Leisure In Post War Britain
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Author |
: Stuart Hylton |
Publisher |
: Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages |
: 340 |
Release |
: 2012-12-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781445629209 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1445629208 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis Leisure in Post-War Britain by : Stuart Hylton
A nostalgic look at the Brits at play from the end of the war to the present.
Author |
: Peter Catterall |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 226 |
Release |
: 2002-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134837946 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134837941 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis Understanding Post-War British Society by : Peter Catterall
Brings together the perspectives of leading sociologists and social historians to understand the shaping of British society. An illuminating Bnd comprehensive account of post-war British History.
Author |
: Mark Jackson |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 268 |
Release |
: 2016-12-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317318040 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317318048 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis Stress in Post-War Britain, 1945–85 by : Mark Jackson
In the years following World War II the health and well-being of the nation was of primary concern to the British government. The essays in this collection examine the relationship between health and stress in post-war Britain through a series of carefully connected case studies.
Author |
: Robert Snape |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 2018-04-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781350003033 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1350003034 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Leisure, Voluntary Action and Social Change in Britain, 1880-1939 by : Robert Snape
In the final decades of the nineteenth century modernizing interpretations of leisure became of interest to social policy makers and cultural critics, producing a discourse of leisure and voluntarism that flourished until the Second World War. The free time of British citizens was increasingly seen as a sphere of social citizenship and community-building. Through major social thinkers, including William Morris, Thomas Hill Green, Bernard Bosanquet and John Hobson, leisure and voluntarism were theorized in terms of the good society. In post-First World War social reconstruction these writers remained influential as leisure became a field of social service, directed towards a new society and working through voluntary association in civic societies, settlements, new estate community-centres, village halls and church-based communities. This volume documents the parallel cultural shift from charitable philanthropy to social service and from rational recreation to leisure, teasing out intellectual influences which included social idealism, liberalism and socialism. Leisure, Robert Snape claims, has been a central and under-recognized organizing force in British communities. Leisure, Voluntary Action and Social Change in Britain, 1880-1939 marks a much needed addition to the historiography of leisure and an antidote to the widely misunderstood implications of leisure to social policy today.
Author |
: Glen O'Hara |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 316 |
Release |
: 2017-05-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781137446404 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1137446404 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Politics of Water in Post-War Britain by : Glen O'Hara
This is the first book to cover the British people’s late twentieth century engagement with water in all its domestic, national and international forms, and from bathing and household chores to controversies about maritime pollution. The British Isles, a relatively wet and rainy archipelago, cannot in any way be said to be short of liquid resources. Even so, it was the site of highly contentious and revealing political controversies over the meaning and use of water after the Second World War. A series of such issues divided political parties, pressure groups, government and voters, and form the subject matter of this book: problems as diverse as flood defence to river and beach cleanliness, from the teaching of swimming to the installation of hot and cold running water in the home, from international controls over maritime pollution, and from the different housework duties of men and women to the British state’s proposals to fluoridise the drinking water supply.
Author |
: Geraldine Biddle-Perry |
Publisher |
: I.B. Tauris |
Total Pages |
: 224 |
Release |
: 2017-05-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1780766289 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781780766287 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dressing for Austerity by : Geraldine Biddle-Perry
A new look for Austerity...The coldest winter on record, rationing, successive economic crises, bombed out towns and cities; with some justification 'Austerity Britain' in the late 1940s is coloured in the popular imagination in tones of drab. Dressing for Austerity shines a light on alternative visions of post-war optimism and aspiration. It traces how, set against the Labour government's philosophy of 'Austerity by design' in a climate of post-war idealism, the desire for affordable fashionable clothing, access to leisure, and the health, time and money to enjoy them became totemic symbols of post-war ambition that impelled new strategies of state control and consumer agency. The book examines the immediate post-war period - its politics, its fashions and its people - in new ways and on its own terms as a critical tipping point in the making of modern Britain.
Author |
: Visiting Senior Fellow Department of Psychology Nicky Hayes |
Publisher |
: Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages |
: 364 |
Release |
: 1999-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0853237638 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780853237631 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Millions Like Us'? by : Visiting Senior Fellow Department of Psychology Nicky Hayes
This collection of essays brings together the latest historical research on cultural production and reception during the Second World War. It covers the way in which cultural provision was viewed by the labour movement and industry.
Author |
: Paul Addison |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 600 |
Release |
: 2008-04-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781405141406 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1405141409 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Companion to Contemporary Britain 1939 - 2000 by : Paul Addison
A Companion to Contemporary Britain covers the key themesand debates of 20th-century history from the outbreak of the SecondWorld War to the end of the century. Assesses the impact of the Second World War Looks at Britain’s role in the wider world, including thelegacy of Empire, Britain’s ‘specialrelationship’ with the United States, and integration withcontinental Europe Explores cultural issues, such as class consciousness,immigration and race relations, changing gender roles, and theimpact of the mass media Covers domestic politics and the economy Introduces the varied perspectives dominating historicalwriting on this period Identifies the key issues which are likely to fuel futuredebate
Author |
: Utsa Mukherjee |
Publisher |
: Policy Press |
Total Pages |
: 182 |
Release |
: 2022-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781529219517 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1529219515 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis Race, Class, Parenting and Children's Leisure by : Utsa Mukherjee
Children's leisure lives are changing, with increasing dominance of organised activities and screen-based leisure. These shifts have reconfigured parenting practices, too. However, our current understandings of these processes are race-blind and based mostly on the experiences of white middle-class families. Drawing on an innovative study of middle-class British Indian families, this book brings children's and parents' voices to the forefront and bridges childhood studies, family studies and leisure studies to theorise children's leisure from a fresh perspective. Demonstrating the salience of both race and class in shaping leisure cultures within middle-class racialised families, this is an invaluable contribution to key sociological debates around leisure, childhoods and parenting ideologies.
Author |
: Sian Edwards |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 307 |
Release |
: 2017-11-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783319651576 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3319651579 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis Youth Movements, Citizenship and the English Countryside by : Sian Edwards
This book explores the significance and meaning of the countryside within mid-twentieth century youth movements. It examines the ways in which the Boy Scouts, Girl Guides, Woodcraft Folk and Young Farmers’ Club organisations employed the countryside as a space within which ‘good citizenship’ – in leisure, work, the home and the community – could be developed. Mid-century youth movements identified the ‘problem’ of modern youth as a predominantly urban and working class issue. They held that the countryside offered an effective antidote to these problems: being a ‘good citizen’ within this context necessitated a respectful and mutually beneficial relationship with the rural sphere. Avenues to good citizenship could be found through an enthusiasm for outdoor recreation, the stewardship of the countryside and work on the land. However, models of good citizenship were intrinsically gendered.