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SUMMARY:Durham University History Department and Gala Theatre: History Now! Coreen McGuire will talk about ‘Invisible Disability in Coalmining Communities’\,
DESCRIPTION:From: Dr Tom Hamilton\, Associate Professor in Early Modern European History\, Durham University \nThe next event in the History Now! series of public talks\, organised between the Durham University History Department and the Gala Theatre\, is Coreen McGuire’s lecture on ‘Invisible Disability in Coalmining Communities’\, which takes place via Zoom between 5.30 and 6.30pm next Tuesday 16 November. \nAll welcome! The link for registration is here.  \nDr Coreen McGuire is Lecturer in Twentieth-Century British History at Durham University and author of Measuring Difference\, Numbering Normal: Setting the Standards for Disability in the Interwar Period\, published by Manchester University Press in 2020. Coreen’s research towards this book contributed to the Life of Breath project and her award-winning article on ‘The categorisation of hearing loss through telephony in inter-war Britain’ is available via open access here. \nHere is an abstract for the talk on 16 November: Why was it so difficult for mineworkers and their families to get compensation for illness and disabilities caused by their work? The modern category of disability has been linked (especially by disabled activists) to industrialization and the needs of the labour market. However\, historians have challenged this ‘industrialization thesis’ by providing evidence of the ubiquity and visibility of disability in British mining communities. Yet there was a significant hierarchy of disability in the coalmining compensation context. Everyday experiences of breathlessness were not categorised or recorded in the same way that accidents leading to amputations were. The same holds true for disability/ illnesses that were fluctuating\, progressive\, actively concealed (potentially with the use of hidden prosthesis)\, stigmatised (such as psychological disability) or associated with malingering (such as miner’s nystagmus). These kinds of experiences were only visible in exceptional cases\, and it is less clear that they were either accepted or normalized. In this talk\, Coreen McGuire shows how such contested compensation cases reveal hidden disability managed through networks of friends\, family\, and community.
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SUMMARY:WEA Talk by John Stirling: William Morris – Past\, Present and Future
DESCRIPTION:From Joanna Keith\, Workers Educational Association. \nWilliam Morris – Past\, Present and Future \nA talk by John Stirling\, Vice Chair of the William Morris Society on Saturday 20 November from 10.00am to 1.00pm at the Brunswick Methodist Church\, Brunswick Place\, Newcastle upon Tyne\, NE1 7BJ (entrance at the side of the Fenwicks Building) \nCourse Code: C2527355 \nFee: £9.60p \nBooking the course can be done through enrolling online by clicking on the link above or phoning 0300 303 3464 and quoting the course code. \nAttendees may be entitled to a free place for this course if they are in receipt of a means tested benefit or they could get help towards their fees if they have a low personal salary or low household income. \n 
URL:https://nelh.net/event/wea-talk-by-john-stirling-william-morris-past-present-and-future/
LOCATION:Brunswick Methodist Church\, Brunswick Place\, Newcastle upon Tyne\, NE1 7BJ
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SUMMARY:Massimiliano Papini (Northumbria University) will talk about: The Idea of Japan in Victorian Charity Bazaars: Fundraising\, Orientalism and Transculturality in the North East of England\, 1867—1912
DESCRIPTION:Please book here: https://www.history.ac.uk/events/idea-japan-victorian-charity-bazaars-fundraising-orientalism-and-transculturality-north-east \nBeyond international expositions and musical operettas such as The Mikado(1885) or The Geisha(1896)\, the other type of Japan-themed public event in which Victorian people experienced a transcultural encounter with Japan was the charity bazaar. Becoming popular in Britain in the early nineteenth century\, the charity bazaar was a temporary\, fundraising event which relied mainly on voluntary work\, generally offered by local ladies\, in both organising stalls and supplying each of them with the objects to put on sale.  The revenue raised in these bazaars served to support a designated cause which might be in aid of hospitals\, schools\, missionary societies\, and religious institutions. In order to attract visitors and supporters\, these philanthropic events drew heavily on entertainments\, including musicians\, dancers\, and actors\, as well as elaborate decorations following an over-arching theme. Foreign locations were among the most common of these themes\, thus – for many Victorians attending – a charity bazaar provided a chance to have first contact with objects from an exogenous culture. \nDrawing upon newspaper articles and archive material\, this seminar will investigate how Japan was represented in philanthropic events in the North East of England through the presence and consumption of Japanese goods. In response to the heightened fascination with Japan in the 1880s\, charity bazaars started to be fitted up as a Japanese traditional village\, coming to function for Victorians as an effective vehicle for imaginary travel and shaping their “tourist gaze.” With this regard\, the stereotyped image of Japan disseminated by British decorators was instrumental in attracting a wide audience\, transforming the “Orientalist” theme of Japanese Village into an appropriate setting to even promote very local endeavours such as charity campaigns which were completely unrelated to Japan\, its culture\, and its people. In addition\, the common practice of wearing Japanese costumes by local volunteers also reveals that charity bazaars incorporated an ambivalent transcultural nature. While donning kimonos by British individuals in local events inevitably erased the Japanese body from the popular representation of Japan\, it simultaneously contributed to naturalising the Asian “Otherness” in Britain\, allowing stallholders in the North Eastto promote their public persona in line with the late Victorian\, cosmopolitan taste and fashionability. In other words\, this seminar will explore the way in which fundraising practices and voluntary activities played crucial roles as mediators between local communities and transnational trends such as the “Western” fascination with Japan.
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