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
