HONOUR FINAL SCHOOLS OF MODERN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS AND ECONOMICS
FURTHER SUBJECT 22 POLITICS PAPER 221 BRITISH SOCIETY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Bibliography
Updated October 2007
BRITISH SOCIETY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Recommended Documents and Bibliography
This bibliography has four parts. Section A lists the documents recommended in the Examination Statutes. Section B lists books of wide-ranging importance for the period, together with major reference books. Section C gives a brief selection of films, together with an indication of themes that they illustrate. Section D lists the bibliographys abbreviations for the most commonly-used periodicals, with their Bodleian shelfmarks. Section Es 14 sub-sections each contain an alphabetized bibliography (suitable for a tutorial essay) on one of the papers major subject-areas. Recommended documents are asterisked where they appear, and at the head of each sub-section are specimen questions, some questions straddle more than one subsection. The questions are not designed to restrict the freedom of tutors and pupils; they are included only to indicate the range of questions that have been set in each area. Questions set on this paper are normally thematic in nature, and cover a broad chronological span. Further guidance on the papers scope is provided in the university classes that are devoted to this option.
A.
RECOMMENDED DOCUMENTS
Statistical material in A. H. Halsey and J. Webb (eds), Twentieth-Century British Social Trends (2000, Parts I-III and VI). Royal Commission on Alien Immigration Report (Parliamentary Papers 1903 ix Part I, Results, Recommendations). Royal Commission on Population Report (P.P. 1948-9 xix chs. 215, 20 and pp.21837). Royal Commission on the Press Report (Cmnd 7700, 1949), including Appendices III (newspaper circulation figures), IV (development of the five principal chains) and VII (contents and methods of presenting news). Report of the Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution (Wolfenden Report, Cmnd 247, 1957, repr. 1968). Report of the Committee on Broadcasting (Pilkington Report, Cmnd 1753, 1962). The Brixton Disorders April 10 to 12, 1981, Report of an Inquiry (Scarman Report, 1981, Cmnd. 8427). Faith in the City. A Call for Action by Church and Nation (The Report of The Archbishop of Canterburys Commission on Urban Priority Areas, 1985). Bell, Florence Lady, At the Works (1907). Dennis, N., Henriques, F. and Slaughter, C., Coal is Our Life (1951, repr. 1969). Goldthorpe, J. H. et al., The Affluent Worker in the Class Structure (1969). Himmelweit, H. T., Television and the Child (1958). Hoggart, R., The Uses of Literacy (1958; latest repr., 1992). Last, N., Nella Lasts War. A Mothers Diary 193945 (Ed. R. Broad and S. Fleming, 1983). Leavis, Q, Fiction and the Reading Public (1932, repr. 1968), Part 1 chs 13, Pt II ch 4, Part III chs 13. Maclure, J. S., Educational Documents, England and Wales (3rd edition, 1985). Orwell, G., The Road to Wigan Pier (1937; latest repr. 1998). Pilgrim Trust, Men Without Work (1938).
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Priestley, J. B. Roberts, E., Roberts, R., Rowntree, B.S., Rowntree, B.S.,
English Journey (1934; latest repr. 1992). Women and Families; an oral history 194070 (1995) The Classic Slum (1971). Poverty, a Study of Town Life (1901, chs. 4, 5, 9). Poverty and Progress (1941, pp.2833, 96126, 15071, 2767, 286-98, 45077). Rowntree, B.S. and Lavers, G.R., English Life and Leisure (1951). Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Inquiry into Income and Wealth (1995). Sarsby, J., Missuses and Mouldrunners. An oral history of women pottery workers at home and at work (1985). Spring-Rice, M., Working-Class Wives (1939). Stopes, M., Married Love (1918; 2004 edn., ed. Ross McKibbin). Sturt, G., Change in the Village (1912; repr. 1955, 1984). White, J., The Worst Street in North London (1986). Young, M. and Willmott, P., Family and Kinship in East London (1957, repr. 1984). Young, M. and Willmott, P., Family and Class in a London Suburb (1967). Young, T., Becontree and Dagenham (1934).
B. a)
SYNOPTIC AND REFERENCE WORKS reference works
*Halsey, A. H. and Webb, J., Twentieth-Century British Social Trends (2000). Mitchell, B.R., British Historical Statistics (1988) documents the economic aspect. For a geographical approach, see Pope, R., Atlas of British Social and Economic History since c.1700 (1989); and Dorling, D., A new social history atlas of Britain (1995). Department of Employment, British Labour Statistics. Historical Abstract. 18861968 (1971) is useful for industrial relations. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004), provides a biographical source for leading national personalities. b) general books covering a wide sweep within the period Carnevali, F. & Strange, J-M, Twentieth-century B ritain: economic, cultural and social nd change (2 edn, 2007) Conekin, b., Mort, F. & Waters, C., Moments of Modernity. Reconstructing Britain 1945-64 (1999) Floud, R. and Johnson, P., The Cambridge Economic History of Britain (2004), vols 2 and 3. Gourvish, T. and ODay, A., Britain since 1945 (1991). Halsey, A.H., Change in British Society (1987). Johnson, P. (ed.) Twentieth-century Britain: economic, social and cultural change (1994). McIvor, A. J., A History of Work in Britain 18801950 (1999). McKibbin, Ross, Classes and Cultures. England 191851 (1998). Perkin, H., The Rise of Professional Society (1989). Pugh, M.D. State and society. British political and social history 18701992 (1994). Purvis, J. (ed.), Womens History in Britain, 18501945 (1995). Stevenson, J., British Society 191445 (1983). Thompson, P., The Edwardians. The Remaking of British Society (1975). Thompson, F.M.L., The Cambridge Social History of Britain, 17501950, (3 vols, 1990). Zweiniger-Bargielowska, I. (ed.), Women in Twentieth-Century Britain (2001).
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The expanding series of studies in economic and social history published by the Economic and Social History Society is useful. Each (short) volume takes a topic and explains the current state of research/controversy. Several of its volumes are more specifically listed below.
C.
