Civilizing the urban: popular culture and public space in Merthyr, c.1870 - 1914
In: Studies in Welsh history 17
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In: Studies in Welsh history 17
In: Family & community history: journal of the Family and Community Historical Research Society, Volume 20, Issue 2, p. 121-144
ISSN: 1751-3812
In: Social history, Volume 40, Issue 1, p. 115-117
ISSN: 1470-1200
In: International review of social history, Volume 56, Issue 1, p. 103-131
ISSN: 1469-512X
SummaryBy the late nineteenth century, the hungry increasingly found themselves constructed as objects of compassion. However, there were real limits to the "humanitarian discovery of hunger". Not every famished body was understood as deserving of sympathy. Compassionate citizens were particularly troubled by the mass distress that often accompanied lengthy strikes. How should they respond to such hunger? A study of newspaper representations of strike-induced hunger reveals that a gendered discourse evolved which repeatedly concentrated attention on the starving "innocents": the wives and children of male strikers. The discourse was apparently apolitical but, in truth, it was nothing of the sort. It adjudged the "innocents" worthy recipients of food aid, whilst frequently ignoring the hunger of the striking male and denying him support. Labour leaders had to choose their words carefully if they were to get his suffering recognized.
In: Labour history review, Volume 72, Issue 1, p. 49-68
ISSN: 1745-8188
In: Urban history, Volume 30, Issue 2, p. 266-275
ISSN: 1469-8706
For as historians are compelled to grind out their specified quota of specialized articles and inaccessible monographs, which are at best read only by a handful of professional colleagues, and are at worst almost completely ignored, this makes them less and less able to fulfil that essential public function which remains their real and abiding justification: satisfying the interest and furthering the comprehension of that broader, non-professional audience memorably described by Hugh Trevor-Roper as 'the laity' (David Cannadine, 1999).
In: Journal of contemporary history, Volume 38, Issue 2, p. 323-332
ISSN: 1461-7250
In: Mitteilungsblatt des Instituts für Soziale Bewegungen, Issue 27, p. 137-152
Im Laufe der 90er Jahre gewannen auch in der Geschichtsschreibung der Arbeiterbewegung durch den Zerfall der "klassischen" Klassengesellschaft zunehmend Dimensionen und Identitäten wie Geschlecht, Religion, Ethnizität/Rasse und soziale Lebensstile an Bedeutung. Der vorliegende Beitrag führt diese Entwicklung auf die Einflüsse des Postmodernismus zurück. Dennoch hält sich dieser Einfluss bei den britischen Historikern in Grenzen, da wenige bereit sind, den radikalen Kern des Postmodernismus - die gesellschaftliche und symbolische Konstruktion der Wirklichkeit durch Sprache und Diskurse - zu übernehmen. Die Rezeption teilt jedoch die Annahme, dass Sprache nicht nur ein Spiegel der gesellschaftlichen Wirklichkeit ist. Die Sprache modifiziert und transformiert Realität; sie kann sie jedoch nicht aus dem Nichts heraus schaffen. Diese vorsichtige Aneignung des Postmodernismus hat auch in der Geschichtswissenschaft Großbritanniens zum spezifischen Ansatz des "cultural turn" in den Sozialwissenschaften geführt. (ICA)
In: Llafur: journal of Welsh people's history, Volume 8, Issue 1, p. 5-18
ISSN: 0306-0837
In: Social history, Volume 24, Issue 3, p. 250-268
ISSN: 1470-1200