About this Event
In the immediate post-war period British women travelled in pairs and female friendship groups on foreign coach holidays, continental tours, rambles and cruises in unprecedented numbers, capturing their modernity and mobility in thousands of holiday snapshots along the way.
This Cultural Conversation draws on a range of 1950’s holiday albums charting women’s travels to Europe and beyond. It considers how tourist photos operated as significant meaning-making, memory-keeping objects in which self-hood, place, and sociability were performed and visually represented.
The audience are encouraged to look through and handle the photo albums in question and to bring along their own holiday snapshot or album as part of a wider discussion on how such photographs are important but often overlooked artefacts in the historical archive of leisure.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Leeds Central Library, Sanderson Room, Calverley Street, Leeds, United Kingdom