FILMS
Mrs. Miniver (1942) self-images of Britain; American images of Britain; box-office hits. Brief Encounter (1945) sexuality, social class, gender and the family The Wicked Lady (1946) box-office hits; sexuality. The Blue Lamp (1950) self-images of Britain; crime. Im All Right Jack (1959) working-class life/industrial relations. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) working-class life; sexuality. The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1962) working-class culture; crime. Darling (1965) sexuality; box-office hits. My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) sexuality; race. D. PERIODICALS, ABBREVIATIONS, AND BODLEIAN LOCATION
British Journal of Sociology (B.J.Sociol.) ..........................................................................Pol N.4 Bulletin of the Society for the Study of Labour History (BSSLH)..............................................4.60 Contemporary Record (CR)............................................................................................X.12.159 Economic History Review (Econ.HR.)....................................................................... S.Hist.Per.6 English Historical Review (EHR) ....................................................................................... K.4.62 Historical Journal (HJ) .............................................................................................. S.Hist.Per 4 Historical Research (HRes)............................................................................................... K.4.64 History Workshop Journal (HWJ) ............................................................................ S.Hist.Per 21 International Review of Social History (IRSH).................................................................. K.4.116 Journal of British Studies (JBS).......................................................................................... K.4.69 Journal of Contemporary History (JCH)................................................................... S.Hist.Per 20 Journal of Social Policy (JSP)......................................................................................... Pol.N.13 Midland History (MH)....................................................................................................... K.4.68 Past & Present (P&P)........................................................................................................K.3.5 Population Studies (Pop.St.) .......................................................................................Econ N 108 Proceedings of the British Academy (PBA) ........................................................................ A.7.22 Proceedings of the Manchester Statistical Society (PMSS)............................................ Econ N.97 Social History (Soc.Hist.)........................................................................................ S.Hist.Per 22 Social Trends (Soc.Trends)......................................................................................Econ N.106c Sociological Review (Sociol.R.)........................................................................................ Pol N.11 Sociology (Sociol) ........................................................................................................... Pol N.4a Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (TRHS)............................................................. K.4.61 Twentieth-Century British History (TCBH)........................................................................ X.12.111
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E. SUBJECT BIBLIOGRAPHIES 1. METHODS OF SOCIAL RESEARCH
In what ways did twentieth-century social investigators add to understanding of poverty and working-class life ? Abrams, P., Abrams, P., Anon., *Bell, Florence, Lady, Briggs, A., The Origins of British Sociology 18341914 (1968). Practice and Progress. British Sociology 19501980 (1982). A survey of surveys, Planning, No.149, 13 June 1939, pp. 114 At the Works (1907). Social Thought and Social Action. A Study of the Work of Seebohm Rowntree, 18711954 (1961), chs. 23, and 910. Bulmer, M., Bales, K. and Sklar, K.K. (eds.) The Social Survey in Historical Perspective (1991). Dench, G., Gavron, K. & Young, M., The New East End: kinship, race and conflict (2006) *Denis, N., Henriques, F. and Slaughter, C., Coal is Our Life (1951; repr. 1969). Englander, D. and ODay, R. (eds), Retrieved Riches. Social Investigation in Britain 18401914 (1995). Gazeley, I., Poverty in Britain 19001965 (2003). *Goldthorpe, J. H. et al., The Affluent Worker in the Class Structure (1969). Harrisson, T., Mass Observation (1986). Hennock, E.P. The Measurement of Urban Poverty: from the Metropolis to the Nation Econ.HR 1987. Linsley, C.A. and C.L. Booth, Rowntree and Llewelyn Smith: a reassessment of interwar poverty Econ.HR 1993. McKibbin, R., Class and Poverty in Edwardian England, in his The Ideologies of Class (1990). *Rowntree, B.S., Poverty and Progress. A Second Social Survey of York (1941). *Rowntree, B.S., Poverty. A Study of Town Life (1901). Simey, T.S., and M., Charles Booth, Social Scientist (1960). Soloway, R., Counting the degenerates. Statistics of race degeneration in Edwardian England, in JCH, 1982. Summerfield, P., Mass Observation. Social Research or Social Movement, JCH 1985. Townsend, P. Poverty in the UK (1979). Toynbee, P., A Working Life (1971) Life in Low-Pay Britain (2003) Webb, B., The Method of the Interview, in her My Apprenticeship (1926), Appx. B. *Young, M. and Willmott, P., Family and Kinship in East London (1957, repr. 1984). *Young, M. and Wilmott, P., Family and Class in a London Suburb (1967).
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2.
DEMOGRAPHY, FAMILY AND SEXUALITY
Are the causes of falling fertility in twentieth-century Britain fully understood? To what extent and why did the boundaries between acceptable and unacceptable forms of sexual behaviour shift in the course of the twentieth century? Why did traditional norms of marriage and family life remain so dominant until the 1960s but lose influence thereafter? a) General
Coleman, D. and Scott, J., The British Population. Patterns, Trends and Processes (1992). Gittins, D., Fair Sex: family size and structure (1983). Hall, Lesley A, Sex, Gender and Social Change in Britain since 1880 (2000). *Halsey, A. H. and Webb, J, Twentieth-Century British Social Trends (2000), chs. 2 and 8 Joshi, H. (ed), The Changing Population of Britain (1989). Roberts, E., A Womans Place (1984) and *Women and Families: an oral history 194070 (1995). *Roberts, R., The Classic Slum (1971). *Spring-Rice, M., Working-Class Wives (1939, repr. 1981). Tranter, N., British Population in the Twentieth Century 1996). b) Fertility
Gillis, J. R., Tilly, L. and Levine, D. (eds), The European Experience of Declining Fertility (1992), chaps 4 and 5. Fisher, K., She was quite satisfied with the arrangements I made. Gender and birth control in Britain, 192050, P&P 2000.
Birth Control, Sex and Marriage in Britain, 1918-1960 (2006)
*Royal Commission on Population Report 1949, pp. 5156, 2028, 21835. Peel, R. A. (ed.), Marie Stopes, Eugenics and the English Birth-control Movement (1997). Soloway, R., Birth Control and the Population Question in England 18701 (1983). Szreter, S., Fertility, Class and Gender in Britain 18501940 (1996). Teitelbaum, N., The British Fertility Decline (1984). Thomas, J. and Williams, A.S., Women and Abortion in 1930s Britain, Social History of Medicine, 1997. c) Sexuality Gender in Modern Britain (2002), ch. 7. The Iconography of Permissiveness; mens sexuality and womens emancipation in mid-twentieth century Britain, HWJ 1999. The Long Sexual Revolution (2004). Fashioning Sapphism (2001) Queer London (2005) The great masturbation panic and the discourses of moral regulation in 19thand early 20th-century Britain, Journal of the History of Sexuality, 1998. The Real Facts of Life. Feminism and the Politics of Sexuality c. 1850 1940 (1994). Love and courtship in mid-twentieth century Britain, HJ, 50, 2007
Charles, N., Collins, M., Cook, Hera, Doan, L. Houlbrooke, M., Hunt, A., Jackson, M., Langhamer, C.
