Edwards
Ruth Wainman / ‘The playground, filled with a swarm of shrieking, violent children was a place of terror to me’: only children’s experiences of school, 1850‐1950.
‘Have you the hands of a hairdresser?’ The Girl Guide organisation and career advice for the ‘modern girl’ in 1930’s Britain.
Retiring to a Life of Science: Examining Scientists’ Accounts of Retirement from the British Library’s ‘An Oral History of British Science
Narratives, Emotions and the Self / Chair:
Science, Emotion and the Mind
Hannah Wood
John Sharples
Jill Kirby / Language, Emotion And The Senses In The Late Victorian And Edwardian City, 1880‐1914.
‘LUSTRELESS EYES’: The mind- and body-changing qualities of Chess, 1837-1905.
Self‐help for your nerves: constructing the nervous self in early twentieth‐century Britain.
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
Chris Spackman
Daniel Swan
Simon Smith / ‘We Have an Anchor That Keeps the Soul’ : The Summer Camps of the Boys’ Brigade in Port Towns, 1886 – 1933.
"It was noisy, dirty and smelly and everything smelled of oil”, women's experiences of working in the Portsmouth dockyard 1939‐1945.
“I name this ship”: Pageantry in the Royal Navy and the “forgotten” participants, c.1890‐1914.
1.00 – 2.00 / Lunch
1.15 - 2.00 / Penny Summerfield / Commenting on the recent REF in relation to social and cultural historians
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.
Narratives, Emotions and the Self / Chair:
Bodies, emotions and the self
Janet Weston
Hannah Charnock
William Tullett
Martha Kirby / 'If I tell you the whole story… I might learn a bit more about myself': first‐person narratives of sexual offenders as patients.
‘I certainly didn’t wake up the next day thinking, “Now I’m a woman!”’: Identity in narratives of first sexual intercourse, 1960‐2000.
‘The Curious Smelling Bottle’: Smell, Olfactory Ontologies and Emotion in Eighteenth‐Century England.
She Keeps Feeding Me Rabbit Food! Masculinity and Weight Management, 1950 – 1995.
Political Cultures, Policy & Citizenship / Chair:
Comparative international approaches to twentieth-century politics.
Jennifer Luff
Antony McKenna
Valerio Torreggiani
Katherine Rossy / American streetcars, Scottish trams and trans-Atlantic working-class conservatism, 1900-12.
”Perishing at the shrines”: trans-Atlantic comparison of Communist Party responses to post-war culture, “musical monarchies” and the institutional apparatus.
Thinking efficiently: the interwar joint industrial councils as a British way towards corporatist intermediation.
Faceless and stateless: French and British occupation policy towards unaccompanied children in post-war German, 1945-49.
Spaces
Places / Chair:
Emma Purce
Karen Jones
Neil Pemberton / Health Freaks: Space, Spectacle and British Seaside.
Green Lungs and the City Body: Healthy Spaces and the Nineteenth‐Century Park Movement.
The Death of the Kennel: the interspecies politics of dog‐fouling and modern British Park Life.
3.30 – 4.00 / Afternoon Tea
4.00-6.00 / Session Three
Deviance, Inclusion & Exclusion / Chair: Jessica Meyer
Rethinking the Deviant in the long nineteenth century: soldiers, poachers and speakers
Louise Carter
Harvey Osborne
Edward Packard
Craig Stafford / Rethinking the Deviant in the Long Nineteenth Century: Soldiers, Poachers and Speakers.
“Unwomanly practices”: Poaching crime, gender and the female offender in the nineteenth‐century
'An instance of that freedom which a form of government too secure for fear can venture to permit': deviance, regulation, and the origins of Speakers' Corner
‘The Worst Woman in Rochdale’ – Mary Kelly and Female Drinking Networks in Mid-Victorian Rochdale
Economies, Culture & Consumption / Chair:
Marketing risk in the 19th century
Kathleen McIlvenna
David Churchill
Cerian Charlotte Griffiths
Sarah Flew / Poor Law to Civil List: defining pensions in the first half of the nineteen century
Security Commodities, the Security Industry and the Construction of the Professional Criminal in late Victorian and Edwardian England.
