Simon Sleight
Biographic Data
| ID | 1212764 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Sleight |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Sleight |
| SIGNATURE | SLEIGHT S |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9070-4620 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Playtime
Of all social categories, childhood is experienced the most universally. Yet children of the past remain relatively underserved in historiographical terms, in Australia as elsewhere. Emily Gallaghe...
A Cultural History of Youth in the Modern Age
This open access volume of A Cultural History of Youth, The Modern Age, explores the cultural history of youth from 1920 to the present day. With each chapter dedicated to a specific theme, it covers concepts of youth; spaces and places; education and work; leisure and play; emotions, gender, sexuality and the body; belief and ideology; authority and agency; war and conflict and towards a world history. Readers can trace one theme throughout hist…
Sustainable Academia
Environmental degradation is the most serious challenge of the twenty-first century. To date, academic historians, among many others, have failed to fully confront the climate and biodiversity crises, often engaging in disavowal of the problems and our contribution to them in the course of our historical work. This article discusses mitigation efforts underway among other professional bodies, higher education institutions and academic disciplines…
History, Memory and Public Life
Children, Childhood and Youth in the British World
Age was a critical factor in shaping imperial experience, yet it has not received any sustained scholarly attention. This pioneering interdisciplinary collection is the first to investigate the lives
Young People and the Shaping of Public Space in Melbourne, 1870-1914
Baby booms have a long history. In 1870, colonial Melbourne was ’perspiring juvenile humanity’ with an astonishing 42 per cent of the city’s inhabitants aged 14 and under - a demographic anomaly resulting from the gold rushes of the 1850s. Within this context, Simon Sleight enters the heated debate concerning the future prospects of ’Young Australia’ and the place of the colonial child within the incipient Australian nation. Looking beyond those …
Histories of play
Children, observed Colin Ward in his influential 1978 study, The child in the city, will playanywhere and with anything (1978, p. 86). An apparently universal impulse, play has evenbeen argued by some scholars to transcend history as an activity older than culture (Huizinga,1949, p. 1). The historians natural inclination is to historicise such contentions, alert to factorsof geography as well as chronology and to intersections including age, gend…
The Leary Larrikin
This article explores the sartorial style of participants in a street-based youth subculture that thrived in late nineteenth-century Australian cities. Known as ‘larrikins', the lower working-class youth so described had a distinctive style of dress including heeled boots and bell-bottomed trousers. Here we examine the material processes through which this larrikin look was produced, locating it in distinctive urban settings and placing it agains…
Anzac Day at Home and Abroad
Over the last hundred years, Anzac Day (25 April), the anniversary of the initial landing of Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) at Gallipoli in 1915, has captured the Australian and New Zealand national imaginations. The day remembers the first significant engagement involving Australian and New Zealand soldiers in the First World War. This article is an early report of a major project that will chart Anzac Day’s origins, development a…
Juke Box Britain
(2011). Juke Box Britain: Americanisation and Youth Culture, 1945–60. By Adrian Horn. Cultural and Social History: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 125-126
The Gangs of Manchester
For the Sake of Effect’ Youth on Display and the Politics of Performance
This article takes to the streets to scrutinise the often central and seldom examined place of young people in civic festivities. Exploring as its case study the city of Melbourne in the years between 1870 and 1914, the analysis charts the increasing frequency and heightened symbolic resonance of public displays privileging the place of youth. It assesses events including temperance rallies, the 1897 royal Jubilee and the Federation celebrations …
Interstitial Acts
The appearance of ‘larrikins’—or young street toughs—in city spaces across late-Victorian Melbourne represented a fundamental challenge to contemporary understandings of public order and age-related behaviour. This article reassesses the activities of these individuals and contends that larrikinism is best regarded as a series of ‘performances’ in space. Key aspects of the larrikin's repertoire are considered, and larrikin activities related to t…
Histories of play
Children, observed Colin Ward in his influential 1978 study, The child in the city, will playanywhere and with anything (1978, p. 86). An apparently universal impulse, play has evenbeen argued by some scholars to transcend history as an activity older than culture (Huizinga,1949, p. 1). The historians natural inclination is to historicise such contentions, alert to factorsof geography as well as chronology and to intersections including age, gend…
Anzac Day at Home and Abroad