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Adultery in post-war England, HWJ, 2006 Mort, F., Dangerous Sexualities; medico-moral politics in England since 1870 (1987). Porter, R. and Hall, L., The Facts of Life. The creation of sexual knowledge in Britain, 1650 1950 (1995), Part II. Showalter, E., Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Sexuality at the Fin de Siecle (1992). Stanley, Liz, Sex Surveyed, 194994: from Mass Observations Little Kinsey to the National Survey and the Hite Report (1995). *Stopes, M., Married Love (1918; 2004 edn., ed. Ross McKibbin). Szreter, S., Victorian Britain, 18371963; towards a social history of sexuality, Journal of Victorian Culture, 1996 Waters, C, Disorders of the mind, disorders of the body social: Peter Wildeblood and the making of the modern homosexual, in B. Conekin, F. Mort and C. Walters (eds.), Moments of Modernity: Reconstructing Britain 194564 (1999). Weeks, J., Sex, Politics and Society (2nd edn., 1989) and Making Sexual History (2000), esp. chs. 1, 2 and 7. *Wolfenden Report on Prostitution and Homosexual Offences (1957). d) The Family
Family Affairs. A History of the Family in Twentieth-Century England (2002). *Bell, Florence Lady, At the Works (1907) chs. 3, 8 and 9. Davies, M. Llewelyn, (ed.), Life as we have known it. By cooperative working women (1931). Davidoff, L. et al, The Family Story: Blood, Contract and Intimacy 18301960 (1999). Dyhouse, C. Feminism and the Family in England 18801939 (1989). Finch, J. and Summerfield, P., Social reconstruction and the emergence of companionate marriage, 194559 in D. Clark (ed.), Marriage, Domestic Life and Social Change (1991). Giles, J., Women, Identity and Private Life in Britain 190050 (1995). Gillis, J., For Better For Worse. British Marriage, 1600 to the present (1985). *Halsey, A. H. and Webb, J., Twentieth-Century British Social Trends (2000), ch. 8. Kiernan, K., Lewis, J. and Land, H., Lone Motherhood in Twentieth-century Britain (1998). Lewis, J., The End of Marriage? Individualism and Individual Relations (2001). McRae, S. (ed.), Changing Britain. Families and Households in the 1990s (1998), chs. 1 3. Philips,R., Untying the Knot. A Short History of Divorce (1991). Purvis, J (ed), Womens History, 18501950 (1995), chs. by S. DCruze and J. Humphries. *Roberts, E., Women and Families (1995). Summerfield, P., Reconstructing Womens Wartime Lives (1998) and Women, War and Social Change in A. Marwick (ed.), Total War and Social Change (1988). Thane, P., The family lives of old people in Thane, P. and Johnson, P. (eds.), Old Age from Antiquity to Post-Modernity (1998). *Willmott, P. and Young, M., Family and Kinship in East London (1957), Family and Class in a London Suburb (1960). Willmott, P. and Young, M., The Symmetrical Family (1973). Zweiniger-Bargielowska, I. (ed.), Women in Twentieth-Century Britain (2000), chs. 3, 5, 911. 3. IMMIGRANTS AND ETHNIC MINORITIES
Abbott, M.,
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Does the history of immigration since 1900 support the idea of Britain as a tolerant society? Compare and discuss factors that encouraged or hindered the integration of different ethnic minority groups in twentieth-century Britain. How did religion affect the reception and integration of immigrants in twentieth-century Britain? How far can contrasts in the experience of immigrant groups be ascribed to their different community and family structures? a) General
Commission for Racial Equality, Roots of the Future: ethnic diversity in the making of Britain (1996). Garrard, J.A., The English and Immigration (1971). *Halsey, A.H. and Webb, J. (eds.), Twentieth-Century British Social Trends (2000), ch. 4. Holmes, C., A Tolerant Country? Immigrants, refugees and minorities in Britain (1991). Holmes, C., John Bulls Island: Immigration and British Society 18711971 (1988). Midgley, C., Ethnicity, race and Empire, in J. Purvis, Womens History (1995). Panayi, P., Immigration, ethnicity and racism in Britain, 18151945 (1994). Panayi, P., Racial Violence in Britain (1992). Peach, C., Ethnicity in the 1991 Census, vol. 2, The ethnic minority populations (1996). Peach, C., Urban concentration and segregation in Europe since 1945 in M. Cross (ed.), Ethnic Minorities and Industrial Change in Europe and North America (1992). *Roberts, R., The Classic Slum (1971). Webster, W., Race, Ethnicity and National Identity, in I. Zwieniger-Bargielowska (ed.), Women in Twentieth-Century Britain (2001). b) Irish
Waller, P. ,
Democracy and sectarianism. A political and social history of Liverpool 18681939 (1981), chs. 12, 45, 1118. Fielding, S. Class and Ethnicity: Irish Catholics in England 18801939 (1993). Gilley, S. and Swift, R., The Irish in Britain 18151939 (1989). Lloyd, C., The Irish Community in Britain (1995). Walker, Irish immigrants in Scotland: their priests, political and parochial life, HJ 1972. c) Jews
Alderman, G., Modern British Jewry (1992). Feldman, D., Englishmen and Jews (1994). Holmes, C., Anti-semitism in British Society 18761939 (1979). Jacobs, J., Out of the Ghetto (1978 ). Pollins, H., Economic History of the Jews in Britain (1983). *Royal Commission on Alien Immigration Report, 1903 (Cd.1741), pp. 193.
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d)
New Commonwealth
Ballard, R. (ed.), Desh Pardesh: the South Asian Presence in Britain (1994) Dench, G., Gavron, K., & Young, M., The New East End: kinship, race and conflict (2005) Goulbourne, H., Race Relations in Britain since 1945 (1998). Holmes, C., Immigration; in T. Gourvish and A. ODay (eds.) Britain since 1945 (1991). Husband, C., Race in Britain (1982). Lunn, K., (ed.), Race and Labour in Twentieth-Century Britain (1987). Miles, R., Racism after race relations (1993), ch. 5. Peach, C., Does Britain have ghettos?, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 1996. Pearson, D. Race, Class and Political Activism: A Study of West Indians in Britain (1981). Phillips, M and T., Windrush (1998). Rex, J. and Tomlinson, S., Colonial Immigrants in a British City (1979). *Scarman, Lord, The Brixton Disorders 1012 April 1981: Report of an Inquiry. Waters, C., Dark Strangers in our midst: discourses of race and nation in Britain 1947 63, Journal of British Studies, 1997. Webster, W., Race, ethnicity and national identity, in I. Zweiniger-Bargielowska, Women in Twentieth-century Britain (2001).
4.
TOWN LIFE
Between the census of 1911 and that of 1951 all England became suburban except for the slums at one extreme and the Pennine Moors at the other. Explain and criticise. How did perspectives on the problems of city life change in the course of the twentieth century? Why did the proportion of the housing stock in England and Wales rented from private landlords decline from 90% in 1914 to 12% in 1983? a) General
Report of the Archbishop of Canterburys Commission on Urban Priority Areas). Freeden, M. The new Liberalism. An ideology of social reform (1978), ch. 6. Gordon, G., Regional Cities in the U.K., 18901980 (1986). *Halsey, A.H. and Webb, J. (eds.), Twentieth-Century British Social Trends (2000), chs. 12 and 14. Harrison, P., Inside the Inner City (1983). Mitchell, B.R., British Historical Statistics (1988), chs.1, 7, 10, and 11. Palliser, D. M., Clark, P. and Daunton, M. (eds.), The Cambridge Urban History of Britain (2000), vol 3. *Priestley, J. B., English Journey (1934; repr 1998). Robson, B. Those Inner Cities. Reconciling the Social and Economic Aims of Urban Policy (1988) Smith, D. J.(ed.) Understanding the underclass (1992)
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*Faith in the City
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Thompson, F.M.L., Waller, P.J., Waller, P. J. (ed), b) Planning
Town and City, in F.M.L. Thompson (ed), The Cambridge Social History of Britain, 17501950 vol.1, (1990). Town, City and Nation: England 18501914 (1983). The English Urban Landscape (2000).
Aldridge, M., Ashworth, W., Cherry, G.E. (ed.), Cherry, G.E. (ed.), Hall, P., Sutcliffe, A., Sutcliffe, A. (ed.), c)
The British New Towns (1979). The Genesis of Modern British Town Planning (1954). Pioneers in British Planning (1981). Shaping an Urban World (1980) chs. 1, 5, 8, and 12. Great Planning Disasters (c. 1980).. Towards the Planned City (1981). The Rise of Modern Urban Planning (1980) chs. 1, 5, 8, and 9.
