Dear Dr. Gatley
If nobody else offers I would be willing to have a go at a paper on what I
regard as the myth of 'enforced' spinsterhood caused by the male casualties
of the Great War.
Quick cv:
I am a mature (very) post graduate student at the Menzies Centre for
Australian Studies ( part of Kings College, London)doing research on the
Australian Imperial Force in Britain during WW1. I did an MA by research at
Essex and run a course for Essex University Dept. of Lifelong Learning on
'The Great War fact, Myth & Memory'
regards
Roger Beckett
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Subject: Plea for Things
Dear All,
Can I make a plea for possible speakers at a
conference (possibly) to be held next Easter
(2004) on the: -
Demography of War 1911 to 1951.
Basically anything considered on how Britain
was changed during the years 1911 to 1951.
Vis: -
+ Illegitimacy.
+ Women's without Men - enforced spinsterhood
1914 to 1944.
+ The evacuation of 1939
+ The 1939 enumeration
+ Fertility in the inter-war period.
+ The 1951 fertility census.
+ The 1948 Royal Commission on Population.
This would be for the Local Population Studies
Society. Most of our members are not academics
although most are professionals with degrees
or similar qualifications but NOT IN
statistics or demography.
The standard of paper would need to be at the
level of a well-educated reader of the
Guardian, Scotsman or Belfast Telegraph.
IE. Interesting and informative BUT NOT TO
statistical or mathematical.
David Alan Gatley (DrO
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David Alan Gatley (Dr),
School of Humanities and Social Sciences,
Staffordshire University,
Stoke-on-Trent,
ST4 2XW
Telephone 01782-294780 (Office)
01782-415340 (Home)
Fax 01782-294760
http://www.staffs.ac.uk/sociology
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