Elites and Leisure. Arenas of Encounter in Europe 1815-1914

This volume intends to move beyond an assumption of old and new elites understood along the lines of a zero-sum-game, in which the main question is about winners and losers and in which the 20th century forms the main criterion. This volume rather proposes to understand the interchange of elites in more complex ways, paying attention to the blurred zones which cannot easily be qualified as belonging to tradition or future. Moreover, we would like to stress the relevance of new or altered forms of sociability which, because of their novelty, form to a certain degree blanc spots in historiography.

2002

The principal purpose of this article is to pay attention to events that emphasize and give profile to local, everyday life. It also focuses on "the multiplicity of Europe" and the politics of distinction through local markets, national commemoration days and open-air museums. Cultural heritage is presented as an ongoing process of production and reproduction of meaning in these events. The article raises questions about how we can conduct fieldwork on matters as elusive as "the presence of Europe", and the sensory experiences of taking part in ceremonial activities.

Ethnologia europaea, 2002

The principal purpose of the A. is to pay attention to events that emphasize and give profile to local, everyday life. He also focuses on the multiplicity of Europe and the politics of distinction through local markets, national commemoration days and open-air museums. Cultural heritage is presented as an ongoing process of production and re-production of meaning in these events. The A. raises questions about how one can conduct fieldwork on matters as elusive as the presence of Europe, and the sensory experiences of taking part in ceremonial activities.

Leisure Studies, 2016

Placing Internationalism: International Conferences and the Making of the Modern World, 2021

As a recent wave of scholarship has rightly attested, the story of the twentieth century cannot be told without reckoning with the explosion in internationalism in both thought and action. This internationalism was premised on the overcoming of space, transcending the geography of the nation-state in search of the shared interests of humankind. Paradoxically however, it was also dependent on the coming together of people in certain places, and the carving of spaces in which they could make manifest and jointly dream their internationalism. This chapter introduces the contention that the primary space at which this paradox played out was that of the international conference, and that by taking conferences as the primary lens of analysis we can open up a range of new ways in which to think about the spatialities of internationalism which transcend and cut across established categories of thought. It discusses the spatiotemporal framing of the volume from Versailles to Bandung: temporally, connecting interwar and postwar periods, and spatially, encompassing a broader constellation of conferences. And lastly, it looks at the methodological questions posed by this approach: that is, where we might locate the archival trace of international conferences.

Christmas in nineteenth-century England Neil Armstrong Healthy living in the Alps: the origins of winter tourism in Switzerland, 1860-1914 Susan Barton Working-class organisations and popular tourism, 1840-1970 Susan Barton Leisure, citizenship and working-class men in Britain, 1850-1945 Brad Beaven Leisure and cultural confl ict in twentieth-century Britain Brett Bebber (ed.) British railway enthusiasm Ian Carter Railways and culture in Britain Ian Carter Time, work and leisure: life changes in England since 1700 Hugh Cunningham Darts in England, 1900-39: a social history Patrick Chaplin Holiday camps in twentieth-century Britain: packaging pleasure Sandra Trudgen Dawson History on British television: constructing nation, nationality and collective memory Robert Dillon The food companions: cinema and consumption in wartime Britain, 1939-45 Richard Farmer Songs of protest, songs of love: popular ballads in eighteenth-century Britain Robin Ganev Heroes and happy endings: class, gender, and nation in popular fi lm and fi ction in interwar Britain Christine Grandy Women drinking out in Britain since the early twentieth century David W. Gutzke The BBC and national identity in Britain, 1922-53 Thomas Hajkowski From silent screen to multi-screen: a history of cinema exhibition in Britain since 1896 Stuart Hanson Juke box Britain: Americanisation and youth culture, 1945-60 Adrian Horn Popular culture in London, c. 1890-1918: the transformation of entertainment Andrew Horrall Popular culture and working-class taste in Britain, 1930-39: a round of cheap diversions? Robert James The experience of suburban modernity: how private transport changed interwar London John M. Law

Space and Culture, 2018

The purpose of this research study was to extend the concept of third places, as explained by Oldenburg (2000), as being places designed as meeting places being dynamic rather than static. The primary sites for this paper were conferences attended by the authors. Defining social events within the meeting spaces of conferences as third spaces pushed the traditional third place theory forward. It offered a way for rituals to be explored more deeply through the experiences they offered. This study asked the reader to pay attention to the periphery where interaction takes place and consider how we frame concepts of third places. In this piece, we explored how the space of a conference “functions as a safe, relaxed space outside the home [and] can actually lead to a deeper investment” (Tate, 2012, p. 280) by attendees via third place qualities. The third place quality offers a space within which human connections supersede a space’s designated purpose and become multi-purposed, durable, and long lived, spanning space, time, and distance. We suggest that the conference becomes transformative, altering a non-place (Auge, 1995), a generic place (Yakhlef, 2004), into a third place (Oldenburg, 1999; 2000).

