Pub Date : 2024-01-12DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2023.2293745
Linda Ross, Ewan Gibbs
This article contributes to understanding how civil nuclear power shaped post-war British history through studying opposition to nuclear energy in Scotland. Over the second half of the twentieth ce...
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Pub Date : 2024-01-08DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2023.2294972
Valerie Wright, Alistair Fair
This article explores the role of the post-war new towns in Scotland in providing people with the opportunity to own their own homes. Most importantly, it traces the development of this policy prio...
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Pub Date : 2023-11-29DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2023.2288028
Anna Bocking-Welch
This article is about complaint-making as a form of political participation in the NGO sector. It focuses on public scrutiny of Oxfam’s use of Barclays Bank during the anti-apartheid boycott of the...
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Pub Date : 2023-11-09DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2023.2278534
Ben Jones
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Pub Date : 2023-11-06DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2023.2275197
Jac St John
This article examines the response of the Home Office and the Metropolitan Police to mass demonstrations in 1968. Using a variety of contemporaneous sources, including underused archival material, documents released through freedom of information requests, and evidence disclosed as part of the ongoing Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI), it shows how the experience of mass demonstrations that year, which came against the backdrop of widespread international protest, prompted significant developments in terms of crowd control tactics, covert intelligence gathering practices and the use of new technology to enable greater command and control over police resources. Taken together, these measures represented a permanent change to the public order capacity of the Metropolitan Police, providing a model that was gradually exported to other forces across England and Wales with the encouragement of the Home Office. However, despite the significant changes introduced in 1968, this article shows how police officers, civil servants, and politicians emphasised the continuation of ‘traditional methods’, a term that functioned as a way of situating public order policing within an idealised image of a uniquely English policing tradition, with an appeal to historical continuity that aimed to convey legitimacy and construct consent.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-13DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2023.2265815
Eve Worth, Aaron Reeves
This paper makes a major intervention in the historiography of elites through analysis of the experience of women occupational elites born in post-war Britain. The paper draws on a new set of oral history interviews recently conducted with women born in the post-war decades with an entry in Who’s Who which is the leading biographical dictionary of ‘noteworthy and influential’ people in the UK. The women we interviewed were all highly occupationally successful and those analysed here also attended one of twelve elite girls’ schools. This article argues that our interviewees can be separated into two distinct post-war cohorts: one born between early 1940s and mid-1950s and the other born late 1950s to late 1960s. The shape and structure of the cohort’s trajectories were different, their relationship to their careers were different, and, even though both groups faced sexual discrimination and unequal divisions of labour, the nature of these gendered inequalities changed too. By foregrounding elite women within this shifting historical context, this article illuminates broader trends in both classed and gendered experience and how this related to the changing nature of the economy in recent history.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-12DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2023.2262930
Louise A. Jackson, Sophia Ayada, Ashlee Christoffersen, Hazel Conley, Frances C. Galt, Fiona Mackay, Colm O’Cinneide
This article examines how and in what ways workplace ‘sexual harassment’ achieved social and legal recognition in the UK news press following its importation from North America in the mid-1970s. It assesses the role of feminist campaigners working within institutions (trade unions, human rights advocacy, the Equal Opportunities Commission and journalism itself) in shifting public discourse and in using the media to educate and promote social change. We demonstrate that the trajectory was far from a linear progression. Initial hostility within the popular press in the early 1980s was replaced with sympathetic coverage across the party-political spectrum by 1990. However, this consensus broke down in the 1990s as a result of politicised and polarised coverage of a series of claims brought by women in the services and armed forces against the backdrop of debates about ‘compensation culture’ and membership of the European Union. Whilst change was effected at the level of employment law, formal practice and in the human resources policies of larger employers, ‘sexual harassment myths’ were resilient as a thread within ‘everyday cultural discourse’ and, by implication, within informal workplace cultures.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-06DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2023.2267463
Jack Saunders
"Feelings and work in modern history: emotional labour and emotions about labour." Contemporary British History, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
“现代史上的感情和工作:情绪劳动和关于劳动的情绪。”《当代英国历史》，印刷前，第1-2页
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Pub Date : 2023-09-30DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2023.2264212
Christopher Birks
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Pub Date : 2023-09-22DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2023.2259319
Berenice Burnett, Erica Forktus, David V. Gioe
This article asks why no comparable spy ring to the Cambridge Five developed concurrently at Oxford University and argues that, based on an updated and comprehensive review of primary and secondary sources, holding out hope for a new revelation of one may be waiting for Godot. We argue that whilst structural and institutional factors played a significant role in the creation of a mid-20th century Cambridge spy ring, the role and agency of individuals was paramount, and Oxford was missing comparable personalities. Specifically, the galvanising effect of an intellectual authority figure in the person of Cambridge Don Maurice Dobb, the greater attention, talent, and strategy by Soviet intelligence recruiter Arnold Deutsch, and the higher level of ideological commitment and social reinforcement on the part of the Cambridge Five themselves—as a ring—were of greater significance. Not all these factors were present in Oxford and casts increasing doubt on whether an equivalent Oxford spy ring ever existed. Recently declassified files reveal that Oxford did produce Soviet era spies, but never a collective akin to that of the infamous Cambridge spies, who remain a unique historical and cultural touchstone to the present day.
这篇文章提出了一个问题，为什么牛津大学没有与剑桥五人组相媲美的间谍网同时发展起来，并认为，基于对一手和二手资料的更新和全面审查，我们对戈多的新发现抱有希望。我们认为，虽然结构和制度因素在20世纪中期剑桥间谍圈的形成中发挥了重要作用，但个人的作用和代理是至关重要的，而牛津缺乏可与之相比的人物。具体来说，剑桥大学唐·莫里斯·多布(Don Maurice Dobb)这一知识权威人物的激励作用，苏联情报招募人员阿诺德·多伊奇(Arnold Deutsch)的更大关注、更有才能和更有策略，以及剑桥五人组(Cambridge Five)本身更高层次的意识形态承诺和社会强化——作为一个圆环——都具有更大的意义。并非所有这些因素都存在于牛津，这让人们越来越怀疑牛津是否曾经存在过类似的间谍网。最近解密的文件显示，牛津大学确实培养过苏联时期的间谍，但从来没有像臭名昭著的剑桥间谍那样的集体，直到今天，剑桥间谍仍然是一个独特的历史和文化试金石。
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