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Politics of the Past

David Cowan

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  • 300 sidor
  • 2024
The inter-war period (1918-1939) is still remembered as a period of mass deprivation - the 'hungry thirties'. But how did this impression emerge? Thousands of conversations about life in the inter-war period - between parents and children around the dinner table; among workmates at the pub - shaped these understandings. In turn, these fed into popular politics. Stories about the embryonic welfare system in the early-twentieth century informed how people felt towards the National Health Service; memories of the Great Depression shaped arguments about state intervention in the economy. Challenging accounts of widespread political disengagement in the twentieth century, Politics of the Past shows how re-telling family stories about the inter-war period offered ordinary people an accessible way of engaging in politics. Drawing on six local case studies across Scotland and England, this book explains how stories about the inter-war working-class experience in industrial areas came to appear commonplace nationwide.
  • Författare: David Cowan
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9781009340281
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 300
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2024-04-11
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press