10–4pm, Friday 17th May 2024,
John Rylands Library, University of Manchester
This free one-day workshop will bring together researchers interested in young people’s experiences of leaving home and striving for independence in the post-war decades. It will foreground methods and sources for researching seemingly mundane aspects of everyday life, such as living arrangements, relationships, leisure and travel.
If you would like to attend, please contact Sue Heath: sue.heath@manchester.ac.uk
Led by Professors Sue Heath and Penny Tinkler of the Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives, and funded by the John Rylands Research Institute and Library, this workshop will provide an opportunity to:
- present work in progress;
- reflect on the affordances of diverse sources (eg visual or material sources; oral histories; elicitation data);
- explore resources for researching post-war youth held in the John Rylands Library;
- network with other researchers.
Papers
Growing up in English coastal towns – intergenerational differences in youth opportunities and experiences - Avril Keating, Rachel Benchekroun, Sam Whewall and Claire Cameron: Institute of Education, University College London)
Chasing Your Dreams or Having Your Dreams Got Shattered? Moving Out of the Family Home in mid-Twentieth Century Turkey - Nazan Cicek: Department of Politics and Economics, Ankara University
When Leaving Home is Leaving Care: Teenagers Leaving Children’s Homes and Foster Care for Independence in the 1950s and 1960s - Jim Goddard: The Care Leavers Association, Manchester
Repurposing a birth cohort study as a biographical resource for exploring youth in the 1960s - Penny Tinkler: Department of Sociology, University of Manchester
Having an historical turn: researching student housing in the post-war era - Sue Heath: Department of Sociology, University of Manchester
“Notoriously difficult to find”: paternalism and permissiveness refracted through a social survey of young people’s leisure in Scunthorpe, 1967 - Michael Lambert: Lancaster Medical School, University of Lancaster