CENTRE FOR METROPOLITAN HISTORY, INSTITUTE OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH,
SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

REMAKING LONDONERS:
MODELS OF A HEALTHY SOCIETY IN THE NATION'S CAPITAL 1918-1939

One-day inter-disciplinary workshop

13 November 2002

Organisers:Dr Elizabeth Darling (University of Brighton) and Dr Andrea Tanner (Kingston University)

British Local History Room,
First Floor, Institute of Historical Research,
Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

The creation of a healthy society was, perhaps, the dominant concern of social reformers in the first half of the twentieth century and many historians have considered the legislative processes through which such a society was produced. What have, hitherto, been little studied, are the locations in which the ideologies of a healthy society were produced, especially in the inter-war decades. It is the aim of this workshop, using London as a case study, to investigate how social reformers developed particular models, practices and environments of reform in order to remake London's population into a race of healthy, active and educated citizens between the end of the Great War in 1918 and the declaration of the Second World War in September 1939. The workshop is arranged under the themes of hospitals, housing, the Peckham Health Centre and propaganda.

Registration Information

The fee is £20 (£15 for students and unwaged) including refreshments and a sandwich lunch. Numbers are restricted, and places will be allocated on a first come basis. Sterling cheques (made payable to 'University of London') should be sent, together with name, postal address, institutional affiliation (if any), and email address, by 5 November to Olwen Myhill, Centre for Metropolitan History, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU. Tel: 020 7862 8790; Fax: 020 7862 8793; Email: olwen.myhill@sas.ac.uk (Payment by credit card is also acceptable.)

Programme

9.30 Registration
9.45 Session 1: Hospitals
Martin Gorsky (University of Wolverhampton) and John Mohan (University of Portsmouth), 'London's Voluntary Hospitals in the interwar period: growth, transformation or decline?
Stephanie Kirby (University of Essex), 'Politicising Professionals: the London County Council Nursing Service 1929-1948'
John Stewart (Oxford Brookes University), 'The Hospital Provision of the LCC, 1929-1939: success or failure?'
11.00 Coffee
11.15 Session 2: Housing
Ruth Wallis, 'Public Health and Housing in the Inter-war Years'
Stuart Evans (Central St Martin's), 'Furniture Fit for Heroes'
12.30 Lunch
13.30 Session 3: Peckham
Meredith Price (Darwin College, Cambridge), 'In Sickness or in Health: the Pioneer Health Centre and the creation of the NHS'
Elizabeth Darling (University of Brighton), '"The Peckhamites are going all Nazi": a new landscape of health in a south London street'
14.45 Tea
15.00 Session 4: Propaganda
Toby Haggith (Imperial War Museum), 'Paradox City: propaganda films produced by London's housing reformers, 1918-1939'
Tim Boon (Science Museum), 'Advocacy, Persuasion and Resistance: diphtheria immunisation in the London Boroughs, 1921-1939'
16.15 Plenary Discussion
16.55 Close

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