A Second City Remembered:
Rethinking Bristol’s History, 1400-2000
A conference organized by the Regional History Centre,
University of the West of England, Bristol, in partnership with M-Shed, the
Museum of Bristol
St
Matthias Campus, University of the West of England, Bristol
23-24 July 2010
Friday 23 July
9.00 – Registration
and coffee
9.30 –
Welcome and
Introduction
Panel 1 - Museums, commemoration and memory
Ray Barnett
(MShed) – The making of MShed
Richard Wyatt, (University of Bristol), From Bombs to Banksy
Andrew Foyle (LGBT History Group) Sins
of Omission? Recovering LGBT history in Bristol
Panel 2 – Trade, growth and reputation before 1650
Richard Stone
(University of Bristol) Bristol’s trade
before the Civil War – a Reinterpretation
David Bruce (UWE) How Braun and Hogenberg’s
(1572-1617) view of Bristol among 400 other cities of the world may have
affected Bristol’s history to date and into the future
Alyson Marsden (Independent researcher), London’s
Persecution of the Second City: the search, seizure and destruction of Bristol
Wares in the 1630s
11.15-11.45 coffee
11.45-1.15
Panel 1: Reading the medieval city
Richard Coates (UWE), Street-naming and – renaming in the
medieval city of Bristol in the tides of politics and fashion
David Gary Shaw (Wesleyan University) Traveller’s
Homecoming: William Worcestre and Bristol.
Peter Fleming (UWE); Giants, Trojans and Antiquarians:
Bristol's mythical history
Panel 2: Icons
and Heritage
Owain Jones (UWE) and Anthony Lyons (artist), Deep
Mapping Bristol’s Tidal Heritages
Barb Drummond (Independent historian and publisher) Bristol Bridge: Barometer of
Bristol’s Prosperity
Mike Marsden (Independent researcher) Concorde:
Bristol’s 20th Century Icon.
1.15-2.15 Lunch
2.15-3.45
Panel 1 – Contemporary Archaeology in Bristol: past, present,
future?
James Dixon (UWE): The Varied Legacies of Post-War
Planning
Sefryn
Penrose (University of Oxford): The M32
John Schofield (English Heritage), Rachael Kiddey (BBC) and Friends: (Counter)-Mapping Bristol
Discussant: Stephen Williams MP (Bristol West)
Panel 2 – Art, Image and History
Stephanie Barczewski (Clemson University) The impact of
the colonization of North America on Bristol: the Red Lodge and representations
of Indians in the late sixteenth century
Katy Layton-Jones (Centre for Urban History, University
of Leicester), A Sublime Sight: Romanticising the
Bristol Docks 1750 – 1850
Canon Tim Higgins (St Stephens Church, Bristol) &
Deborah Harrison (Arts Manager) The Harbour Church’s role in Slave-trade
reconciliation and the commissioning of the ‘Reconciliation Reredos’
public artwork.
3.45-4.15 coffee
4.15-5.45
Panel 1 – Fifteenth century trading legacies
Heather Dalton (University of Melbourne), Bristol
merchants and trading expeditions to the Guinea of Cape Verde at the end of the
fifteenth century
Brendan Smith (University of Bristol), A Tale of Second Cities:
Bristol and Waterford In the 15th C
Evan Jones (University of Bristol) Rediscovering Cabot,
1496-1500
Panel 2 – Real, Imagined and Digital Communities: Constructing
Trinity’s History
Annie Berry (UWE/Trinity Arts), Church & Change
Edson
Burton
(Trinity Arts), Multiculturalism on the Margins
Ryan Northey (Trinity Arts),
Constructing Trinity’s Digital Archive
Saturday 24 July
9.45-10.45
Panel 1 Buildings in the early city
Bob Jones (City Archaeology Dept); Twigs and teazels, fires and furnaces: The archaeology of Bristol’s
medieval industries.
Roger Leech (University of Southampton) Urban housing in the early modern city – Bristol as a
case study
Panel 2 Policing maritime Bristol, 1750-1850
Matt Neale (Centre for Urban History, University of
Leicester) Theft in an eighteenth-century port city: Bristol, maritime trade
and criminal activity
Steve Poole (UWE, Bristol) ‘A man is stabbed!’ Foreign sailors and knife-crime in nineteenth century Bristol.
10.45-11.00 coffee
11.00-12.30
Panel 1 Politics, tension and culture in the 18th C
city
Nicholas Rogers (York
University, Toronto), Class and Clientage in 18th C
Bristol Politics
Marion Pluskota (Centre of Urban History, University of
Leicester) Spaces of disorderly behaviour in Bristol: the prostitute's
experience of a port city.
David Hussey (University of
Wolverhampton) Culture and commerce in conflict? The Hotwell and
Bristol: resort and port in the eighteenth century
Panel 2 Cohesion and identity in the modern city
Spencer Jordan (UWIC), Narratives of Power: The
Construction of a Bristolian Elite, 1835-1939
Mark Rowe (Independent researcher), Blitzed Bristol: fear
and reality of bombing, 1939-41
Caroline Barker Bennett
(Director
of Education Bristol Diocese 1998-2004), ‘The Schools are so, so, so important’:
Multicultural primary schools in Bristol 1970s - 1990s
12.30-1.30 lunch
1.30-3.00
Panel 1 Bristol and Opposition in the modern era
Mike Richardson (UWE) Miriam Daniell,
Helena Born and the Bristol labour movement in the late nineteenth century
Roger Ball (UWE) ‘The Bristol Riot and its Other’: St.
Paul’s and Southmead in April 1980
Sally J Morgan,
Massey University, New Zealand &
Paul Gough (UWE) The
‘versus’ habit: Bristol, Banksy and the Barons
Panel 2 – Critical reassessments
Jonathan
Harlow (UWE), Quakers, the City Council and Latimer’s History
Peter Malpass (UWE) ‘More Sinned Against than Sinning’:
an evidence based reassessment of the Bristol Dock Company
George
Campbell Gosling (Oxford Brookes University), Charity Universal? Accessing the Voluntary Hospitals of Bristol before
the NHS, c.1735-1948
3.00-3.30 coffee
3.30-5.00
Panel 1 – The early modern city
James Lee (UWE) – 'Cursus honorum,
or burden of office?: identity, responsibility and
allegiance in Bristol's civic politics, c.
1500-1700'
Alex Craven (UWE) 'I Desire A Smale Tomb': Life and Death in Republican Bristol
Melanie Winterbotham (Independent researcher) A magnet
for migrants and merchants – attracting apprentices nationwide in the 16th
& 17th C
Panel 2 – Charity and childhood
Moira Martin (UWE) – Mary Carpenter: reappraising her work with children
June Hannam (UWE) – Mary Carpenter: reappraising her work with women
5.00-6.00 Closing discussion
Madge Dresser (UWE), A Second City Remembered: The Future
of Bristol’s Public History
6.00 close