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Making and Visualising British Beauty: Provincial Women and Miss Great Britain, 1945- 1970

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26 June 2025 - 26 June 2025

3:30PM - 5:00PM

In person, room ER140, Elvet Riverside, New Elvet, Durham, DH1 3JT

  • Fully funded (no cost to delegates)

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Join us for a seminar (26 June) exploring the visual culture of 'beauty' in Britain, in the post-WWII years, and postgraduate workshop (27th June) making a practical analysis of the challenges and opportunities of working with archival materials portraying public 'performances' - with Professor Amanda Vickery (Queen Mary University of London). Jointly hosted by the Department of History and the Durham Centre for Visual Arts and Culture (CVAC).

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Miss Morecambe: 1954

Join us for two events with Prof. Amanda Vickery:

Making and Visualising British Beauty: Provincial Women and Miss Great Britain, 1945-1970

  • Lecture, 26 June 2025, 15.30-17.00, Elvet Riverside ER140 - all welcome

From the Archive to the Screen:  The Opportunities, Process and Pitfalls of Performing History in Public

  • Postgraduate workshop, 27 June 2025, 10.00-11.30, Elvet Riverside ER152

 

Prof Amanda Vickery

Amanda Vickery is Professor of Early Modern History at Queen Mary University of London.  She has wide interests in the history of British society and culture, gender and family, words and objects. Her latest research project is 'What Women Wanted. Women’s Hopes in Britain, 1945-c.1970'.

Amanda has a distinguished profile as a public intellectual, having presented two major BBC television series based on her research, The Story of Women and Art (2014) and Suffragettes Forever: The Story of Women and Power (2015). She has also co-presented numerous documentaries, including: Pride and Prejudice: Having a Ball (2013), Messiah at the Foundling Hospital (2015), La Traviata: Love, Death and Divas (2015), Leningrad & the Orchestra that Defied Hitler (2015) and Holst and Vaughn Williams: Making Music English (2018).

 

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Fully funded (no cost to delegates)