Leisure in Post-War Britain
Author | : Stuart Hylton |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2012-12-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1445629208 |
A nostalgic look at the Brits at play from the end of the war to the present.
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Author | : Stuart Hylton |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2012-12-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1445629208 |
A nostalgic look at the Brits at play from the end of the war to the present.
Author | : Peter Catterall |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2002-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134837941 |
Brings together the perspectives of leading sociologists and social historians to understand the shaping of British society. An illuminating Bnd comprehensive account of post-war British History.
Author | : Stuart Hylton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 9781445603438 |
A nostalgic look at the Brits at play from the end of the war to the present.
Author | : Mark Jackson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2016-12-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317318048 |
In the years following World War II the health and well-being of the nation was of primary concern to the British government. The essays in this collection examine the relationship between health and stress in post-war Britain through a series of carefully connected case studies.
Author | : Alan Sinfield |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 2004-12-23 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780826477026 |
Alan Sinfield (1941-) is Professor of English at the University of Sussex. The publication of Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain in 1989 firmly established him as one of our foremost writers on literature and a leading critic of postwar culture and society. Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain is a landmark work in contemporary literary and cultural analysis. It offers a provocative and brilliant account of political change since 1945 and how such change shaped the cultural output of our time. It also looks at how and when literature intersects with other cultural forms, and the growth of American cultural dominance. This edition includes a new foreword by the author, specially written for the Impact edition.
Author | : Glen O'Hara |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2017-05-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1137446404 |
This is the first book to cover the British people’s late twentieth century engagement with water in all its domestic, national and international forms, and from bathing and household chores to controversies about maritime pollution. The British Isles, a relatively wet and rainy archipelago, cannot in any way be said to be short of liquid resources. Even so, it was the site of highly contentious and revealing political controversies over the meaning and use of water after the Second World War. A series of such issues divided political parties, pressure groups, government and voters, and form the subject matter of this book: problems as diverse as flood defence to river and beach cleanliness, from the teaching of swimming to the installation of hot and cold running water in the home, from international controls over maritime pollution, and from the different housework duties of men and women to the British state’s proposals to fluoridise the drinking water supply.
Author | : Robert Snape |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2018-04-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1350003026 |
In the final decades of the nineteenth century modernizing interpretations of leisure became of interest to social policy makers and cultural critics, producing a discourse of leisure and voluntarism that flourished until the Second World War. The free time of British citizens was increasingly seen as a sphere of social citizenship and community-building. Through major social thinkers, including William Morris, Thomas Hill Green, Bernard Bosanquet and John Hobson, leisure and voluntarism were theorized in terms of the good society. In post-First World War social reconstruction these writers remained influential as leisure became a field of social service, directed towards a new society and working through voluntary association in civic societies, settlements, new estate community-centres, village halls and church-based communities. This volume documents the parallel cultural shift from charitable philanthropy to social service and from rational recreation to leisure, teasing out intellectual influences which included social idealism, liberalism and socialism. Leisure, Robert Snape claims, has been a central and under-recognized organizing force in British communities. Leisure, Voluntary Action and Social Change in Britain, 1880-1939 marks a much needed addition to the historiography of leisure and an antidote to the widely misunderstood implications of leisure to social policy today.
Author | : Geraldine Biddle-Perry |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2017-04-30 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : 178672197X |
A new look for Austerity...The coldest winter on record, rationing, successive economic crises, bombed out towns and cities; with some justification 'Austerity Britain' in the late 1940s is coloured in the popular imagination in tones of drab. Dressing for Austerity shines a light on alternative visions of post-war optimism and aspiration. It traces how, set against the Labour government's philosophy of 'Austerity by design' in a climate of post-war idealism, the desire for affordable fashionable clothing, access to leisure, and the health, time and money to enjoy them became totemic symbols of post-war ambition that impelled new strategies of state control and consumer agency. The book examines the immediate post-war period - its politics, its fashions and its people - in new ways and on its own terms as a critical tipping point in the making of modern Britain.
Author | : Geraldine Biddle-Perry |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2017-04-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1786731975 |
A new look for Austerity...The coldest winter on record, rationing, successive economic crises, bombed out towns and cities; with some justification 'Austerity Britain' in the late 1940s is coloured in the popular imagination in tones of drab. Dressing for Austerity shines a light on alternative visions of post-war optimism and aspiration. It traces how, set against the Labour government's philosophy of 'Austerity by design' in a climate of post-war idealism, the desire for affordable fashionable clothing, access to leisure, and the health, time and money to enjoy them became totemic symbols of post-war ambition that impelled new strategies of state control and consumer agency. The book examines the immediate post-war period - its politics, its fashions and its people - in new ways and on its own terms as a critical tipping point in the making of modern Britain.
Author | : Brad Beaven |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780719060274 |
From the bawdy audience of a Victorian Penny Gaff to the excitable crowd of an early twentieth century football match, working-class male leisure proved to be a contentious issue for contemporary observers. For middle-class social reformers from across the political spectrum, the spectacle of popular leisure offered a view of working-class habits, and a means by which lifestyles and behaviour could be assessed. For the mid-Victorians, gingerly stepping into a new mass democratic age, the desire to create a bond between the recently enfranchised male worker and the nation was more important than ever. This trend continued as those in governance perceived that 'good' leisure and citizenship could fend off challenges to social stability such as imperial decline, the mass degenerate city, hooliganism, civic and voter apathy and fascism. Thus, between 1850 and 1945 the issue of male leisure became enmeshed with changing contemporary debates on the encroaching mass society and its implications for good citizenry. Working-class culture has often been depicted as an atomised and fragmented entity lacking any significant cultural contestation. Drawing on a wealth of primary and secondary source material, this book powerfully challenges these recent assumptions and places social class centre stage once more. Arguing that there was a remarkable continuity in male working-class culture between 1850 and 1945, Beaven contends that despite changing socio-economic contexts, male working-class culture continued to draw from a tradition of active participation and cultural contestation that was both class and gender exclusive. This lively and readable book draws from fascinating accounts from those who participated in and observed contemporary popular leisure making it of importance to students and teachers of social history, popular culture, urban history, historical geography, historical sociology and cultural studies.