Suburbanization
Dyos, H.J., Victorian Suburb (1961). Gilbert, E.W., The Industrialisation of Oxford, Geographical Journal, 1947. Jackson, A.A., Semi-Detached London 190039 (1973). Masterman, C.F.G., The Condition of England (1909), ch.3. McKay, J.P., Tramways and Trolleys (1976) chs. 6 and 7. Mumford, K., & Power, A., East Enders. Family and Community in East London (2003) *Sturt, G., Change in the Village (1912; repr.1955, 1984). Thompson, F.M.L., The Rise of Suburbia (1982). Thorns, D., Suburbia (1973). *Young, M. and Willmott, P., Family and Kinship in East London (1957, repr. 1984), Pt. 2, and Family and Class in a London Suburb (1960). d) Housing Housing, in F.M.L.Thompson, (ed.), Cambridge Social History of Modern Britain 17501950, II (1990). Councillors and Tenants: Local Authority Housing in England 191939 (1984). A Property Owning Democracy. Winners and Losers. Home Ownership in Modern Britain (1999) Landlord and Tenant in Urban Britain 18381918 (1983). Working Class Community (1968). Housing, Social Policy and the State (1980). The housing question and the state in Britain, 1890 to the present HJ 1983 (review article). Council Housing and Culture. The history of a social experiment (2001) Housing in Urban Britain, 17801914 (1989). The Jerusalem that failed? The rebuilding of post-war Britain in T. Gourvish and A. ODay Britain since 1945 (1991). Multi-Storey Living (1974). Becontree and Dagenham (1934).
Daunton, M., Daunton, M.J. (ed.), Daunton, M.J., Hamnett, C., Englander, D., Jackson, B., Melling, J. (ed.), Pennybacker, S.D., Ravetz, A. (ed.) Rodger, R., Stevenson, J., Sutcliffe, A.(ed.), *Young, T.,
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SOCIAL CLASS
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Did the working classes become more, or less, homogeneous between 1900 and c.1970? The seemingly infinite capacity of the middle class for recruiting itself from its rivals is the central theme of British social-class relations since 1918. If so, how was it done? The British ruling class has never developed into a bourgeoisie plain and simple. It has never become purely urban or frankly commercial (GEORGE ORWELL, 1947). Why not? Which has been the more significant influence on changing twentieth-century social-class relations: the decline of domestic service or the rise of the white-collar worker? a) General
Cannadine, D, Class in Britain (1998). Halsey, A.H. and Webb, J. Twentieth-Century British Social Trends (2000), ch. 10. Joyce, Patrick (ed.), Class (1995). McKibbin, Ross, Classes and Cultures. England 19181951 (1998). *Orwell, G. The Road to Wigan Pier (1937; latest repr. 1998). *Priestley, J.B. English Journey (1934; latest repr. 1997). b) Aristocracy The Decline of the British Aristocracy (1990). The British Political Elite (1968). Women, Marriage and Politics 18601914 (1986). Social leaders and public persons. A study of county government in Cheshire since 1888 (1963). The Limitations of Democracy in his The Governance of England (rev. ed.), ch.10. The Fall and Rise of the Stately Home (1997). Modern Britain, in W.D. Rubinstein (ed.), Wealth and the Wealthy in the Modern World (1980). Wealth, elites and the class structure of modern Britain, P&P, No. 76 (Aug. 1977). English landed society in the twentieth century, TRHS, 19903 (4 parts). Gentrification and the Enterprise Culture. Britain 17801980 (2001).
Cannadine, D., Guttsman, W.L., Jalland, P., Lee, J.M., Low, S., Mandler, P., Rubinstein, W.D., Rubinstein, W.D., Thompson, F.M.L., Thompson, F.M.L., c)
The Middle Classes
The Intellectual Aristocracy, in J.H. Plumb (ed.), Studies in Social History (1955). Bonham, J., The Middle-Class Vote (1954). *Broad, R. and Fleming, S. (eds.), Nella Lasts War. A Mother's Diary 193945 (1983). Carr-Saunders, A. and Wilson, P., The Professions (1933). Clements, R. V., Managers (1958). Crossick, G. (ed.), The Lower Middle Class in Britain 18701914 (1977). Fidler, J., The British Business Elite (1981). Harris, J. and Thane, P., British & European Bankers in Thane, P., Crossick, G. and Floud, R. (eds.), The Power of the Past (1985). Hughes, M. V., A London Family between the Wars (1940).
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Jackson, A.A., Semi-Detached London 19001939 (1973). Jackson, A.A., The middle classes, 19001950 (1991) (see also 9d). Kidd, A. and Nicholls, D., Gender, Civic Culture and Consumerism. Middle-class identity in Britain, 18001940 (1999). Lewis, R. and Maude, A., The English middle classes (1949). Lewis, R. and Stewart, R., The Boss: the Life and Times of the British Business Man (1958). Lockwood, D., The Blackcoated Worker (1958), ch. 1. Offer, A., Property and Politics 18701914 (1981), ch. 1. Perkin, H., The Rise of Professional Society (1990). Rubinstein,W.D., Elites and the Wealthy in Modern British History (1987), chs. 2 and 3. Stacey, M., Tradition and Change. A Study of Banbury (1960). d) The Working Classes
*Bell, Florence, Lady, At the Works (1907), chs. 3 and 10. Benson, J. (ed.) The working class in England 18751914 (c. 1985). Bourke, Joanna Working-class cultures in Britain 1890-1960; gender, class and ethnicity (1994) *Dennis, N., Henriques, F. and Slaughter, C., Coal is Our Life (1951; repr. 1969). *Goldthorpe, J.et al., The Affluent Worker in the Class Structure (1969) Foster, J., A proletarian nation? Occupation and class since 1914, in A. Dickson and J. Treble (eds), People and Society in Scotland 191490 (1992). Harrison, B., Traditions of Respectability in British Labour History, in his Peaceable Kingdom. Stability and Change in Modern Britain (1982). Hobsbawm, E.J., Worlds of Labour. Further Studies in the History of Labour (1984) chs.1114. Hopkins, E., The Rise and Decline of the English Working Classes, 19181990 (1991). Jackson, B., Working-Class Community (1968). McKibbin, R., The Ideologies of Class (1990), chs. 1, and 6. Moore, R., in M. Bulmer (ed.), Working-Class Images of Society (1975). Roberts, E., Woman's Work (1988). Roberts, E., A Woman's Place (1984), and *Roberts, E., Women and Families (1995). *Roberts, R., The Classic Slum (1971), chs. 12. *Rowntree, B.S., Poverty. A Study in Town Life (1901), esp. chs. 35, and 8. Savage, M. and Miles, A., The Remaking of the British Working Class, 18401940 (1994). Saville, J., The Ideology of Labourism, in Benewick, R. et al, Knowledge and Belief in Politics (1973). *Spring-Rice, M., Class Working Wives (1981 edn.). *Willmott, P. and Young, M., Family and Kinship in East London (1957, repr. 1987), and Family and Class in a London Suburb (1960).
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WORK AND UNEMPLOYMENT
In what senses was the experience of work in Britain transformed for men and women in the twentieth century?
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Were state encouragement and discouragement the main determinants of unionization during the twentieth century? How can the fluctuating incidence of strikes in twentieth-century Britain best be explained? In what ways did patterns and perceptions of unemployment change in the course of the twentieth century?
a)
Work: general (see also 5d).