Over the last hundred years, Anzac Day (25 April), the anniversary of the initial landing of Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) at Gallipoli in 1915, has captured the Australian and New Zealand national imaginations. The day remembers the first significant engagement involving Australian and New Zealand soldiers in the First World War. This article is an early report of a major project that will chart Anzac Day’s origins, development a…
Interstitial Acts
The appearance of ‘larrikins’—or young street toughs—in city spaces across late-Victorian Melbourne represented a fundamental challenge to contemporary understandings of public order and age-related behaviour. This article reassesses the activities of these individuals and contends that larrikinism is best regarded as a series of ‘performances’ in space. Key aspects of the larrikin's repertoire are considered, and larrikin activities related to t…
For the Sake of Effect’ Youth on Display and the Politics of Performance
This article takes to the streets to scrutinise the often central and seldom examined place of young people in civic festivities. Exploring as its case study the city of Melbourne in the years between 1870 and 1914, the analysis charts the increasing frequency and heightened symbolic resonance of public displays privileging the place of youth. It assesses events including temperance rallies, the 1897 royal Jubilee and the Federation celebrations …
Interstitial Acts
The appearance of ‘larrikins’—or young street toughs—in city spaces across late-Victorian Melbourne represented a fundamental challenge to contemporary understandings of public order and age-related behaviour. This article reassesses the activities of these individuals and contends that larrikinism is best regarded as a series of ‘performances’ in space. Key aspects of the larrikin's repertoire are considered, and larrikin activities related to t…
The Gangs of Manchester
Juke Box Britain
(2011). Juke Box Britain: Americanisation and Youth Culture, 1945–60. By Adrian Horn. Cultural and Social History: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 125-126
Anzac Day at Home and Abroad
Over the last hundred years, Anzac Day (25 April), the anniversary of the initial landing of Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) at Gallipoli in 1915, has captured the Australian and New Zealand national imaginations. The day remembers the first significant engagement involving Australian and New Zealand soldiers in the First World War. This article is an early report of a major project that will chart Anzac Day’s origins, development a…
The Leary Larrikin
This article explores the sartorial style of participants in a street-based youth subculture that thrived in late nineteenth-century Australian cities. Known as ‘larrikins', the lower working-class youth so described had a distinctive style of dress including heeled boots and bell-bottomed trousers. Here we examine the material processes through which this larrikin look was produced, locating it in distinctive urban settings and placing it agains…
Children, Childhood and Youth in the British World
Age was a critical factor in shaping imperial experience, yet it has not received any sustained scholarly attention. This pioneering interdisciplinary collection is the first to investigate the lives
Young People and the Shaping of Public Space in Melbourne, 1870-1914
Baby booms have a long history. In 1870, colonial Melbourne was ’perspiring juvenile humanity’ with an astonishing 42 per cent of the city’s inhabitants aged 14 and under - a demographic anomaly resulting from the gold rushes of the 1850s. Within this context, Simon Sleight enters the heated debate concerning the future prospects of ’Young Australia’ and the place of the colonial child within the incipient Australian nation. Looking beyond those …
Histories of play
Children, observed Colin Ward in his influential 1978 study, The child in the city, will playanywhere and with anything (1978, p. 86). An apparently universal impulse, play has evenbeen argued by some scholars to transcend history as an activity older than culture (Huizinga,1949, p. 1). The historians natural inclination is to historicise such contentions, alert to factorsof geography as well as chronology and to intersections including age, gend…
History, Memory and Public Life
Sustainable Academia
Environmental degradation is the most serious challenge of the twenty-first century. To date, academic historians, among many others, have failed to fully confront the climate and biodiversity crises, often engaging in disavowal of the problems and our contribution to them in the course of our historical work. This article discusses mitigation efforts underway among other professional bodies, higher education institutions and academic disciplines…
A Cultural History of Youth in the Modern Age
This open access volume of A Cultural History of Youth, The Modern Age, explores the cultural history of youth from 1920 to the present day. With each chapter dedicated to a specific theme, it covers concepts of youth; spaces and places; education and work; leisure and play; emotions, gender, sexuality and the body; belief and ideology; authority and agency; war and conflict and towards a world history. Readers can trace one theme throughout hist…
Playtime
Of all social categories, childhood is experienced the most universally. Yet children of the past remain relatively underserved in historiographical terms, in Australia as elsewhere. Emily Gallaghe...
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