16 April 2016
The Aerodrome Hotel, Croydon Airport
London
Programme
10:15 – 10:30 Welcome Address
Peter
Skinner (Croydon Airport Society): ‘History of Croydon Airport and the Jimmy
Jeffs' Collection’
10:30 – 11:30 ‘Flying into the
Unknown’
Luke Seaber (UCL): ‘“Upon
its glittering lake /Lie Europe and its islands”: The “Groundmindedness” of Auden and Others in
the ’30s’
Daniel Kilburn (UCL): ‘A pilot’s perspective on
the formation of modern airmindedness through
the 1930s’
Henry K Miller (Cambridge/Anglia Ruskin/Slade):
‘Lumière Comes to Croydon’
11:30 – 11:45 Coffee
and Tea Break
Jacky Pett will introduce her display of archival
material and book about her father’s work with Imperial Airways in the 1930s.
11:45 – 12:45
‘Aviation Fever’
Rebecca Harrison (UEA) and Rachel Kapelke-Dale
(UCL): ‘Sweethearts of the Skies:
Gender,
National Identity and the “Aviatrix”’
Kathryn Simpson (Cardiff Metropolitan
University): ‘Taking Flight: The Literal and Literary Flights of Lady Mary Heath and Virginia Woolf’
Francis Dyson (UEA): ‘Egypt and Back with
Imperial Airways: Ruth Stuart's Passion for Air Travel’
12:45 – 13:45 Lunch
13:45 – 14:30 Tour of
Croydon Airport and Museum
14:30 – 15:45 ‘Tension
in the Air’
Derek Ryan (University of Kent): ‘Bunny in the
Air: David Garnett, Flight and Animality’
Sarah Fill (Royal Holloway): ‘The Aerial Vision
of Paul Nash’
Simon Goulding (Birmingham
and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust): ‘Look to the Skies! Orwell, Warner and the Coming New War’
John Higgins (University of Stirling, retired): ‘A
Novelist's View of Flying for Fun’
15:45 – 16:00 Coffee
and Tea Break
Michael McCluskey (UCL): ‘Croydon Calling: The
Documentary Aerodrome’
Nicola Darwood (University of Bedfordshire):
‘Flying Dangerously: Elizabeth Bowen’s To
the North’
Guy Woodward (Maynooth University): ‘A Solar Emperor: Robert Byron
Flies East’
17:00 – 17:30
Roundtable Discussion
All presenters and audience members are invited
to speak about the day, share memories and stories of Croydon Airport, make
connections between papers, and consider ideas for future collaborations.
Registration
£35 Standard
£30 Speakers
£25 Students
Registration fee includes three-course lunch,
coffee and tea breaks, and tour of the Croydon Airport Museum.
To register: http://onlinestore.ucl.ac.uk/ (Search: Flying through the ’30s)
How to get here:
The symposium will be held at The Aerodrome Hotel
(part of the Hallmark Hotel chain), Purley Way, Croydon, CR9 4LT
The hotel is just next to the Croydon Airport Visitor
Centre.
By Train
Waddon is the nearest station and a 10
minute walk to the hotel/airport. We have found this to
be the most direct
route from London. Trains leave from Victoria, and Oyster cards are acceptable
to Waddon and on return. Out of Waddon Station turn right then turn left onto
Purley Way. The Aerodrome Hotel will be on right. The 289 bus also goes from Waddon Station to Croydon
Airport.
Purley is 10 minutes from the airport/hotel by 289 bus.
East Croydon is 20 minutes from central London and
then 15 minutes to the airport/hotel by the 119 bus.
By Bus
Bus routes that serve Croydon Airport are the 289 and
119. Buses stop outside Croydon Airport/TheAerodrome Hotel or across the road
at The Colonnades.
Organisers
Dr Michael McCluskey (UCL)
Dr Luke Seaber (UCL)
Dr Amara Thornton (UCL)
Dr Debbie Challis (Croydon Airport Society)
Questions?
flyingthroughthethirties@gmail.com