*Goldthorpe, J.H. et al, The Affluent Worker in a Class Society (1969). *Halsey, A.H. and Webb, J. (eds), Twentieth-Century British Social Trends (2000), ch. 8. Joyce, P., Work, in F.M.L. Thompson, The Cambridge Social History of Britain (1990), vol. 2. McIvor, A.J., A History of Work in Britain, 18801950 (2001). McKibbin, R., Classes and Cultures; Britain 191851 (1998), ch. 4. Wood, S. (ed.), The Degradation of Work? (1982). Zweig, F., The British Worker (1952).
b)
Work: men and women
*Bell, Florence Lady, Chinn, C.,
At the Works, chs. 89. They Worked all their Lives; w omen of the urban poor in England, 18801939 (1988). Cowman, K. & Jackson, L. (eds), Women and Work Culture: Britain c.1850-1950 (2005) Davidoff, L. and Westover, B. (eds), Our Work, Our Lives, Our Words (1986). *Dennis, N., Henriques, F. and Slaughter, C., Coal is Our Life (1951; repr.1969). Forman, C., Industrial Town: Self-portrait of St. Helens in the 1920s (1978). Glucksmann, M., Women Assemble; Women Workers and the New Industries in Inter-War Britain (1980). Myrdal, A. and Klein, V., Womens Two Roles (1956). Parker, T., Red Hill; A Mining Community (1986). *Roberts, E., Women and Families; an oral history 194070 (1995). Roberts, E., Womens Work, 18401940 (1988). *Sarsby, J., Missuses and Mouldrunners (1988). *Spring-Rice, M., Working-Class Wives (1939). Thane, P., Towards Equal Opportunities? Women in Britain since 1945, in T. Gourvish and D. ODay, Britain since 1945 (1991). Zweig, F., Men in the Pits (1948), The British Worker (1952) and Womens Life and Labour (1952). Zweiniger-Bargielowska, I. (ed.), Women in Twentieth-Century Britain (2000), esp. chs. 10 and 11. c) Industrial Relations, trades unions, strikes
Bain, G.S., and Price, R., Profiles of Union Growth: A Comparative Statistical Portrait of Eight Countries (1980), figures on U.K. Barnes D.and Reid, E., Government and Trade Unions. The British Experience 19641979 (1980). Brown, W. (ed.), The Changing Contours of British Industrial Relations, a Survey of
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Manufacturing Industry (1981). Briggs, A and Saville, J. (eds.), Essays in Labour History 18861923 (1971) chs. 4 and 5. Charles, R., The development of industrial relations in Britain 19111939 (1973). Clegg, H.A., The Changing System of Industrial Relations in Britain (1979). Cook, C. and Pimlott, B. (eds.), Trade Unions in British Politics (2nd. ed. 1991). Cronin, J.E., Industrial Conflict in Modern Britain (1979) chs. 25. Duncan , R. and McIvor, A. J. (eds), Militant Workers. Labour and class conflict on the Clyde, 19001950 (1992). Fox, A., History and Heritage. The Social Origins of the British Industrial Relations System (1985). Garside, W.R., Management and Men: Aspects of British Industrial Relations in the interwar Period, in B. Supple (ed.), Essays in British economic History (1977). Hyman, R., Strikes (3rd edn. 1984). Knowles, K.G.J.C., Strikes (1954). Prandy, K., Stewart A. and Blackburn R.M., White Collar Unionism (1983). Price, R., Labour in British Society (1987). Wrigley, C. J.,(ed.), A History of British Industrial Relations, vol i. 18751914; II, 1914-1939 (1982, 1985); III, 193979 (1996). Wrigley, C. Trade unions, the government and the economy in T. Gourvish and A. ODay (eds.) Britain since 1945 (1991). d) Unemployment
Mens fears and womens work: responses to unemployment in London between the wars, Gender and History (2000). Bakke, E. Wight , The Unemployed Man (1933). Burnett, J., Idle hands. The experience of unemployment 17901990 (1994). Casson, M., The Economics of Unemployment (1983). Garside, W.R., British Unemployment 191939. A Study in British Public Policy (1990). Deacon, A., In Search of the Scrounger (1976). Glynn, S. and Oxborrow, J., Interwar Britain (1976). Glynn, S. and Booth, A., The Road to Full Employment (1987), chapter by N. Whiteside. *Halsey, A. H. and Webb, J., Twentieth-Century British Social Trends (2000), ch. 8. Krafchik, M., Unemployment and vagrancy in the 1930s: Deterrence, rehabilitation and the Depression, JSP, 1983. McKibbin, R.I., The Social Psychology of unemployment in interwar Britain in P.J. Waller (ed.), Politics and Social Change in Modern Britain (1987). Nicholas, K., The Social Effects of Unemployment on Teesside 191939 (1986). *Pilgrim Trust, Men Without Work (1938). Rowntree, B.S. and Lasker, B., Unemployment: A Social Study (1911). Sinfield, A., What Unemployment Means (1981). Smith, R., Unemployment and Health: A Disaster and a Challenge (1988). Whiteside, N., Bad Times: Unemployment in British Social and Political History (1991). 7. HEALTH AND DISEASE
Alexander, S.,
How do you explain the rising life expectancy since 1900? Analyse the influence of war and economic depression on the incidence of disease and disability in modern Britain.
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a)
General
Berridge, V., Health and Society in Britain since 1939 (1999). Floud, R., et al, Height, Health and History (1990). *Halsey, A. H. and Webb, J. (eds), Twentieth-Century British Social Trends (2000), ch. 3. Hair, P.E.H., Deaths from Violence in Britain. A Tentative Secular Survey, Pop.St., Mar. 1971. Loudon, I., Deaths in Childbed from the 18th century to 1935, Medical History (30), 1986; or his The Tragedy of Childbed Fever (2000). Mayhew, M., The 1930s Nutrition Controversy, JCH (1988) McKeown, T., The Modern Rise of Population (1975). *Spring-Rice, M., Working-Class Wives (1939). Thompson, F.M.L. (ed.), Cambridge Social History of Modern Britain (1990), vol. 2, D. Oddy, Food, Drink and Nutrition, and vol.3, Berridge, V., Health and Medicine. Winter, J.M., The Great War and the British People (1986) (and see review article by L. Bryder, HWJ (1988). Winter, J.M., Unemployment, Nutrition and Infant Mortality in Britain, 19201950, in J.M. Winter (ed.), The Working Class in Modern British History (1983). b) Living Standards and Diet
What happened to Real Wages? Trends in wages, prices and productivity in the UK, 18801913, Econ. HR, 1990. MGonigle, G.C.M. and Kirby, J., Poverty and Public Health (1936). Macnicol, J., The Movement for Family Allowances (1980), ch. 3. Mayhew, M., The 1930s Nutrition Controversy, JCH, 1988. Oddy, D. and Miller, D. (eds.), The Making of the Modern British Diet (1976). Roberts, E., Womens Strategies 18901940 in J. Lewis (ed.), Labour and Love (1985). *Rowntree, B.S., Poverty (1901), chs. 68. *Rowntree, B.S., Poverty and Progress (1941) ch.. 10. Rowntree, B.S., Poverty and the Welfare State (1951), chs. 1011. *Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Inquiry into Income and Wealth (1995). Webster, C., Healthy or Hungry Thirties?, HWJ (1982). Webster, C., Health, Welfare and Unemployment during the Depression, P&P 109. c) Public Health and Medicine
Feinstein, C.,
Bryder, L.,
Below the Magic Mountain: a Social History of Tuberculosis in Twentieth-Century Britain (1988). Digby, A. and Stewart, J., Gender, Health and Welfare (1995). Green, D., Working-class Patients and the Medical Establishment (1986). Hardy, A., Health and Medicine in Britain since 1860 (2000). Loudon, I. et al (eds) General practice under the NHS, 1948-97 (1998) Porter, D., Health, Civilization and the State (1999). Szreter, S., The importance of social intervention in Britains mortality decline 1850 1914: A Reinterpretation Social History of Medicine, 1988. Webster, C., The National Health Service (1998). Weindling, P. (ed.), The Social History of Occupational Health (1985).
