BBC Radio 4’s Archive Hour on Saturday 30th presented a programme on Liverpool’s turbulent social and cultural history throughout the twentieth century, Liverpool: Sinner and Saint. Throughout the programme archived sources including folk songs written and performed by Liverpudlians about the Toxteth riots of the early eighties can be heard alongside people’s memories and feelings about being moved from the inner city to the outer lying estates such as Huyton. The current debate around culture and its uses and how Liverpool has tried to ensure Liverpool 08’s success will continue to deliver cultural engagement after the affair are discussed throughout. The programme will be available to listen to again on the BBC Radio 4 website at the above link for another couple of days.
Liverpool: Sinner and Saint
September 3, 2008
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Class in Modern Britain Symposium, Manchester, 10th and 11th July 2008
July 8, 2008
The symposium is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and the Economic History Society. The aim is to provide a forum for the discussion of different meanings of class (for academic practitioners, for politicians, the public…) and to interrogate differences between these meanings and how we can fit them together. We hope the symposium will bring academics, politicians, campaigners and journalists together to heighten the profile of class as a political issue.
The programme for the event includes the following sessions:
Identities
Chair: Selina Todd (Manchester)
1. Mike Savage (Manchester), ‘Class identities and social change in Britain, 1938-2004’
2. Jon Lawrence (Cambridge), ‘The British Case of Class’
3. Sean O’Connell (Belfast), ‘The gunman, Al Capone, and the lion tamer: class, masculinity and memory in Belfast’s dockland communities’
Spaces
1. Jim Smyth (Stirling), ‘Housing, Inequality and Mortality: a comparison of two streets in Glasgow, c. 1860-1911.’
2. Doug Robertson (Stirling), ‘“Whaur are you Fae”. Neighbourhood identity in Stirling, over time and place’
3. Lynsey Hanley (Lancaster), ‘The Wall in the Head’
Politics Chair: Pat Ayers (Manchester)
1. Andy Wood (East Anglia) ‘Customary law, local memory and the possibilities for popular solidarity in early modern England.’
2. Annmarie Hughes (Glasgow), ‘Women’s “splendid support”? Uncovering working-class women’s contribution to the 1926 General Strike and the Miners’ Lockout in Scotland.’
3. Steven Fielding (Nottingham), ‘The Political Parties and Class’
Education and youth
Chair: Andrew Davies (Liverpool)
1. Leslie Holmes (Salford), ‘Jobs for the Boys: the development of a club for working lads in Salford’
2. Diane Reay (Cambridge), ‘Psycho-social aspects of white middle-class identities: Desiring and defending against the class and ethnic “other” in urban multiethnic schooling’
3. Melissa Benn (London), The unspoken clash of class cultures: new features of the educational landscape’
Culture
Chair: Selina Todd (Manchester)
1. Hilary Young (Manchester), ‘Voices of Postwar England: an academic and community blog’
2. Gillian Evans (Manchester), ‘Contemporary Cultural Politics and the White Working Classes in Britain’
3. Sarfraz Manzoor (London), TBA
Thanks to the ESRC and the Economic History Society for generously funding this event
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