UID:
almafu_9961449313102883
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 287 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781009340328
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1009340328
,
9781009340304
,
1009340301
Series Statement:
Modern British histories
Content:
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Apr 2024).
,
Glasgow: planning the post-war city -- London: Inter-war memories at home -- Huddersfield: education and the politics of memory -- Luton: migration and workplace politics -- Aberdeen: healthcare in older age -- Birmingham: immigration and the global politics of the past
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781009340281
Additional Edition:
ISBN 100934028X
Language:
English
