'A jigsaw puzzle which Britain finds difficult to solve': Britain, Bophuthatswana and the Sun City Eight [0.03%]
“一块英国难以解开的拼图”:英国、博普塔斯瓦纳及“太阳城八人案”
Daniel J Feather
Daniel J Feather
In January 1984, seven British and one US national were jailed in the 'independent' Bantustan of Bophuthatswana for their roles in a complex fraud at a Sun City casino. This article demonstrates how the Bophuthatswana 'government' tried to ...
'What if?' Early marriage and the 'shadow selves' of young women from the late 1950s to early 1970s [0.03%]
“假如人生可以重来?”——20世纪五六十年代至七十年代初的早婚女性及其“影子自我”
Penny Tinkler
Penny Tinkler
The value of producing counterfactual history has been hotly debated, but principally in relation to major public events. Drawing on oral history interviews with women who grew up in Britain in the late 1950s to early 1970s, this article pr...
'Precept and Example': The Conservative Government and British Sporting Contacts with Apartheid South Africa, 1970-74 [0.03%]
循规守矩的榜样:保守党政府与南非种族隔离政权时期的英国体育往来(1970—1974)
Toby C Rider,Matthew P Llewellyn
Toby C Rider
Research into the history of the British anti-Apartheid movement and its efforts to isolate South Africa from international sport acknowledges that the 1970s were a 'difficult decade' for campaigners. British athletes and teams still compet...
Anarchism, anti-militarism, and the British Empire: the case of war commentary and the freedom defence committee [0.03%]
anarchism,反军事主义与不列颠帝国:战时评论和自由防御委员会案例研究
Eleanor Strangways
Eleanor Strangways
Anti-imperialism was central to the anarchist critique of the Second World War. Throughout the war, the anarchist publication War Commentary became a platform for challenging the British Empire and garnered the active involvement of key ant...
'Ambassadors of cultural appreciation': the social, political, and associational life of Chinese students in Britain, 1908-37 [0.03%]
以文化鉴赏的使者身份:1908—1937年在英中国留学生的社会、政治和社团生活
Jennifer Bond,Georgina Brewis
Jennifer Bond
This article uncovers the experience of Chinese students in Britain before the Second World War, focusing on students who attended universities and colleges between 1908 and 1937. It argues that Chinese students at British colleges and univ...
Rolls-Royce engineers and deindustrialization in Scotland from the 1950s to the 2020s [0.03%]
从20世纪50年代到21世纪20年代的苏格兰劳斯莱斯工程师与去工业化现象
Ewan Gibbs,Ewan Mackenzie,Alan McKinlay et al.
Ewan Gibbs et al.
Research involving Rolls-Royce engineers made redundant in 2020, when the firm ended its Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul operation at Inchinnan in Renfrewshire, Scotland, provides recent-world perspective on the history of deindustrializa...
Civil resettlement: citizenship, mental health and masculinity in repatriated British POWs [0.03%]
平民安置:被遣返的英国战俘中的公民身份,心理健康和男子气概问题
Gabriel Lawson
Gabriel Lawson
This article investigates the programme of 'Civil Resettlement' created by the British Army's Department of Army Psychiatry to respond to the challenge of resettling prisoners of war (POWs) returning to the UK in 1945. Former POWs were seen...
Vice versa: sex work and drug use during the HIV epidemic in Thatcher's Britain [0.03%]
反之,在撒切尔执政时期的英国性服务和毒品使用与艾滋病疫情的关系
Lola Dickinson
Lola Dickinson
This article traces the origins of the present-day association of prostitution and drug addiction in Britain. Through an examination of a variety of political discussions in the 1980s that centred on sex work, drug use, and HIV/AIDS, I loca...
Peter Mandler
Peter Mandler
The English (or British) country house has enjoyed an under-appreciated social and economic revival in the last 25 years as a result of changes in the political economy associated with 'neoliberalism', which have benefitted both new buyers ...
'This modern Cinderella': Railway Queens, mass media, and British civic culture, 1925-75 [0.03%]
“现代灰姑娘”:铁路女王、大众媒介与英国市民文化(1925-1975)
Conner Rivers Scott
Conner Rivers Scott
Between 1925 and 1975, the British railway industry elected beauty queens from the daughters of employees. Focusing upon the Railway Queens, this article will reveal the importance of beauty queens as 'civic celebrities', a novel role for p...