Shifting Boundaries and Contested Meanings
Regional
Identities:
Shifting Boundaries and Contested Meanings
The Manchester Centre for Regional History held a conference at Manchester Metropolitan University on 13 and 14 September 2000.
The debate about regionalism is currently a key political issue raising complex questions of identity and boundary definition. This conference discussed and compared regional identities, and localities (within and outside Britain), looking at their multiple, contested meanings and their relationship to the state and nationhood.
Abstracts
Caitlin Adams:
University of Michigan
The Politics of Village Drama in Interwar England
Gaynor Bagnall: Liverpool John
Moore’s University
‘Place and class identities in contemporary North-West England’
Timothy Baycroft: University
of Sheffield
‘ "Degrees of Foreignness" and the Construction
of Identity in French Border Regions During the Inter-war Period’
Kevin Binfield
– Murray State University
Luddism and the Regionalisation of an Eponym
Alyson Brown: Vauxhall
Centre for the Study of Crime, The University of Luton
Child Prostitution in the 1920s: Victims and Villains in the
Community
Michael Bush:
Manchester Metropolitan University
The Northerness of the Pilgrimage of Grace
S A Caunce: University
of Central Lancashire
Is there a separate northern English identity?
Steven Cook: Department
of Marketing, University of Stirling
Defining national Identity? Visiting the Architectural Spaces
of the Museum of Scotland
Paul Cooke: University
of Wales at Aberystwyth
From Opfer to Täter? East German Identity and the Stasi in
Post-Unification East German Literature
Linda Craig: University of Liverpool
‘Peace Celebrations: Community Identities in the
Whaley Bridge District, North Derbyshire’
Catherine Danks:
Manchester Metropolitan University
Nationalism and Regionalism in Post Communist Russia
Paul Di Felice:
University College, Suffolk
'The Italian ethnic entrepreneur, work, kinship and the receiving
society. A study of settlement in the north-west of England, 1890-1945'
Andrew Edwards:
University of Wales, Bangor, School of History and Welsh History
‘Regional identity and its impact on political propaganda
in Gwynedd, north Wales, 1900 – 1950’
Brian Edwards
You Are Now Leaving Wiltshire. Welcome to Prehistory Time Capsule World:
Stonehenge Underpass and the History Bypass
Christopher Fritsch: University of Oxford
‘Crossing boundaries, creating empires: the creation of British identity
through jury participation in colonial Pennsylvania’
Diane Frost: University of Central Lancashire
Constructions of Kru ethnicity in nineteenth and twentieth
century Liberia and Sierra Leone
Kit Good: University of Liverpool
‘Narratives of War and Community: The Local Press and
the Construction of the Response to War in 1914’
Maryann Gomes: Manchester Metropolitan University, North West Film Archive
Keith Grieves:
Kingston University
'Sussexians and the Western Front: asserting a county identity
during the First World War and its aftermath, 1914-24'
Carolyn Grohmann:
University of Edinburgh
‘ "Degrees of Foreignness" and the Construction
of Identity in French Border Regions During the Inter-war Period’
Jan Hewitt: University
of Teesside
‘The Haven under the Hill’: Landscape and Identity
in Mary Linskill’s Fiction.
Matthew Holford:
University of York
The Church of York & the Identity of Northern England in
the Late Middle Ages
Craig_Horner: Manchester Metropolitan University
‘A Happiness peculiar to this trading Part of the Kingdom’:
the civic identity of Manchester at the time of Bonnie Prince Charlie
Joan Hugman: University of Newcastle
‘ "Legendary Tales at the Fin de Siècle": North East Identity
and the Newcastle Monthly Chronicle’
Claire Jack: University of the
Highlands and Islands Project
'The impact of crofting and in structuring the identity of
Shetland women from the 1930s to the present day'
Hilda Kean: Ruskin College
Family and Place in the Creation of East London Histories
Paul Lawrence: The Open University
‘ "Degrees of Foreignness" and the Construction
of Identity in French Border Regions During the Inter-war Period’
Roger Lloyd Jones and M.J. Lewis:
Sheffield Hallam University
"We Do Not Want to Play the Game": Alfred Herbert Ltd. and Business
Networks in the British Machine Tool Industry in the 1950s and Early1960s
Brian Longhurst: University of Salford
‘Place and class identities in contemporary North-West England’
Evelyn Lord: University
of Cambridge
Reading the Region: East Anglia, Eastern Region, or North Sea
Cultural Network?
Fiona McLean: University of
Stirling
‘Defining National Identity? Visiting the Architectural Spaces of the Museum
of Scotland’
Nick Mansfield:
National Museum of Labour History
Voluntary Recruiting and ‘County’ Identity, 1914
– 1923
Rachel Martin:
University of Cambridge
The Movement for the Abolition of the Slave Trade in Manchester,
1788-92
Heather Norris Nicholson:
College of Ripon & York St John
Two tales of a city: Salford in non-professional film, c.1957-1973
Tony Nicholson:
University of Teesside
A New sense of Place: Cleveland, c. 1800 - 1920
Gary Peatling:
University of Wales Aberystwyth
The strong, silent type: the English voice in Edwardian debate
about constitutional reform’
Gervase Phillips:
Manchester Metropolitan University
'Becoming Another Self?': National Identity and Military Service:
The Welsh Experience, 1914-1918
Paul Pickering:
Australian National University, Canberra
British Colonial Identity: Radicalism in Victoria and New South
Wales c1850-1860
Robert Poole:
St Martin’s College, Lancaster
Tim Bobbin’s Ghost: Lancashire cultural identity 1750-1850
Andrew Popp: Manchester
Metropolitan University
"The True Potter": Identity and Entrepreneurship
in the North Staffordshire Potteries in the Later Nineteenth Century
Douglas Reichert Powell
Reading US Regional Landscapes
Stewart Rawnsley: Leeds Metropolitan
University
Northern Identity
Mike Savage: University
of Manchester
‘Place and class identities in contemporary North-West England’
Gurchand Singh:
University of Luton
National Identity, Racism - and its denial - in Scotland, Wales
and Northern Ireland
Winifred Stokes: C.O.R.A.L
‘North East England: early 19th century joint stock enterprises’
Maggy Taylor: Manchester Metropolitan University
Building Utopia or Paradise Lost? Municipal Architecture and the Construction
of Local Identity
Simon Trezise: University of Exeter
The Victorian Construction of a Celtic West Country
Andrew Walker:
University of Lincolnshire and Humberside
Privileging region? Region, locality and nation in civic ritual:
Lancashire and Yorkshire, c. 1842 – 1922
Malcolm Wanklyn:
University of Wolverhampton
"Blue Remembered Hills". Images of the Welsh Borderland in the Twentieth
Century
Paul Ward: University of Huddersfield
The Council, the Children and the Monarchy: Constructing London
Identity, 1911-1953
Jane Weiss: Hunter
College of CUNY
‘Peace to Them Would Be Eternal Fretting to You’:
Elizabeth’s Gaskell’s revision of the Rural Landscape
Ian Whyte: Lancaster
University
A New Way of Seeing the Lake District: Wordsworth’s Guide
to the Lakes and Its Influence on the Perception of a Picturesque Region
Phil Withington:
University of Aberdeen
A question of place: cities and walls in seventeenth-century
England
Sue Wright: Sheffield
Hallam University
'Graves on the Sand: The Tourist Gaze on Mallorca'
Craig Young: Manchester Metropolitan University
A post-Socialist regional identity? Creating and promoting
a new regional identity for Lodz, Poland