Women, Clubs and Associations in Britain
Women, Clubs and Associations in Britain

Author: David Doughan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007-01-24

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 113420437X

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Women have been consistently excluded from all manner of clubs and associations over the years, whether as the direct result of an anti-woman policy or indirectly through prohibitive entry requirements, social constraints, or conflict of interests and tastes. Retaliation from women has taken two directions: some women have set up their own exclusive clubs that reflect their own interests and aims, while others have taken on the men and striven to break down resistance to their joining ‘men’s’ clubs on an equal footing. This book traces the development of the current situation, drawing from a wide range of sources, some of which have never been published before. Looking at the different types of clubs and associations that include women and girls from the WI to the Girl Guides, this book is a rich social history full of fascinating observations and stories, and will be absorbing reading for anyone interested in sociology, women’s history or the transformation of Britain’s social life.

Dictionary of British Women's Organisations, 1825-1960
Dictionary of British Women's Organisations, 1825-1960

Author: David Doughan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-03

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1136897771

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This dictionary is the first attempt to identify systematically the large heterogeneous group of women's organisations that grew up from the early 19th century up to the beginning of the modern women's movement, from women abolitionists and Chartists through Social workers, nurses, suffragists and sexual reformers to women pilots, journalists and cricketers. The work brings together over 500 separate entities on a wide variety of societies, associations, clubs, unions and other professional, social and political bodies organised by women or for men.

British Clubs and Societies 1580-1800
British Clubs and Societies 1580-1800

Author: Peter Clark

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2000-01-06

Total Pages: 550

ISBN-13: 0191542164

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Modern freemasonry was invented in London about 1717, but was only one of a surge of British associations in the early modern era which had originated before the English Revolution. By 1800, thousands of clubs and societies had swept the country. Recruiting widely from the urban affluent classes, mainly amongst men, they traditionally involved heavy drinking, feasting, singing, and gambling. They ranged from political, religious and scientific societies, artistic and literary clubs, to sporting societies, bee keeping, and birdfancying clubs, and a myriad of other associations.

The British Barbershopper
The British Barbershopper

Author: Liz Garnett

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 1351545884

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Barbershop singing is a distinctive and under-documented facet of Britain's musical landscape. Imported from the USA in the 1960s, it has developed into an active and highly organized musical community characterized by strong social support structures and a proselytizing passion for its particular style. This style is defined, within the community, in largely music-theoretical terms and is both highly prescriptive and continually contested, but there is also a host of performance traditions that articulate barbershop's identity as a distinct and specific genre. Liz Garnett documents and analyses the social and musical practices of this specialized community of music-makers, and extends this analysis to theorize the relationship between music and self-identity. The book engages with a range of sociological and musicological theoretical frameworks in order to explore the role of harmony, ritual, sexual politics, performance styles and 'tag-singing' in barbershop. This analysis shows how musical style and cultural discourses can be seen to interact in the formation of identity. Garnett provides the first in-depth scholarly insight into the British barbershop community, and contributes to ongoing debates in the semiotics and the sociology of music.

Threshold Modernism
Threshold Modernism

Author: Elizabeth F. Evans

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 1108479812

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Reveals how changing ideas about gender and race shaped - and were shaped by - London and its literature.

Women Together
Women Together

Author: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. Historical Branch

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 662

ISBN-13:

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"132 short histories of organisations, grouped in thirteen sections"--Introduction.

A Contemporary History of Women's Sport, Part One
A Contemporary History of Women's Sport, Part One

Author: Jean Williams

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-04-24

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 131774666X

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This book is an historical survey of women’s sport from 1850-1960. It looks at some of the more recent methodological approaches to writing sports history and raises questions about how the history of women’s sport has so far been shaped by academic writers. Questions explored in this text include: What are the fresh perspectives and newly available sources for the historian of women’s sport? How do these take forward established debates on women’s place in sporting culture and what novel approaches do they suggest? How can our appreciation of fashion, travel, food and medical history be advanced by looking at women’s involvement in sport? How can we use some of the current ideas and methodologies in the recent literature on the history and sociology of sport in order to look afresh at women’s participation? Jean Williams’s original research on these topics and more will be a useful resource for scholars in the fields of sports, women’s studies, history and sociology.

Britain in China
Britain in China

Author: Robert Bickers

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2017-03-01

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1526119609

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This is a study of Britain's presence in China both at its peak, and during its inter-war dissolution in the face of assertive Chinese nationalism and declining British diplomatic support. Using archival materials from China and records in Britain and the United States, the author paints a portrait of the traders, missionaries, businessmen, diplomats and settlers who constituted "Britain-in-China", challenging our understanding of British imperialism there. Bickers argues that the British presence in China was dominated by urban settlers whose primary allegiance lay not with any grand imperial design, but with their own communities and precarious livelihoods. This brought them into conflict not only with the Chinese population, but with the British imperial government. The book also analyzes the formation and maintenance of settler identities, and then investigates how the British state and its allies brought an end to the reign of freelance, settler imperialism on the China coast. At the same time, other British sectors, missionary and business, renegotiated their own relationship with their Chinese markets and the Chinese state and distanced themselves from the settler British.

The Routledge Guide to British Political Archives
The Routledge Guide to British Political Archives

Author: Chris Cook

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-10-02

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13: 1136509623

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This major new reference work provides an authoritative and wide-ranging guide to archive sources now becoming available for British political history since 1945. With a user-friendly layout, the book presents a comprehensive range of 1,500 personal papers from leading statesmen, backbench politicians, writers, campaigners, diplomats and generals which cover the key aspects of British history since of the end of the Second World War. Compiled by an experienced archivist, this comprehensive, easy-to-use and authoritative guide is an invaluable resource for researchers of modern British history.