'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...
'I am very sensitive on the subject of accent': Children, young people and attitudes to speech in inter-war Britain [0.03%]
《关于口音问题我非常敏感:战间期英国儿童和年轻人的讲话态度》
Hester Barron
Hester Barron
This article considers elite and popular attitudes to speech and accent in inter-war Britain, specifically with regard to children and young people. It begins by showing that speech was a consistent preoccupation of educationalists, for who...
Beth Bhargava
Beth Bhargava
The green entanglements of the inter-war British far right are well-documented. Martin Pugh has drawn attention to the predominantly rural, agricultural support base of the British Union of Fascists. We know that the aspiration to go 'back ...
Anti-Apartheid at the periphery: a case study of grassroots activism in Dundee, 1967-1990 [0.03%]
边缘的抗 apartheid 活动:1967—1990 年代德龙伯邑基层运动个案例研究
Matthew Graham,Christopher Fevre
Matthew Graham
The histories of the global anti-apartheid struggle, and particularly the British Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM), have predominantly been examined through a transnational and national prism, creating an inaccurate impression of a highly cent...
Simon Gunn
Simon Gunn
The explosion of pop culture in Britain between the late 1950s and the late sixties is usually taken to have been an urban phenomenon. Pop was the 'sound of the city' in Britain as much as America. But what kind of 'urban' was involved-big ...