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Vanessa Toulmin (born 1967) is an English academic. She is Professor and Director of City Culture and Public Engagement at the University of Sheffield,[1][2] and was previously director of the National Fairground and Circus Archive (NFCA) at the University of Sheffield.[3]
Early life and education
[edit]Toulmin was born in 1967 in Morecambe, Lancashire, where her mother's family ran the fairground behind Morecambe Winter Gardens. Her mother was from a show family, the O'Connors. The family left Morecambe when she was eight years old, after her grandparents died, and Toulmin took part in travelling fairground life, selling candyfloss and working on children's rides around Lancashire and Wales with her uncles' and aunts' fairs.
Toulmin studied archaeology at the University of Sheffield.[3] She has a PhD (1997) from Sheffield; her 1997 doctoral thesis was "Fun without vulgarity : community, women and language in Showland Society", and her research was carried out in the Centre for English Cultural Tradition and Language.[4] She was awarded the university's Chancellor's Medal, which "is awarded for outstanding attainment in academic, sporting and other personal achievements".[3][5]
Career
[edit]She is a director of the university's Festival of the Mind, established in 2011.[6]
In 2000, she submitted a memorandum to the House of Commons Select Committee on Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs, on the topic of the value of travelling fairs and the needs of travelling showpeople.[7] She led a project team looking at "COVID-19 and Sheffield's cultural sector: planning for recovery", [8] and together with Sarah Price submitted evidence from this work to Parliament.[9]
She is chair of the Morecambe Winter Gardens Preservation Trust, which is restoring this celebrated theatre.[10]
Selected publications
[edit]- Toulmin, Vanessa (1998). Randall Williams : King of Showmen: From Ghost Show to Bioscope. Projection Box. ISBN 978-0-9523941-9-8.
- Toulmin, Vanessa (1999). A Fair Fight: An Illustrated Review of Boxing on British Fairgrounds. World's Fair. ISBN 978-0-9501414-4-2.
- Popple, Simon; Toulmin, Vanessa, eds. (2000). Visual Delights: Essays on the Popular and Projected Image in the 19th Century. Flicks Books. ISBN 978-1-86236-007-5.
- Toulmin, Vanessa; Popple, Simon; Russell, Patrick, eds. (2004). The Lost World of Mitchell and Kenyon: Edwardian Britain on Film. British Film Institute. ISBN 978-1-84457-046-1.[11]
- Toulmin, Vanessa; Popple, Simon, eds. (2005). Visual Delights Two: Exhibition and Reception. John Libbey Eurotext. ISBN 978-0-86196-657-8.[12]
- Toulmin, Vanessa (2011). Blackpool Pleasure Beach: More Than Just an Amusement Park]. Boco Publishing Limited. ISBN 9780956445216.
- Toulmin, Vanessa (October 2013). Blackpool Tower: Wonderland of the World. Boco Publishing Limited. ISBN 978-0-9564452-3-0.
- Toulmin, Vanessa (2019). Electric Edwardians: The Films of Mitchell and Kenyon. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-83871-552-6.[13]
References
[edit]- ^ "City, Culture and Public Engagement". www.sheffield.ac.uk. 12 December 2023. Retrieved 1 April 2024.
Director of City Culture and Public Engagement Professor Vanessa Toulmin
- ^ "Vanessa Toulmin". Welcome To Sheffield. Retrieved 1 April 2024.
- ^ a b c "Toulmin, Vanessa, Professor, Born 1967". Discover Our Archives. University of Sheffield. Retrieved 1 April 2024.
- ^ "Fun without vulgarity : community, women and language in Showland Society [Catalogue record]". White Rose eTheses Online. University of Sheffield. 1997. Retrieved 1 April 2024.
- ^ MBChB Programme Virtual Graduation Celebration. Tuesday 13 July 2021. University of Sheffield. p. 7. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
The Chancellor's Medal was founded by the University's sixth Chancellor, Lord Dainton of Hallam Moors, who held office from 1978-1997 and is awarded for outstanding attainment in academic, sporting and other personal achievements.
- ^ "Celebrating ten years of Festival of the Mind". www.sheffield.ac.uk. 14 September 2022. Retrieved 1 April 2024.
- ^ "Memorandum by Dr Vanessa Toulmin, Research Director, National Fairground Archive, University of Sheffield (TF 39)". UK Parliament. 2000. Retrieved 1 April 2024.
- ^ "COVID-19 and Sheffield's cultural sector: planning for recovery". www.sheffield.ac.uk. 17 November 2021. Retrieved 1 April 2024.
- ^ "Written evidence – Dr Sarah Price & Professor Vanessa Toulmin (PTC0020)". UK Parliament. Retrieved 1 April 2024.
- ^ "Our Trustees". Morecambe Winter Gardens. Retrieved 1 April 2024.
- ^ Johnson, Martin L. (2008). "Electric Edwardians: The Story of the Mitchell & Kenyon Collection (review)". The Moving Image. 8 (1): 55–56. ISSN 1542-4235. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
- ^ Kattelman, Beth A. (2008). "Book Review: "Visual Delights Two: Exhibition and Reception"". Theatre Journal. 60 (4): 679–680. Retrieved 3 April 2024 – via Proquest.
- ^ "Electric Edwardians: The Story of the Mitchell & Kenyon Collection (review)". The Moving Image. 8 (1): 55–56. 2008. doi:10.1353/mov.0.0006.