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The History of the Media in 20th Century Britain:
19th Annual CCBH Summer Conference.
29 June - 1 July 2005, Chancellor's Hall, Senate House, University of London.

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Sessions will take place in the Chancellor's Hall, Room 265 and Room 329/30

Wednesday 29 June

9.15-10.00 Registration; Coffee.

10.00-11.00 Plenary Lecturte [Chancellor's Hall] Chair: Pat Thane.
Sir Robert Worcester. (MORI/LSE/University of Warwick/University of Kent)
'History of the Media's Use of Opinion Polls - 1824-2005'

11.00-12.30 Parallel Sessions:

Media, politics and election coverage [Chancellor's Hall] Chair: Michael Kandiah.
Ralph Negrine, (Leicester), 'Understanding change? A critical review of explanations of the changing nature of political communication and election campaigning'
James Thomas, (Cardiff), 'British politics, general elections and the popular press since 1940'
Dominic Wring and David Deacon, (Loughborough), 'From Tory Press to Tony Press? The Changing Dynamics of Press Partisanship in Britain'

Media and race [Room 265] Chair: James Chapman
Darrell Newton, (Salisbury University, Maryland), 'A Sense of Loss: British Television and the Taboo of Sexual Miscegenation'
David Parker (Nottingham) and Paul Long (University of Central England), 'What is a Media Archive? Regional Television and the Racialisation of Locality'
Peter Waymark, (Open University), 'Television and representations of race: the case of The Black and White Minstrel Show'

12.30-13.30 Lunch

13.30-15.00 Parallel Sessions:

Media and sexuality [Chancellor's Hall] Chair: Adrian Bingham
Rebecca Loncraine, (Women's Library), 'Page Three and the Permissive Society, 1970-1973'
Alison Oram, (University College, Northampton), 'Decadence and Unnatural Passion: Writing about Sex Between Women in the British Popular Press 1920-1960s.'

History in the Media [Room 265] Chair: Peter Waymark
James Chapman, (Open University), 'Television and History: The World at War'
Sally Dux, (Open University), 'A Bridge Too Far as film and history'
Simon Titley-Bayes, (York), 'Producers or consumers? Family history magazines, the genealogists' internet, and special interest history from bottom to top'

15.15-16.30 Witness seminar [Chancellor's Hall] Chair: James Curran
Regulating The Press: The Calcutt Report and the Establishment of the Press Complaints Commission

16.30-16.50 Tea

16.50-18.00 Witness seminar (second session)

18.00 Reception
Thursday, 30 June

9.30-11.00 Parallel Sessions:

Royalty, Celebrity and the Media [Chancellor's Hall] Chair: Alison Oram
Adrian Bingham, (CCBH), 'Royalty, Celebrity and Privacy in the popular press, 1918-75'
Sian Nicholas, (University of Wales, Aberystwyth), '"Kings, or fellow human beings": the monarchy and the media in inter-war Britain.'

Media and social policy [Room 329/330] Chair: Liza Filby
Michael Bailey, (Leeds Metropolitan), 'Broadcasting and the problem of enforced leisure during the 1930s'
Katharine Bradley, (CCBH), 'Framing the Juvenile Delinquent: Fear, Violence and Privacy 1900-1960'
Mike Esbester, (York), '"Out of Sight, Out of Mind": Assessing the effectiveness of a media campaign'

11.00-11.30 Coffee

11.30-13.00 Parallel Sessions:

Britain and the wider world [Chancellor's Hall] Chair: Michael Parsons
Charlotte Alston, (CCBH), 'Representations of Russia in the British Press 1900-1914'
Chandrika Kaul, (St Andrews), 'Media History and the British Empire in India: Trends and Tendencies'
Eugene Michail, (Sussex), 'Foreign News: British media and foreign Others as seen in the media coverage of the Balkans in the first half of the 20th Century'
Jean Chalaby, (City University), 'The Command of the Skies: A Short History of International Television in Europe'

Public-service broadcasting [Room 329/330] Chair: Martin Farr
Michael Klontzas, (City University), 'PSB and the delivery of public policy in the pre-convergence era'
Jeffrey Milland, (Bristol), 'Pilkington: the triumph of paternalism'
Maria Sourbati, (Brighton), 'From positive programming requirements to the promotion of media literacy: what can be learned from the history of audiovisual content regulation?'

