Youth Histories and the North West

Saturday 12 September 2009
A day school in Manchester

A youth hostel group, 1949
Image courtesy of Manchester Archives and Local Studies

Speakers:
Andrew Davies:
The Gangs of Victorian Manchester and Salford: The Story of the Scuttlers
http://gangsofmanchester.com/

Adrian Horn:
Conflict on the High Street: Americanisation, Coffee Bars, Juke Boxes and the Moral Decay of the Young in industrial north-west England, 1945-60
http://www.jukeboxbritain.co.uk/
[Please note: Adrian Horn replaces David Fowler at late notice]

Steve Collins:
Street Arabs: Silas K. Hocking and Urban Waifs in the North West

Melanie Tebbutt:
Lounge Lizards, Gigolos and ‘Flighty Pieces’: Young People and Dancing in the Inter-war Years

The event will take place in the Lesbian and Gay Foundation, 105-7 Princess Street, Manchester M1 6DD, in central Manchester and within easy walking distance of Manchester Piccadilly railway station.

Enquiries and bookings to:
Craig Horner
c.horner@mmu.ac.uk

 

 

 

This event is hosted by the
Manchester Centre for Regional History
and the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society.

www.mcrh.mmu.ac.uk/confer/youth

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