An inter-disciplinary workshop organised by Dr Elizabeth Darling (University of Brighton), Dr Andrea Tanner (Kingston University) and the Centre for Metropolitan History, University of London

To be held at the Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, University of London, Malet St, London, WC1E 7HU on Wednesday 13th November, 2002.

The creation of a healthy society was, perhaps, the dominant concern of social reformers in the first half of the 20th 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, then, the aim of this workshop to investigate how social reformers in the case study area of London developed particular models, practices and environments of reform in order to re-make 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.

The speakers are Tim Boon, Elizabeth Darling, Stuart Evans, Martin Gorsky, Toby Haggith, Stephanie Kirby, John Mohan, Meredith Price, John Stewart, Ruth Wallis. After each session there will be ample opportunity for discussion.

The fee is £20, (£15 for students) which includes coffee, tea, and a sandwich lunch. Those wishing to attend should contact Olwen Myhill. Numbers are restricted, and spaces will be allocated on a first come basis RE-MAKING LONDONERS: Models of a Healthy Society in the Nation’s Capital, 1918-1939 PROGRAMME 9.30-9.45 Registration 9.45-11.00 HOSPITALS Martin Gorsky (University of Wolverhampton) & John Mohan (University of Portsmouth): London’s Voluntary Hospitals in the interwar period: growth, transformation or decline? Stephanie Kirby (South Bank University): 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? 11.00-11.15 Coffee 11.15-12.30 HOUSING Ruth Wallis: Public Health & Housing in the inter-war years Stuart Evans (Central St. Martins): Furniture fit for Heroes 12.30-13.30 Lunch 13.30-14.45 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 14.45-15.00 Tea 15.00-16.15 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 16.15-17.00 PLENARY DISCUSSION