Twentieth Century British History - Advance Access

Thatcher's Britain: The Politics and Social Upheaval of the Thatcher Era. By Richard Vinen.

MIDDLETON, R. — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:31:08 PDT

Credit and Community: Working-Class Debt in the UK Since 1880. By Sean O'Connell.

Gurney, P. — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 04:34:33 PDT

The Permanent Crisis of Party

Fielding, S. — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:56:32 PDT

Family Newspapers? Sex, Private Life & the British Popular Press, 1918-1978. By Adrian Bingham.

McCarthy, H. — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 06:29:32 PDT

Harold Wilson's Cold War: The Labour Government and East-West Politics, 1964-1970. By Geraint Hughes.

Daddow, O. — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:03:20 PDT

The Politics of Housing: Power, Consumers and Urban Culture. By Peter Shapely.

Clapson, M. — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 07:28:41 PDT

From Danger and Motherhood to Health and Beauty: Health Advice for the Factory Girl in Early Twentieth-Century Britain

Long, V., Marland, H. — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:48:30 PDT

A survey of government reports and the archives and journals of other agencies interested in industrial health in early twentieth-century Britain has led us to conclude that, in addition to apprehension about the potentially harmful impact of industrial work on the reproductive health of women, there was a great deal of interest in the health of young, unmarried girls in the workplace, particularly the factory. Adopting a broader time frame, we suggest that the First World War, with its emphasis on the reproductive health of women, was an anomalous experience in a broader trend which stressed the growing acceptability of women's work within industry. Concern with girls' health and welfare embraced hygiene, diet, exercise, recreation, fashion and beauty within and outside of the workplace, as well as the impact of the boredom and monotony associated with industrial work. The health problems of young women workers tended to be associated with behaviour and environment rather than biology, as were anxieties about the impact of work on morals, habits and character. Efforts to ensure that young female factory workers would be equipped to take their place as citizens and parents, we argue, often dovetailed rather than diverged with the ‘boy labour’ question.

Juke Box Britain: Americanisation and Youth Culture, 1945-60. By Adrian Horn.

Moran, J. — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:23:46 PDT

Heroin: The Treatment of Addiction in Twentieth-Century Britain. By Alex Mold.

Weinhauer, K. — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:27:12 PDT

Constructing the Monolith: The United States, Great Britain, and International Communism, 1945-1950. By Marc J. Selverstone.

Wilford, H. — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:27:10 PDT

Feminism and Criminal Justice: A Historical Perspective. By Anne Logan.

Seal, L. — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:27:10 PDT

The Future of Class in History: What's Left of the Social? By Geoff Eley and Keith Nield.

Maslen, J. — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 06:25:29 PDT

From Jack Tar to Union Jack: Representing Naval Manhood in the British Empire, 1870-1918. By Mary A. Conley.

O'hara, G. — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:21:32 PDT

Labour and the Politics of Internationalism, 1906-1914

McNeilly, E. — Fri, 15 May 2009 06:58:06 PDT

Historians have traditionally characterized the early Labour party as an insular, ‘labourist’ organization out of sync with the mainstream of European socialism and indifferent to foreign affairs and internationalism. However, this perspective is deeply misguided, as Labour's ‘Big Four’—MacDonald, Snowden, Hardie and Glasier—used their positions of authority in the Labour Party, Independent Labour Party (ILP) and the British Section of the International to place foreign policy and socialist internationalism at the heart of their efforts to further the Labour alliance. This article explores two aspects of the ‘politics of internationalism’: first, the Labour leadership's use of socialist internationalism to legitimate the Labour alliance with trade unions in the face of criticism from the ILP left wing; second, the party's portrayal of itself as a more faithful exponent of a Gladstonian moral foreign policy than the Liberal government. Labour and the ILP were crucial allies in the revisionist and pragmatic wing of the Second International, and these ties allowed the ‘Big Four’ to portray the Labour coalition as in keeping with democratic socialist strategy in Europe. At the same time, historians should explore the possibility that Labour's parliamentary and public interventions on foreign affairs aimed to undermine Liberalism on its left flank by exploiting radical concerns over the Liberal government's foreign policy, particularly its dealings with Russia, to portray Labour as the defenders of the Gladstonian tradition in foreign affairs and, hence, as the only conscionable choice for progressives in the twentieth century.