Previous seminars
Spending Time in Institutions - July 2008
The Spending Time in Institutions international seminar was held on Friday 4th July 2008 at The Open University, Milton Keynes.
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Coffee and refreshments |
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Introduction to the day – Co-chairs: Jan Walmsley and Mabel Cooper |
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"Little better than chattel slaves": Inmate Labour in an Australian Institution for Learning Disability |
Lee-Ann Monk |
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| Leisure time in learning disability institutions: summer camps and scouting | Nigel Ingham and David O'Driscoll | |
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Tea and coffee |
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| The dimension of time in civilian and institutional order | Frank Bylov | |
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| Spending Time in an Institution in Iceland in the 1970s | Ebba Hreinsdottir and Gudrun Steffansdottir | |
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Lunch |
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| Introduction – Co-chairs: Daniel Doherty and Rohhss Chapman | |
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| Spending Time in Normansfield | Heather Cadbury, Patricia Collen and Michelle Whitmore | |
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| Living in an Institution in Ireland in my own words | Jean Wright, Bill Roberts and Carol Hamilton | |
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Discussion and tea |
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Researching Institutional Histories - July 2007
The Researching Institutional Histories international seminar was held on 6th July 2007, at the Open University, Milton Keynes.
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| What was the institution and who was it for? | Pamela Dale | |
| First Up, Best Dressed | Daniel Doherty |
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| Working with the "Children of the Darkness" | Corinne Manning |  |
| On the same lines as those in England: British influences on an Australian institution for people with learning disabilities | Lee-Ann Monk | |
| An institutional oral history archive | Nigel Ingham | |
| Songs of Resistance and their contribution to understanding the history of the self advocacy movement | Sue Ledger and Nigel Ingham | |