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Twentieth Century British History
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Hybrid journal (It can contain Open Access articles)
ISSN (Print) 0955-2359 - ISSN (Online) 1477-4674
Published by Oxford University Press

[419 journals]

Decolonizing Britain: An Exchange
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  Authors: Linstrum E; Ward S, Ogle V, et al.
  Pages: 274 - 303
  Abstract: AbstractBeginning in January 2021, Twentieth Century British History asked a group of scholars to reflect on what decolonization means to the field of British history. Twentieth Century British History co-editor Erik Linstrum (University of Virginia) posed questions over email for three rounds of discussion which concluded in December 2021. Stuart Ward (University of Copenhagen), Vanessa Ogle (University of California, Berkeley), and Saima Nasar (University of Bristol) took part. Priyamvada Gopal (Cambridge University) offered a final comment from the perspective of postcolonial studies. Contributions have been lightly edited but the relatively conversational style and flow of ideas in the original exchange have been preserved.
  PubDate: Thu, 12 May 2022 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwac018
  Issue No: Vol. 33, No. 2 (2022)
The ‘Curious Effects’ of Acting: Homosexuality, Theatre and Female
Impersonation at the University of Cambridge, 1900–39
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  Authors: Janes D.
  Pages: 169 - 202
  Abstract: AbstractThe University of Cambridge educated a significant proportion of Britain’s elite in the early twentieth century. The homosocial environment of the colleges was similar in many ways to that of the single-sex public boarding schools which many of the undergraduates had attended. Student theatre was a popular activity, and because such shows were acted by single-sex ensembles, there was a strong tradition of female impersonation on stage. The interwar diaries of Cecil Beaton, who identified privately as a homosexual man, provide an unusually detailed source of information about a period when sexual controversy began to surround theatrical cross-dressing. In the 1930s, when moves were made to open previously men-only university drama clubs to women, the issue of male homosexuality and its alleged connections with student theatre came to be widely discussed. This reflected significant changes in the ways in which queerness was accommodated within the predominantly male environment of the University.
  PubDate: Wed, 10 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwab036
  Issue No: Vol. 33, No. 2 (2021)
Waiting for the Doctor: Managing Time and Emotion in the British National
Health Service, 1948–80
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  Authors: Moore M.
  Pages: 203 - 229
  Abstract: AbstractThis article examines patients’ and doctors’ emotional and psychological entanglements with the development of appointment systems in British general practice between the 1948 and 1980. Waiting, especially in the form of the queue, has been subject to recent historical analyses. However, the focus has often been on negative emotional responses, on how waiting has been politicized, and on the disciplinary power of the waiting room. Frameworks of rationalization and discipline have also dominated historical and sociological assessments of temporal regulation, and especially the rise of standardized, ordered, clock and calendar time that appointments embodied. Though productive, focusing too closely on these processes in relation to time and waiting risks underplaying the complex affective life of regulatory technologies, for both their operators and their subjects. By focusing tightly on how myriad, often contradictory, responses to appointment systems operated within the setting of post-war general practice, this article looks to place such emotional and psychological relations in historical context. In so doing, it develops recent work on the emotional history of the National Health Service and, by extension, of the diverse affective and temporal modes of the British welfare state.
  PubDate: Tue, 14 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwab040
  Issue No: Vol. 33, No. 2 (2021)
The Flapper of Ur: Archaeology and the Image of the Young Woman in
Inter-war Britain
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  Authors: Maloigne H.
  Pages: 230 - 253
  Abstract: AbstractThis article explores how inter-war ideas about the ‘flapper’ and the place of women in modern society interacted with archaeological discoveries. Looking at how the discovery of the Royal Cemetery of Ur in Iraq (excavated from 1922 to 1934) was reported in the British daily and weekly press demonstrates the popularity of archaeological reporting in inter-war newspapers and magazines and its influence on public debates. The article uses approaches from media history and gender studies to study textual as well as visual material such as cartoons, photographs and archaeological reconstructions created to bring readers the news from the past. It explores how archaeology informed contemporary stereotypes of young women as characteristically irrational and emotional and how his overlapped with similar traits perceived to be typical of the ‘Oriental’ races and lower-middle and working classes.
  PubDate: Fri, 24 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwab041
  Issue No: Vol. 33, No. 2 (2021)
A Simple and Rather Tender Thing' Laurence Housman’s Victoria Regina
in 1930s Britain and America
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  Authors: Chernock A.