13.00-14.00 Lunch

14.00-15.30 Cities and Cinema [Chancellor's Hall] Chair: Ian Christie

Ian Christie, (Birkbeck), 'Selling "Animated Pictures": the emergence of the film business in London 1896-1906'
Janet McBain, (Scottish Screen Archive): "'Ifs its good its Green's': One entrepreueur's dominance of early cinema sxhibition/production in Glasgow"
Elizabeth Lebas (Middlesex), 'Glasgow Corporation as documentary pioneer, 1921-38'
Richard Brown, (Scottish Film Archive), 'The Missing Link: Film renters in Manchester, 1910-1920'

15.30-16.00 Tea

16.00-17.30 Parallel Sessions:

Expanding the boundaries of journalism [Chancellor's Hall] Chair: Adrian Bingham
Laurel Brake, (Birkbeck), 'Fiction and the Popular Press: "Journalism-Fiction" in WT Stead's 1d Dailies'
Bruce Hanlin (City University) and Michael Bromley (Queensland), 'A tale of three cities and the life and death of Picture Post'
Vanessa Chambers, (CCBH), '"It's in your stars": The newspaper horoscope column and British society - 1930-1951'

Television history [Room 329/330] Chair: Jean Chalaby
Christine Fanthome, 'Survival in a Multi-Channelled Environment - a History of Channel 5/ Five's Early Years'
Stefan Schwarzkopf (Birkbeck), 'Digging their own grave? British advertising agencies and the introduction of commercial television in the United Kingdom, 1950 - 1960'
Rod Stoneman, (Huston School of Film and Digital Media, National University of Ireland, Galway), 'Independent Film and Video and early Channel Four - Utopian television'

Friday, 1 July

9.30-11.00 Parallel Sessions:

America and the British media [Chancellor's Hall] Chair: Mark Hampton
Kelly Boyd, (Middlesex) 'American Influences on BBC Television: The Example of Edward R Murrow'
Peter Miskell, (Reading), 'Selling American Films in Britain in the 1930s and 1940s: The Case of United Artists'
Sean Nixon, (Essex), 'Apostles of Americanization? Advertising, Consumption and the Anglophone Commercial Atlantic 1945-67

Newsreels and Radio [Room 265] Chair: Ian Christie
Luke McKernan, (British Universities Film and Video Council), 'The Meaning of Newsreels'
B Mairead Pratschke (McMaster University, Canada), 'Amharc Éireann (Look at Ireland): Irish-language newsreels in the television era, 1959-64'
Ralph Desmarais, (Imperial), '"Promoting Science on Radio": The BBC, scientists, and the British public, 1930-1945'

11.00-11.30 Coffee

11.30-12.30 Plenary Lecture [Chancellor's Hall] Chair: Antoine Capet
Jean Seaton (Westminster) 'Politics and Rows, Programmes and Mores: the BBC and Thatcherism'

12.30-13.30 Lunch

13.30-14.45 Parallel Sessions:

The Labour Party and the media [Chancellor's Hall] Chair: David Hendy
Laura Beers, (Harvard), 'Learning from their Mistakes: Labour, the Media and the General Strike'
Martin Moore, (LSE), 'The Media and the State - The Fight for an Independent BBC, 1945-51'

IBA and broadcasting regulation [Room 265] Chair: Michael Klontzas
Martin Farr, (Newcastle), 'Bridget Plowden and the IBA'
Peter Goddard, (Liverpool), '"A Matter of Broadcasting Policy": The IBA and the Poulson Programme'

14.45-15.00 Tea

15.00-16:30 The media, political debate and propaganda [Chancellor's Hall] Chair: Antoine Capet
Mark Hampton, (Wesleyan College), 'The British Press and Democratic Political Culture: The Twentieth Century'
David Hendy, (Westminster), 'BBC Radio and the Reporting of Politics in the 1970s'
Zoe Whitley (V&A), 'Propaganda and Censorship: examples from the Victoria and Albert Museum's Poster Collections'
Booking Details

There are limited numbers of places available at this conference, which will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. To register please download and print the programme and registration form: The PDF version of the Conference Programme and Registration Form (pdf file) and the Microsoft Word version of the form. The registration form should be completed and returned with your cheque or card payment details to: CCBH Summer Conference, CCBH, IHR, Senate House, Malet St, London WC1E 7HU.
Registration Catagory Price
Full rate £95
CCBH/IHR Friend* £65
Student or Unwaged* £25
Speaker £15
Contact the conference organisers on tel: 020 7664 5579, Fax: telephone office for number
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Bursaries are available to help postgraduate students with the costs of attending the conference, generously provided by the Friends of the IHR. Please email virginia.preston@sas.ac.uk for further information about these.


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