ISBN:
9780198902058
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9780198868330
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 274 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Diagramme
Edition:
First published in paperback
Series Statement:
The Past and Present Book Series
DDC:
306.43094109
Keywords:
20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.)
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20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000
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British & Irish history
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Europäische Geschichte
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HIS015070
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HISTORY / Civilization
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HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century
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HISTORY / Social History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
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Social & cultural history
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Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
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Großbritannien
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Alltagskultur
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Sozialgeschichte
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Geschichte 1918-1979
Abstract:
This book 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.
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction : education and popular social history in Britain -- Part I: Defining and justifying a new social history after 1918 -- 1. The publishing of popular social history books -- 2. Social history for 'ordinary' school pupils -- Part II: Mid-twentieth-century popularization -- 3. The 'history of everyday life' on BBC radio -- 4. 'Histories of everyday life' in local museums -- 5. The 'history of everyday life' as a cultural policy in London local government -- Part III: The educational unmaking of popular social history -- 6. Social history and mass education in the 1970s -- Conclusion : everyday life at the end of the educational century.
Note:
Quellen- und Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 245-267
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DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780198868330.001.0001
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