Recording Leisure Lives. A one day conference at Bolton Museum
Tuesday 7th April 2009
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The University of Bolton, in collaboration with Bolton Museum and Archive Service and the Leisure Studies Association, invites you to its second annual Recording Leisure Lives Conference on the 7th April 2009. Keynote speakers include Martin Polley, author of Sports History: a practical guide; Dorothy Sheridan, Director of the Mass Observation Archive and Melanie Tebbutt, author of Working Class masculinities: leisure, locality and male adolescence in the 1930s.
Inspired by Humphrey Spender's Worktown photographs taken in Bolton for Mass Observation in the 1930s, the conference will feature a themed exhibition of his images of popular leisure in the Worktown gallery at the Museum.
The conference sub-themes are:
- Local and Regional Identities
- Invented and Re-invented Traditions
- Gendered Histories
- Narratives and Testimonies
- Archiving, Collecting and Representing.
Papers (20 minutes) on leisure in the twentieth century which relate to any of these themes are invited. A volume of post-conference papers will be published by the Leisure Studies Association.
Please submit proposals to R.Snape@bolton.ac.uk AND to H.Pussard@roehampton.ac.uk by 16th January 2009.
For a full conference outline or to book a place please visit www.bolton.ac.uk/conferences/leisurelives
or contact Bethan Atkins at B.Atkins@bolton.ac.uk
Where?
Cost:
Full delegate fee including lunch - £30 (Institutional) £20 (Private Individual) £15 (Students and non-waged)
Enquiries
Email:museum.customerservices@bolton.gov.uk
Telephone: 01204 332211
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