MCRH News June2012
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June 2012
News from theMANCHESTER CENTRE
orREGIONAL HISTORY
BEING BOYS: YOUTH, LEISURE AND IDENTITY IN THE INTERWAR YEARSMELANIE TEBBUTT, Director of the Manchester Centre forRegional History, has published her new book Being Boys:
Youth, Leisure and Identity in the Inter-War Years. It offers a
fresh and original approach to the masculinities,
subjectivities and emotions of adolescence by exploring the
leisure lives of working-class boys and young men in the
inter-war years.
The book offers new perspectives on familiar and
important themes in interwar social and cultural history,
going beneath the collective identities and outward
conformity to peer pressure which were so powerful in the
lives of working-class young males to challenge many
stereotypes about their behaviour. Being Boys develops a
subtle analysis of the everyday conformities of youthful
masculinities which suggests new approaches and
questions about the inter-war history of youth and leisure. It
draws on a wide range of autobiographies and personal
accounts and is particularly distinctive in offering an unusual
insight into working-class adolescence through the teenage
diaries of the authors father, which are interwoven with thebooks broader analysis of a range of contemporary leisure
developments, which include the cinema and mass
consumption to boys clubs, personal advice pages, street
cultures, dancing, sexuality, mobility and the body. This
gives the book a broad appeal across the humanities and
social sciences and also makes it relevant to those teaching
and studying in the fields of child development, education,and youth and community studies. Being Boys is available
to buy now from all good bookshops and online retailers.
The Manchester Centre for Regional History (MCRH) is based in the Department of History,
Politics and Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University. It was set up in 1998 with the
aim of building upon the Universitys strengths in the history of Manchester and the north
west of England. The Centre promotes historical research into the region, and has a
particular commitment to community history. MCRH is keen to promote activities that
bridge the gap between academic history and the public, through links with schools,
colleges, local history organisations, museums, archives and libraries, and develop research
initiatives that meet the needs of communities in the north west of England.
a fresh perspective on inter-war boys
lives a welcome addition to the
literature on inter-war youth
Dr John Griffiths,Massey University
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MMU launches Manchester Time Machine App
MMU have launched the 'Manchester Time Machine': the first ever app for the iPhone
which merges archive film with GPS to create a street level tour of Manchesters streets
and people over the last 100 years.
Manchester has changed a lot, and hardly at all. Manchester Time Machine uses rare
historical film from the North West Film Archive to take you back to exactly the same
location to experience the scene from the same viewpoint. See for yourself how much
the city has changed through these fascinating glimpses into the 20th century.
There are 80 highlights from films shot in the city centre, from the early days of film in1911 (a Whit walk in Market Street) through every decade of the last century until the
1970s (as a student demonstration scatters in Oxford Street).
In between, these enchanting films include historically significant events VE Day in
Piccadilly and Albert Square, and moving documents such as the victorious
Manchester City team bringing home the FA cup in Piccadilly in 1934, alongside
powerful everyday views of a life long gone Piccadilly Gardens in the sunshine in 1961,
and in 1914 a mounted policeman barging a cart off the tram tracks on London Road.
Each is presented with a GPS locator and virtual compass so you can find exactly the
same scene in the present day, even when many of the buildings may have
disappeared. Manchester Time Machine offers smartphone users a true multimedia
experience, a moving window through time.
Key featuresOver 80 unique films from the North west Film
Archives collection of over 35000 items, which reflectpeoples lives through work and leisure, places andevents, culture and tradition a regional identity.
Includes films that depict momentous times that still
resonate, such as the bombings and destruction in
1940, and VE Day across the city, alongside almost
forgotten events Pauldens Department store
collapses in a terrible fire in 1957.
But also films that show everyday life, the buildings,
the people and the transport of a bygone age.
Policemen march to a Royal visit in front of the Town
Hall in 1914, trams make their way down LondonRoad in 1948.
The films are grouped by decade from the 1910s, but
you can also select a location from the interactive
Manchester map to see the same place at different
times, or use your GPS to locate a film near you.
Includes background information on each film clip,
plus a virtual compass to orient yourself in the same
direction, or tap the screen to see the original film.
Create your own Manchester tour and see the city
spring to life as it was in the past, or simply watch
your favourite films wherever you are and whenever
you want them.
The Manchester Time Machine was developed by
Manchester Metropolitan University and uses archive
footage from the North West Film Archive, whichis a part of
the Library Service of the Manchester Metropolitan
University.
The Manchester Time Machine is free and available for
downloadworld-wide from the iTunes App Store for iPhone.
Just search for "Manchester Time Machine". Android and
iPad versions to follow.
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MANCHESTER: LOCAL HISTORY DAY- Saturday 16 June 2012
The morning session at Local History Day in 2012 will be given by Dr Paul Carter. He will be
talking on 'Records of the Victorian Poor - Poor Law Union Correspondence: an underused
source for local historians'. Following the BALH AGM, and presentation of the Awards for 2012, our
annual lecture will be 'The local and the everyday: inter-war women's politics' by Prof Karen Hunt of
the Department of History, Keele University. Venue: at Friends' Meeting House, Mount Street,
Manchester. Seehttp://www.balh.co.uk/eventsfor more information
The latest issue of Manchester Region History Review (Volume 22) is now out, hot
off the press. This issue focuses on Growing Up in the North West.
The one hundred years covered by this issue saw perhaps the most rapid and
significant changes in the experience of childhood in our history. From being seenand not heard to vociferously making their presence felt, this issue highlights just
some of the ways in which growing up was transformed for children and young
people in our region.
New issue of MRHR:Growing Up in the North West
Articles include:
The lives and the souls of the children: The Band of
Hope in the North West
Street Arabs and urban waifs in the northern novels
of Silas K. Hocking
Child performers in the theatreSocial dancing in 1930s Lakeland
Teen angst in the Manchester Evening News
Juke boxes, coffee bars & Americanization
Volume 22 is available to order now, with free postage
and packing (please see overleaf).
NORTHERN RADICAL HISTORY NETWORK- Saturday 30th June 2012
The next open meeting of the Northern Radical History Network will take place
on Saturday, 30th June 2012 from 11 am (for 1130 start) to 4 pm. The venue is the
upstairs room of the Town Hall Tavern, Tib Lane, off Cross Street, close by Albert Square.Anyone with an interest in radical history in the North is welcome to come along. Please
seehttp://northernradicalhistory.wordpress.com/for more information.
-Notices-
THE GREAT WAR: LOCALITIES AND REGIONAL IDENTITIES- Wednesday 20 June 2012
As the centenary of the Great War approaches and it slips from first-hand experience, shelves on military history in
high-street bookshops testify to the misty-eyed mythical appeal it continues to have for many. This conference forestalls
the coming public history bonanza by concentrating on the under-researched responses to the crisis from the regions
and localities of Britain. This day conference will bring together twenty papers from scholars working on regional issues
in the Great War and its aftermath. Seehttp://www.mcrh.mmu.ac.uk/confer/gw/for details.
http://www.balh.co.uk/eventshttp://www.balh.co.uk/eventshttp://www.balh.co.uk/eventshttp://northernradicalhistory.wordpress.com/http://northernradicalhistory.wordpress.com/http://northernradicalhistory.wordpress.com/http://www.mcrh.mmu.ac.uk/confer/gw/http://www.mcrh.mmu.ac.uk/confer/gw/http://www.mcrh.mmu.ac.uk/confer/gw/http://www.mcrh.mmu.ac.uk/confer/gw/http://northernradicalhistory.wordpress.com/http://www.balh.co.uk/events -
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