{"id":13410,"date":"2013-07-09T15:20:04","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T15:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/?p=13410"},"modified":"2025-11-23T09:48:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T09:48:58","slug":"the-transformation-of-urban-britain-since-1945-july-910-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/?p=13410","title":{"rendered":"The transformation of urban Britain since 1945 – July 9\/10 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

UPDATE:<\/strong> Useful link here ->\u00a0https:\/\/www.le.ac.uk\/manufacturingpasts<\/a><\/p>\n

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Conference organised by the Centre for Urban History, University of\u00a0Leicester
\nDeadline:\u00a01 February 2013
\n9-10 July 2013\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Plenary Speakers: John Gold (Oxford Brookes); Frank Mort (Manchester);\u00a0Guy Ortolano (New York University); Selina Todd (St Hildas, Oxford)<\/p>\n

During the second half of the twentieth century the towns and cities\u00a0of Britain were transformed more extensively than at any period since\u00a0the industrial revolution.<\/p>\n

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Millions of people were moved from the\u00a0centre of cities to new urban settlements in what Alison Ravetz called\u00a0‘the greatest internal migration in British history’; whole\u00a0manufacturing industries and their associated communities and\u00a0cultures, which had dominated much of urban Britain north of the Trent\u00a0for two centuries, were swept away in a matter of decades; and the\u00a0steady influx of peoples from the old empire and Europe created new\u00a0community formations and ultimately a multicultural Britain which was\u00a0also overwhelmingly urban. Britain’s towns and cities today are barely\u00a0recognisable from the drab and damaged places that emerged from the\u00a0Second World War.<\/p>\n

The history of this transformation has only been written in part –\u00a0significantly the final volume of the Cambridge Urban History of\u00a0Britain, the most substantial scholarly overview of the subject, stops\u00a0in 1950. The purpose of this conference is to bring together for the\u00a0first time the growing body of expertise and knowledge of urban\u00a0Britain since 1945 to debate the ways in which that history might be\u00a0written. We want to bring together not only different types of\u00a0historian – social, cultural, economic, urban, planning – around this\u00a0subject but also others who have a direct interest in it:\u00a0conservationists, policy-makers, journalists and others. One of the\u00a0purposes of the conference is to create a network of scholars and\u00a0practitioners on post-war urban Britain.<\/p>\n

We are interested in particular in inviting papers and panels on the\u00a0following themes, which are illustrative and not exhaustive:<\/p>\n