Laura Carter (Lecturer in British Hist Lecturer in British History

Histories of Everyday Life

The Making of Popular Social History in Britain, 1918-1979

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is a social history of popular history in Britain between the end of the First World War and the 1970s. It considers how ordinary people were taught history through books, in school and museums, and on BBC radio.

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Produktdetails

• The Past and Present Book Series
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 157mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 460g
• ISBN-13: 9780198902058
• ISBN-10: 0198902050
• Artikelnr.: 69117693

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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