'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 ...
Roberta Bivins,Mathew Thomson
Roberta Bivins
Delivered a day after Britain's National Health Service (NHS) reached its 75th year since its opening on the Appointed Day of 5 July 1948, the Pimlott Lecture for 2023 explored the culture of NHS anniversary-making. What can the marking of ...
New moderationism: medical discourses on alcohol and the decline of drunkenness in interwar Britain [0.03%]
新节制主义:英国战间期关于酒精的医学论述与醉酒现象的衰落
Ryosuke Yokoe
Ryosuke Yokoe
This article explores the significant yet underappreciated role of medical experts in consolidating the promotion of moderate drinking as a viable solution to Britain's alcohol problem during the interwar period. The country's experience wi...
Race, homosexuality, and AIDS in London: the response of British AIDS voluntary organizations to Black gay men's sexual health needs during the AIDS crisis (1980s-2000) [0.03%]
种族、同性恋和艾滋病:英国艾滋病志愿者组织对黑人男同性恋者在艾滋病危机期间(1980年代至2000年)的性健康需求的反应
Lucy Cann
Lucy Cann
Focusing on three specific organizations-The Terrence Higgins Trust (THT), Blackliners, and The NAZ Project (Naz)-this article explores the different ways in which voluntary organizations responded to Black gay men (BGM) in Britain during t...
The bust card: policing, race, welfare, drugs, and the counterculture in 1960s Britain [0.03%]
警徽卡:20世纪60年代英国的警察、种族、福利、毒品和反文化
Kate Bradley,Ellis Spicer,Jon Winder
Kate Bradley
Bust cards first emerged in the late 1960s as a way of obtaining help following arrest, giving the user the number of a 24-h telephone line to call on arrival at the police station. In the 2020s, such cards were used by direct action groups...
'Monty, Bring the Blood Can!' Pulling Teeth in Working-Class Lancashire, 1900-48 [0.03%]
“蒙蒂,把装血的罐子拿来!”1900—1948年兰开夏郡工人阶级社区的拔牙记
Claire L Jones
Claire L Jones
Working-class health cultures before the National Health Service have long been of scholarly interest but those related to oral health are chronically underexamined. This article examines one important aspect of this history-tooth pulling-i...
'Altogether Abnormal': Consumer-Citizens, Outsizes, and Clothes Rationing, 1941-9 [0.03%]
《迥然不同》:消费者市民、加大号衣服和配给制,1941—1949年
Tali Kot-Ofek
Tali Kot-Ofek
During the Second World War and the austerity period that followed it, the British government operated clothes rationing as a welfare policy. Its official aim was to ensure that all citizens had equal access to essential clothing. Despite b...