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June 2012

News from theMANCHESTER CENTRE

orREGIONAL HISTORY

BEING BOYS: YOUTH, LEISURE AND IDENTITY IN THE INTERWAR YEARSMELANIE TEBBUTT, Director of the Manchester Centre forRegional History, has published her new book Being Boys:

Youth, Leisure and Identity in the Inter-War Years. It offers a

fresh and original approach to the masculinities,

subjectivities and emotions of adolescence by exploring the

leisure lives of working-class boys and young men in the

inter-war years.

The book offers new perspectives on familiar and

important themes in interwar social and cultural history,

going beneath the collective identities and outward

conformity to peer pressure which were so powerful in the

lives of working-class young males to challenge many

stereotypes about their behaviour. Being Boys develops a

subtle analysis of the everyday conformities of youthful

masculinities which suggests new approaches and

questions about the inter-war history of youth and leisure. It

draws on a wide range of autobiographies and personal

accounts and is particularly distinctive in offering an unusual

insight into working-class adolescence through the teenage

diaries of the authors father, which are interwoven with thebooks broader analysis of a range of contemporary leisure

developments, which include the cinema and mass

consumption to boys clubs, personal advice pages, street

cultures, dancing, sexuality, mobility and the body. This

gives the book a broad appeal across the humanities and

social sciences and also makes it relevant to those teaching

and studying in the fields of child development, education,and youth and community studies. Being Boys is available

to buy now from all good bookshops and online retailers.

The Manchester Centre for Regional History (MCRH) is based in the Department of History,

Politics and Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University. It was set up in 1998 with the

aim of building upon the Universitys strengths in the history of Manchester and the north

west of England. The Centre promotes historical research into the region, and has a

particular commitment to community history. MCRH is keen to promote activities that

bridge the gap between academic history and the public, through links with schools,

colleges, local history organisations, museums, archives and libraries, and develop research

initiatives that meet the needs of communities in the north west of England.

a fresh perspective on inter-war boys

lives a welcome addition to the

literature on inter-war youth

Dr John Griffiths,Massey University


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MMU launches Manchester Time Machine App

MMU have launched the 'Manchester Time Machine': the first ever app for the iPhone

which merges archive film with GPS to create a street level tour of Manchesters streets

and people over the last 100 years.

Manchester has changed a lot, and hardly at all. Manchester Time Machine uses rare

historical film from the North West Film Archive to take you back to exactly the same

location to experience the scene from the same viewpoint. See for yourself how much

the city has changed through these fascinating glimpses into the 20th century.

There are 80 highlights from films shot in the city centre, from the early days of film in1911 (a Whit walk in Market Street) through every decade of the last century until the

1970s (as a student demonstration scatters in Oxford Street).

In between, these enchanting films include historically significant events VE Day in

Piccadilly and Albert Square, and moving documents such as the victorious

Manchester City team bringing home the FA cup in Piccadilly in 1934, alongside

powerful everyday views of a life long gone Piccadilly Gardens in the sunshine in 1961,

and in 1914 a mounted policeman barging a cart off the tram tracks on London Road.

Each is presented with a GPS locator and virtual compass so you can find exactly the

same scene in the present day, even when many of the buildings may have

disappeared. Manchester Time Machine offers smartphone users a true multimedia

experience, a moving window through time.

Key featuresOver 80 unique films from the North west Film

Archives collection of over 35000 items, which reflectpeoples lives through work and leisure, places andevents, culture and tradition a regional identity.

Includes films that depict momentous times that still

resonate, such as the bombings and destruction in

1940, and VE Day across the city, alongside almost

forgotten events Pauldens Department store

collapses in a terrible fire in 1957.

But also films that show everyday life, the buildings,

the people and the transport of a bygone age.

Policemen march to a Royal visit in front of the Town

Hall in 1914, trams make their way down LondonRoad in 1948.

The films are grouped by decade from the 1910s, but

you can also select a location from the interactive

Manchester map to see the same place at different

times, or use your GPS to locate a film near you.

Includes background information on each film clip,

plus a virtual compass to orient yourself in the same

direction, or tap the screen to see the original film.

Create your own Manchester tour and see the city

spring to life as it was in the past, or simply watch

your favourite films wherever you are and whenever

you want them.

The Manchester Time Machine was developed by

Manchester Metropolitan University and uses archive

footage from the North West Film Archive, whichis a part of

the Library Service of the Manchester Metropolitan

University.

The Manchester Time Machine is free and available for

downloadworld-wide from the iTunes App Store for iPhone.

Just search for "Manchester Time Machine". Android and

iPad versions to follow.
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MANCHESTER: LOCAL HISTORY DAY- Saturday 16 June 2012

The morning session at Local History Day in 2012 will be given by Dr Paul Carter. He will be

talking on 'Records of the Victorian Poor - Poor Law Union Correspondence: an underused

source for local historians'. Following the BALH AGM, and presentation of the Awards for 2012, our

annual lecture will be 'The local and the everyday: inter-war women's politics' by Prof Karen Hunt of

the Department of History, Keele University. Venue: at Friends' Meeting House, Mount Street,

Manchester. Seehttp://www.balh.co.uk/eventsfor more information

The latest issue of Manchester Region History Review (Volume 22) is now out, hot

off the press. This issue focuses on Growing Up in the North West.

The one hundred years covered by this issue saw perhaps the most rapid and

significant changes in the experience of childhood in our history. From being seenand not heard to vociferously making their presence felt, this issue highlights just

some of the ways in which growing up was transformed for children and young

people in our region.

New issue of MRHR:Growing Up in the North West

Articles include:

The lives and the souls of the children: The Band of

Hope in the North West

Street Arabs and urban waifs in the northern novels

of Silas K. Hocking

Child performers in the theatreSocial dancing in 1930s Lakeland

Teen angst in the Manchester Evening News

Juke boxes, coffee bars & Americanization

Volume 22 is available to order now, with free postage

and packing (please see overleaf).

NORTHERN RADICAL HISTORY NETWORK- Saturday 30th June 2012

The next open meeting of the Northern Radical History Network will take place

on Saturday, 30th June 2012 from 11 am (for 1130 start) to 4 pm. The venue is the

upstairs room of the Town Hall Tavern, Tib Lane, off Cross Street, close by Albert Square.Anyone with an interest in radical history in the North is welcome to come along. Please

seehttp://northernradicalhistory.wordpress.com/for more information.

-Notices-

THE GREAT WAR: LOCALITIES AND REGIONAL IDENTITIES- Wednesday 20 June 2012

As the centenary of the Great War approaches and it slips from first-hand experience, shelves on military history in

high-street bookshops testify to the misty-eyed mythical appeal it continues to have for many. This conference forestalls

the coming public history bonanza by concentrating on the under-researched responses to the crisis from the regions

and localities of Britain. This day conference will bring together twenty papers from scholars working on regional issues

in the Great War and its aftermath. Seehttp://www.mcrh.mmu.ac.uk/confer/gw/for details.
http://www.balh.co.uk/eventshttp://www.balh.co.uk/eventshttp://www.balh.co.uk/eventshttp://northernradicalhistory.wordpress.com/http://northernradicalhistory.wordpress.com/http://northernradicalhistory.wordpress.com/http://www.mcrh.mmu.ac.uk/confer/gw/http://www.mcrh.mmu.ac.uk/confer/gw/http://www.mcrh.mmu.ac.uk/confer/gw/http://www.mcrh.mmu.ac.uk/confer/gw/http://northernradicalhistory.wordpress.com/http://www.balh.co.uk/events


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