Saturday 15

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June - Sunday 16 Manchester, UK

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June 2013

Provisional Programme
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Saturday 15 June 2013

Venue: John Dalton Building, Manchester Metropolitan University, Oxford Road, Manchester, M1 5GD

09:00-09:30 09:30-11:00

Registration Welcome & Session 1

Conference Organisers: Welcome to Unofficial Histories 2013 Adam Gutteridge: John Ruskin, Radical History, and Community Activism: Putting the Nineteenth Century to Work in the Twenty-First David Rosenberg: History from Below: an international activist community Greta Williams Schultz & Jess Bradley: Disabled Peoples Emancipation Through Time and Space: Breaking The Binary.

1:Activist Histories Today

11:00-11:15

Break

11:15-12:45

Session 2
Jeanette C. Atkinson: The idea of tomorrow, yesterday producing, transmitting and consuming Steampunk in a museum context Catherine Baker: After building a new Jerusalem, where next? The London 2012 Olympic opening ceremony and British public history James Riordan: Tory Radicalism, 1660 - c.1980: Unofficial History? James Underwood: Northern Soul? Appropriating the histories of popular cultural forms in Jim Cartwrights Road Peter Yeandle : Victorian pantomime and the politics of popular imperialism Kylo-Patrick Hart: Mediating Mary Pickford: New Womanhood and Historically Noteworthy Representational Patterns in the Early Twentieth Century TBC Laura De Becker: Unofficial ethnicities: History in Rwandas official memorials and museums Lisa McQuillan: Turning conflict into content: what can theatre practice teach museums and archives in Northern Ireland?

2a: (Re) Claiming Histories 2b: Performing the Past 2c: Historical Legacies
12:45-13:30

Lunch (provided)

13:30-15:00

Session 3
Jill Kirby: Observing the 1980s creating an open educational resource Anne Plumb: Going, Going, Gone: Grassroots Archives. Louise Purbrick: Physical Resistance: an unofficial history of anti-fascism Hilda Kean: Laurance, Mariana and Hilda: an exploration in reading unpublished diaries from 1937 1950 of a London advertising businessman and his horse. Rosemary Shirley : Pylons and Birds Eye: Golden Jubilee Scrapbooks from the WI Alison Twells: Border Territories: history, fiction and memoir David Callaghan: Diversity at the core of heritage: Reimagining a citys history at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery Kathleen McIlvenna: Taking the Tower: A struggle between visitor and state over possession of the Victorian Tower of London Anna Scott : The Pilgrims Progress: heritage tourism and pick and mix history.

3a: Archives for Action 3b: Evidence of the Everyday 3c: Visiting the Past
15:00-15:15

Break

15:15-16:45

Session 4
Barbara Martin: Dissident Historians of the post-Stalin Era in the Soviet Union (1956-1985) Daryl Leeworthy: The Workers Historian: John E. Morgan, A Village Workers Council, and the miners sense of history in the South Wales Valleys Huub Sanders : Two tendencies and one Institution: Structural- versus Emancipatory Social History and the International Institute of Social History (IISH) in the 1970s Holly Gale Millette: 'Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do': Reform vs. Selfsufficiency? - A Linear Community at a Crossroads Ian Waites : A paradise, what an idea! Defending the English Council Estate. Kerry Massheder: Excavating memories: Collaborations between oral history and archaeology to better understand the housing experience of workers of the Lower English Buildings Helen Pleasance : A Map of Manchester from Peterloo to Primark: how to live with the history of the Industrial Revolution in the 21st Century Neil Dymond-Green: Invisible Histories: Song and stories from Salfords lost workplaces Matthew Steele, Jack Hale & Angela Connelly: A Manchester Definition of Toast rack

4a: Unofficial Historians 4b: History at Home 4c: Made in Manchester

17:00 17:05

End of Saturday Sessions Optional Session 5

Optional post-conference drinks at Odder Bar, Oxford Road, Manchester (5 mins walk away)

Sunday 16 June 2013

Venue: The Streets of Manchester, and the Peoples History Museum, Left Bank, M3 3ER

10:30-12:30

Session 6
6a: Manchester Peace and Social Justice Trail (led by Steve Roman) 6b: Manchester Modernist Heroines Walk (led by Morag Rose) 6c: Withington Activist Neighbourhood Walk (led by Alison Ronan)

Manchester Walking Tours

12:30-13:30 13:30-15:30

Lunch (own arrangements) Session 7

Special screening at the Peoples History Museum of Inside Film's The Condition of the Working Class, a documentary film based on the book by Friedrich Engels, followed by a Q&A with the film's directors, Deidre ONeill and Mike Wayne.

Film Screening
15:30

End of Unofficial Histories 2013