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EDUCATION
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Discuss the role of education in promoting social mobility in twentieth-century Britain. What, if anything, did Britains educational institutions contribute to the existence of an anti-enterprise culture ? Changing definitions of equality lay at the heart of educational policy during the twentieth century. Do you agree? a) General
A Century of Education (2002). Universities and Elites in Britain since 1880 (pamphlet, 1992). British Universities Past and Present (2006) Banks, O., Parity and Prestige in English Secondary Education (1955, repr 1998). Dyhouse, C., Education, in I. Zweiniger-Bargielowska, (ed.) Women in TwentiethCentury Britain (2001). *Halsey, A.H. and Webb, J. (eds), Twentieth-Century British Social Trends (2000), chs. 57. Harrison, B. (ed.), The history of the University of Oxford. VIII: The twentieth century (1994), Chs. 3, 4, 8, and 13. Jones, Ken, Education in Britain: 1944 to the Present (2003). Lowe, R., Education in the Post-War Years: A Social History (1988), and Schooling and Social Change (1997). *Maclure, S. (ed.), Educational Documents, England and Wales, (3rd ed., 1985). Maclure, S., Through the revolution and out the other side, in Oxford Review of Education, 24, 1998. Pedley, R., The Comprehensive School (1966). Purvis, J., A History of Womens Education in England (1991). *Roberts, R., The Classic Slum, ch. 7. Sanderson, M., Educational Opportunity and Social Change in England (1987). Stephen, W.B., Education in Britain, 17501914 (1999). Sutherland, G., Education, in Thompson, F.M.L., (ed.), Cambridge Social History of Modern Britain, III (1990). Vincent, D., Literacy and Popular Culture in England 17501914 (1990). b) Economic influences
Aldrich, R. (ed.), Anderson, R.D.,
Aldrich, R., Berghoff, H.
Education for the Nation (1996). Public Schools and the Decline of the British Economy 18701914, P&P 1990. Floud, R., Technical education and economic performance in Britain 1850-1914, Albion 1982. Honey, J.R. de S., Tom Browns universe. The development of the Victorian public school (1977). Howarth, J. and Curthoys, M. The political economy of womens higher education, Hres 1987. Hunt, F. (ed) Lessons for Life. The Schooling of Girls and Women 18501950 (1988). Macleod, R. and Moseley, R., The Naturals and Victorian Cambridge: Reflections on the Anatomy of an Elite 18571914, Oxford Review of Education (1980). Reader, W.J., Professional Men (1966), chs. 79. Rubinstein, W.D., Capitalism, Decline and Culture in Britain, 17501990 (1993). Sanderson, M., The Universities and British Industry (1972).
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Sanderson, M., Sanderson, M., Sanderson, M., Smout, T.C. (ed.), Thompson, F.M.L., Weiner, M., Wolf, A., c) Social Mobility
Social equity and industrial need: a dilemma of English education since 1945 in T. Gourvish and A. ODay (eds.) Britain since 1945 (1991). The Missing Stratum: Technical School Education in England 190090 (1994). Education and Economic Decline in Britain, 1870 to the 1990s (1999). Victorian Values (PBA Vol. 78, 1992). Gentrification and the Enterprise Culture. Britain 17801980 (2001), chs. 6 and 7. English Culture and the Decline of the Industrial Spirit (1981). Politicians and economic panic, in G.McCulloch (ed.), The Routledge Falmer Reader in History of Education (2005)
Dyhouse, C., Students: a gendered history (2006) Glass, D.V., (ed.), Social Mobility in Britain (1954). Goldthorpe, J.H., Social Mobility and the Class Structure (1980). Halsey, A.H., Change in British Society (1978), ch. 6. Halsey, A.H., Heath, A.F. and Ridge, J.M., Origins and Destinations (1980). *Halsey, A. H. and Webb, J. (eds), Twentieth-Century British Social Trends (2000), ch. 7. Halsey, A. H., Floud, J. and Martin, F. M., Social Class and Educational Opportunity (1966). Heath, A.F., Social Mobility (1981). Howarth, J., Public schools. Safety-nets and educational ladders: the classification of girls secondary schools, 18801914 Oxford review of education 1985. Lowe, R., Schooling as an impediment to social mobility in 19th and 20th century Britain, in McCulloch, Routledge Falmer Reader Lowndes, G., The Silent Social Revolution (1937). Miles, A., Social Mobility in Nineteenth and early Twentieth-Century England (1999). Rubinstein, W.D., Education and the Social Origins of British Elites 18801920, in his Elites and the Wealthy in Modern British History (1987). Silver, G., (ed.), Equal Opportunity in Education (1973). Tawney, R.H., Part 2: education in his The radical tradition. Twelve essays (ed. R. Hinden, 1964). Tawney, R. H., Equality (1931). Widdowson, F., Going Up into the Next Class: Women and Elementary Teacher Training 18401940 (1980). Willis, P., Learning to labour (1978).
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CRIME AND PUBLIC ORDER
To what extent have incidents of riot and public disorder involved political agendas, and what have been the authorities responses? Fluctuations in public concern about crime bear almost no relation to its actual incidence. Discuss
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The clearest indication of the unbounded contempt of the workers for the existing social order is the wholesale manner in which they break its laws (ENGELS, 1845). How far is this comment applicable to twentieth-century crime?
