BSSH South Sport and Leisure History Network: East of England Branch – Spring 2014 workshop

British Society of Sports History, South of England Sport and Leisure History Network, East of England Branch:

Spring 2014 Workshop, University of East Anglia, Saturday 1st March 2014

Programme

9:30 – 10:00: Registration

10:00 – 11:00: Panel 1: Leisure and Politics

• Dr Richard Mills (University of East Anglia)
  ‘Occupation’: Ipswich Town Football Club, the British Armed Forces, and the First World War
• Paul Wheeler (University of Chichester)
  The British Isolation from World Soccer in the Middle Decades of the Twentieth Century – a Myth?

11:00 – 11:30: Break

11:30 – 1:00: Panel 2: Leisure on Screen

• Ellen Wright (University of East Anglia)
  Spectacular Bodies: The Swimsuit, Censorship and Early Hollywood
• Sara Linden (London Metropolitan University)
  Carnaby Street: A Place for Self-Creation
• Mark Fryers (University of East Anglia)
  Howard’s Way:  Class, Leisure and the Maritime on British Screens

1:00 – 2:00: Lunch

2:00 – 3:00: Panel 3: Rural Leisure

• Dion Georgiou (Queen Mary University of London)
  ‘Oh Ilford’s Lanes are Beauty’s Shrine, for Nature’s Garb is Best’: Rural Identity, Spectacle and Place in London’s Suburban Street Carnivals, 1890–1914
• Alice Kirke (Institute of Education, University of London)
  Recreation an d Education in the Young Farmers Club Movement, 1921–1955

3:00 – 3:30: Break

3:30 – 4:30: Keynote Lecture

• Professor Emma Griffin (University of East Anglia)
  Drinking and Leisure [Title TBC]

Attendance of this event is free. please fill in and send off the registration form by thursday, 27 february. you can find the form here: http://events.history.ac.uk/event/show/12334