Anglo-American conference 2009: CitiesImagining low life before the East End’s invention, c.1780s to 1840s Vic Gatrell (University of Cambridge)Abstract: This paper looks at East London life before Victorian observers ‘invented’, ‘ideologically...
Sport and Leisure History5 June 2011Professor Peter Bailey (University of Manitoba)Entertainmentality! Modernising Pleasure in a Victorian Leisure Industry, or Did Foucault Ever Play the Hackney Empire?What is entertainmentality? That was my first question when I...
