Youth in Britain Since 1945
Author : Bill Osgerby
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,80 MB
Release : 1996
Category :
ISBN :
Youth in Britain
Author : William Osgerby
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 33,53 MB
Release : 1998-02-11
Category :
ISBN : 9780631194767
Book Description
This is a lively account of post-war British youth, combining history, theory and debate. It examines the emergence of youth as a social category which came to embody the hopes and fears of British society in the decades after 1945.
Britain Since 1945
Author : Jonathan Hollowell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 26,84 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0470758171
Book Description
This book offers a comprehensive overview of Britain's development since the end of the Second World War. It comprises 23 contributions from leading authorities and newer scholars, set in context with a foreword by Raymond Seitz. A comprehensive and fascinating introduction to Britain from the end of the Second World War Draws together the themes that have dominated discussion amongst scholars and media commentators The chapters are set in context with a foreword by Raymond Seitz Covers topics such as foreigh policy, political parties, the media, race relations, women and social change, science and IT, culture, industrial relations, the welfare state, and political and economic issues in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
Youth Culture in Modern Britain, c.1920-c.1970
Author : David Fowler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,36 MB
Release : 2008-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1137045701
Book Description
This book traces the history of youth culture from its origins among the student communities of inter-war Britain to the more familiar world of youth communities and pop culture. Grounded in extensive original research, it explores the individuals, institutions and ideas that have shaped youth culture over much of the twentieth century.
Britain Since 1945
Author : Terence Richard Gourvish
Publisher :
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 26,75 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Book Description
This volume gathers together contributions from a number of recognised experts and provides fresh insights into the connection between economic performance and socio-political change since the Second World War. It gives political evaluations of the Conservative and Labour parties and analyses the changing attitudes to their responsibilities: the welfare state, trade unions, housing, defence, education and nationalised industries for example. Concluding with an assessment of pop music and youth culture, the book spans the political, social and economic changes which have defined Britain since 1945.
Britain Since 1945
Author : Kenneth O. Morgan
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 1672 pages
File Size : 44,32 MB
Release : 2001-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0191647152
Book Description
Britain since 1945: The People's Peace is the first comprehensive study by a professional historian of British history from 1945 to the present day. It examines the transformation of post-war Britain from the planning enthusiasm of 1945 to the rise of New Labour. Its themes include the troubles of the British economy; public criticism of the legitimacy of the state and its instruments of authority; the co-existence of growing personal prosperity with widespread social inequality; and the debates aroused by decolonization, and Britain's relationship to the Commonwealth, the US and Europe. Changes in cultural life, from the puritanical 'austerity' of the 1940's, through the 'permissiveness' of the 1960s, to the tensions and achievements of recent years are also charted. Using a wide variety of sources, including the records of political parties and the most recently released documents from the Public Records Office, Kenneth Morgan brings the story right up to date and draws comparisons with the post-war history of other nations. This penetrating analysis by a leading twentieth-century historian will prove invaluable to anyone interested in the development of the Britain of today.
Juke Box Britain
Author : Adrian Horn
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 20,86 MB
Release : 2011-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780719083662
Book Description
British teenagers witnessed immense cultural change in the period following the second world war. There were fewer than 100 juke boxes in Britain in 1945 and over 15,000 by 1958. Over the same period, there was a similar unprecedented expansion of casual youth venues in the form of cafés, snack, milk, and coffee bars where young people could hear the sounds of hot American jazz and rock 'n' roll. It has been a common assumption among academics and cultural historians alike that British youth between 1945 and 1960 underwent a period of massive "Americanization."Juke Box Britain contests this view, maintaining that American popular-cultural influences were not examples of cultural domination but simply influences that combined with existing styles to create distinctly British style fusions. Juke Box Britain is suitable for students of cultural, social, and design histories, as well as cultural studies, providing fascinating reading for youth culture and juke box enthusiasts.
Making Youth: A History of Youth in Modern Britain
Author : Melanie Tebbutt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 45,19 MB
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1137604158
Book Description
This new study explores how British youth was made, and how it made itself, over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Urbanisation and industrialisation brought challenges that altered how young people were both perceived and understood. As adults found it difficult to comprehend the rapidity of societal change, focus on the young intensified, and they became a symbol of uncertainty about the future. Highlighting both change and striking continuity, Melanie Tebbutt traces the origins and development of key themes and debates in the history of modern British youth. Current issues such as the ageing of western societies, high levels of youth unemployment and the potential for social and political unrest make this a timely study.
Youth Culture and the Post-war British Novel
Author : Stephen Ross
Publisher :
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 32,73 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Conflict of generations in literature
ISBN : 9781350067899
Book Description
"From the Teddy Boys of the post-war decade to the heroin chic of "Cool Britannia," the many subcultures of Britain's teenagers have often been at the forefront of social change. Youth Culture and the Post-War British Novel is the first book to chart that history through the work of some of the most influential contemporary British writers. In this vivid work of cultural history, Stephen Ross explores: The manic teenage vision of Absolute Beginners The Angry Young Men of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Skinheads and Burgess's A Clockwork Orange Irony and authenticity in the 1980s - from Amis to Kureishi Heroin chic, disaffection and Trainspotting Examining the cultural contexts of some of the most important and popular post-1945 British novels, the book covers such themes as crises of masculinity, multiculturalism and inter-generational conflict, and in doing so casts new light on British writing today."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
London’s Working-Class Youth and the Making of Post-Victorian Britain, 1958–1971
Author : Felix Fuhg
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 19,6 MB
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 3030689689
Book Description
This book examines the emergence of modern working-class youth culture through the perspective of an urban history of post-war Britain, with a particular focus on the influence of young people and their culture on Britain’s self-image as a country emerging from the constraints of its post-Victorian, imperial past. Each section of the book – Society, City, Pop, and Space – considers in detail the ways in which working-class youth culture corresponded with a fast-changing metropolitan and urban society in the years following the decline of the British Empire. Was teenage culture rooted in the urban experience and the transformation of working-class neighbourhoods? Did youth subcultures emerge simply as a reaction to Britain's changing racial demographic? To what extent did leisure venues and institutions function as laboratories for a developing British pop culture, which ultimately helped Britain re-establish its prominence on the world stage? These questions and more are answered in this book.
