I suppose this includes pubs! >Return-path: <[log in to unmask]> >Resent-date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 14:56:38 -0005 >Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 15:13:50 -0400 >Resent-from: [log in to unmask] >From: Richard Gorrie <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: CFP: Unrespectable Recreations? The Victorians at Play >Sender: H-Net List for British and Irish History <[log in to unmask]> >Resent-to: [log in to unmask] >To: [log in to unmask] >Reply-to: H-Net List for British and Irish History <[log in to unmask]> >Resent-message-id: <[log in to unmask]> >X-Autoforward: 1 >Original-recipient: rfc822;[log in to unmask] > >Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 13:24:57 +0100 >=46rom: "Martin Hewitt" <[log in to unmask]> > >A belated announcement of next March's colloquium at the Leeds >Centre for Victorian Studies. If anyone is interested in offering a >paper, could they let me have title and brief abstract, if possible by >Tuesday 11th July, or as soon as possible thereafter. With >apologies for the short notice. > >Martin Hewitt >[log in to unmask] > > Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies > Thirteenth Northern Victorian Studies Colloquium > 17th March 2001 at Trinity and All Saints, Leeds > > Call for Papers > Unrespectable Recreations? > The Victorians at Play > >We know of the Victorians as earnest, improving, puritanical, >committed to that epitom=E9 of Victorian social thinking, "rational >recreation". Perhaps the time has come to extend our knowledge >to the other, less respectable, side of Victorian recreation, in >which the Victorians really were "at play". Proposals (300 >words) for papers are thus invited which deal with any aspect of >Victorian recreation, but especially its less reputable and public >aspects, and especially of those who in normal circumstances >might well have adopted the conventional Victorian positions. > Deadline 10th July 2000. > >Expressions of interest already received from John Walton, John >Springhall, Tony Collins, Tony Mangan, Matthew Hilton, and Mike Huggins. > >A selection of the papers will be published as Volume 4 of the Leeds Working >Papers in Victorian Studies, and distributed to all participants. > >Send proposals to: >Martin Hewitt, Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies, Trinity and >All Saints, Brownberrie Lane, Leeds, LS18 5HD >e-mail: [log in to unmask] >0113-2837231. >