Pub Date : 2022-08-06DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2022.2108411
Sarah Kenny
canonisation of Pride as a memory resource is demonstrated by Horvat’s interactions with archivists at the People’s History Museum, the emergence of LGSMigrants and the reignited interest in LGSM at Pride events across the country. By demonstrating the obfuscations in the film’s content, Horvat makes a case for considering the types of queer histories which are being presented as vital queer memories. Beyond this and perhaps most pressingly, it asks once presented with these pasts, what kinds of futures are viewers encouraged to seek.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-02DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2022.2105837
Bent Jones
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Pub Date : 2022-07-25DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2022.2098720
I. Mcneely
ABSTRACT This article is the first properly historical treatment of the intrusive regime of research (and now teaching) assessments that are now familiar to all UK academics. Eight times since the mid-1980s, British universities have been required to participate in ‘research selectivity’, ‘research assessment’, or ‘research excellence’ exercises conducted on a national scale, and designed to introduce corporate management techniques into higher education. In seeming paradox, a system of top-down steering, hands-on regulation, and artificially engineered competition was created by governments committed to free market principles, deregulation, and privatisation starting under Margaret Thatcher. This article shows how the drive for research excellence made Thatcher’s Britain into the pioneer of a new kind of intrusively managed university that has since become a global model. Making use of a rich vertical archive and a sophisticated policy literature, it provides a nuanced, empirical, historically grounded corrective to an often polemical debate on the ‘corporatisation’ or ‘neoliberalisation’ of higher learning over the past forty years. It should be of interest not merely to historians of higher education, but to anyone who views with concern the metrification of university performance in Britain and beyond.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2022.2100987
N. Barnett
ABSTRACT This article examines how the activist group Women for Life on Earth (WFLOE) attempted to persuade the USSR to ditch their nuclear weapons. The article finds that WFLOE began a women-led campaign and engaged with unofficial activists and ordinary people in the USSR to lobby the Soviet government to disarm. WFLOE’s fame as ‘Greenham Women’ helped them to publicise their overseas activism and they attempted to challenge predominant representations of peace campaigners in the UK by campaigning against Soviet nuclear weapons. However, this success was limited with the Cold War maintaining primacy for the British press and WFLOE only gaining positive coverage when they caused embarrassment to the Soviets.
{"title":"From Greenham common to red square: women for life on earth and cross-bloc activism in the 1980s","authors":"N. Barnett","doi":"10.1080/13619462.2022.2100987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2022.2100987","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examines how the activist group Women for Life on Earth (WFLOE) attempted to persuade the USSR to ditch their nuclear weapons. The article finds that WFLOE began a women-led campaign and engaged with unofficial activists and ordinary people in the USSR to lobby the Soviet government to disarm. WFLOE’s fame as ‘Greenham Women’ helped them to publicise their overseas activism and they attempted to challenge predominant representations of peace campaigners in the UK by campaigning against Soviet nuclear weapons. However, this success was limited with the Cold War maintaining primacy for the British press and WFLOE only gaining positive coverage when they caused embarrassment to the Soviets.","PeriodicalId":45519,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary British History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48601287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-14DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2022.2088518
D. Renshaw
{"title":"Failed führers: a history of Britain’s extreme right","authors":"D. Renshaw","doi":"10.1080/13619462.2022.2088518","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2022.2088518","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45519,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary British History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43570312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-13DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2022.2088519
Gillian A. M. Mitchell
{"title":"The Beatles and Sixties Britain","authors":"Gillian A. M. Mitchell","doi":"10.1080/13619462.2022.2088519","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2022.2088519","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45519,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary British History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46244368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-13DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2022.2088517
L. Abrams
{"title":"The welfare state generation: women, agency and class in Britain since 1945","authors":"L. Abrams","doi":"10.1080/13619462.2022.2088517","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2022.2088517","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45519,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary British History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42752619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-05-28DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2022.2081549
J. Kirby
ABSTRACT This article examines how stress was used as a means of explaining and understanding the changes that were taking place in large sections of Britain’s workforce during the 1980s and 1990s. By bringing together personal accounts of how people understood and explained the effects of these adjustments on their everyday lives with the popular discourse of stress in the media, I will show how stress became a key means of interpreting the significant social and economic change that was occurring. It also brought about change in both working practices and the ways in which work and well-being were understood by both individual workers and their employers. I will also examine how newspaper reporting of stress suffered by public sector workers, particularly in the NHS and education, revealed the tensions underlying reforms in these areas and will argue that by focusing on worker experience of stress, such reporting effectively drew attention away from the underlying structural changes causing that stress.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-19DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2022.2076078
D. Feather
ABSTRACT In July 1969, the Dryden Society, a University of Cambridge performing arts group, arrived in South Africa for a three month tour. Prior to its departure from the United Kingdom, the group’s decision to break the cultural boycott, imposed in response to apartheid, had already caused significant protest. This article discusses the nature of the campaign to stop the tour, as well as highlighting how the British government became involved. The article also demonstrates how, despite having no official support, the tour should be viewed within the prism of British cultural diplomacy, something the British representatives in South Africa were trying to expand at the time. Additionally, the article also draws attention to the ulterior motives of several members of the touring party, who used the tour as cover to clandestinely film the conditions in which South Africa’s black majority lived on behalf of the Pan-Africanist Congress. This was later used to make the critically acclaimed documentary film End of the Dialogue (known in South Africa by its Zulu name of Phela-ndaba) which drew greater international attention to the plight of black South Africans living under apartheid.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-28DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2022.2070479
J. Hepworth
ABSTRACT Through four thematic sections, this article explains why, from its inception in 1981, the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) espoused ‘unconditional support’ for ‘Irish freedom’, and why this position changed in the 1990s. Illuminating a particularly functional mode of radical solidarity, it argues that British leftists engaged with the Northern Ireland conflict to articulate their revolutionary praxis. Advocating ‘unconditional support’ enabled the RCP to challenge reformism on the British left and nationalism in the labour movement. As the article’s second section demonstrates, such specific left-wing anti-imperialism irked Provisional republican leaders, who demanded a more substantial, inclusive solidarity movement in Britain. The article’s third section elucidates how the Cold War’s denouement from the late 1980s deepened strategic and ideological differences among radicals. Seeking to replicate peace processes in Israel-Palestine and South Africa, Provisional republicans envisaged a negotiated transfer of power in the ‘new world order’. By contrast, lambasting western intervention in the Gulf and the Balkans, RCP theoreticians lamented the ‘moral rearmament of imperialism’. The nascent republican peace strategy of the 1990s conclusively exposed deep-rooted tensions within the RCP’s peculiar solidarity. For disillusioned cadres who had endorsed republicanism only insofar as it threatened the British state, republicanism’s new constitutionalism represented capitulation.
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