Uneasy Neighbours? Rural-Urban Relationships in the Nineteenth Century Event
For more information regarding this event, please email Dr Barry Sloan and Dr Mary Hammond at W.B.Sloan@soton.ac.uk; E.M.Hammond@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
Centre for 19th Century Research, An International Interdisciplinary Conference
The relationship between urban and rural communities in the nineteenth century was increasingly strained by the unprecedented rate and scale of social, industrial, technological and economic change worldwide. Cities demanded ever more from agriculture, while rural populations decreased; country life and work were changed by mechanisation and industrialisation, while newcomers to the cities had to adjust to alien ways of living and conditions of employment; poverty was commonplace in both the countryside and the cities, while the newly wealthy became landowners and urban leaders. This 1-day interdisciplinary conference aims to consider evidence of the tensions, anxieties and experiences resulting from the changing dynamic between rural and urban life, to examine how this shaped the perceptions of the country and the city, and to explore how these are articulated in different contexts.
Registration: £30 (£20 students and unwaged)
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Speaker information
KEYNOTE SPEAKER : Keith D. M. Snell, Professor of Rural and Cultural History,University of Leicester