Rural Life in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Rural Life in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Regional Perspectives
Thursday 12th September 2002
Geoffrey Manton Building, Manchester Metropolitan University

This conference was concerned with the relationship between rural and urban cultures. Themes included the changing nature of rural society; relationships between town and countryside, changing perceptions of rural life.

Papers included:

Melanie Tebbutt, Manchester Metropolitan University
"Men of the hills" and street corner boys’, northern uplands and the urban imagination’: Derbyshire s Dark Peak, 1880s— 1920s

John Walton, University of Central Lancashire
National parks and rural identities: the North Yorkshire moors

George Sbeeran, Universityof Bradford
Conflicting images: portrayals of the factory and the country in the 19th century

Andrew Walker, University of Lincoln
The Lincolnshire Show at Lincoln, 1869-1913: rural and urban encounters on the showground

Martin Ramsbottom, Oxford Brookes University
Children in Lancashire workhouses, 1780s-1850

Joan Foster, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
The lives of working children in nineteenth century rural Northumberland

Winifred Stokes, CORAL
Agricultural improvement and industrial revolution in the south Durham coalfield

Rosemary Power, Former Co-ordinator, National Coalfields Heritage Project
The heritage of the pit village: heavy industry in a rural context

Keith Grieves, Kingston University
The quiet of the country and the restless excitement of towns: imagining differences in the rural and urban dimensions of the home front in south-east England, 19 14-1918.

Nick Mansfield, People’s History Museum
Farmworkers, the Marches and the impact of the Great War