Informationen zum Autor Lynn Abrams is Professor of Modern History and Head of the School of Humanities at the University of Glasgow. She has published widely on Scottish gender history and was convenor of Women's History Scotland 2008-13. Her many publications include Oral History Theory (2010), Myth and Materiality in a Woman's World: Shetland 1800-2000 (2005) and Gender in Scottish History Since 1700 (2006). Callum G. Brown is Professor of Religious and Cultural History at the University of Dundee. He is a past editor of the Journal of Scottish Historical Studies. Klappentext Over the twentieth century Scots' lives changed in fast, dramatic and culturally significant ways. By examining their bodies, homes, working lives, rituals, beliefs and consumption, this volume exposes how the very substance of everyday life was composed, tracing both the intimate and the mass changes that the people endured. Using novel perspectives and methods, chapters range across the experiences of work, art and death, the way Scots conceived of themselves and their homes, and the way the 'old Scotland' of oppressive community rules broke down from mid-century as the country reinvented its everyday life and culture. This volume brings together leading cultural historians of twentieth-century Scotland to study the apparently mundane activities of people's lives, traversing the key spaces where daily experience is composed to expose the controversial personal and national politics that ritual and practice can generate. Key features: Contains an overview of the material changes experienced by Scots in their everyday lives during the course of the centuryFocuses on some of the key areas of change in everyday experience, from the way Scots spent their Sundays to the homes in which they lived, from the work they undertook to the culture they consumed and eventually the way they diedPays particular attention to identity as well as experience Zusammenfassung In this book leading cultural historians come together to examine how the daily activities of Scottish people reflected a constant re-construction of culture! religion! ideology and identity between 1900 and 2000. ...

Klappentext

Over the twentieth century Scots' lives changed in fast, dramatic and culturally significant ways. By examining their bodies, homes, working lives, rituals, beliefs and consumption, this volume exposes how the very substance of everyday life was composed, tracing both the intimate and the mass changes that the people endured. Using novel perspectives and methods, chapters range across the experiences of work, art and death, the way Scots conceived of themselves and their homes, and the way the 'old Scotland' of oppressive community rules broke down from mid-century as the country reinvented its everyday life and culture.

This volume brings together leading cultural historians of twentieth-century Scotland to study the apparently mundane activities of people's lives, traversing the key spaces where daily experience is composed to expose the controversial personal and national politics that ritual and practice can generate.

Key features:

• Contains an overview of the material changes experienced by Scots in their everyday lives during the course of the century
• Focuses on some of the key areas of change in everyday experience, from the way Scots spent their Sundays to the homes in which they lived, from the work they undertook to the culture they consumed and eventually the way they died

• Pays particular attention to identity as well as experience

  Zusammenfassung
  In this book leading cultural historians come together to examine how the daily activities of Scottish people reflected a constant re-construction of culture, religion, ideology and identity between 1900 and 2000.

  Inhalt

  Chapter 1, Lynn Abrams and Callum G. Brown, Introduction; Chapter 2: Callum G. Brown, Charting everyday experience; Chapter 3: Lynn Abrams and Linda Fleming, From scullery to conservatory: everyday life in the Scottish home; Chapter 4: Lynn Jamieson, Changing intimacy in the twentieth century: seeking and forming couple relationships; Chapter 5: Arthur McIvor, The realities and narratives of paid work: the Scottish workplace in the twentieth century; Chapter 6: Hilary Young, Being a man: everyday masculinities in twentieth-century Scotland; Chapter 7: Callum G. Brown, Spectacle, restraint and the twentieth-century Sabbath wars: the 'everyday' Scottish Sunday; Chapter 8: Steven Sutcliffe, After 'the religion of my fathers': the quest for composure in the 'post-presbyterian' self; Chapter 9: Angela Bartie, Culture in the everyday: art and society in twentieth-century Scotland; Chapter 10: John Stewart, Sickness and health in twentieth-century Scotland; Chapter 11: E.W. McFarland, Passing time: death in twentieth-century Scotland.