45th Annual Conference 28 June – 9 July 2021 1 2021 Conference Committee Team Georgina Brewis [email protected] Henry Irving [email protected] Jenni Hyde (SHS admin) [email protected] Corinna Peniston-Bird Strand Co-ordinators Bodies and Emotions Cara Dobbing [email protected] Jennifer Evans [email protected] Maria Isabel Romero Ruiz [email protected] Deviance, Inclusion and Exclusion Rachel Bright [email protected] Daniel Grey [email protected] Janet Weston [email protected] Diversity, Minorities and ‘Others’ Jodi Burkett [email protected] Katy Gibbons [email protected] Daniel Grey [email protected] Environment, Spaces and Places Niki Alsford [email protected] Tosh Warwick [email protected] Sean Nixon [email protected] Life Cycles, Families and Communities Barbara Crosbie [email protected] Ann-Marie Foster [email protected] Morag Allan Campbell [email protected] Politics, Policy and Citizenship Kate Bradley [email protected] Matthew Grant [email protected] Hazel Kent [email protected] Andrew Walker [email protected] Welfare, Humanitarianism and Social Action Georgina Brewis [email protected] George Gosling [email protected] David Hitchcock [email protected] Work, Leisure and Consumption Edda Nicolson [email protected] Donna Loftus [email protected] Souvik Naha [email protected] 1 Enquiries about specific strands should be addressed to the relevant strand co-ordinators. For general enquiries about the conference, please contact the conference committee team, or [email protected], or visit http://socialhistory.org.uk/ Papers presented at the conference can be submitted to the Society’s journal, Cultural and Social History, to be considered for publication. For details, see https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfcs20/current The Conference organisers would like to thank all those involved for their hard work. 2 Week 1 Monday 28 June ENVIRONMENT, SPACES AND PLACES Panel 1 – 9.30-11.30 ENVIRONMENT, SPACES AND PLACES Faith in the Town: Lay Religion, Urbanisation and Industrialisation in England, 1 1740-1830 Chair: Kate Gibson, University of Manchester Kate Gibson, University of Manchester Memory and religious space in the eighteenth-century Northern English town Professor Hannah Barker, University of Faith in the streets: processions and the urban environment of Northern England, 1740-1830 Manchester Professor Jeremy Gregory, University of Choice, church-going and the urban environment in Northern England, 1740-1830 Nottingham Lunch – 11.30-12.30 Panel 2 – 12.30-2.30 ENVIRONMENT, SPACES AND PLACES Lives in the Landscape: Biographical and Narrative Approaches to Landscape 2 History Chair: Dr Jeremy Burchardt, University of Reading Professor Paul Readman, King's College London Walking, Looking, Imagining: Antiquaries, History-writing and the Embodied Experience of Landscape Dr Nicola Whyte, University of Exeter Landscapes on the Move: The Travel Diaries of Celia Fiennes Professor Matthew Kelly, Northumbria University Beatrix Potter, Landscape Preservationist: Family, Place and Biography Dr Jeremy Burchardt, University of Reading Towards a deep history of landscape: material, cultural and experiential approaches 3 Break – 2.30-3.00 Panel 3 – 3.00-5.00 ENVIRONMENT, SPACES AND PLACES Movement, Mobility and Landscape 3 Chair: Dr Tosh Warwick Dr Michael Guida, University of Sussex Weekend rambling: in search of the sensuous Dr Ben Jackson, Queen Mary, University of Elite Masculinity, Sporting Paraphernalia, and the English Country House c.1600–1800 London Sean Nixon Landscapes of Loss: Silent Spring and the Geography of Environmental Crisis, 1956-65 Murray Seccombe, Lancaster University Managing people, managing space: constables, highways and connectivity in seventeenth-century Halifax 4 Tuesday 29 June ENVIRONMENT, SPACES AND PLACES and DEVIANCE, INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION Panel 4 PARALLEL SESSIONS – 9.30-11.30 ENVIRONMENT, SPACES AND PLACES Urban Environments, Mobility and Landscape 4A Chair: Sean Nixon Maureen Royce Remembered places - Voices from Liverpool 1944-1979 Dr Henry Irving, Leeds Becket University Maps and Memories of the Leeds ‘Blitz’ David Cowan, Emmanuel College, University of Migration, Nostalgia, and Community in the Late-Twentieth Century Cambridge James Broun, University of Sussex The Private Housing Estate, the ‘New Middle Classes’ and the Making of Post-Industrial England, c. 1970–2010 DEVIANCE, INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION Public Perceptions and Media Depictions of Difference and Deviance 4B Chair: Rachel Bright Dr Oisín Wall, University College Dublin ‘Our few demands… are for basic human rights, nothing more’: the polarisation of opinion about Irish ordinary prisoners, 1973-84 Meg Foster, Newnham College, University of Law, Emotion and the Tyranny of Difference: the case of Aboriginal