a)
Patterns and Statistics of Crime
Crime, in I. Zweiniger-Bargielowska (ed.), Women in Twentieth-Century Britain (2001). Gatrell, V.A.C., The Decline of Theft and Violence in Vic torian and Edwardian England in Gatrell V. et al., The Social History of Crime in Western Europe since 1500 (1981). Gatrell, V.A.C. and Hadden, T.B., Criminal Statistics and their Interpretation, in Wrigley, E.A. (ed.), Nineteenth Century Society. Essays in the Use of Quantitative Methods for the Study of Social Data (1972). Gatrell, V.A.C., Crime, authority and the policeman-state in F.M.L. Thompson (ed.) The Cambridge social history of Britain 17501950 (III, 1990). Gillis, J.R., The Evolution of Juvenile Delinquency in England 18701914, P&P, No. 67 (1975). *Halsey, A.H. and Webb, J (eds), Twentieth-Century British Social Trends (2000), ch. 20. McClintock, F.H. and Howard Avison, N., Crime in England and Wales (1968), chs. 1, 610. Morris, T., Crime and Criminal Justice since 1945 (1989), chs. 3 and 7. Radzinowicz, L. and King. J., The Growth of Crime. The International Experience (1977), Parts, 1 and 2. Smithies, E., Crime in Wartime: A Social History of Crime in World War II (1982). Taylor, H., Rationing crime: a political economy of criminal statistics since the 1850s, Econ.H.R 51, 1998 b) Crime and Criminals Borstal Boy (1958) Folk Devils and Moral Panics: the creation of the mods and rockers (1987) Growing Up in the City (1954). Crime and Criminal Justice since 1945 (1989), Chs.3 and 7. Hooligan: A History of Respectable Fears (1983). East End Underworld: Chapters in the Life of Arthur Harding (1981). Youth, Popular Culture and Moral Panics (1998). The Worst Street in London (1986). Reconstructing the Criminal: Culture, Law & Policy in England 1830 1914 (1990). Delinquency, masculinity and citizenship in England, 1950-70, P&P, 187, 2005
DCruze, S.,
Behan, B., Cohen, S., *Mays, J. B., Morris, T., Pearson, G., Samuel, R., (ed.), Springhall, J., *White, J., Wiener, M.J. Wills, A., c) Public Order
1981 in Retrospect: Urban Riots, Scarman, Police Reaction, in New Community, Vol. 9, no. 3, Winter 1981/Spring 1982, pp. 34480. Gaskell, G, and Benewick, R. (eds.), The Crowd in Contemporary Britain (1986). Marsh, P., Rosser, E., and Harr, R., The Rules of Disorder (1987). Morgan, J., Conflict and Order: The Police and Labour Disputes in England and Wales, 190039 (1987).
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d)
Penal Policy and Policing
Bailey, V.,
Delinquency and Citizenship: Reclaiming the Young Offender, 1914-1948 (1987). Davis, J., From rookeries to communities: race, poverty & policing in London 18501985, HWJ, 27, 1989 Garland, D., Punishment and Welfare: A History of Penal Strategies (1985). Gatrell, V.A.C., Crime, Authority and the Policeman State, in F.M.L.Thompson (ed.), The Cambridge Social History, (III, 1990). Morris, T., Crime and criminal justice since 1945, chs. 45, 811. Radzinowicz, L. and Hood, R., The Emergence of Penal Policy in Victorian and Edwardian England (1986). Reiner, R., The Politics of the Police (2000) 1981: Report of an Inquiry, Cmnd. 8427. *Scarman, Lord, The Brixton Disorders 1012 April
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RELIGION
Is Britain a less religious country now than it was in 1900? Modern cities represent the ultimate environmental challenge to popular religious adherence and faith. Is this assumption borne out with reference to twentieth-century Britain? a) Churches and Denominations
The Nonconformist Conscience. Chapel and Politics 18701914 (1982). Democracy and sectarianism. A political and social history of Liverpool 1868-1939 (1981), chs. 12, 45, 1118. Chadwick, O., The Victorian Church Pt.2 (1970), chs. 47. Davie, G., Religion in Britain since 1945 (1994). Gilbert,A.D., Religion & Society in Industrial England (1976), Pt. 3. Currie, R., Gilbert, A. and Horsley, L., Churches and Churchgoers (1977). *Faith in the City. A Call for Action by Church and Nation, The Report of the Archbishop of Canterbury's Commission on Urban Priority Areas (1985). *Halsey, A.H. and Webb, J. (eds), Twentieth-Century British Social Trends (2000), ch. 19. Hastings, A., A History of English Christianity 19201985 (1986). McLeod, H., Religion and Society in England, 18501914 (1996). Moore, R., Pitmen, Preachers and Politics. The Effects of Methodism in a Durham Mining Community (1974). Obelkevich, J., Religion & Rural Society (1976), chs. 67. Obelkevich, J., Religion, in: F.M.L. Thompson (ed.), Cambridge Social History of Modern Britain (III, 1990). Walker, P.J. Pulling the Devils Kingdom Down: the Salvation Army in Victorian Britain (2000). Wolffe, J. God and Greater Britain. Religion and national life in Britain and Ireland 18321945 (1994).
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b)
Secularization
Public Faith? The state of religious belief and practice in Britain (2003) The Death of Christian Britain (2001). Religion and Modernization: Sociologists and Historians Debate the Secularization Thesis (1992). Bruce, S., God is Dead: Secularisation in the West (2002), esp. ch. 3. Budd, S., Varieties of Unbelief. Atheists & Agnostics in English Society (1977), chs. 57. Cox, G., The English Churches in a Secular Society: Lambeth 18701930 (1982). Currie, R., Gilbert, A., and Horsley, L., Churches & Churchgoers (1977), esp. ch. 5. Currie, R., Methodism Divided. A Study in the Sociology of Ecumenicalism, (1968) chs. 34. Davie, G., Europe: the Exceptional Case (2002). Garnett, J., Grimley, M., Harris, A., Whyte, W. & Williams, S. (eds), Redefining Christian Britain: a post-1945 perspective (2007) Gorer, G., Exploring English Character (1955). Healas, P. & Woodhead, L., The Spiritual Revolution: why religion is giving way to spirituality (2004) Martin, D., A General Theory of Secularisation (1978). McLeod, H. (ed.), European religion in the age of great cities 18301930 (1995), esp. introduction and essay by S. Williams. Morris, J. The strange death of Christian Britain: another look at the secularization debate, HJ, 46, 2003 McLeod, H., New perspectives on Victorian class and religion Oral history 1986. Pickering, W., The persistence of rites of passage: towards an explanation, B.J.Sociol, 1979. *Rowntree, B.S. and Lavers, G.R., Religion, English Life and Leisure (1951), ch. 13. Turner, F., Religion in B. Harrison (ed.) The History of the University of Oxford. VIII. Modern Oxford (1994), ch. 12. Webb, B., My Apprenticeship (1926), ch. 2 Williams, S.C., Religious Belief and Popular Culture in Southwark, 1880-1939 (1998) Wolffe, J. (ed.) The growth of religious diversity. Britain from 1945 a reader (1993)
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11.
WAR
Did wars tend to promote equality in twentieth-century Britain? How far is it possible to generalise about the impact of war on the civilian population? Addison, P., The Road to 1945 (2nd edn, 1994). Brivati, B. and Jones, H. (eds.) What difference did the war make? (1993). Bogacz, T., War Neurosis and Cultural Change in England 191422: The Work of the War Office Enquiry into Shell-Shock, JCH, 1989. Bourne, J.M., Britain and the Great War 191418 (1987). Burnett, J., Plenty and Want (1969), chs. 11 and 13. Calder, A., The Peoples War (1969). Currie, R., Gilbert, A., and Horsley, L., Churches and Churchgoers (1977). De Groot, G.J., Blighty. British Society in the era of the Great War (1996).
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The Great War and Modern Memory (1975). Women, Social Leadership and the Second World War. Communities of Class (2002). *Last, N., Nella Lasts War. A Mother's Diary 193945 (ed. R. Broad and S. Fleming, 1983). Marwick, A. (ed.), Total War and Social Change (1988), Reid A., World War One and the Working Class in Britain, and P. Summerfield, Women in Britain in World War Two. Moynihan, M.(ed.), People at war 19141918 (1973). Munson, J. (ed.), Echoes of the Great War. The Diary of the Rev. Andrew Clark 191419 (1985). Pope, R., War and Society in Britain, 18991948 (1991). Rose, S., Which Peoples War? National Identity and Citizenship in Wartime Britain, 1939-45 (2005) Smith, H.L. (ed.), Britain in the Second World War; a social history (1996). Summerfield, P., Reconstructing Womens Wartime Lives (1998). Summerfield, P., Women Workers in the Second World War (1989 edn.). Thom, D., Nice Girls and Rude Girls. Women workers in World War 1 (1998). Wall, R. and Winter, J.M., The Upheaval of War (1988), chs. 2, 6, 7, 11 and 13. Winter, J.M., The Great War and the British People (1986.)