This collection of essays examines the history of urban leisure cultures in Europe during the transition from the early modern to the modern period. Bringing together research on a wide variety of activities - from the theatre and art exhibitions to spas, seaside resorts and games - it develops a new scholarly agenda for the history of leisure, focusing on the complex processes of cultural transfer that transformed urban leisure culture from the British Isles to the Ottoman Empire. How did new models of urban leisure pastimes travel throughout Europe? Who were the main agents of cultural innovation, appropriation and adaptation? How did the increasingly entangled character of European urban leisure culture impact upon the ways men and women from various classes identified with their social, cultural or (proto-)national communities? These are some of the questions explored by this accessible and wide-ranging collection, which looks at leisure from a long-term, interdisciplinary and transnational perspective.

The European Experience

The European Experience brings together the expertise of nearly a hundred historians from eight European universities to internationalise and diversify the study of modern European history, exploring a grand sweep of time from 1500 to 2000. Offering a valuable corrective to the Anglocentric narratives of previous English-language textbooks, scholars from all over Europe have pooled their knowledge on comparative themes such as identities, cultural encounters, power and citizenship, and economic development to reflect the complexity and heterogeneous nature of the European experience. Rather than another grand narrative, the international author teams offer a multifaceted and rich perspective on the history of the continent of the past 500 years. Each major theme is dissected through three chronological sub-chapters, revealing how major social, political and historical trends manifested themselves in different European settings during the early modern (1500–1800), modern (1800–1900) ...

International Journal of Event and Festival Management, 2017

Guest editorial Events and placemaking Events and festivals have become increasingly important policy tools for cities and regions. They are able to produce a wide range of externalities, including economic impacts, image change, social capital and cultural regeneration. All of these event-related externalities have impacts and effects on the places in which they are staged. In many cases, these eventrelated impacts are analysed separately, but in fact the most powerful effects of events are more holistic, able to impact not just on individual economic sectors or social groups, but on places as a whole. Over time, the use of events by cities and regions has grown more sophisticated and complex. The range of policy goals for which events are utilised has expanded, and the range and type of events staged has increased as well. Increasingly, public administrations seek to coordinate the events in their jurisdiction to create synergies between events and to maximise the benefits generated. Event policies make frequent references to the development of programmes or "portfolios" of events (Antchak, 2016). The ability of events to effect a broad range of changes in different places has added to their attractiveness as a placemaking tool, and has led to more cities developing "events units" and other forms of event-based interventions (Whitford, 2009). Many cities are also actively engaged in bidding for events such as the European Capital of Culture or the Olympic Games. Some cities may also resort to copying events held elsewhere, or in the most extreme cases, simply "stealing" events from their neighbours (e.g. Van Aalst and van Melik, 2011). The emergence of coordinated approaches to the management of events by places has, over time, also produced changes in the relationship between events and their host locations. Historically, many events were used as a form of place marketing, essentially to attract attention to their location and to obtain wider recognition of their existence, and to establish specific brand associations (Hall, 1989). As marketing and branding of places became more necessary with increasing globalisation, the role of events was more firmly linked to city marketing and place branding strategies. For example Ashworth (2009, p. 9), in his review of tools for place branding, identified "event hallmarking" as a process "where places organise events, usually cultural or sporting, in order to obtain a wider recognition that they exist but also to establish specific brand associations". As the term "hallmarking" suggests, places tended to use major events in order to market and brand themselves. This had the advantage of attracting attention, but Ashworth (2009, p. 20) also argued that "hallmark events alone are unlikely to have much impact upon a place brand" and even identified "cases where events have resulted in increasing brand recognition but of an inadequate place product". This recognition of the limitations of place marketing and place branding approaches linked to events led in some cases to a broader approach of "placemaking". Placemaking can be basically summarised as the art of making better places for people. Rather than simply attracting people or attention, the role of events in placemaking is more significantthey should actively improve the host city or region and make them better places to live, work, visit and invest in. Many major events are, therefore, expected to have multiple effects on the places they are held in. Gold and Gold (2017), for example explain, how the Olympic Games have taken on additional objectives for the host cities, from civic and national boosterism to urban regeneration to environmental improvement and social cohesion. However, most places are too small to host mega events such as the Olympic Games, and the effects of such top-down placemaking efforts are often questionable, as Ashworth (2009) suggests. So in many locations, a more subtle approach to placemaking through events can