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University of Huddersfield RepositoryBenincasa, Caterina“Its 1951 not 951” How did Leeds and York Represent their Identity of Place in the Festival of Britain Celebrations?Original CitationBenincasa, Caterina (2009) “Its 1951 not 951” How did Leeds and York Represent their Identity of Place in the Festival of Britain Celebrations? In: Conference on Modern British History, 23-24 June 2009, Department of History, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. (Unpublished)This version is available at http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/4774/The University Repository is a digital collection of the research output of theUniversity, available on Open Access. Copyright and Moral Rights for the itemson this site are retained by the individual author and/or other copyright owners.Users may access full items free of charge; copies of full text items generallycan be reproduced, displayed or performed and given to third parties in anyformat or medium for personal research or study, educational or not-for-profitpurposes without prior permission or charge, provided:• The authors, title and full bibliographic details is credited in any copy;• A hyperlink and/or URL is included for the original metadata page; and• The content is not changed in any way.For more information, including our policy and submission procedure, pleasecontact the Repository Team at: E.mailbox@hud.ac.uk.http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/Conference on Modern British History 2009Programme (provisional)Tuesday 23 June11.00-12.00 Registration12.00-1.00 Lunch1.00-2.00 Keynote lecture I Chair: Colin Kidd (Glasgow), ‘Burns, Theology and the Ayrshire Enlightenment’2.00-3.00 Session 1Panel A: Nineteenth-Century Culture Chair: Nathalie Rosset (Dundee), ‘Some Approaches to Knowledge in early 19th Century Scotland: From Politeness to Subjection’William Morris Welch (Troy), ‘Whistler’s Brother’Panel B: Gender, Society and Politics Chair:Nahla Hassan (Stirling), ‘English Women in the 19th and early 20th Centuries: Calls for Reform’Anne Baldwin (Huddersfield), ‘Women and Power: A View from Northern English Counties’  Panel C: Mid-Twentieth-Century Issues Chair: Adam Ross (Sheffield), ‘The Attlee Government, the 1948 Steel Bill and the House of Lords’Caterina Benincasa (Huddersfield), ‘“Its 1951 not 951” How did Leeds and York Represent their Identity of Place in the Festival of Britain Celebrations?’3.00-3.30 Tea3.30-5.30 Session 2Panel D: Health and Death Chair: Julie Rugg (York), ‘Mapping Change in Rural Burial Practices: 1850-present’Jane Seymour (UCL), ‘George Newman, Preventive Medicine and Morality in Inter-War Britain’Leanne Dunlop (Strathclyde), ‘Revisiting Optimist and Pessimist Interpretations of Inter-War Health: Glasgow’s Experience, c.1920-39’Amy Bell (Huron University College), ‘Murder and the Microscope: the Dobkin Case of 1942’Panel E: Twentieth-Century Foreign Affairs Chair: James Renton (Edge Hill), ‘Zionism and the British Empire, 1917-1939’Rakesh Ankit (Oxford), ‘Great Britain and the First Indo-Pak Conflict on Jammu and Kashmir, 1947-1949’Conference on Modern British History: Programme (provisional)Jenna Phillips (Cambridge), ‘British Policy during the Korean War: January-April 1951’Panel F: 19  th   and 20 th   Century Politics Marcus Morris (Lancaster), ‘Discourse of Class: the Political Appeals of late-19th Century British Socialists’Paul Ward (Huddersfield), ‘Contriving to be Huw T.: Wales, Socialism and Biography in the mid-20th Century’Matthew Roberts (Sheffield Hallam), ‘Constructing the Unionist Ascendancy: An Analysis of By-elections, 1885-1906’Jim Tomlinson (Dundee), ‘Responding to Globalization: Churchill and the Dundee Election of 1908’5.30 Interval6.00-7.30 Public Lecture: Miles Taylor (IHR), ‘The Rise and Fall of the New Political History, 