Stress In Post War Britain
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Author | : Mark Jackson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2016-12-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 131731803X |
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.
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Release | : 2015 |
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Author | : Institute of Contemporary British History |
Publisher | : Burns & Oates |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : History |
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This attempts a new approach to the discipline of contemporary history by integrating different themes of British history into a coherent overview of the changing nature of Britain's domestic and international position. the introduction provides a broad thematic background, stressing that political, social, economic, military and diplomatic factors can no longer be treated in isolation.
Author | : Richard Bessel |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2003-05-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521009225 |
This book offers a novel approach to the cultural and social history of Europe after the Second World War.
Author | : Clair Wills |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 525 |
Release | : 2017-08-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0141974966 |
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018 TLS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 'Generous and empathetic ... opens up postwar migration in all its richness' Sukhdev Sandhu, Guardian 'Groundbreaking, sophisticated, original, open-minded ... essential reading for anyone who wants to understand not only the transformation of British society after the war but also its character today' Piers Brendon, Literary Review 'Lyrical, full of wise and original observations' David Goodhart, The Times The battered and exhausted Britain of 1945 was desperate for workers - to rebuild, to fill the factories, to make the new NHS work. From all over the world and with many motives, thousands of individuals took the plunge. Most assumed they would spend just three or four years here, sending most of their pay back home, but instead large numbers stayed - and transformed the country. Drawing on an amazing array of unusual and surprising sources, Clair Wills' wonderful new book brings to life the incredible diversity and strangeness of the migrant experience. She introduces us to lovers, scroungers, dancers, homeowners, teachers, drinkers, carers and many more to show the opportunities and excitement as much as the humiliation and poverty that could be part of the new arrivals' experience. Irish, Bengalis, West Indians, Poles, Maltese, Punjabis and Cypriots battled to fit into an often shocked Britain and, to their own surprise, found themselves making permanent homes. As Britain picked itself up again in the 1950s migrants set about changing life in their own image, through music, clothing, food, religion, but also fighting racism and casual and not so casual violence. Lovers and Strangers is an extremely important book, one that is full of enjoyable surprises, giving a voice to a generation who had to deal with the reality of life surrounded by 'white strangers' in their new country.
Author | : Alan Sked |
Publisher | : Barnes & Noble Imports |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 9780064963220 |
Author | : Jill Kirby |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2019-07-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1526123312 |
Examining the popular discourse of nerves and stress, this book provides a historical account of how ordinary Britons understood, explained and coped with the pressures and strains of daily life during the twentieth century. It traces the popular, vernacular discourse of stress, illuminating not just how stress was known, but the ways in which that knowledge was produced. Taking a cultural approach, the book focuses on contemporary popular understandings, revealing continuity of ideas about work, mental health, status, gender and individual weakness, as well as the changing socio-economic contexts that enabled stress to become a ubiquitous condition of everyday life by the end of the century. With accounts from sufferers, families and colleagues it also offers insight into self-help literature, the meanings of work and changing dynamics of domestic life, delivering a complementary perspective to medical histories of stress.
Author | : Despo Kritsotaki |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2018-10-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3319986996 |
This book provides an overview of a diverse array of preventive strategies relating to mental illness, and identifies their achievements and shortcomings. The chapters in this collection illustrate how researchers, clinicians and policy makers drew inspiration from divergent fields of knowledge and practice: from eugenics, genetics and medication to mental hygiene, child guidance, social welfare, public health and education; from risk management to radical and social psychiatry, architectural design and environmental psychology. It highlights the shifting patterns of biological, social and psychodynamic models, while adopting a gender perspective and considering professional developments as well as changing social and legal contexts, including deinstitutionalisation and social movements. Through vigorous research, the contributors demonstrate that preventive approaches to mental health have a long history, and point to the conclusion that it might well be possible to learn from such historical attempts. The book also explores which of these approaches are worth considering in future and which are best confined to the past. Within this context, the book aims at stoking and informing debate and conversation about how to prevent mental illness and improve mental health in the years to come. Chapters 3, 10, and 12 of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com
Author | : Suzie Grogan |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2014-10-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1781592659 |
We know that millions of soldiers were scarred by their experiences in the First World War trenches, but what happened after they returned home? ??Suzie Grogan reveals the First World War's disturbing legacy for soldiers and their families. How did a nation of broken men, and 'spare' women cope? ??In 1922 the British Parliament published a report into the situation of thousands of 'service patients', or mentally ill ex-soldiers still in hospital. What happened to these men? Were they cured? What treatments were on offer? And what was the reception from their families and society? ??Drawing on a huge mass of original sources, Suzie Grogan answers all those questions, combining individual case studies with a narrative on wider events. Unpublished material from the archives shows the true extent of the trauma experienced by the survivors. This is a fresh perspective on the history of the post-war period, and the plight of a traumatised nation.
Author | : Marceline McLagan |
Publisher | : Independently Published |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 2021-04-23 |
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The book tells about the life of an elder family in the period after World War II. Jack Bull craved more than his native England could offer in the grey days after World War II. The bright sun of Empire still shone over Africa, but how soon would it fade? This deeply personal memoir locates Jack's life in the center of events - historical, political, and domestic - and shows how much we are all swept along by the tide. Now Britain is wrestling to reinvent its place in the world Jack's story reminds us that we have been here before. Through the eyes of his son, the book takes us on the journey of an ordinary man who lived through extraordinary times.