Parties, People and Elections: Political Communication since 1900
Date: 14th June 2012
Location: People’s History Museum, Manchester
The way politicians talk to the people has undergone a dramatic change since 1900. The demise of the mass platform, the birth of radio, cinema and television, and the advent of social media, has radically reshaped how parties and people interact.This conference brings together academics, advertising executives and journalists to examine the, past, present, and future of political communication.
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Conference Programme
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9:30 – 10:00
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Welcome, Coffee, and Registration
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10.00 – 11:15
Political Communication Before 1939
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Dr David Thackeray (University of Exeter)
'Never mind about the Treaty of Sevres': the role of the election address in the changing face of British politics, c.1895-1935’
Dr Stuart Ball (University of Leicester)
'The Conservative appeal to the public in Britain between the wars'
Dr James Thompson (University of Bristol)
‘Political communication and visual culture in Edwardian London’
Chair: Angela Whitecross
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11:15-12:30
The ‘Sight’ of Politics
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Dr Jon Lawrence (Cambridge University)
'The politics of dress in British electioneering'
Dr Nick Mansfield (UClan)
‘Political Banners – from electioneering to protest’
Chris Burgess PhD Student (University of Nottingham)
‘The poster narratives of electoral politics 1910-1970’
Chair: TBA
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12:30-1:30
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Lunch
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1:30-2:45
‘Professional’ Politics
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Graham Deakin researcher and former advertising executive
‘Why the 48 Sheet Became an election mandatory’
Dr Dominic Wring (Loughborough University)
'Let Labour Finish the Job: the 1937 London elections and the party's first "professional" campaign'
Dr Rachel Grainger, (University of Glamorgan, Wales)
‘Saatchi & Saatchi and the Transformation of British Political Advertising: a Social Semiotic Analysis of the Conservative Party’s 1979 General Election Poster and Print Advertising.’
Chair: Professor Philip Cowley (University of Nottingham)
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2:45 – 3:00
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Coffee
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3:00 – 4:15
Post War
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Dr David Stewart (UClan)
‘Communicating Democratic Socialism. Michael Foot and the Media’
Professor Jim Aulich (MMU)
‘Stealing the Thunder: 'Stalin's Gift' and the Imagery of the Left on the Home Front in World War Two’
Dr Simon Cross, (Nottingham Trent University)
‘I suspect you’re a bit suspicious already’: Party election broadcasts in the early years of UK television’
Chair: Professor Alex Danchev (University of Nottingham)
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4:15 – 5:30
Roundtable
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Benedict Pringle www.politicaladvertising.co.uk
Dr Mark Pack www.markpack.org.uk
Martin Rosenbaum http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/correspondents/martinrosenbaum
Dr Jon Lawrence
Dr Stuart Ball
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The conference complements the exhibition Picturing Politics: Exploring the Election Poster in Britain at the People’s History Museum Manchester, 12th November 2011 – 17th June 2012.
People’s History Museum
The museum is on Left Bank in Spinningfields in Manchester city centre.
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