Camilla Schofield
Camilla Schofield
This roundtable contribution begins with a brief letter exchange between Tom Nairn and Yasmin Alibhai-Brown in 2000. It explores how Nairn's nationalism challenged the liberal optimism of Britain's multiculturalist moment-and what he saw as...
Ben Jackson
Ben Jackson
This article examines a less familiar side of Tom Nairn's career: his role as a commentator-participant in Scottish politics. It argues that Nairn was not only a radical critic of the UK but also an exponent of feasible strategies to advanc...
'Free From Doubt'? The border between charity and the state in the British National Health Service, 1948-74 [0.03%]
“无懈可击”？英国国民健康服务中慈善与国家的界限（1948—1974）
Hannah Blythe,Martin Gorsky
Hannah Blythe
Britain's National Health Service (NHS) is widely regarded as epitomizing statist healthcare. However, before its launch in 1948, Britain had a 'mixed economy of welfare' in which charity loomed large, most notably in the voluntary hospital...
Experiencing British Nationality Law in Twentieth-Century China: extraterritoriality, marriage, and 'legitimacy' on the edges of empire [0.03%]
20世纪中国的英国国籍法：帝国边缘的司法豁免、婚姻与“合法性”
Catherine Ladds
Catherine Ladds
The twentieth-century codification of British nationality, beginning with the 1914 British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act, had a profound impact upon British settler communities on the edges of empire, where the loss or acquisition of...
'Perhaps only Children's Corners': spaces for children in British museums from c. 1900 to 1939† [0.03%]
《或许只有儿童角》：英国博物馆中的儿童空间（约1900—1939）
Kate Hill
Kate Hill
This article examines the brief flowering of spaces for children in British museums in the first half of the twentieth century. It argues that managing museum space for both adults and children became an important issue for curators, mergin...
'All the Kids Wanna Sniff Some Glue': glue-sniffing, deindustrialization, and moral panic in 1980s Britain [0.03%]
《八十年代的英国都爱闻胶水》——工业消亡、 sniffing 和道德恐慌
Malcolm Russell
Malcolm Russell
This article analyses anxieties surrounding glue-sniffing in 1980s Britain and their entanglement with the era's accelerated deindustrialization. A vibrant 'New Drug History' has overlooked glue-sniffing, despite its prevalence and prominen...
Healey's legacy and Howe's concession: income tax cuts in 1979 and 1980 [0.03%]
希利的遗泽和豪伊的让步：1979年与1980年的收入税削减政策
Masa Yasunaga
Masa Yasunaga
Income tax cuts of the 1979 Budget have been commonly considered as a starting point of the supply-side tax cuts that were the centrepiece of the Thatcher government's economic policy. Recent studies reveal how the policy was formed inside ...
From hyper-incarceration to mass-incarceration? Race and the prison boom of the 1990s [0.03%]
从过度监禁到大规模监禁？种族与20世纪90年代的监狱扩张
Matteo Tiratelli
Matteo Tiratelli
Histories of mass incarceration in Britain are normally structured around a moment of rupture in the early 1990s, when penal populism took off and prison numbers started to climb. But for Britain's black and Irish communities, expansive inc...
'A tall and broad fellow with a very graceful, military personality': Punjabi Sikh men, military service and belonging in Southall 1947-67 [0.03%]
“高大英挺的军事型男子：1947至1967年间南艾尔顿的旁遮普锡克男性、兵役与归属感问题”
Satya Gunput
Satya Gunput
In the 1950s, Southall became home to a Punjabi Sikh community, largely due to Sikh men arriving for work in local factories. Their migration from Punjab followed the Partition of India and Pakistan. In Southall, these men faced significant...
Ben Pimlott Memorial Lecture 2024-'Public relations as the remedy': mining, mis/information and decolonization in the Gold Coast/Ghana [0.03%]
本·皮姆洛特纪念讲座2024——“公共关系作为补救措施”：黄金海岸/加纳的矿业、真假信息与去殖民化问题
Erika Rappaport
Erika Rappaport
This article examines British public relations campaigns during decolonization by analysing the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation's (AGC) strategies between the 1940s and 1960s. As West Africa's largest gold mining firm, AGC hired leading Brit...