Editorial: Oxford University Press
Colección: The Past and Present Book Series
Número de páginas: 288 págs. 23.4 x 15.6 cm
Fecha de edición: 02-02-2024
EAN: 9780198902058
ISBN: 978-0-19-890205-8
Precio (sin IVA): 33,43 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 34,77 €
This work is a study of the production and consumption of popular social history in mid-twentieth century Britain. It explores how non-academic historians, many of them women, developed a new breed of social history after the First World War, identified as the 'history of everyday life'. After tracing its development and dissemination between the 1920s and the 1960s, this book argues that 'history of everyday life' declined in the 1970s not because academics invented an alternative 'new' social history, but because bottom-up social change rendered this form of popular social history untenable in the changing context of mass education.