'An amazing gang of women crooks and blackmailers': women, organized crime, and the 'Forty Elephants' gang in inter-war Britain [0.03%]
“令人惊叹的女贼团伙和敲诈者”:20世纪上半叶英国女性、有组织犯罪及“四十只大象犯罪集团”关系探赜
Grace Di Méo
Grace Di Méo
Women's participation in organized crime has been overlooked within historical research, with studies typically relegating their roles to that of auxiliaries to male gangsters. This article explores the activities and portrayals of women in...
'But there's no history here!': children, heritage education, and the BBC Broadcasts for Schools, 1924-45 [0.03%]
“但这里没有历史吗?”——儿童、遗产教育及英国广播公司在1924—1945年期间的学校广播节目
M O Grenby,Barbara Gribling
M O Grenby
The BBC offered broadcasts for schools almost from its inception; a significant strand of this programming focussed on teaching children about the material remains of the past in their own localities. Employing an impressive roster of histo...
'Initially this work was done by doctors, often ineffectively …': the History of Sexual Health Advising in twentieth-century England [0.03%]
“起初这项工作是由医生完成的,效果往往不佳……”——20世纪英国性健康建议的历史
David Evans
David Evans
Much has been written about the history of policy and practice on venereal diseases/sexually transmitted infections in twentieth-century England, but one key group of actors has been overlooked: sexual health advisers and their predecessors...
'Help Shelter Mend a Broken Family': Homes, Homelessness, and Crisis in 1960s Britain [0.03%]
《帮助避难所修复破碎的家庭》:20世纪60年代英国的住房、无家可归和危机问题
Adam Page
Adam Page
In 1966, a new homelessness charity, Shelter, set out to redefine the homeless as impoverished families enduring poor or insecure housing rather than single men living on the street. Through a series of 'hard-hitting' reports and adverts, t...
James Stafford
James Stafford
This roundtable reflects on the intellectual contribution of the Scottish activist, journalist, and theorist Tom Nairn, who died in 2023. Nairn was a leading figure in the British New Left and the movement for Scottish autonomy and independ...
Blood parenthood and the hierarchies of dispossession in English adoption cases, 1946-70 [0.03%]
父权主义英国的收养案件中的血缘父母身份与剥夺等级制(1946-1970)
Emma Melody Bradley
Emma Melody Bradley
This article charts shifting judicial and medical framings of child welfare in adoption legislation and practices from 1946 to 1970, illuminated through adoption cases, press coverage, and sociological, medical, and law case reports. Adopti...
Family stories: retirement, old age, and generational thinking in Britain since the 1970s [0.03%]
家庭叙事:英国自20世纪70年代以来的退休、老龄化和代际思维
Helen McCarthy
Helen McCarthy
When we look for everyday understandings of retirement and old age in the recent past, what we frequently find are family stories: of a grandfather who died 'in harness'; of a widowed aunt who travelled the world; of parents who moved to th...
Disenchanting the monarchy [0.03%]
祛魅的王权
Emily Robinson
Emily Robinson
The persistence of the British monarchy through the arrival of mass democracy, decline of deference, dissolution of Empire, and a series of Royal scandals is one of the great puzzles of modern British politics. Yet, it has received comparat...
Migration memories of sexual and reproductive health in late twentieth-century London [0.03%]
二十世纪晚期伦敦的迁移与性及生殖健康回忆
Caroline Rusterholz,George J Severs
Caroline Rusterholz
This article examines the sexual and reproductive health experiences of eight people who migrated to London in the late twentieth century from Kenya, Zambia, Nigeria, Sudan, and Uganda. Their experiences were captured through an oral histor...