The conference will explore image,identity and urban experience in Gloucestershire, Somerset, Dorset and Wiltshire. It is being held at the Regional History Centre, Univeristy of the West of England Bristol, UK
Cost: including lunch, teas and coffees £20 (waged) £15 (student or unwaged)

Conference Programmee

9.30 Registration (The Link)
9.55 Welcome (Chapel Lecture Theatre)
10.00 Opening Address Jonathan Barry (University of Exeter) plenary speaker. Urban History in the South West 1688-1832: Current Issues and Future Prospects
10.35 Rosemary Sweet (University of Leicester) Contested Histories and Contrasting Identities.
11.00 Andrew Hann (University of Coventry) Market Place or Leisure Space: Competing Visions of the 18th Century Provincial Town
11.45 coffee
12.05 Richard Sheldon (University of Bristol) Markets, Politics and Protest in the Urban English West: Economic Life & Regional Identity.
12.35 Nick Rogers (York University, Toronto) Bristol and the Politics of Naval Impressment in the Eighteenth Century
1.15 Lunch
2.15 Victoria Masten (Jesus College, Cambridge) The Female Business Sphere: Women Entrepreneurs in Bath, 1700-1800
2.40 Henry French (University of Exeter) The Social Profile and Family Structures of Office Holders in the South West: Lyme Regis in the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries
3.25 coffee
3.45 Madge Dresser (UWE, Bristol) Slavery, the Urban Gentry and the 'Country House' in Eighteenth Century Bristol and its Environs
4.10 Steve Poole (UWE, Bristol)
Sexual Transgression. Plebeian Culture and Urban Identity in Bristol, 1720-1820 4.55 close

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