The seventh annual Recording Leisure Lives conference will be held at the Mass Observation Archive at the University of Sussex. The theme will be “Places and Spaces of Leisure in 20th Century Britain”.
Keynote speakers will include Caitriona Beaumont of London South Bank University, author of “Housewives and Citizens: Domesticity and the Women’s Movement in England, 1928-1954” and Jeremy Burchardt of University of Reading, Chair of the Interwar Research Group.
Paper Proposals
There is an open stream on any aspect of leisure in 20th Century Britain.
Proposals can be submitted to r.snape@bolton.ac.uk by January 16th 2015.
Cost
Includes lunch and refreshments
- £45 – full
- £25 – students and non-waged
Further details
Please visit the Worktown Conferences page
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