  Pages: 254 - 273
  Abstract: AbstractFrom 1935 to 1939, audiences on both sides of the Atlantic thronged theatres to see Laurence Housman’s play Victoria Regina, a series of vignettes about the life of Queen Victoria. Those unable to purchase tickets were able to read about the show in magazines and newspapers, listen to a radio production, and purchase clothing and home furnishings that reflected the revival of interest in the Victorian era. Yet to the extent that scholars have discussed this incredibly popular play and the Victorian revival that it spawned, they tend to ascribe its success to a nostalgic impulse, or what Alison Light has described as the phenomenon of ‘conservative modernity’. This article reframes Victoria Regina, by treating it as a site of provocation and meaning-making in a charged transatlantic context. As I show, Housman (1865–1959)—a free speech advocate, Quaker pacifist, committed internationalist, anti-imperialist, feminist, and nascent gay rights activist—wanted to use Victoria to goad, intentionally so. His Victoria may have been romantic and feminine, but she was still intended as a vehicle of dissent. Housman wrote Victoria Regina primarily to protest censorship laws in Britain, but also to provide a more woman-centered version of the nation’s past, and to promote conciliation over the conflict between Germany and Britain. It was in its capacity as a cultural bridge between the UK and the USA, however, that Victoria Regina ended up making its most sizeable impact. This article thus offers an important meditation not only on the relationship between theatre and politics in the interwar period but also on the Victorian inheritance and its continuing and sometimes surprising applications in the twentieth century—especially in facilitating the Anglo-American ‘special relationship’.
  PubDate: Fri, 24 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwab042
  Issue No: Vol. 33, No. 2 (2021)
Lessons from the British and French New Towns: Paradise Lost' Edited
by David Fée Sabine Coady Schäbitz and Bob Colenutt
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  Authors: Demetrius A.
  Pages: 304 - 306
  Abstract: Lessons from the British and French New Towns: Paradise Lost' Edited by FéeDavidSchäbitzSabine CoadyColenuttBob. Emerald Publishing, Bingley, 2021. 226pp. ISBN 978-1-83909-431-6, £70.
  PubDate: Mon, 31 May 2021 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwab010
  Issue No: Vol. 33, No. 2 (2021)
Popular Conservatism and the Culture of National Government in Inter-War
Britain. By Geraint Thomas
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  Authors: Day C.
  Pages: 306 - 308
  Abstract: Popular Conservatism and the Culture of National Government in Inter-War Britain. By ThomasGeraint. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2020. Xii + 360pp. ISBN 978-1-10848312-4, £75.
  PubDate: Mon, 09 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwab026
  Issue No: Vol. 33, No. 2 (2021)
English Radicalism in the Twentieth Century: A Distinctive Politics'
By Richard Taylor
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  Authors: Steer A.
  Pages: 308 - 310
  Abstract: English Radicalism in the Twentieth Century: A Distinctive Politics' By TaylorRichard. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2020. 280 pp. ISBN 978-1-5261-5496-5, £25.
  PubDate: Fri, 13 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwab018
  Issue No: Vol. 33, No. 2 (2021)
Brothers in the Great War: Siblings, Masculinity and Emotions. By Linda
Maynard
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  Authors: Wood J.
  Pages: 311 - 313
  Abstract: Brothers in the Great War: Siblings, Masculinity and Emotions. By MaynardLinda. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2020. x + 312 pp. ISBN: 978-1-5261-4614-4 (hardback), £80
  PubDate: Fri, 13 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwab024
  Issue No: Vol. 33, No. 2 (2021)
Imperial Encore: The Cultural Project of the Late British Empire. By
Caroline Ritter
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  Authors: Schumacher Bethke A.
  Pages: 313 - 315
  Abstract: Imperial Encore: The Cultural Project of the Late British Empire. By RitterCaroline. University of California Press, Oakland, 2021. 276 pp. ISBN 9780520375949, £27.00.
  PubDate: Mon, 06 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwab025
  Issue No: Vol. 33, No. 2 (2021)
Coal Country: The Meaning and Memory of Deindustrialization in Postwar
Scotland. By Ewan Gibbs
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  Authors: Beebee M.
  Pages: 315 - 318
  Abstract: Coal Country: The Meaning and Memory of Deindustrialization in Postwar Scotland. By GibbsEwan. University of London Press, London (New Historical Perspectives), 2021. x + 306pp. ISBN 978-1-912702-54-1, £40 (hardback); 978-1-912702-55-8, £25 (paperback); 978-1-912702-58-9, Free (PDF edition).
  PubDate: Thu, 21 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMT
  DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwab033
  Issue No: Vol. 33, No. 2 (2021)