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‘To get freedom, one went abroad a lot’: British Homosexual Men and Continental Europe as a Site of Emancipation, 1950–75 Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Julia Andrea Erika Maclachlan
This article traces the leisure travel of British homosexual men in continental Europe between 1950 and 1975. The aim of this article is to challenge narratives of British post-war sexual rights discourses as isolated from continental Europe. Taking a transnational approach, which examines the ways in which Britain was embedded in processes of social and cultural change across Europe, it charts informal
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The Hairdresser Blues: British Women and the Secondary Modern School, 1946–72 Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Laura Carter
Between the late 1940s and the early 1970s, the majority of teenage girls in Britain attended secondary modern schools. Yet, histories of the meaning and experience of postwar education continue to neglect this constituent of postwar women, favouring grammar-school leavers. This article draws upon a set of fifty-eight newly mined life histories from two postwar birth cohort studies to recapture the
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The African Grounds of Race Relations in Britain Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Marc Matera
‘Race relations’ became the most common way of conceptualizing the ‘integration’ of Commonwealth migrants and various obstacles to it in post-war Britain. However, interest in race relations did not centre initially on Afro-Caribbeans and other non-white migrants to metropolitan Britain as is commonly assumed. Before the 1960s, efforts to study and manage them centred primarily on British settler colonies
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Race, Citizenship and ‘race relations’ Research in late-Twentieth-century Britain Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Rob Waters
This article reads late-twentieth-century race relations research projects from the perspectives of the black and brown Britons who were the targets of research. The analysis focuses on contestations around issues of epistemic authority and resource allocation in the relationship between black citizens and the state in the post-war decades, helping us to understand why so many black citizens saw the
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Marking Race: Empire, Social Democracy, Deindustrialization Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Marc Matera, Radhika Natarajan, Kennetta Hammond Perry, Camilla Schofield, Rob Waters
This joint-authored essay concludes the thematic issue ‘Marking Race’. Drawing on the authors’ individual essays and reviewing the wider literatures in the field of race and immigration, imperialism and decolonization, social democracy and the welfare state, and deindustrialization, the essay makes a series of proposals about what an analytical focus on race adds to our understanding of modern British
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Duncan Tanner Essay Prize Winner 2022 Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Holly Smith
Ronan Point was a residential tower block that partially collapsed in Newham in 1968, provoking a nationwide scandal. The Ronan Point disaster is frequently cited as a symbolic ‘turning point’ in the urban history of Britain, but it has been surprisingly underexplored on an archival level. It has been identified as a moment at which high-rise architecture was overwhelmingly discredited: a defining
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The Sights and Sounds of State Violence: Encounters with the Archive of David Oluwale Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Kennetta Hammond Perry
This article dwells in the archive documenting the existence of David Oluwale, a Nigerian-born British citizen whose life is captured historically by way of his encounters with the state. Working within and against the dynamics of violation, racialization, and dispossession structuring his archival presence, this article looks to the visual and sonic registers of an archive of Black dispossession to
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The ‘Bogus Child’ and the ‘Big Uncle’: The Impossible South Asian Family in Post-Imperial Britain Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Radhika Natarajan
Between 1962 and 1965, a broad definition of dependence allowed for the migration of Commonwealth Citizens to join working family members in Britain. This article investigates how the Home Office targeted male dependent youth as a category that could reduce unwanted immigration from the Commonwealth, particularly South Asia. Home Office officials obscured the stories of dependent migrants, constructed
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Going Up in Smoke: Tobacco and Government Policy in the Age of Austerity, 1945–50 Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-09 John Singleton
This article examines the Attlee government’s performance as a crisis manager in relation to tobacco policy in the years prior to the publication in 1950 of research linking smoking and cancer. Health concerns played no role in tobacco policy before 1950, and the government hoped more teenagers would take up smoking and pay tobacco duty. Tobacco took on added significance as an economic issue because
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In Defence of White Freedom: Working Men’s Clubs and the Politics of Sociability in Late Industrial England Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Camilla Schofield
While ongoing discrimination in jobs, welfare, and housing in 1970s England belied the social democratic promise of ‘equality of opportunity’ and the much-touted British value of ‘fair play’, racism at the door of the working men’s club told a different story. For reactionaries and liberals alike, it spoke to the uncertain future of working-class politics in late industrial England. This article shows
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Imagining Economic Growth in Post-War Britain Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Jim Tomlinson
This article contends that common representations of the history of the British economy and economic policy in the ‘Golden Age’ period (circa 1950–73) as a story of ‘failure’ rely overwhelmingly on one measure, that of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth. Drawing on the foundational criticisms of this metric made by Simon Kuznets, it is argued that, for this period of British economic history, shortfalls
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The Family Life of Peter and Ruth Townsend: Social Science and Methods in 1950s and Early 1960s Britain Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Chris Renwick
Peter Townsend (1928–2009) was one of the most important British social scientists of the twentieth century, best known for pioneering and innovative research on poverty, as well as his political campaigning, most notably for the Child Poverty Action Group. This article returns to Townsend’s influential work on ageing, for which he first became widely known, during the 1950s and early 1960s. It does
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Mass-Observation and Vernacular Politics at the 1945 General Election Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-28 Rebecca Goldsmith
This article sheds fresh light on popular attitudes towards politics in the 1940s. It does so by reading against the grain of archived material from Mass-Observation’s (M-O) study of the 1945 General Election, as it played out in the constituency of Fulham East. Where the formal reports from this investigation have underpinned influential accounts of ‘apathy’ in 1945, this article returns to the original
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‘No future to look forward to’, Suicide Pacts, Intimacy and Society in 1920s and 1930s Britain Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Jacob Fredrickson
In the years after the First World War, a worrying legal and cultural phenomenon appeared in the English criminal court, something that would captivate the reading public throughout Britain. Young people, specifically young couples, were agreeing to die together, in what would become known as a ‘suicide pact’. This article examines the curiously brief life of the suicide pact as a legal, social, and
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The European Dimension of the ‘talks process’ in Northern Ireland Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Giada Lagana
Analysis of efforts to develop peace in Northern Ireland often attributes the foundation of the peace process to the dialogue between the then Sinn Fein president, Gerry Adams, and the Social Democratic and Labour Party’s (SDLP) former leader, John Hume, in the late 1980s. However, it has been recognized that attempts to forge peace have a longer timeline, involving the interplay of several national
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A Political Sexual Revolution: Sexual Autonomy in the British Women’s Liberation Movement in the 1970s and 1980s Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Emma Wallhead
In the 1970s and 1980s, women across Britain—particularly those in the Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM)—took part in a distinct sexual revolution fuelled by a very specific question—who gets to determine the ways in which I am sexual? The active engagement by women with this question of sexual selfhood belies a historiography of sexual revolution—real or imagined—in which women were the passive beneficiaries
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Parties, Voters and Political Change in Early Twentieth-Century Manchester: Reconnecting Politics and Society Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Tony Adams
In the wake of the linguistic turn the ‘new political history’ has recognized the importance of both political language and social context. In practice, however, over recent years much political history of the pre-1918 period has become increasingly focused on language and party, relegating society and economy to the margins. This study emphasizes the interconnectedness of party politics and society
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Football Casuals, Fanzines, and Acid House: Working Class Subcultures, Emotional Communities, and Popular Individualism in 1980s and 1990s England Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Ben Jones
This article illuminates the dynamics of two of the most significant yet neglected youth subcultures of the late twentieth century: football’s casual culture and the acid house scene. Through the lens of two influential fanzines, Liverpool’s The End and London’s Boy’s Own I make a series of arguments about the relationship between ‘popular individualism’, emotion, and working-class communities. I argue
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‘What did you do to them Klaus?’: The Klaus Fuchs Atomic Espionage Case and its Impact on the Scientific Community in early Cold War Britain Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2023-01-03 George Kassimeris, Oliver Price
The atomic spy, Klaus Fuchs, was one of the most notorious figures of the early Cold War. The story of his espionage and the impact it had has been the subject of extensive historical research. This article provides a new angle on the Fuchs case by examining the repercussions of his actions on his friends, colleagues, and the wider scientific community in Britain that have previously been overlooked
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The Uses and Abuses of ‘Community Art’ on an Inner-City Estate Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-09-13 Michael Romyn
This article traces the history of ‘community art’ on the Aylesbury Estate, a mass municipal housing development in inner-city London. Established by local artists soon after the Aylesbury’s opening in 1974, the Walworth and Aylesbury Community Arts Trust (WACAT) ran a multifaceted arts project on the estate until the early 1990s. Through an examination of WACAT’s changing aims, outputs and engagements
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Armoured Cars and Archbishops: Human Rights, Religious Pressure Groups, and Arms for El Salvador, 1977–8 Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-07-22 David Grealy
David Owen, who was appointed as Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary following the death of Anthony Crosland in February 1977, committed the Labour government of Jim Callaghan to a human rights-based foreign policy, stating in his first major speech that Britain would take a ‘stand’ on human rights violations in every corner of the globe. This ambitious agenda faced a major challenge when, in October
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Duncan Tanner Essay Prize Winner 2022 Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-07-09 Alistair Cartwright
Rent Tribunals were first established in England and Wales in 1946 as a means of regulating rents among furnished lets in the private rented sector, before their authority was extended to cover unfurnished dwellings in 1949. This article shows how rent tribunals created an informal space of justice that provided a forum for tenants’ voices. Tenants used rent tribunals to dramatize their everyday complaints
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Cold White of Day: White, colour, and materiality in the twentieth-century British hospital Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-06-21 Victoria Bates
The built environment is central to modern history. However, scholars have paid much more attention to buildings’ architecture, appearance, and layout, than to their interior decoration, materiality and sensory qualities. There is great opportunity for historians in these latter areas of study. This article makes a case for the value of putting colour at the centre of research, as a material part of
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‘They didnae tell you nothin’: The Failings of Sex Education, Antenatal Care, and Welfare Bureaucracies in Glasgow, c. 1970s–2000s Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-03-31 Janet Greenlees
Abstract Utilizing group oral histories from nineteen women who were pregnant and living in areas of social and economic deprivation in Glasgow, Scotland, between the late 1970s and early 2000s, this article analyses the difficulties the women faced in accessing information about pregnancy and welfare entitlements. It reveals a disconnect between women’s knowledge about reproduction and maternal health
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Rethinking an Icon of Sixties Britain: The Mini and Its Place in the Post-War Motor Revolution Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-03-29 Jacob Harris
Abstract The Mini was launched in 1959 during Britain’s motor revolution. This iconic car has long been analogized with the popular iconography of the Sixties, but I argue here that this association only scratches the surface of its more complex meanings. Rather, the Mini embodied the tension arising from a motor revolution that was transformative yet limited. By looking at how the Mini was marketed
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Britain and the Intellectual Origins of the League of Nations, 1914-1919. By Sakiko Kaiga Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-03-29 Jamie Perry
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Making the Railways Pay: The Redevelopment of Euston Station, Labour and Conservative Visions of Public Sector Property Speculation in the 1960s and 1970s Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-03-21 Ewan Harrison
This article examines the redevelopment of Euston Station forecourt as a speculative development of offices designed by the prolific post-war commercial architectural practice R. Seifert & Partners from c.1970 to 1979. The article offers a reading of the development as a piece of state-encouraged, public-sector led property development. It uncovers the encouragement given by Harold Wilson’s Labour
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The Crisis of the Meritocracy: Britain’s Transition to Mass Education Since the Second World War. By Peter Mandler Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-02-17 Tiplady J.
The Crisis of the Meritocracy: Britain’s Transition to Mass Education Since the Second World War. By MandlerPeter. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2020. 384 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-884014-5, £25.
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The Casino and Society in Britain (Routledge Studies in Modern British History). By Seamus Murphy Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Roodhouse M.