Victorian Company Law: Opportunities, Abuses and Unforeseen Consequences.
Philanthropy and fundraising mechanisms in the nineteenth century
Global & Transnational Approaches / Chair: Sarah Watkinson
Tangier, Leghorn, Malta and Naples: Building a Social and Commercial Space in the "British" Mediterranean (17th to 19th centuries)
Matteo Barbano
Danilo Pedmonte
Cinzia Recca
Sarah Watkinson / The pervious boarder: merchants and adventurers in English Tangier.
Englishmen in Leghorn: a look at British merchants, sailors and privateers residing in a ‘port of trade’ during the eighteenth century.
The Winspeares: a powerful English family in the Kingdom of Naples.
The Stevens Family: a unique insight into the early British community in 19th century Malta.
Life-cycles
Life-styles / Chair: Hannah Newton
Birth, Illness and Death: Life cycle events and the family
Sarah Fox
Maria Cannon
Claire Rennie / "I thanked God for so great a Blessing": Becoming a Grandparent in eighteenth‐century England.
(Family) Life After Death: Parent‐child relationships and domestic authority in England c.1450 – 1620.
Infectious disease as a life‐cycle event: the treatment of whooping cough in the eighteenth century.
Narratives, Emotions and the Self / Chair: Juliette Pattinson
Current Directions in Oral History
Barry Hazley
Jo Fox
Lynn Abrams
Penny Summerfield / Multi‐story selves: excavating stories of self and place from a classic social survey study.
Narratives in the BECTU Oral History Project.
Don't mention the F‐word: disrupting women's autonomy narratives.
Hostage to the tricks of memory? Historians and oral history.
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 FourDeviance, 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, Gender and the Politics of Respectability in Zimbabwe, c.1982‐1986.
Economies, Culture & Consumption / Chair:
Histories of Work in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Vicki Davies
Chelsea Barnett
Perter Bent / The Men of Many Letters: Post Office Employees and their Duties to a Nation c.1880 ‐ 1918
Masculinity and the Narrative of Work in the Australian Fifties.
The Development of Precarious Work in Egypt and India under British Imperialism
Global & Transnational Approaches / Chair
Twentieth-Century China
Jessica Moody & Alix Gree / Between public history and heritage: Making, Sharing and Debating the Past in a Global Present
Life-cycles
Life-styles / Chair: Alana Harris
Mariage in the 1960s
Niamh Cullen
Andrea Thomson
Ciara Meehan / ‘The marriage outlaws’: How divorce debates shaped understandings of marriage in 1960s Italy.
‘Just a relationship?:’ Marriage in 1960s Scotland.
‘Be interested in his day but don’t be hurt if he doesn’t ask about yours’: Expectations of Marriage in 1960s Ireland.
Narratives, Emotions and the Self / Chair:
Women and Work: European Perspectives, 1945-1970
Laura Paterson
Pamela Schievenin
Kirsi-Maria Hytonen / Reflecting on the return to work: working-class mothers at work, Britain, 1945-1970.
Being a Working Woman in a Catholic Country: Work and Identity in Post-War Italy (1945-1970).
Women reshaping modernity? Women’s decisions between paid
work and housewifery in Finland, 1945–1965.
Political Cultures, Policy & Citizenship / Chair:
Women’s political voices.
Rosanne Waine
Ruth Davidson
June Purvis / The seditious role of the needle within the Jacobite cause, 1688-1746.
Gender and political practice: women, poor law guardians in south-east England, 1869-1929.
Women’s Party of Great Britain: failed experiment in gender politics.
Spaces
Places / Chair: Peter Catterall
Nights Out in Modern London
Leo Bird
Geraldine Biddle-Perry
Michael J. Law
Dion Georgiou / Comedy Stripped Bare: The Windmill Theatre and the Evolution of British Comedy after World War Two.
London’s other Clubland: Smokers, Socials and Sororities
Roadhouse Nights of 1933: Cultures of Mobility and Consumption in London’s suburbia between the wars.
