Making Space for Athletes with Learning Disabilities: the case of the Special Olympics, Health in History, Anglo-American Conference, London, June 2011
The Role of Sledging in the Development of Winter Sports in Swizerland, Winter Sport and Outdoor Life Conference, Bo in Telemark, Norway, February 2011
Vernacular Erections: Holiday homes and beach huts on the Lincolnshire coast and the Lindsey County Council Sandhills Act, Recording Leisure Lives, Bolton 2010, Keynote Speaker
Technology transfer in Swiss Tourism, Transfer of Technology Forum, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, November 2009
Happy Days, Holiday Homes, Health Hazards and Heritage: the impact of visitors on the Lincolnshire Coast of Eastern England before 1940, Resorting to the Coast, Blackpool, June 2009
Package Holidays in Spain for British Tourists: The Beginnings of European Popular Tourism, Euro Pop: The Production and Consumption of a European Popular Culture in the 20th Century, Villa Vigoni, Italy, June 2009
Creating resort identities and loyalties among British communities in Switzerland, 1870-1914, Recording Leisure Lives, Bolton, March 2009
Alpine milk in Swiss alpine cures: Food and Tourism Conference, University of Central Lancashire, June 2006
The role of sanatoria in the development of Alpine sports tourism: Davos 1865-1914: T2M, International Conference on Mobility and Transport History, York Railway Museum, October, 2005
Package holidays to Spain by chartered flights:T2M, International Conference on Mobility and Transport History, University of Eindhoven, November 2003
Representations of package holidays in popular culture in the 1960s and 1970s, Representations of tourism, University of Central Lancashire, June 2003
Playing on the Playa: It Didn’t Costa Packet! The impact of British tourists on the Spanish coast in the 1960s, Play - Social History Society Conference, University of Leicester, 2003
The Management of Space in Nineteenth Century Trains, Off the Rails! Behaving Badly on the Railways, SOLON (interdisciplinary studies in bad behaviour and socially visible crime) Conference, National Railway Museum, York, 2002
Workers and the Great Exhibition of 1851 - Locating the Victorians, the Science Museum, London, July 2001
The Trade Union Congress and campaigns for paid holidays and the Holidays with Pay Select Committee 1938, Tourisms: Identities, Environments, Conflicts and Histories, University of Central Lancashire, June 2001
Planning for Post-war Holidays - Labour Party Policy 1938-1950, Envisioning Futures - Social History Society Conference, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, 2000
The Place of the Poor Law in the Transition from Agricultural Labourer to Working-class Framework Knitter in Hinckley 1760s to 1840s - Forging Identities - Social History Society Conference, York, January 1999
The Poor Law and the Creation of the Hinckley Hosiery Industry - International Conference on the European Textile Industry, University of Beira Interior, Covilha, Portugal, November 1998
Kinship and Careers in the Hosiery Industry - eighteenth century to the present, The Family Revisited - Social History Society Conference, Nottingham Trent University, January 1998
The Struggle for Time - Campaigns for Holidays with Pay - Time - Social History Society Conference, Lancaster, January 1997
The Great Exhibition and Travel for the Masses - International Symposium on the Crowd, de 51³Ô¹Ïapp University, Leicester, June 1996