Australian outlaw Jimmy Governor Cambridge and University of New South Wales James Thomas Earnshaw, University of St Your man-milliner is a man only in name’: English male milliners and the spectre of gender ambiguity Andrews at the time of the Indian Uprisings of 1857 Dr Magdalena Matczak, University of Liverpool Disability and impairment in the Middle Ages in Poland Lunch – 11.30-12.30 5 Panel 5 – 12.30-2.00 Meeting of the Social History Society BME Network A mid-conference get-together for members of the Social History Society BME network, and open to any historians of colour who would like to drop in! The Social History Society runs a network specifically for Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) historians. The network combines a mixture of virtual and physical opportunities to discuss emerging issues, share experiences and find support. It is open to anyone who self-identifies as belonging to a BME group, whether they be a professional historian, an independent scholar, or a student. Members do not need to be members of the Social History Society. If you would like to join the Social History Society BME Network, please send an email to: [email protected] Break – 2.30-3.00 Panel 6– 3.00-5.00 ENVIRONMENT, SPACES AND PLACES Emotions, Place and Health 6 Chair: Dr Henry Irving Ella Sbaraini ‘For I am a going I know not where’: Suicide in Place and Space, 1750-1850 Dr Barbara Crosbie, Durham University The body on Killhope Moor: doing public history during a pandemic Natalie Massong, IMT School for Advanced The Mobile Woman: Getting Around during the 1630 Plague in Bologna Studies Lucca, Italy Dr Marie-Louise Leonard, Ca’ Foscari University Health and the Workplace in Early Modern Venice of Venice 6 Wednesday 30 June DEVIANCE, INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION Panel 7 – 9.30-11.30 DEVIANCE, INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION Deviant women and girls 7 Chair: Daniel Grey Dr Susan Woodall, The Open University ‘Hiding Places of evil’: policing morality in the dormitory spaces of nineteenth-century institutions for ‘fallen’ women Maria Isabel Romero-Ruiz, University of Malaga Cambridge Spinning House and the Proctoral System: The Case of Beatrice Cooper (1892) (Spain) Catherine Freeman, University of Greenwich Football, Arson and Not Cleaning Knives: forms of protest at girls’ schools in Surrey between 1870 and 1914. Dr Craig Stafford, University of Liverpool Policing Women in Victorian Rochdale Lunch – 11.30-12.30 Panel 8 – 12.30-2.30 DEVIANCE, INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION Official responses to difference and deviance 8 Chair: Janet Weston Dr Ashley Borrett, University of Lincoln Retribution versus reform: contrasting responses to juvenile delinquency in interwar Hull Dr Clarissa Carden, Griffith University Creating reformatories in nineteenth century Australia: justifications and influence Dr Clifford Williamson, Bath Spa University ‘Buzzin it’: Strategies for dealing with glue sniffing in Glasgow, 1970-1984 Dr Andy Holroyde, University of Huddersfield Exclusion or Inclusion: Sheltered Employment in the British Welfare State, 1945-1979 Break – 2.30-3.00 7 Panel 9 – 3.00-5.00 Deviance, Inclusion and Exclusion The transnational movement of people and ideas 9 Chair: Daniel Grey Jasper Heeks Australian larrikins and London street gangs, 1879-1914 Rianna Price, Lancaster University The Medicalization of Sexual Deviance in post-1947 India Dr Katy Roscoe, University of Liverpool Convict Workers on Britain’s Imperial Dockyards: Gibraltar & Bermuda 8 Thursday 1 July LIFE CYCLES, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES and BODIES AND EMOTIONS Panel 10 – 9.30-11.30 LIFE CYCLES, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES Women Doing It for Themselves 10 Chair: Dr Morag Allan Campbell Alice Blackwood, University of Oxford Defining 'Local Politics' for Men and for Women in Early Modern England Honor Morris, King’s College London High-Rise Motherhood: The impact of 1970s council housing on working-class mothering Dr Janet Weston, London School of Hygiene and Looking after Miss Alexander: care and protection in mid-twentieth century England Tropical Medicine Prof Caitriona Beaumont, London South Bank Female Networks, Ageing and Identity in England 1960s-1980s: the Mothers’ Union University Lunch – 11.30-12.30 Panel 11 PARALLEL SESSIONS – 12.30-2.30 LIFE CYCLES, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES Unconventional Families 11A Chair: Dr Barbara Crosbie, University of Durham Emilly Webb, University of Leeds 'I Must do my Duty by these Innocents': Raising a Mixed-Race Family in Blechynden’s Calcutta Diaries, 1782-1822 Katharina Simon, Philipps-Universität Marburg What to do with a ‘bastard child’? - Practices of conflict management in Eighteenth Century Yorkshire Communities