Programme and Registration Details (deadline 21 February) are provided below. Please note small contributions to UK/EU graduate student's costs by contacting Richard Rodger rgr@le.ac.uk

Programme:
THE URBAN HISTORY GROUP
Annual Conference
RE-ASSESSING URBAN POLITICS
University of Durham
3 – 4 April 2003

Conference Programme:
Thursday 3 April 2003
11.00 (onwards) Registration
1.00 Lunch
2.00-3.30 Session 1 – Plenary Session:
The Meaning of Party in Local Politics
Conflict, Community and Identity in Victorian and Edwardian Urban Politics: A case study of the Black Country
Rick Trainor (Greenwich)

Things Aren’t What They Used To Be! Elites, and Constructs of Consensus and Conflict in Twentieth Century English Municipal Politics
Nick Hayes (Nottingham Trent)

Avoiding “the bitterness of party strife The Ideology of Wolverhampton Council 1848—1888.
John Smith ( Leicester)

3.30-4.00 Tea

4.00-6.00 Session 2
The Challenge from the Left
Andrew Bonar Law and Unionist Politics on the Red Clyde
Ewen A. Cameron (Edinburgh)

The politics of place: The case of the working-class suburb, Walthamstow 1870 – 1914
Timothy Cooper (Cambridge)

Labour divided: political divisions and their consequences in Barrow-in-Furness, 1921-1924
Caroline Joy (Central Lancashire)

"Make her feel welcome" - local political cultures and the work of paid organisers in the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) 1905-14
Krista Cowman (Leeds Metropolitan)

6.00 Business Meeting
7.00 Dinner
8.15 After Dinner Lecture – Rob Colls (Leicester)
When We Lived in Communities
Late bar

Friday 4 April 2003

8.00 Breakfast
9.00-11.00 Session 3

Politics and Policing ‘Honour & Odd Tricks’ - The Creation of a ‘Pocket-Borough’: Clitheroe, Lancashire, 1693-1780
Henry French (Exeter)
Police and Party Politics in New Orleans, 1852-1860
Stacy K. McGoldrick (Hampshire College, Mass)
‘Policing’ Party Politics in the Midlands, c.1900-1938
Shane Ewen (Leicester)

Rotten boroughs? How the towns of England and Wales lost their police forces in 1964
Chris A. Williams (Open)

11.0-11.30 Coffee
11.30-1.00 Session 4: Plenary Session

The Politics of Space
The Politics and Languages of the Slum: Manchester and Salford in the 1930s
Bill Luckin (Bolton)

Politics, ideology and the issue of open space in London 1939-1955
Patricia Garside (Salford)

Politics of Area Conservation in Cairo
Ahmed Sedky (Edinburgh College of Art)

1.00-2.00 Lunch
2.00 Conference ends

Booking details, including a booking form, are available from:
Maureen Galbraith
Economic History Society
Department of Economic and Social History
University of Glasgow
4 University Gardens
Glasgow G12 8QQ
ehsocsec@arts.gla.ac.uk
The form can be downloaded at http://www.ehs.org.uk/bookfm2.htm

BURSARIES
For graduate students currently studying for a higher degree. Please apply to Richard Rodger via email and ask your supervisor to send a one sentence confirmation of your status.

For information about the academic aspects of the conference contact: