British Social Trends Since 1900
Author: A. H. Halsey
Publisher: Sheridan House Incorporated
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 650
ISBN-13: 9780333345221
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British Social Trends since 1900
Author: A. Halsey
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1988-09-29
Total Pages: 678
ISBN-13: 1349194662
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book tells the story of changes in the social structure of Britain from 1900 to the mid 1980s. It incorporates and is a sequel to Trends in British Society since 1900, a compilation by a distinguishd group of social scientists at the University of Oxford, and the only comprehensive collection of British social statistics for the twentieth century as a whole.
Austerity in Britain
Author: Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2000-05-04
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 0191542245
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAusterity in Britain is the first book to explore the entire episode of rationing, austerity, and fair shares from 1939 until 1955. These policies were central to the British war effort and to post-war reconstruction. The book analyses the connections between government policy, consumption, gender, and party politics during and after the Second World War. The economic background to austerity, the policy's administration, and changes in consumption standards are examined. Rationing resulted in at times extensive black markets and popular attitudes to the policy ranged from wartime acquiescence to post-war discontent. Austerity in Britain qualifies the myth of common sacrifice on the home front and highlights the limitations of the fair-shares policy which failed to achieve genuine equality between classes or between men and women. The continuation of rationing and austerity policies after 1945 was central to party politics. Disaffection, particularly among women, undermined Labour's popularity while the Conservatives' critique of austerity was instrumental to the party's victories at the general elections of 1951 and 1955.
A Social History of England 1851-1990
Author: Francois Bedarida
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-06-17
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 1136097325
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this, the second edition of A Social History of England, Francois Bédarida has added a new final chapter on the last fifteen years. The book now traces the evolution of English society from the height of the British Empire to the dawn of the single European market. Making full use of the Annales school of French historiography, Bédarida takes his inquiry beyond conventional views to penetrate the attitudes, behaviour and psychology of the British people.
The Transformation of British Life, 1950-2000
Author: Andrew Rosen
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780719066122
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book should be of use to undergraduates reading modern British history, as well as students of modern British culture and society.
A World Away
Author: Michael John Law
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2022-01-15
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 0228009804
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 1950s and 1960s were a transformative period in Britain, and an important part of this was how Britons’ lives were changed when they began flying abroad for their holidays. In A World Away Michael John Law investigates how something that previously only the rich could afford became available to working-class holidaymakers. A World Away moves beyond the big players in the tourist industry and technical accounts of the airplanes used by tour operators to tell the histories of the people who were there, both tourists and tour guides, using their personal testimonies. Until now there has been uncertainty about the identity of these new tourists: some feared they were working-class intruders who might invade the pristine destinations favoured by the elite; others claimed that most were from the middle class. Using new data derived from flight accident investigations, Law explains the complex origins of these new flyers. In British society this unprecedented mobility could not go unpunished, and the new tourists were lampooned in books and newspapers aimed at the middle classes. Law shows how popular culture, movies, and music influenced the decision to travel, and what actually happened when these new holidaymakers went abroad. Law investigates the package tour industry from its mid-century origins through its inherent weaknesses, governmental interference, and unforeseen world events that contributed to its partial failure in the early 1970s. A World Away provides the definitive account of this important change in postwar British society.
A/AS Level History for AQA Challenge and Transformation: Britain, c1851–1964 Student Book
Author: Thomas Dixon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-06-30
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 1107572967
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new series of bespoke, full-coverage resources developed for the AQA 2015 A/AS Level History. Written for the AQA A/AS Level History specifications for first teaching from 2015, this print Student Book covers the Challenge and Transformation: Britain, c1851-1964 Breadth component. Completely matched to the new AQA specification, this full-colour Student Book provides valuable background information to contextualise the period of study. Supporting students in developing their critical thinking, research and written communication skills, it also encourages them to make links between different time periods, topics and historical themes.
The Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales
Author: Tim Newburn
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-09-12
Total Pages: 937
ISBN-13: 1040153496
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the fifth and final volume in the Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales. This volume covers the uneven and often irresolute evolution of policing from the late 1940s to the end of the 1990s, concentrating on the impact of a succession of scandals on the reputation and regulation of the police; and the fluctuating relations between central government, local authorities and police forces in shaping the control of police funding, policy and organisation, particularly in response to a growth in the scale and intensity of social protest, and, above all, on the shifting sands of the policing of public order illustrated in the prolonged miners’ strike and urban unrest of the 1980s. It is a complement to earlier volumes in the series that focused on the liberalisation of the laws on capital punishment, abortion and homosexual relations between adult men in the 1960s; the founding of the Crown Court in 1971 and the Crown Prosecution Service in 1985; transformations in penal policy, and the politics of law and order. It will be of much interest to scholars of British political history, criminology and sociology.
The Peopling of Britain
Author: Paul Slack
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2002-03-07
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 0191544752
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume reviews the way in which, over the centuries, the evolving human presence in Britain has shaped the British landscape and how, in turn, the British landscape has moulded the development of British communities. From the beginnings of human settlement Britain has represented a final frontier for successive waves of colonists, each bringing its own set of cultural adaptations and its own ethos into the landscape. Over time both landscape and culture have matured from raw frontier to settled centre, moulded by the advent of agriculture, towns, and industry, and by streams of migration both within Britain and from outside. The chapters in this book - by archaeologists, historians, and geographers - present an interdisciplinary and accessible account of that long process. Together they trace the various phases of the story, showing how much of it has only recently been unearthed, and how much remains to be discovered.
Twentieth-Century Mass Society in Britain and the Netherlands
Author: Bob Moore
Publisher: Berg
Published: 2006-10-01
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 1847883265
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the beginning of the nineteenth century, Western Europe witnessed the emergence of a 'mass' society. Grand social processes, such as urbanization, industrialization and democratization, blurred the previous sharp distinctions that had divided society. This massive transformation is central to our understanding of modern society. Comparing the British and Dutch experience of mass society in the twentieth century, this book considers five major areas: politics, welfare, media, leisure and youth culture. In each section, two well-known specialists - one from each country - examine the conditions behind the rise of a mass society, and show how these conditions were distinctively British or Dutch. Drawing on history, cultural studies and sociology, the authors bring new insight into the development of modern European society.
