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UNDER PRESSURE: the politics and archives of pressure groups
The Dennison Centre, the University of Hull
19 February 1999, 10 am - 4.15pm
Cost: £55 (including refreshments and lunch)
This Conference is designed to examine Pressure Groups from
various viewpoints, including:
* the reflections of a well-known parliamentarian and
broadcaster on being subjected to all that pressure
(Dr Austin Mitchell, Member of Parliament for Great
Grimsby)
* the methods, successes and failures of a leading British
Pressure Group (John Wadham, Director, Liberty)
* the creation of records during two local campaigns in
Beverley and East Yorkshire (Richard Wilson, Visiting
Professor, Northwestern University and Pressure Group
activist)
* how archives of all types can be used in support of a
continuing campaign (Donald Lee, WEA Tutor and Pressure
Group activist)
* the historical impact of one Pressure Group on the
development of the National Health Service (Dr John
Stewart, Senior Lecturer, Oxford Brookes University)
* issues connected with looking after Pressure Group
archives (Brian Dyson, Archivist, the University of Hull,
and Christine Woodland, Archivist, the University of
Warwick)
UNDER PRESSURE should interest:
* researchers in the field of British social and political
history
* pressure group workers and activists
* archivists and other custodians
Provisional programme:
10am REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
10.30am Introduction - Professor the Lord Norton of
Louth
10.45am Disorderly papers: two East Yorkshire
campaigns - Richard Wilson
11.15am Pressure Group archives: a rich resource -
Brian Dyson
11.45am The Warwick experience - Christine Woodland
12.15pm Winning with archives: their value to
Rights of Way campaigners - Donald Lee
12.45pm Questions
1 - 2pm LUNCH
2pm The Socialist Medical Association and the
National Health Service - Dr John Stewart
2.30pm On applying pressure - John Wadham
3.10pm TEA
3.30pm On being pressured - Austin Mitchell MP
4.15pm Questions and close
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CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS: 12 FEBRUARY 1999
A cancellation fee of £10 will be payable up to 1 February
1999, after which the full conference fee will be payable.
N.B. It is possible to send an alternative delegate.
For further information and bookings, please contact:
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* Helen Roberts, Archives and Special Collections, The *
* University of Hull Brynmor Jones Library, Hull HU6 7RX *
* Tel: 01482 - 465265 *
* Fax: 01482 - 466205 *
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* Web site: http://www.hull.ac.uk/lib/archives/ *
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