People, places and identities

This book of essays on British social and cultural history since the eighteenth century draws attention to relatively neglected topics including personal and collective identities, the meanings of place, especially locality, and the significance of cultures of association. Themes range from rural England in the eighteenth century to the urbanizing society of the nineteenth century; from the Home Front in the First World War to voluntary action in the welfare state; from post 1945 civic culture to the advice columns of teenage magazines and the national press. Various aspects of civil society connect these themes notably: the different identities of place, locality and association that emerged with the growth of an urban environment during the nineteenth century and the shifting landscape of twentieth-century public discourse on social welfare and personal morality. It is of interest that several of the essays take Manchester or Lancashire as their focus.

Auteur
Alan Kidd is Emeritus Professor of History at Manchester Metropolitan University Melanie Tebbutt is Professor of History at Manchester Metropolitan University

Contenu
Introduction - Alan Kidd and Melanie Tebbutt1. Administrative practices and the 'middling sort': place, practice and identity in eighteenth-century rural England - Alistair Mutch2. Local history enthusiasts: English county historical societies since the nineteenth century - Alan Kidd3. Memorial mania: remembering and forgetting Sir Robert Peel - Terry Wyke4. Fifty years ahead of its time? The provident dispensaries movement in Manchester, 1871-85 - Martin Hewitt5. Daddy, what did you find to laugh about in the Great War? The cotton cartoons of Sam Fitton - Alan Fowler6. Voluntary action in the 'welfare state': the National Council for the Unmarried Mother and Her Child - Pat Thane7. The continuing tradition of civic pride: municipal culture in post-war Manchester - Peter Shapely8. From 'marriage bureau' to 'points of view': changing patterns of advice in teenage magazines: Mirabelle, 1956-77 - Melanie Tebbutt9. 'Hoping you'll give me some guidance about this thing called money': the Daily Mirror and personal finance, c. 1960-81 - Dilwyn PorterIndex