In the final session of the series, we explore Dennis Morris’ This Happy Breed and its depiction of working-class life in Britain. Through a close reading of selected photographs, we reflect on visual storytelling as a means of representing everyday experience, resilience and humour. The discussion will draw some comparative references to Noël Coward’s play and the 1944 film adaptation of This Happy Breed, opening up wider questions about class, domesticity and representation in British visual culture — both past and present. 

This session is part of a series of events dedicated to in-depth exploration of Dennis Morris’s photobooks: Growing Up Black, Southall - A Home from Home and This Happy Breed, as well as Music + Life. Each session offers contextual information and critical analysis of Morris’s photographic storytelling, touching on themes such as race, migration, identity and British cultural history.

With support from the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.

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