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Mar. 5th, 2013
THE ROBERT MURRAY MEMORIAL LECTURE
TRANSLATING HISTORY TO TELEVISION
DR. PAMELA COX (UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX)
2.15 Saturday 27 April 2013
Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB) Room 002
Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge
This will be a stimulating lecture about the problems of doing History on television delivered by one of Britain’s leading historians.
Dr. Cox is a historian and sociologist at Essex University. In 2012, she presented the acclaimed BBC series, Servants: The True History of Life Below Stairs. When it was shown, critics noted that the series presented a very different view of servant life from television’s Downton Abbey and was considered one of the best presentations of social history that has been offered by the BBC. Pamela Cox will talk in her lecture about the problems of doing History on Television and will use some extracts from her series.
Her book, Bad Girls in Britain (2002), explored the lives of many 'immoral' and criminal young women in the first half of the twentieth century. It followed them into the many reform homes, moral welfare homes and rescue homes that operated at the time, which trained thousands of them as servants. There are significant similarities between these homes and Ireland's infamous Magdalen Laundries. This will be the subject of a follow-up series to Servants with BBC2 later in the year.
All Welcome! No Ticket required. Open to the public. Any queries, please contact Professor Rohan McWilliam (rohan.mcwilliam@anglia.ac.uk)
Professor Rohan McWilliam
Course Leader for History/Professor of Modern British History
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Anglia Ruskin University
East Road
Cambridge CB1 1PT
UNITED KINGDOM
Email: rohan.mcwilliam@anglia.ac.uk
Work Tel: 0845-196-2764 (direct)
International Tel: +44(0)1223 363271 x.2764
TRANSLATING HISTORY TO TELEVISION
DR. PAMELA COX (UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX)
2.15 Saturday 27 April 2013
Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB) Room 002
Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge
This will be a stimulating lecture about the problems of doing History on television delivered by one of Britain’s leading historians.
Dr. Cox is a historian and sociologist at Essex University. In 2012, she presented the acclaimed BBC series, Servants: The True History of Life Below Stairs. When it was shown, critics noted that the series presented a very different view of servant life from television’s Downton Abbey and was considered one of the best presentations of social history that has been offered by the BBC. Pamela Cox will talk in her lecture about the problems of doing History on Television and will use some extracts from her series.
Her book, Bad Girls in Britain (2002), explored the lives of many 'immoral' and criminal young women in the first half of the twentieth century. It followed them into the many reform homes, moral welfare homes and rescue homes that operated at the time, which trained thousands of them as servants. There are significant similarities between these homes and Ireland's infamous Magdalen Laundries. This will be the subject of a follow-up series to Servants with BBC2 later in the year.
All Welcome! No Ticket required. Open to the public. Any queries, please contact Professor Rohan McWilliam (rohan.mcwilliam@anglia.ac.uk)
Professor Rohan McWilliam
Course Leader for History/Professor of Modern British History
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Anglia Ruskin University
East Road
Cambridge CB1 1PT
UNITED KINGDOM
Email: rohan.mcwilliam@anglia.ac.uk
Work Tel: 0845-196-2764 (direct)
International Tel: +44(0)1223 363271 x.2764