Inhabiting Institutions in Britain, 1700-1950 – conference page
Royal Holloway University of London Department of History
Event Date: 14 and 15 September 2010
11 Bedford Square, Royal Holloway (Central London)
Inhabiting Institutions in Britain, 1700-1950
Tuesday 14th September
Spaces and Institutional Structures
Workhouses
- Jeremy Boulton (Newcastle):
Paupers and their experience of a Georgian workhouse: St Martin in the Fields, 1725-1824 (AUDIO HERE) - Alysa Levene (Oxford Brookes) :
Family life and London workhouses in the later eighteenth century (AUDIO HERE) - Alannah Tomkins (Keele) :
At Home in the Workhouse? The View from Working-Class Autobiographies, 1780-1920 (AUDIO HERE) - panel 1 questions .
Institutional environments and boundaries
- Fiona Fisher (Kingston):
Viewing the institutional interior through the pages of Living London (AUDIO HERE) - Jane Hamlett & Rebecca Preston (Royal Holloway):
Spaces and Material Cultures in Charitable Lodging Houses in London, 1840-1914 (AUDIO HERE) - Stephen Soanes (Warwick):
“The Place was a Home from Home”: Patient Identity and Belonging in Cottage Homes for Convalescents, 1910 – 1939 (AUDIO HERE) - panel 2 questions .
Asylums
- Louise Hide (Birkbeck):
People in their place: space, gender and class in the late 19th century asylum (AUDIO HERE) - Clare Hickman (Bristol):
“Conceive a Spacious Building Resembling the Palace of a Peer. Airy, and Elevated, and Elegantly Surrounded by Swelling Grounds and Gardens”: The role of the gardens in domesticating the environment of the nineteenth-century lunatic asylum (AUDIO HERE) - Katherine Rawling (Royal Holloway):
Asylum Snapshots: Institutional Photographic Practices and Patient Images at Holloway Sanatorium, Surrey, 1880-1910 (AUDIO HERE) - Anna Shepherd (London):
‘The Domestic Environment as Therapy in Two Surrey Asylums’ (AUDIO HERE) - panel 3 questions .
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Wednesday 15th September
Living in Institutions
Material cultures
- Matthew Newsome Kerr (Santa Clara University ):
Pauperised by the Public Health?: Taste and Citizenship in London’s Infectious Disease Asylums, 1871-1891 (AUDIO HERE) - Carmen Mangion (Birkbeck):
‘a bright home to the little ones’: Late-nineteenth-century English Hospitals and the domestic paradigm (AUDIO HERE) - Ayla Lepine (Courtauld Institute):
Manifesting the Rule: Designing for Monasticism in Victorian Oxford (AUDIO HERE) - panel 4 questions .
Education
- Quintin Colville (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich):
Designed, inhabited and exploited: the naval training establishment HMS Ganges, 1905-1950 (audio not available) - Susan Skedd (English Heritage) :
‘Everything necessary to facilitate the acquisition of knowledge’. Eighteenth-century girls’ boarding schools and their contribution towards the institutionalization of education (AUDIO HERE) - Michelle Johansen (Raphael Samuel History Centre):
Inhabiting London’s Public Libraries c.1890-1914 (AUDIO HERE) - William Whyte (Oxford):
An essential part of the best kind of University training’: Halls of Residence at the Civic Universities, 1900-1950 (AUDIO HERE) - panel 5 questions .
Home in the institution
- Mary Clare Martin (Greenwich):
Refuge or prison? Girls’ experiences of a “home” for the mentally defective in early twentieth century Scotland (AUDIO HERE) - Krisztina Robert (Roehampton):
At Home in the Armed Forces: Living Quarters of the Women’s Services in First World War Britain and France (AUDIO HERE) - Vicky Long (Manchester):
Industrial Homes: Domesticating Factories in Interwar Britain (AUDIO HERE) - panel 6 questions .
Round table (AUDIO HERE)
Speakers: Sandra Cavallo (Royal Holloway), Virginia Crossman (Oxford Brookes), Sue Hawkins (Kingston), Andrea Tanner (Kingston) others TBC
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I was very interested to hear Susan Skedd’s talk on education in the eighteenth/nineteenth centuary and I wonder if I could contact her with some questions. I am a professional author of stories for children and teenagers (30 books published) I want to write a semi–fictionial story about Louisa Edsir (illeg. daughter of the Duke of Gloucester and Lady Tyrconnel) who was placed at birth with the Edsir family, who owned a dairy near Hampton Court. When my great-great grandfather, Godfrey Macdonald (later Lord Macdonald) asked for her hand in marriage, he was told he wasn’t ‘good enough’ – ie not of a high enough rank. Louisa was sent away to boarding school but they eloped to Scotland where they married. She was 16. I so want to know what kind of boarding-school Louisa would have attended. Was there any such establishment in the Hampton court arrea?
I have written an historical story (again based on a true character) set in Scotland just after Culloden (The Story of Ranald) but have little knowledge of the late 1700′s (they eloped in 1799) Unfortunately, my own boarding school taught me mainly about the Industrial Revolution and the causes of the Great War!
Griselda Gifford (10 Dukes Ride, Leighton Buzzard, LU7 3JS)
I see there is reference to the Edsir family who farmed in the eighteenth century near Hampton Court. I would be so glad to find which lecture dealt with this and the name of the lecturer. I am researching for a book about Louisa Edsir, illeg. daughter of the Duke of gloucester and Lady Almeria Carpenter, who was brought up by the Edsirs and then eloped with my ancester, Godfrey Macdonald (later Lord Macdonald)
Thank you
Griselda Gifford