1983-2008’Trades Hall, Glasgow7.30-8.30 ReceptionTrades Hall, GlasgowWednesday 24 June9.00-10.00 Keynote lecture II Chair: Katrina Honeyman (Leeds), ‘The Exploitation of Little Children? The Uses and Abuses of Child Labour in English Industrialisation’10.00-10.30 Coffee10.30-12.00 Session 3Panel G: Eighteenth-Century Radicals Chair: Anthony Page (Tasmania), ‘Unitarians, Abolitionism and Enlightenment in late 18th Century England’Martin Fitzpatrick (Aberystwyth), ‘Editing the Wodrow-Kenrick Correspondence (c.1750-1810)’Emma Macleod (Stirling), ‘Thomas Paine and Jeffersonian America’Panel H: World Wars I and II Chair: Oliver Wilkinson (Lancaster), ‘British Prisoners of War Camps in Germany and the Experience of Captivity during the First World War: An Ephemera Exploration’Juliette Pattinson (Strathclyde), ‘Hussies, Freaks and Lady Soldiers: The First Aid Nursing Yeomanry’Emma Reilly (Strathlclyde), ‘From Civilian to Soldier: The Lived Experiences of British Army Recruits during the Second World War’Panel I: Industrial Politics and the State in the Twentieth Century   Chair:2Conference on Modern British History: Programme (provisional)Jim Phillips (Glasgow), ‘The Moral Economy and Industrial relations: New Perspectives on the 1984-5 Miners’ Strike’Andrew Perchard (Strathclyde), ‘Light Metal and Britain’s Warfare State: Government-Business Relations in 20th Century Britain’Niall MacKenzie (Cambridge), ‘Bailing and Failing: Government Bailouts in Britain in the 20th Century’12.00-1.00 Lunch1.00-2.00 Keynote lecture III Chair: Ken Brown (QUB), ‘The Impact of the First World War on British Business: The Case of the Toy Industry’.2.00-3.30 Session 4Panel J: Foreign Affairs in the Long Nineteenth Century Chair: Edward McNeilly (Cambridge), ‘The Conservatives and France, 1827-46’Geoff Hicks (UEA), ‘Do Cabinets of Rivals Make Good Foreign Policy?  The Disraeli Example’Benjamin Gillon (Glasgow), ‘The Peripheral Consequences of Imperial Diplomacy: Lord Minto and the Impact of the Anglo-Russian Convention on Indian Defence, 1907-1910’Panel K: Recent Politics        Chair:Campbell Wilson (Glasgow), ‘Possibility and Need: The UK Wave Energy Programme, 1975-82’David  Stewart  (Central  Lancashire),  ‘Preserving the  ‘Contentious  Alliance’?:  The 1985/86 trade union political fund ballots’Jim Mills (Strathclyde), ‘Class B and Blunkett: The Police and the Politics of Cannabis Reclassification, c.1997-c.2003’Panel L: Cricket Chair: Dennis O’Keefe (Huddersfield), ‘Clergy and Cricket in Calderdale, 1877-c.1920’Duncan Stone (Huddersfield), ‘Regional Cricket Identities: The Construction of Class Narratives and their Relationship to Contemporary Supporters’3.30-4.00 Tea4.00-5.00 Keynote Lecture IV Chair:George Peden (Stirling), ‘Sir Horace Wilson and the Appeasement of Germany’.5.00-6.00 Session 5Panel M: Emigration Chair: Sofia Ericksson (Macquerie), ‘A Right to Share the Bargain?: Emigration in British Travel Writing on Australia, 1870-1939’Jean P. Smith (California), ‘“From this War the Empire Will Emerge Closer Knit”: Child Evacuees And Migration to South Africa, 1939-50’Panel N: Nineteenth-Century Religion Chair:Jan Pearson (Northampton), ‘“Nearer my God to Thee”: Religion and Superstition onboard 19th Century Troopships’3Conference on Modern British History: Programme (provisional)Eleanor Harris (Stirling), ‘“A Real Saint”: Daniel Sandford, Bishop of Edinburgh, 1806-30’Panel O: Labour and Europe Chair:Stephen Meredith (Central Lancashire), ‘A Prelude to Secession?: European Debates and Divisions on the Parliamentary Right of the British Labour Party, 1962-72’Aoife Collins (UCD), ‘Tony Benn, the Cabinet Office and the Renegotiation Of Britain’s Terms of Entry into the European Community, 1974-75’6.00-6.30 After Meeting Modern British History Network: Future Plans Chair: 6.30 Conclusion4

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