Böcker i Routledge Revivals: History Workshop Series-serien

First published in 1989, this book seeks to demonstrate the social and political images of late-twentieth century London ΓÇö the post-big-bang city, docklands, trade union defeats, a mounting north-south divide ΓÇö do not mark as decisive break with the past as they may appear to. It argues that the most striking thing about LondonΓÇÖs history since 1800 is the continuities and recurrences which punctuate it. The essays collected in this book focus on these themes and address important questions about class, nationality, sexual difference, and radical politics. They combine the established strengths of social history with more innovative approaches such as the history of representations.

First published in 1985, this book brings together recent work on women and children from the nineteenth-century to the present. The contributors explore in different ways, and from different points of view, the way in which issues of language have been ΓÇö and are still ΓÇö central to the history of women and their relation to domestic and educational practices. A crucial issue is the contrast between what it spoken about girls and women, and what girls and women can speak about. The contributors relate this theme specifically to womenΓÇÖs position as mothers and the education of girls and women.

First published in 1986, the aim of this book is to present some of the changing thinking on popular writing to a wider audience in view of the enormous growth of mass culture after the war, but also to offer a historical perspective on a specific form of popular fiction: the romance. The essays collected here reflect diverse positions and methods in the current debate: sociological, psychoanalytic and literary. Some focus more on texts or readers, others concentrate on theoretical questions about narrative or ideology. All of the essays, however, view popular forms and their uses historical in historical context ΓÇö rejecting the notion they are a contaminated by-product of industrialism.

First published in 1989, this is the first of three volumes exploring the changing notions of patriotism in British life from the thirteenth century to the late twentieth century and constitutes an attempt to come to terms with the power of the national idea through a historically informed critique. This volume deals with the role of politics, history, religion, imperialism and race in the formation of English nationalism. In chapters dealing with a wide range of topics, the contributors demystify the prevailing conceptions of nationalism, suggesting `the nation¿ has always been a contested idea, and only one of a number of competing images of collectivity.

First published in 1986, this book challenges the notion that the minersΓÇÖ strike of 1984-5 was ΓÇÿScargillΓÇÖs StrikeΓÇÖ. It shows some of the ways in which the strike, though nominally directed from above, was determined from below by multitudinous and often contradictory pressures ΓÇö the lodge, the village and the home. The focus is essentially logical and gives particular attention to family economy, kin networks and intergenerational solidarity. At the same time it is concerned with the mentality of the strike ΓÇö its ruling fears and passions. The first-hand testimonies that comprise the book attest to the attachment to ΓÇÿtraditional waysΓÇÖ as well as the potency of the influences corroding them.

First published in 1985, this book brings together recent work on women and children from the nineteenth-century to the present. The contributors explore in different ways, and from different points of view, the way in which issues of language have been ΓÇö and are still ΓÇö central to the history of women and their relation to domestic and educational practices. A crucial issue is the contrast between what it spoken about girls and women, and what girls and women can speak about. The contributors relate this theme specifically to womenΓÇÖs position as mothers and the education of girls and women.

First published in 1989, this book seeks to demonstrate the social and political images of late-twentieth century London ΓÇö the post-big-bang city, docklands, trade union defeats, a mounting north-south divide ΓÇö do not mark as decisive break with the past as they may appear to. It argues that the most striking thing about LondonΓÇÖs history since 1800 is the continuities and recurrences which punctuate it. The essays collected in this book focus on these themes and address important questions about class, nationality, sexual difference, and radical politics. They combine the established strengths of social history with more innovative approaches such as the history of representations.

First published in 1986, the aim of this book is to present some of the changing thinking on popular writing to a wider audience in view of the enormous growth of mass culture after the war, but also to offer a historical perspective on a specific form of popular fiction: the romance. The essays collected here reflect diverse positions and methods in the current debate: sociological, psychoanalytic and literary. Some focus more on texts or readers, others concentrate on theoretical questions about narrative or ideology. All of the essays, however, view popular forms and their uses historical in historical context ΓÇö rejecting the notion they are a contaminated by-product of industrialism.

First published in 1981, this book examines the life of Arthur Harding, a well-known East End underworld figure during the first half of the twentieth century. The first five chapters survey his early life in the `Jagö slum, offering a different view of an often vilified district. The subsequent phases of his life as a cabinet-maker, street trader and wardrobe dealer reflect the changing fortunes of the East End from hand-to-mouth conditions in the late-nineteenth century to comparative security in the 1930s. Drawn from transcripts of recorded reminiscences, this book provides an important text for understanding the political economy of crime ¿ extended by the authors extensive footnotes.