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Past One-day Conferences or Study Days
The Speakers are
Annemarie BilcloughA 'seeing eye'- Beatrix Potter's animals
Emma LawsThe animals of the 100 Acre Wood
Dr. Victoria de RijkeAnimal Metaphor in Children's Literature Illustration
John EricsonThe Wind in the Willows REVISITED through its illustrations
Jane Badger'Get off my foot, Kipper' The Horse and the Pony in Children's fiction
Chris Coles & David OsborneThe Animals of 'BB' otherwise known as Denys Watkins Pitchford author of "Little Grey Men".
The speakers included:
Morag Styles'Ding Dong Bell': from Shakespeare (Mother Goose's Melody) to contemporary bards, the role of nursery rhymes' in the canon of children's poetry
Elizabeth Hammill'Over the Hills and Far Away': A Treasury of Nursery Rhymes From Arround the World
Debbie PullingerFalling down and chopping off the threatening world of nursery rhymes
Anne Harvey & Caroline Walker'Nursery Rhymes of London Town' by Eleanor Farjeon
Ian BeckIllustrating Nursery Rhymes
Brian AldersonThe Opies
The speakers included :-
Andrew Nash The printing and publishing scene round about 1900
Lesley Delaney L.Leslie Brooke 1862 - 1940
Susan Bailes Florence Upton 1873 - 1922
Dennis Butts Kipling in Animal Land
Iain StevensonThe publishing activities of Grant Richards
Anne Stevenson Hobbs ‘Arthur Rackham Arrives’!
The speakers included :- Pat Pinsent Saving young sinners from hell: the children's poetry of John Bunyan and Isaac Watts Dennis Butts Parables from the Prison and the Asylum: The Children's Verse of Christopher Smart Anne Harvey Two Sisters & A Friend: Poetry by Ann & Jane Taylor and Adelaide O'Keeffe Louise Joy Children's poetry and the comic mode Morag Styles‘Love me, my baby’ (Rossetti): Some distinctive trends in women writing poetry for children in19thC Brian Sibley "It is wrong from beginning to end”: Lewis Carroll and the Poetry of Parody
2015
Isaac Watts and Early Children's Poetry
2014
Lesser-known Women Illustrators of the Late Victorian/Early Edwardian Era
A Grey Hole in History, Children’s Books publishing, at the point “machine-press period” has its beginning, roughly 1830 – 1859
2013
Children's Book Publishing in the Hand-Press Period: Progress in research
2012
Two Hundred Years of the Grimm Brothers' Fairy Tales
2011
The Centenary of The Secret Garden
2010
Flights of Fantasy: flight in children's literature
2009
Moveables: paper techniques and their use and development in children's books
2008
'Beloved Kids'? Children's Writers as Parents:'easily spoiled and easily dehumanised'
2007
Scotland and its influence on children's literature