The Casino and Society in Britain (Routledge Studies in Modern British History). By MurphySeamus. Routledge, London, 2020. 234 pp. ISBN 9781138318953, £120 (hardback). ISBN 9780429454202, £32.29 (ebook).
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Child-centred Matriarch or Mother Among Other Things? Race and the Construction of Working-class Motherhood in Late Twentieth-century Britain Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-02-05 Jessica White
This article examines and centres the activism and experiences of Black mothers to demonstrate the primacy of race in the construction working-class motherhood in late twentieth-century Britain. While recent scholarship has demonstrated the way in which working-class mothers could be vectors of social change in post-war Britain, it has obscured the experience of Black mothers. This study addresses
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The Bureaucratization of Death: The First World War, Families, and the State Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2022-01-12 Ann-Marie Foster
After the First World War the British state tried to show the families of the dead their thanks, and memorialize the dead, through the two-minute silence and the creation of the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior. However, before families of deceased servicepeople encountered the state through national commemorations they encountered it through the administrative paperwork of death. Other than brief mentions
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The Flapper of Ur: Archaeology and the Image of the Young Woman in Inter-war Britain Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-12-12 Hélène Maloigne
This article explores how inter-war ideas about the ‘flapper’ and the place of women in modern society interacted with archaeological discoveries. Looking at how the discovery of the Royal Cemetery of Ur in Iraq (excavated from 1922 to 1934) was reported in the British daily and weekly press demonstrates the popularity of archaeological reporting in inter-war newspapers and magazines and its influence
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A Simple and Rather Tender Thing? Laurence Housman’s Victoria Regina in 1930s Britain and America Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-12-11 Arianne Chernock
From 1935 to 1939, audiences on both sides of the Atlantic thronged theatres to see Laurence Housman’s play Victoria Regina, a series of vignettes about the life of Queen Victoria. Those unable to purchase tickets were able to read about the show in magazines and newspapers, listen to a radio production, and purchase clothing and home furnishings that reflected the revival of interest in the Victorian
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Making Cultures of Solidarity: London and the 1984–5 Miners’ Strike. By Diarmaid Kelliher Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-12-10 Emily Peirson-Webber
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Waiting for the Doctor: Managing Time and Emotion in the British National Health Service, 1948–80 Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Martin D Moore
This article examines patients’ and doctors’ emotional and psychological entanglements with the development of appointment systems in British general practice between the 1948 and 1980. Waiting, especially in the form of the queue, has been subject to recent historical analyses. However, the focus has often been on negative emotional responses, on how waiting has been politicized, and on the disciplinary
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Women, Mobility, and Education in Twentieth-century England and Wales: A New Analytical Approach Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-11-19 Christina de Bellaigue, Eve Worth, Charlotte Bennett, Karin Eli, Stanley Ulijaszek
The twentieth century saw substantial changes in the educational and occupational opportunities available to women in Britain. These may have been supposed to foster new patterns of female mobility. Yet studies of women’s intergenerational mobility are rare and tend not to focus on education. This article develops a historically informed gauge of educational attainment—the Educational Cohort Code (ECC)
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Daughters of War: Girl Guides and Service after the First World War Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-11-09 Proctor T.
AbstractUsing the lens of the largest female youth organization in interwar Britain, the Girl Guides, I argue girls became important to the rebuilding of the post-war world as future wives, mothers, and keepers of the hearth. Yet this message of return to home was complicated by a wartime message of patriotic service, citizenship, and adventure. Thus, uniformed clubs such as the Guides tried to balance
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Ireland and the Great War: A Social and Political History. By Niamh Gallagher Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-10-23 Emmanuel Destenay
Ireland and the Great War: A Social and Political History. By GallagherNiamh. Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2020. xvii + 258 pp. ISBN: 978-1-78831-462-6 (hardback). £85.