Fussell, P., Hinton, J.,
12.
LEISURE AND RECREATION
How do you explain the rise of mass spectator sport? Analyse the implications of changing patterns of leisure and recreation for relations between social classes. Leisure and Class in Victorian Britain (1978). The rise of a consumer society in Britain 18801980 (1994). Better betting with a decent feller: bookmaking, betting and the English Working class, 1750-1990 (1991) Cross,G.& Walton, J., The Playful Crowd: pleasure places in the twentieth century (2005)working class, 17501990 (1991). Cunningham, H., Leisure and Culture, in F.M.L. Thompson (ed.), Cambridge Social History of Modern Britain (II, 1990). Downes, D.M. et al., Gambling, Work and Leisure (1976). Dunning, E. (ed.), The Sociology of Sport (1971). Durant, H., The Problem of Leisure (1937). Fishwick, N., English Football and Society 191050 (1989). Francis, M., Leisure, in I. Zweiniger-Bargielowska, Women in Twentieth-Century Britain (2001). *Halsey, A.H. and Webb, J., Twentieth-Century British Social Trends, ch.. 18. Hall, S. & Jefferson, T. (eds), Resistance through Rituals: youth subcultures in post-war Britain (2000) Hill, J. (ed.), Sport, Leisure and Culture in Twentieth-Century Britain (2002). Holt, R., Sport and the British. A Modern History (1989). *Hoggart, R., The Uses of Literacy (1958) Jones, S.G., Workers at Play. A Social and Economic History of Leisure 191839 (1987).
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Langhamer, C., Womens Leisure in England, 192060 (2000). Mangan, J.A. and Walvin, J. (eds), Manliness and morality: middle-class masculinity in Britain and America (1987). Mason, A., Association Football and English Society, 18631915 (1980). Mason, A. (ed.), Sport in Britain. A Social History (1989). Mason, A., Sport in Britain (1988). McCrone, K.E., Sport and the Physical Emancipation of Englishwomen 18701914 (1988). McKibbin, R., Classes and Cultures (1998). McKibbin, R., Working-class Gambling in Britain, 18801939 and Work and Hobbies in Britain 18801950, in his The Ideologies of Class (1990). Nott, J. Music for the People. Popular music and dance in inter-war Britain (2002) *Rowntree, B.S. and Lavers, G.R., English Life and Leisure (1951). Smith, M.A. et al, Leisure and Society in Britain (1973). Street, J., Youth culture and the emergence o popular music in T. Gourvish and A. f ODay (eds.), Britain since 1945 (1991). Tranter, N., Sport, Economy and Society in Britain, 17501914 (1999). Vamplew, W., The Turf (1976). Walton, J.K., British Seaside: holidays and resorts in the twentieth century (2000) 13. THE MASS MEDIA
To what extent have the mass media Americanised British popular culture? How much or how little have the daily press and broadcasting contributed to the democratisation of British society? Analyse the concerns expressed in the debate about the quality of the literary diet of the mass reading public. a) General The Uses of Literacy (1958). A Culture for Democracy. Mass Communication and the Cultivated Mind in Britain between the Wars (1988). Cultures and Classes (1998), chs. 10, 11 and12. English Journey (1934). The Classic Slum (1971). J.B. Priestley: Englishness and the politics of nostalgia, in P. Mandler and S. Pedersen (eds.), After the Victorians: Private Conscience and Public Duty in Modern Britain (1994).
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b)
Mass reading public The Social Mission of English Criticism 18481932 (1983). At the Works (1907; 1968), ch. 7. The Woman Reader 18371914 (1993). The Intellectuals and the Masses (1992). The Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters: English Literary Life since 1800 (1969; 1991).
Baldick, C., *Bell, Florence Lady Flint, K., Carey, J., Gross, J.,
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Hoggart, R., Jenkinson, A.J., Keating, P., *Leavis Q.D., McAleer, J., McAleer, J., Orwell, G., Pawling, C. (ed.), Pemberton, J. E., Radford, J. (ed.), Rose, J., Townsend, J. R., White, C. L., Williams. Raymond, Williams, Raymond, c)
Speaking to Each Other (1970). What Do Boys and Girls Read? (1940). The Haunted Study (1989). Fiction and The Reading Public (1932; 1968). Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain 191450 (1992). Passions Fortune: The Story of Mills and Boon (1999). Boys Weeklies, in S. Orwell and I. Angus (eds), The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell (1987), vol. 1. Popular Fiction and Social Change (1984). Politics and Public Libraries in England and Wales 18501970 (1977). The Progress of Romance. The Politics of Popular Fiction (1986). The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (2001). Written for Children (1964; 1975). Womens Magazines, 16931968 (1970). Culture and Society (1958; 1963). The Long Revolution (1961).
Press, Film and Broadcasting
Aldgate, A. and Richards, J, Best of British: cinema and society from 1930 to the present (1999). Curran, J., and Seaton, J., Power without Responsibility: Press and Broadcasting Britain (1985). Barr, C., Ealing Studios (1980). Bingham, A., Gender, Modernity and the Popular Press in inter-war Britain (2004) Briggs, A., The BBC. The First Fifty Years (1985). Briggs, A., The Birth of Broadcasting (1961). Briggs, A., The Golden Age of Wireless (1965). Briggs, A., Sound and Vision (1979). Brown, L., Victorian News and Newspapers (1957). Cardiff, C. and Scannell, P., A Social History of British Broadcasting vol 1 (1991). Dickinson, M. and Street, A., Cinema and the state (1985). Durgnat, R., A Mirror for England (1970). Harper, S. and Porter, V., Cinema audiences in 1950s Britain, Journal of Popular British Cinema (1999). Hill, J., Sex, Class and Realism: British Cinema, 195663 (1986). *Himmelweit, H. et al, Television and the Child (1958). Jennings, H. and Gill, W. Broadcasting in Everyday Life (1939). Landy, M., British Genres: Cinema and Society 193060 (1991). Lee, A., Origins of the Popular Press in England 18851914 (1976). Low, R., Film Making in 1930s Britain (1985). Mayer, J.P., British Cinemas and their Audiences (1948). OBrien, M. and Eyles, A. (eds.), Enter the Dream-House (1992). Pegg, M.W., Broadcasting and Society 191839 (1983). *Report of the Committee on Broadcasting (Pilkington, Cmnd 1753. 1962). Richards, J., Films and British National Identity from Dickens to Dads Army (1997). *Rowntree, B.S. and Lavers, G.R., Broadcasting, English Life and Leisure (1951), ch. 9. *Royal Commission on the Press Report, Cmnd 7700 (1949). Seymour Ure, C., The Press and Broadcasting since 1945 (2nd ed., 1991). Street, S., British National Cinema (1997). Street, S., British Cinema in Documents (2000). Swann, P., The Hollywood Feature Film in Post-War Britain (1987).
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