1938: Social Change and Visions of the Future

Abstract

"Title Page" -- "Copyright Page" -- "Contents" -- "List of Illustrations" -- "Figures" -- "Tables" -- "Maps" -- "Acknowledgements" -- "Chapter 1: Partial history" -- "Chapter 2: Representations of modern life in 1938" -- "Being modern – speed and size" -- "Newsreels" -- "Cigarette cards" -- "Modern wonders for boys and young men" -- "Material aimed at adults" -- "Conclusion" -- "Chapter 3: Glasgow's Empire Exhibition" -- "Design of the exhibition" -- "Visiting and experiencing the exhibition" -- "Conclusion" -- "Chapter 4: Big-screen televisions and push-button radios" -- "Stages in dissemination" -- "Radio in 1938" -- "Radio broadcasting in 1938" -- "Television in 1938" -- "Television sets" -- "Programmes" -- "Conclusion" -- "Chapter 5: The Adelphi Building" -- "The original Adelphi" -- "The intrusion of the modern world" -- "The development of head offices in Britain" -- "The Adelphi Building" -- "Conclusion" -- "Chapter 6: Picture Post – The modernity of everyday life" -- "The origins of Picture Post" -- "The look and content of Picture Post" -- "Celebrity culture in 1930s Britain" -- "Other 1930s ordinariness" -- "Ordinariness and democratization" -- "Conclusion" -- "Chapter 7: Cars, coaches and charabancs at the Prospect Inn" -- "The growing popularity and luxury of charabancs and motor coaches" -- "Entertaining the charabanc tripper" -- "The halfway house" -- "New arterial roads and the Prospect Inn" -- "Charabancs and class separation" -- "Providing for the respectable working-class drinker" -- "Conclusion" -- "Chapter 8: Britain's new airports" -- "Interwar aviation and public admiration" -- "Interwar aviation and passenger travel" -- "Networks" -- "Conclusion" -- "Chapter 9: Conclusion" -- "Class and wealth" -- "Americanization" -- "Consumption" -- "Network development" -- "Urban formation" -- "In summary" -- "Notes