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From: Kevin Grieves <032255@BATHSPA.AC.UK>
List Editor: "Kelly, Jason" <jaskelly@IUPUI.EDU>
Editor's Subject: CFP: More than a Spa Resort? - The Urban Experience in Bath since the Reformation
Author's Subject: CFP: More than a Spa Resort? - The Urban Experience in Bath since the Reformation
Date Written: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 08:26:45 -0500
Date Posted: Wed, 03 Nov 2009 10:14:12 -0500

More than a Spa Resort? - The Urban Experience in Bath since the Reformation

Featuring keynote speakers: Prof. Rosemary Sweet (Head of History,
University of Leicester) and Prof. Peter Borsay (Aberystwyth University)

Bath is a city in need of historical reappraisal. Much historiography
focuses on the city as a spa  resort and the personalities involved in its
development, but little has been written on the residential population and
links between them and the visitors. Bath attracted entrepreneurs and young
people with the offer of employment opportunities and education. Could the
city be seen as a centre for commerce and education outside London? The city
was also a centre of conversation and opinion with many spaces set aside for
sociability and display. How did these social networks develop and how were
they maintained? The relationship between Bath and the rest of country also
needs to be addressed. Was the city a trend follower or a trend setter? How
did Bath stand in relation to London and other main towns?

To explore these issues, Bath Spa University is hosting an international
symposium on 24th April 2010, with a view to holding a conference later in
the year placing Bath within the European context.

Proposals for papers of 15 minute duration are invited on any of the
following subjects:

    * Urbanisation
    * Commercialisation
    * The use of space
    * The growth of civic consciousness
    * Class (particularly the rising middle classes and servants)
    * Gender
    * Philanthropy
    * Education
    * Religion
    * Political culture
    * Any other subject relating to the urban milieu

Interdisciplinary and non-historical papers are particularly welcome. Please
send abstracts of proposed papers (250 words) to d.hughes@bathspa.ac.uk.

The closing date for the submission of abstracts is 1st January 2010.

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