Disco 2014: Britpop in Contemporary London Night Clubs ‐Transforming Metropolitan Spaces by Reincarnating the Sonic Past
10.30-11.00 / Tea and Coffee
11.00-1.00 / Session Five
Deviance, Inclusion & Exclusion / Chair:
Inclusion, Exclusion and the State
Henrice Altink
Jacqueline Arnold
Simon Peplow
Naomi Tadmor / A black scourge?: Race and the Rockefeller’s Tuberculosis Commission in interwar Jamaica..
Stop, Look and Listen: Persuasion, Coercion and Control in the Films of the Central Office of Information.
‘A dangerous, alien colony in an otherwise wholesome society’: local community organisations and the 1981 Manchester Moss Side disturbances.
Cultures of Settlement.
Economies, Culture & Consumption / Chair:
Angela Loxham
Deborah Sugg Ryan
Louisa Cross
Irene Fattacciu / Handling the stock: women, fabric and tactility in nineteenth-century English shops.
Creating the modern home: interior decoration, consumer choices and suburban modernity, 1928-1934
Conspicuous consumption in dress in urban Scotland, c. 1780-1825.
Exotic products and the fragmentation of European identities: a comparative look at the chocolate-coffee-tea triad in Spain, France and England
Global & Transnational Approaches / Chair:
Hana Qugana
Klaus Dittrich
David Convery
Daniel Laqua / ‘Lyric but not epic’: John Hargrave, youth and Europe, 1920–1927.
Fighting against the ‘hereditary enemy of mankind’: the Rockefeller Mission to Luxembourg of 1920.
Internationalism or paternalism? The Communist Party of Great Britain and the Irish Question, 1920 – 1941.
Students and intellectuals in interwar Geneva: from educational internationalism to activism
Life-cycles
Life-styles / Chair: Hannah Newton
Life Events
Ciara Breathnach
Claire Martin
Helen Frisby
Susan Woodall / Maternal Mortality, Dublin 1864-1912.
Rewriting Menstruation and Menopause: the Work of the Medical Women’s Association.
‘Portending death in 19th & early 20th century Britain’.
Porous walls and ‘troublesome inmates’: defining and defying the moral space of reform institutions for ‘fallen’ women.
Narratives, Emotions and the Self / Chair: Lynn Abrams
Men in Reserve: Reserved Occupations and Civil Defence In Britain, 1939-1945.
Arthur McIvor
Juliette Pattinson
Linsey Robb
Jessica Hammett / ‘Warriors too’: Reconstructing masculinities in the oral narratives of reserved occupation workers, 1939‐45.
‘Scrimjacks’ and ‘scrimshanks’ or ‘essential workers’?: conflicting narratives surrounding the Reserved Occupations
‘A wis a naebody’: masculinity and reserved status, 1939 – 1945.
Creating group identity in Civil Defence during the Second World War
Political Cultures, Policy & Citizenship / Chair:
Culture and political identity
Andrew Smith
Ben Roberts
Julia Bohlmann
Naomi Tadmor
Fabrice Bensimon / Blood and wine: Remembering conflicts and creating identities with the winegrowers of southern France.
Peace and protest: the public response to Peace Day, 1919.
Early municipal cinema in Scotland: Socialist agitation or civic entertainment? The case of Kirkintilloch, 1914-23.
Cultures of Settlement.
Collective reading in working-class circles (c. 1780 - c. 1870).
Spaces
Places / Chair:
Colin Pooley
Laura Harrison
Klaus Nathaus
Simon Abernethy / Cities, spaces and movement: everyday experiences of urban travel in the past.
Walking for pleasure: young people and spatial knowledge in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century city.
Urban encounters: entertainment places and social relations in 20th century western cities.
Class and commuting; Clerks and artisans in interwar London.
1.00-2.00 / Lunch
1.15 - 2.00 / Barry Doyle & David Nash / Cultural & Social History. The Journal of the Social History Society - Come and meet the editors
2.00-3.00 / AGM
3.00-5.00 / Session Six
Deviance, Inclusion & Exclusion / Chair:
Gender and Crime
Charlotte Mallinson
Anais Pedron
Maria Romero Ruiz
Alyson Brown / Gentrification of a Monster: Sanitising and Sensationalising the Violent Acts Committed by ‘Jack the Ripper’.
