Politics of the Past
Inter-war Memories and the Making of British Popular Politics, 1939–2009
Seiten
2025
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-34031-1 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-34031-1 (ISBN)
The inter-war period (1918–1939) is still remembered as a period of mass deprivation – the 'hungry thirties'. But how did this impression emerge? Politics of the Past explains how stories about the inter-war working-class experience in industrial areas came to appear commonplace nationwide.
The inter-war period (1918–1939) is still remembered as a period of mass deprivation – the 'hungry thirties'. But how did this impression emerge? Thousands of conversations about life in the inter-war period – between parents and children around the dinner table; among workmates at the pub – shaped these understandings. In turn, these fed into popular politics. Stories about the embryonic welfare system in the early-twentieth century informed how people felt towards the National Health Service; memories of the Great Depression shaped arguments about state intervention in the economy. Challenging accounts of widespread political disengagement in the twentieth century, Politics of the Past shows how re-telling family stories about the inter-war period offered ordinary people an accessible way of engaging in politics. Drawing on six local case studies across Scotland and England, this book explains how stories about the inter-war working-class experience in industrial areas came to appear commonplace nationwide.
The inter-war period (1918–1939) is still remembered as a period of mass deprivation – the 'hungry thirties'. But how did this impression emerge? Thousands of conversations about life in the inter-war period – between parents and children around the dinner table; among workmates at the pub – shaped these understandings. In turn, these fed into popular politics. Stories about the embryonic welfare system in the early-twentieth century informed how people felt towards the National Health Service; memories of the Great Depression shaped arguments about state intervention in the economy. Challenging accounts of widespread political disengagement in the twentieth century, Politics of the Past shows how re-telling family stories about the inter-war period offered ordinary people an accessible way of engaging in politics. Drawing on six local case studies across Scotland and England, this book explains how stories about the inter-war working-class experience in industrial areas came to appear commonplace nationwide.
David Cowan teaches at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and was previously a Research Fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He won the 2017 Duncan Tanner prize, awarded by the editors of the journal Twentieth Century British History for an article submitted while he was a graduate student.
Introduction; 1. Glasgow: planning the post-war city; 2. London: inter-war memories at home; 3. Huddersfield: education and the politics of family memory; 4. Luton: migration and workplace politics; 5. Aberdeen: healthcare in older age; 6. Birmingham: immigration and the global politics of the past; Epilogue.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 26.08.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Modern British Histories |
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| ISBN-10 | 1-009-34031-X / 100934031X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-34031-1 / 9781009340311 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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