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Histories of Everyday Life: The Making of Popular Social History in Britain, 1918-1979: The Past and Present Book Series

Autor Laura Carter
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Histories of Everyday Life is a study of the production and consumption of popular social history in mid-twentieth century Britain. It explores how non-academic historians, many of them women, developed a new breed of social history after the First World War, identified as the 'history of everyday life'. The 'history of everyday life' was a pedagogical construct based on the perceived educational needs of the new, mass democracy that emerged after 1918. It was popularized to ordinary people in educational settings, through books, in classrooms and museums, and on BBC radio. After tracing its development and dissemination between the 1920s and the 1960s, this book argues that 'history of everyday life' declined in the 1970s not because academics invented an alternative 'new' social history, but because bottom-up social change rendered this form of popular social history untenable in the changing context of mass education. Histories of Everyday Life ultimately uses the subject of history to demonstrate how profoundly the advent of mass education shaped popular culture in Britain after 1918, arguing that we should see the twentieth century as Britain's educational century.
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ISBN-13: 9780198902058
ISBN-10: 0198902050
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Seria The Past and Present Book Series

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

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It is a fascinating and convincing analysis based on meticulous research-evidenced by the large bibliography and extensive footnoting. It is likely to remain a key text for those whose interests lie in education, museums, local history, local government and even for those of us who recall with nostalgia some of their own experiences.
In Histories of Everyday Life, Laura Carter offers a fresh and compelling take on the origins and popularization of social history in Britain in the decades after the First World War.
The book will interest not just the education specialist, but really anyone who is keen to review the much explored ground of 20th British society from an original, new vantage point.
For compelling reasons that Carter carefully unplaits and then rebraids, ordinary children and their ordinary parents were offered resources like books, radio broadcasts, museum exhibits, and school curricula that focused on the way people like them had lived in earlier centuries. Using a fresh approach to both materials and methodologies, she teases out scarce evidence to demonstrate that exposure to these resources profoundly affected people's experience and consciousness.
Carter's text offers a valuable lens through which to consider educational and social change in twentieth century Britain; she demonstrates the importance of understanding these processes of change in conjunction with each other. Her work contributes to a growing reconsideration of the British education system as being shaped by factors beyond political actions and by people beyond political actors, an approach that nuances our understanding of both British educational history and British social history.
Employing an illuminating periodisation and a distinctive, deftly gendered, notion of conservative modernity, Carter has drawn upon a wide range of sources and used 22 illustrations, an index and data on the interviewees to connect publishing, pedagogic, municipal and curatorial developments and provide a multi layered analysis of shifts in British culture.
This meticulously researched monograph interweaves oral histories with a wealth of primary materials, including cigarette cards, children's essays, and photographs. Its contents will interest a wide range of historians, and its challenge to conventional narratives of social history will prove as stimulating to established scholars as to undergraduates exploring the subject for the first time.
For historians of a certain generation, E. P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class created a new social history that illuminated the neglected lives of ordinary people.
In less than 300 pages, Carter leads the reader masterfully through the many settings in which the history of everyday life unfolded in the first decades of the 20th century
Revealing and fascinating about many facets of twentieth century British culture.

Notă biografică

Laura Carter studied history at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where she also did her MPhil and PhD in history. She was subsequently Lecturer in Modern British History at Kings College London, Research Fellow at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, and a postdoctoral Research Associate in the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge working on an ESRC-funded project about the history of secondary education in the United Kingdom since 1945. She is now a Lecturer in British History at the Université Paris Cité and a member of the CNRS research unit Laboratoire de Recherche sur les Cultures Anglophones.