Wednesday 16:00-16:30 Laurie Taylor discusses the latest social science research.
04 February 2009 repeat 08 February
RENAISSANCE DANCE Elizabeth I danced six galliards every morning up until a year before her death, and Francis I of France publicly performed as the head of a centaur with the Cardinal of Marseille as the rear end. In the renaissance obsessed courtly classes dances went on for days or even weeks as many frustrated foreign ambassadors did attest. A kingly distraction from national duty or the essence of state craft itself? Professor Margaret McGowan, author of Dance in the Renaissance talks about her exploration of this social obsession.
WORKING CLASS LIVERPOOL Dr Selina Todd, Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Manchester is the author of a new paper which looked at how sociologists researched the Liverpool working class identities in the late fifties and early sixties. Laurie Taylor is joined by Dr Selina Todd and Beverley Skeggs, Professor of Sociology at Goldsmith’s University of London to discuss the experiences of the working class and efforts to describe them.
Dance in the Renaissance; European Fashion, French Obsession Publisher: Yale Univ.PR.Trade (Triliteral) ISBN-10: 0300115571 ISBN-13: 978-0300115574
Dr Selina Todd Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Manchester
Affluence, Class and Crown Street: Reinvestigating the Post War Working Class article is based on the research undertaken for Dr Todd’s study of 'Living Standards, Social Identities and the Working Class in England, c.1945-c.1970', which is supported by ESRC Published in: Contemporary British History, Volume 22, Issue 4 December 2008 , pages 501 - 518