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Coal Country: The Meaning and Memory of Deindustrialization in Postwar Scotland Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-10-21 Matt Beebee
Coal Country: The Meaning and Memory of Deindustrialization in Postwar Scotland. By GibbsEwan. University of London Press, London (New Historical Perspectives), 2021. x + 306pp. ISBN 978-1-912702-54-1, £40 (hardback); 978-1-912702-55-8, £25 (paperback); 978-1-912702-58-9, Free (PDF edition).
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The ‘Curious Effects’ of Acting: Homosexuality, Theatre and Female Impersonation at the University of Cambridge, 1900–39 Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-10-19 Dominic Janes
The University of Cambridge educated a significant proportion of Britain’s elite in the early twentieth century. The homosocial environment of the colleges was similar in many ways to that of the single-sex public boarding schools which many of the undergraduates had attended. Student theatre was a popular activity, and because such shows were acted by single-sex ensembles, there was a strong tradition
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The Greater London Council’s Homesteading Scheme: Housing Rehabilitation and the Urban Imaginary of Conservative Politics in London, 1977–81 Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-10-08 Tessa Pinto
This article examines the Greater London Council (GLC)’s Homesteading scheme, which gave away dilapidated, council-owned houses to aspiring homeowners. The first section provides an overview of the scheme and its North American origins. The second half of the article explores the scheme in the context of London’s electoral geopolitics, and considers how the relationship between the boroughs and the
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Harold Wilson, ‘Selsdon Man’, and the defence of social democracy in 1970s Britain Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-10-01 Sloman P.
AbstractHarold Wilson's attack on ‘Selsdon Man’ in the run-up to the 1970 general election has generally been seen as a flawed rhetorical gambit, which inadvertently gave coherence to Edward Heath's policies. The subsequent invocation of ‘Selsdon’ by critics of Heath's ‘u-turns’ has meant that the episode has mainly attracted scrutiny from historians of the Conservative Party. Yet the debate over Selsdon
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‘Flying Gas Mains’: Rumour, Secrecy, and Morale during the V-2 Bombardment of Britain Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-09-27 Hall C.
AbstractBritain was the first country to suffer casualties as the result of a ballistic missile attack, when German V-2 rockets began landing in London and the South-East in September 1944. This new menace posed critical challenges, not only to the civilians whose lives were endangered once again, but also to the British government. Policymakers had to decide what, if any, information they released
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Keeping the Faith: a History of Northern Soul. By Stephen Catterall and Keith Gildart Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-09-22 Marshall Payne F.
Keeping the Faith: a History of Northern Soul. By CatterallStephen, GildartKeith. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2020. 320 pp. ISBN 978-0-7190-9710-2, £80 (hardback).
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Picturing Home: Domestic Life and Modernity in 1940s British Film. By Hollie Price Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-09-14 Naylor A.
Picturing Home: Domestic Life and Modernity in 1940s British Film. By PriceHollie. Manchester University Press, 2021. xiv + 242 pp. ISBN 978-1-5261-3820-0, £80.
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Duncan Tanner Essay Prize Winner 2020 Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-09-14 George Morris
Between 1899 and 1907, the medium Rosalie Thompson—giving voice to her dead daughter, Nelly—participated in a number of experimental seances with the Society for Psychical Research (SPR), which were formative in the development of the society’s theories of telepathy, personality and survival. Using the extensive séance notes taken by the researchers, and the range of published materials related to
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Imperial Encore: The Cultural Project of the Late British Empire. By Caroline Ritter Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-09-06 Andrew Schumacher Bethke
Imperial Encore: The Cultural Project of the Late British Empire. By RitterCaroline. University of California Press, Oakland, 2021. 276 pp. ISBN 9780520375949, £27.00.
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Black Political Worlds in Port Cities: Garveyism in 1920s Britain† Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-08-21 Thorold J.
AbstractThe presence of Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in the British ports of London, Manchester, Cardiff, and Barry during the 1920s has yet to be charted by historians of either Garveyism or Black Britain. Uncovering this history provides fresh insights into both fields. Far from the localism emphasized by much of recent Garveyism historiography
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Measuring Difference, Numbering Normal: Setting the Standards for Disability in the Interwar Period. By Coreen McGuire Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-08-17 Buxton H.
