Jack
31-08-2021, 04:10 PM
A friend of mine brought this to my attention and I thought some of you may be interested. Its an online event.
This event discusses football programmes as historical objects, and the histories which are often entangled within their pages.
About this event
Football programmes have stories to tell about times, places and people, as well as football. In their fragile pages there are triumphs and tragedies, heroes and villains. A programme rekindles memories of a match, an awe-inspiring visit to Hampden Park, or standing on the terraces at Tynecastle, Easter Road or some far away field. But programmes also signify broad patterns of social and technological change, such as the novelty of mass ownership of cars and televisions, deindustrialisation and the rise of finance, the arrival of car phones, billionaire owners and fan-owned clubs. Empire, racism and sexism are there, along with boybands and Ford Zephyrs.
The conversation focuses on the collection of 2000 programmes that built up over two generations in one family, leading to the recently published Programmes! Programmes! Football and Life from Wartime to Lockdown.
Cliff Hague*started collecting football programmes when he was a boy in Manchester in the 1950s. He is now Emeritus Professor at Heriot-Watt University and the author of Programmes! Programmes! Football and Life from Wartime to Lockdown that was published in August by Pitch Publishing.
Euan Hague*was known by his match-going friends in the 1980s for keeping each one of his programmes in pristine condition. He is now a St. Vincent de Paul Professor of Geography at DePaul University in Chicago, where he is Director of the School of Public Service
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/stories-of-a-lifetime-in-2000-football-programmes-tickets-166941028109
This event discusses football programmes as historical objects, and the histories which are often entangled within their pages.
About this event
Football programmes have stories to tell about times, places and people, as well as football. In their fragile pages there are triumphs and tragedies, heroes and villains. A programme rekindles memories of a match, an awe-inspiring visit to Hampden Park, or standing on the terraces at Tynecastle, Easter Road or some far away field. But programmes also signify broad patterns of social and technological change, such as the novelty of mass ownership of cars and televisions, deindustrialisation and the rise of finance, the arrival of car phones, billionaire owners and fan-owned clubs. Empire, racism and sexism are there, along with boybands and Ford Zephyrs.
The conversation focuses on the collection of 2000 programmes that built up over two generations in one family, leading to the recently published Programmes! Programmes! Football and Life from Wartime to Lockdown.
Cliff Hague*started collecting football programmes when he was a boy in Manchester in the 1950s. He is now Emeritus Professor at Heriot-Watt University and the author of Programmes! Programmes! Football and Life from Wartime to Lockdown that was published in August by Pitch Publishing.
Euan Hague*was known by his match-going friends in the 1980s for keeping each one of his programmes in pristine condition. He is now a St. Vincent de Paul Professor of Geography at DePaul University in Chicago, where he is Director of the School of Public Service
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/stories-of-a-lifetime-in-2000-football-programmes-tickets-166941028109