Social History Society Annual Conference

UCL Institute of Education and Institute of Historical Research, London (4-6 April 2017).

 

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Annual Conference 2017

 

UCL Institute of Education, London, 4-6 April 2017

 

The annual Social History Society Conference is the largest gathering of social and cultural historians in the UK. Over the last four decades, our members have transformed historical research, inspired challenging work and explored the many ways in which our social worlds are made, imagined, shared and shattered.

 

In 2017 our annual conference will be hosted by the UCL Institute of Education. The venue will be their Bloomsbury site, with some of the sessions taking place at the neighbouring Institute of Historical Research and the conference dinner at the University of London Senate House.

 

DOWNLOAD THE PROGRAMME

https://www.socialhistory.org.uk/perch/resources/text_block/shs2017-programme-21.3.17.pdf

 

KEYNOTE LECTURE on The Myths of Social Mobility in 20th Century Britain by Professor Selina Todd

 

Selina Todd is Professor of Modern History and Co-Director of Women in Humanities at Oxford University. Her book Young Women, Work and Family in England 1918-1950 won the Women’s History Network Book Prize. Her most recent book, The People: The Rise and Fall of the Working Class, 1910-2010, was a Sunday Times bestseller and was shortlisted for Political History Book of the Year 2014. She is currently working on a history of social mobility in 20th century Britain and a biographical study of the playwright Shelagh Delaney.

 

At the conference

 

The conference includes optional sessions on research funding, finding new publishers, and making links with policy makers, production companies and other public audiences. This is all in addition to a busy programme of papers in our seven conference strands:

 

Global, local and transnational approaches

Political cultures, policy and citizenship

Narratives, ideologies and beliefs

Self, senses and emotions

Deviance, inclusion and exclusion

Economies, culture and consumption

Life cycles, families and communities

 

We invite all delegates to submit their papers for consideration for publication in our journal, Cultural & Social History, and to discuss proposals with the editors of our new book series.

 

https://www.socialhistory.org.uk/conference-2017