Measuring Difference, Numbering Normal: Setting the Standards for Disability in the Interwar Period. By McGuireCoreen. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2020. 248 pp. ISBN 978-1-5261-4317-4, £25 hbk.
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English Radicalism in the Twentieth Century: A Distinctive Politics? By Richard Taylor Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-08-13 Steer A.
English Radicalism in the Twentieth Century: A Distinctive Politics? By TaylorRichard. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2020. 280 pp. ISBN 978-1-5261-5496-5, £25.
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Brothers in the Great War: Siblings, Masculinity and Emotions. By Linda Maynard. Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-08-13 Jasmine Wood
Brothers in the Great War: Siblings, Masculinity and Emotions. By MaynardLinda. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2020. x + 312 pp. ISBN: 978-1-5261-4614-4 (hardback), £80
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Popular Conservatism and the Culture of National Government in Inter-War Britain. By Geraint Thomas Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-08-09 Christopher Day
Popular Conservatism and the Culture of National Government in Inter-War Britain. By ThomasGeraint. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2020. Xii + 360pp. ISBN 978-1-10848312-4, £75.
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Do Archive Catalogues Make History?: Exploring Interactions between Historians and Archives Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Richard Dunley, Jo Pugh
Archival research is foundational to the writing of most works of academic history and is a central part of the professional identity of historians. Despite this, we know very little about what historians do in archives, and how it shapes the process of writing history. This article uses quantitative data from The National Archives of the UK to analyse one part of this puzzle, namely how historians
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Penguin Books and Political Change: Britain’s Meritocratic Moment, 1937-1988. By Dean Blackburn Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Lawrence J.
Penguin Books and Political Change: Britain’s Meritocratic Moment, 1937-1988. By BlackburnDean. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2020. x+281 pp. ISBN 978-1-5261-2928-4, £20.
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Cinemas and Cinema-Going in the United Kingdom: Decades of Decline, 1945–65. By Sam Manning Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-06-30 Glen P.
Cinemas and Cinema-Going in the United Kingdom: Decades of Decline, 1945–65. By ManningSam. University of London Press, London, 2020. 235 pp. ISBN 978-1-912702-36-7, Open Access.
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Women Art Workers and the Arts and Crafts Movement. By Zoë Thomas Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-06-28 McCarthy H.
Women Art Workers and the Arts and Crafts Movement. By ThomasZoë. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2020. 272 pp. ISBN 978-1-5261-4043-2, £80.
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Diversity and Entrepreneurialism: PN Review, Feminism and the Arts Council of Great Britain, 1973–1990 Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-06-25 Lise Jaillant
This article examines the evolution of PN Review, a leading Manchester-based poetry magazine, in relation to second-wave feminism in the 1970s and 1980s. Largely funded by the Arts Council of Great Britain, the magazine was initially not a welcoming place for female poets and contributors. Women’s poetry was often disparaged, and few women contributed to the magazine. From the early 1980s, however
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Migrant City: A New History of London. By Panikos Panayi Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-06-10 Crangle J.
Migrant City: A New History of London. By PanayiPanikos. Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2020. xviii + 448 pp. ISBN 978-0-300-21097-2, £20
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Turn Again, Fascist Studies: New Perspectives on British Fascism Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-06-05 Liam J Liburd
Failed Führers: A History of Britain’s Extreme Right. By MacklinGraham. Routledge, London; New York, 2020. 592 pp. ISBN: 9781315697093, £22.49 (eBook).
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Lessons from the British and French New Towns: Paradise Lost? Edited by David Fée, Sabine Coady Schäbitz and Bob Colenutt Twentieth Century British History (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2021-05-31 Demetrius A.
Lessons from the British and French New Towns: Paradise Lost? Edited by FéeDavidSchäbitzSabine CoadyColenuttBob. Emerald Publishing, Bingley, 2021. 226pp. ISBN 978-1-83909-431-6, £70.