The state of the forests: empire, unemployment and the creation of forest work, 1916-45 [0.03%]
森林的现状：帝国、失业与林业工作的创造（1916—1945）
Alice Gorton
Alice Gorton
This article examines the social and political context surrounding the creation of the Forestry Act (1919) and the establishment of the Forestry Commission, showing how the demands of the First World War prompted the British government to p...
Beauty and the business: staff beauty contests in a time of 'Equal Opportunities' [0.03%]
机遇平等时代的企业选美比赛
Brett Theodore Morritt
Brett Theodore Morritt
Late twentieth-century feminism challenged a core pillar of the profit maximization efforts of corporate capitalism: reinforcement of systemic unearned inequalities as a form of compensation to employees. This article explores how employers...
Local heroes? Activism against North Sea oil developments and the conceptual ambiguity of the term 'environment' in Scotland, 1973-4 [0.03%]
苏格兰北海石油开发活动中的地方环保主义与“环境”概念的模糊性（1973—1974年）
Maya Ström
Maya Ström
Described as the 'cause célèbre' of North Sea oil developments, this article focuses on the unexpected alliance provoked by a proposal for a concrete platform construction yard at Drumbuie, Wester Ross, on the Scottish northwest coast. Th...
Duncan Tanner Essay Prize Winner 2025: The growth of the British private security industry in the age of decolonization, 1960-74 [0.03%]
2025年邓肯·特纳论文奖得主：脱钩时代的英国私人安全行业成长（1960-1974年）
Rebecca Orr
Rebecca Orr
Before the Second World War, private security companies provided guards for a small number of wealthy householders and local business owners in Britain. By the mid-1970s, however, the industry had expanded rapidly to offer a broader range o...
An inconvenient mandate: Margaret Thatcher, neoliberalism, and the politics of climate change, 1987-90 [0.03%]
不合时宜的 mandates ：玛格丽特·撒切尔与新自由主义和气候政治(1987-1990)
Peter Farrelly
Peter Farrelly
Between 1987 and 1990, Margaret Thatcher became one of the most high-profile world leaders to warn publicly of anthropogenic climate change. This article argues that her apparent 'green turn' was not a moral conversion or a departure from T...
The popular press and the 1950s moral crusade against British army 'bull(shit)' [0.03%]
大众媒体与英国军队“ bullshit”的五十年代道德战役
Simon J Moody
Simon J Moody
Throughout the 1950s, the Daily Mirror led a campaign by the popular press against petty, tyrannical discipline, commonly known as 'bull(shit)', within the British Army. Acting as moral entrepreneurs, tabloid newspapers positioned what they...
Stuart Ward
Stuart Ward
This essay offers a re-examination of Tom Nairn's lifelong prediction of an impending Break-Up of Britain, against the backdrop of the Union's apparent resilience since the publication of his magnum opus in 1977. Specifically, it considers ...
Communities of the future? Telecottages and the televillage in 1990s Britain [0.03%]
未来社区？英国1990年代的电信小屋和电视村庄
Rose Dryzek
Rose Dryzek
In the early 1990s, it seemed that new technologies were opening up new possibilities for the organization of work and community life. This article focuses on the development of telecottages and the televillage through the decade to explore...
Policing through planning: constructing coercive community in British New Towns, 1964-75 [0.03%]
规划中的警务：英国新城(1964—1975)中强制社区的构建
Georgie Carr
Georgie Carr
Histories of British policing in the 1970s focus on the 'inner-city'. These accounts develop a compelling narrative: as economic crisis undermined the authority of the state, it sought to rebuild legitimacy through the production of raciali...
'All the Marks of a Swindle': Walter Sidney Bromhead and the dividends of whiteness [0.03%]
《诈骗的迹象》：沃尔特·悉尼·布罗姆黑德与“白人红利”
Calvin Scott Paulson
Calvin Scott Paulson
Between his birth in 1873 and his death in 1944, Walter Sidney Bromhead lived an eventful life. He owned land on four continents, sat on the board of several fraudulent insurance companies, published in the Eugenics Review, was mocked in Au...