Saturday, 10th November 2012
Provisional Programme & Registration
9 – 9:45: Registration and Coffee
9.45 – 10.45: Keynote Address – Professor Ranald Michie (Durham): ‘The Race for Wealth in Victorian and Edwardian England: Perception and Reality’
10.45 – 11.15: BREAK
11.15 – 12.30: Parallel Sessions
Session A: Charity, Patronage and Community: Capitalism, Welfare, and Art
Mary Clare, Martin (Greenwich): ’Children raise money for children’: the ‘priceless’ child and hospital fund-raising in Britain, 1830-1901’.
Jim Cheshire (Lincoln): ‘Ecclesiological finance: narratives of patronage within Victorian Gothic’
Holly Gale Millette (UEA): ‘’Chugging’ from the apron: Victorian liberalism, ethical economies and neo-liberal entrepreneurialism in Boucicault’s The Poor of New York /The Streets of London’.
Session B: Global Flow and Material Encounters: Capitalism and Morality
Ved Prakash Baruah (Cardiff): ‘How opium changed the face of the globe: the empire of ideas and the British opium trade in India’.
Paul Young (Exeter): ‘‘Bird, be quiet!’: Little Dorrit, free trade and frictional globalization’.
Gordon Tait (Newcastle): ‘The economy of the hearth: poetry and the human cost of coal production in Victorian Britain’.
Session C: Domestic Economy, Business, and Social Change
Malcolm Chase (Leeds): ‘How a penny became thousand pounds: Robert Kemp Philp and the democratisation of self help’
Chloe Reynolds (Exeter): ‘‘How to live well on nothing a year?’: managing money in the homes of Victorian novels’.
Jennifer Aston (Birmingham): ‘Female business ownership and social mobility in late-nineteenth- century England’.
Session D: Currency, Coinage, and Circulation
Claire Wood (York): ‘Haunting speculations and human coinage in Martin Chuzzlewit’
Stephanie Polsky: ‘Bank draft: the winds of change in Little Dorrit’s domestic economy’
Nathan Uglow (Leeds Trinity): ‘Cultural capitalism: Ruskin and coins’
12.30 – 1.30: LUNCH
1.30 – 2.30: Keynote Address – Professor Janette Rutterford (Open): title to be announced.
2.30 – 3.45pm: Parallel Sessions
Session E: Banking, Business, and Buildings: Market Regulation, Ethics, and the Law
Andrew Smith (Coventry) and Kevin D. Tennent (York): ‘The Culture of Shareholder-Management Relations in British FSCs and MNCs, 1850-1914.’
James Taylor (Lancaster):‘Directors in the Dock: The Criminalisation of Company Fraud in Victorian Britain’.
Rosemary Mitchell (Leeds Trinity):’ Provincial Prudence, National Narratives: Building a Bank Ethic in the Yorkshire Penny Bank, Infirmary Street, Leeds’.
Session F: Exchange, Speculation, Aesthetics, and Value
Kate Compton (York): ‘Exchanging words: paper speculation and the fortunes of Anthony Trollope’.
Cordelia Smith (Birkbeck): ‘When is a lottery not a lottery? Gambling, bad painting and the art unions’.
Jane Ford (Portsmouth): ‘Greek Gift and ‘Given Being’: The Libidinal & Christological Economies of Vernon Lee’s Supernatural Tales’.
Session G: Cities, Culture, Environment, and Exposure
Esther Bellamy (Southampton): ‘Mud on the Glass: Bleak House and the Great Exhibition’.
Jo Waugh (York St John): ‘Shelter from the storm’: figuring the economic climate in Léon Faucher’s Manchester in 1844 and Gaskell’s Mary Barton (1848)’.
Keith Linley (independent scholar): ‘Muck and Class: the Culture of Capital’.
3.45 – 4.15: BREAK
4.15 – 4.45: Roundtable Discussion
The Past Speaks 
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