Colleagues may be interested in submitting abstracts for this workshop:
CALL FOR PAPERS
Re-making Londoners:
Models of a Healthy Society in the Nation’s Capital, 1918-1939
An inter-disciplinary workshop organised by Dr Elizabeth Darling (University
of Brighton), Dr Andrea Tanner (Kingston University) and the Centre for
Metropolitan History, University of London
To be held at Senate House, University of London, Malet St, London, WC1E 7HU
on Wednesday 13th November, 2002
The creation of a healthy society was, perhaps, the dominant concern of
social reformers in the first half of the 20th century and many historians
have considered the legislative processes through which such a society was
produced. What have, hitherto, been little studied, are the locations in
which the ideologies of a healthy society were produced, especially in the
inter-war decades. It is, then, the aim of this workshop to investigate how
social reformers in the case study area of London developed particular
models, practices and environments of reform in order to re-make London’s
population into a race of healthy, active and educated citizens between the
end of the Great War in 1918 and the declaration of the Second World War in
September 1939.
The workshop’s organisers define social reform broadly – from health to
propaganda, child welfare to re-planning the city - and wish to foster
debates about the relative contributions to the development of ideologies of
social welfare by the voluntary sector, private sector and the state
(especially local authorities).
It is envisaged that the workshop will be organised thematically.
Contributors will be asked to submit papers for pre-circulation and the event
will take a discursive format. It is hoped that a publication will result
from the discussions.
We ask for the submission of abstracts on the possible themes of:
Housing
Infant & child welfare
Hospitals
Health
Local authorities as ‘independent republics’
Built Environment
Propaganda & the Iconography of Reform
Abstracts should be between 300 and 400 words in length and the final papers
5-6000 words. A précis only to be given at workshop. Abstracts to be sent to:
Elizabeth Darling, School of Architecture & Design, University of Brighton,
Mithras House, Lewes Rd, Brighton, BN2 4AT/ [log in to unmask]
Deadline Friday 22nd March, 2002
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