A wide-ranging study of the postwar experience in Britain, covering historical change in the aspects of social life, and the artisitic imagination in popular music, film and the visual arts.
To the British soldiers of the Great War who heard about it, "shell shock" was uncanny, amusing and sad. To those who experienced it, the condition was shameful, unjustly stigmatized and life changing. This study of the British "shell shocked" soldiers of the Great War combines social and medical history to investigate the experience of ...
"The British Migrant Experience 1700-2000" is a wide-ranging collection of first-person accounts, together with introductory essays, capturing varied aspects of the British migrant story from the 18th-20th centuries. Building on recent interest in the social, psychological and historical aspects of population movement within and into mainland ...
Based on the work of the Economic and Social Research Council at the London School of Economics, this volume deals with the private papers of prominent individuals who have been active and influencial in British politics and public life since 1945. It represents a compact guide to the surviving papers of over 1200 individuals, including people ...
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