Madams and the Police in Enlightenment Paris: collaboration and punishment.
The London Lock Charities in the Middle to Late Victorian Period: Poor Reform beyond Venereal Disease.
A hard man grows old: crime and masculinity in inter‐war England.
Economies, Culture & Consumption / Chair:
Mick Hayes
Daniel Simpson
Sean Nixon
Laura Sefton / Casting back and looking forward: how the past and the future were treated in commercial advertising during the Second World War, results from a study of British Newspaper advertising.
Marketing L’Oreal and Lush: Modern Cosmetics Consumption as Scientific and Environmental Ideology.
'A Vigorous and Lively Attention to Public Relations': The Benson Report and the Commercilization of the National Trust in the 1960s.
Creating Efficiency in Empire, from Cultivation to Consumption: Reassessing the Empire Marketing Board.
Global & Transnational Approaches / Chair
Transnational Movements and Developments after 1945
Emma Lundin
Chrisoph Laucht
Ljubica Spaskovska / Transnational feminism: connecting political women in Sweden and South Africa.
Prevent and survive: British medical professionals and transnational medical activism against nuclear weapons in the Second Cold War.
Conceptualising entrepreneurship the socialist way: the theory and practice of the public enterprise in developing countries.
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: Sasha Handley
Medieval Lives
Emma Martin
Laura Wood
Katherine Harvey / ‘Slouthe ys my name, off custom callyd Ydelnesse’: Identifying the slothful in late‐medieval society.
The Late Medieval Vowess as Wife and as Widow.
Health, Medicine and the Bishop in Medieval England.
Narratives, Emotions and the Self / Chair:
Intimate Exchanges’: Rethinking Affect in Disciplinary Contexts
Helen Rogers
Lesley Hulonca
Laura Mair
Lucinda Matthews-Jones / Close encounters in a prison ward
Stepping forward from the margins: locating the spirit of resistance in the poor law child
Infantilising infants? Acknowledging the agency of ragged school children
Friendship: Affective correspondence and connections in the settlement movement
Political Cultures, Policy & Citizenship / Chair
Welfare, politics and the state
Peter Catterall
George Gosling
Kate Bradley
George Stevenson / Welfare society or welfare state? The social vision of nonconformist socialists between the wars.
Campaigning against child poverty in 1960s Britain.
Social justice, citizenship and civil rights: the case of community law centres in England from the 1960s.
Working class without work? Claimants, housewives, trade unions and the women’s movement in 1970s Britain.
Spaces
Places / Chair:
Andrew Walker
Paul Moorhouse
Malcolme Chase
Claire Roche / From showroom to showground: rural motoring in England, c. 1900‐1960.
Rural Rides and Pedestrian Excursions – Radical Tourism in Hanoverian Wiltshire.
‘The Divine comrade’: Christian socialism and the ways and means of everyday village politics.
Discovering ‘A Sense of Freedom’. Women Climbers and the Alpine Environment, 1850‐1900.
Poster Session / Katie Bridger
Emma Greenwood
Helga Mullneritsch
Jessica Douthwaite
Kelly Spring
Lorna Shappard
Aimee McCullough / Spectres in the landscape: power, conflict and the gentry of North West Leicestershire, c.1460-1510.
‘To those who feel the proud distinction of the printer’s name’: work and identity in the letter‐press printing trade, ca. 1750‐1850.
'Travelling' recipes: Austrian cookery book manuscripts and their location in a European context through selected recipes.
‘Merciful numbness’: everyday survival or annihilation in 1950s Cold War Britain.
Rationed Food: Experience and Memory
Selling Stork: Text and Illustration and the discourse of consumerism and product culture in the cookbooks of the Stork Cookery Service in the post‐rationing era.
‘It was a whole different life’: Becoming a Father in West‐ central Scotland, c.1970‐1995.
5.00 – 5.30 / Tea
5.30 – 7.00 / Plenary Lecture:
TBC
Chair: Karen Hunt
7.15 / Conference Dinner
Day Three: 2 April, 2015