Received from Dr. Joe Harley (University of Derby)

In recent decades the ‘home’ has come to the forefront of historical investigations. Domestic production and work, such as spinning and farming, has received some renewed attention as part of this, yet the poor are still relatively under-researched compared to richer people. This conference aims to address these issues by focusing on domestic production in the homes of the poor.

View the Domestic production and work in poor British homes, c. 1650-1850 programme here.

“A Woman Spinning and Carding Wool”, from The Costume of Yorkshire, George Walker (1814), from the British Library Collection (in the public domain)

Professor John Styles, University of Hertfordshire, has been confirmed as keynote speaker for the event. He will be discussing some of the project findings of a major Economic Research Council project he led on hand spinning and the industrial revolution.

Registration for the conference can be made here, through the University of Derby.

*Registration Update* As of 27/08/2019 this event is at capacity. If you would like to go on the waiting list to see whether a space becomes availiable please e-mail organiser Joe Harley.

Travel grants of up to £75 will be available for postgraduate and early career researchers. Please email the organiser Joe Harley if you would like to be considered for one of these grants. In your email please outline why the event is important to you and give details of your current situation.

The conference is free to attend, having kindly been funded by the Economic History Society, Past and Present Society, and the Royal Historical Society.

Past & Present is pleased to support this event and other events like it. Applications for event funding are welcomed from scholars working in the field of historical studies at all stages in their careers.