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Book SynopsisA timely and original collection of essays on identity, place and culture of association, that captures the cultural meanings of British political and civic life from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.
Trade Review‘This collection is a fitting tribute to a greatly respected social historian who has done much to bring history outside the walls of the academy.’
Alan Fowler, North West Labour History Society
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Table of ContentsIntroduction - Alan Kidd and Melanie Tebbutt
1. Administrative practices and the 'middling sort': place, practice and identity in eighteenth-century rural England - Alistair Mutch
2. Local history enthusiasts: English county historical societies since the nineteenth century - Alan Kidd
3. Memorial mania: remembering and forgetting Sir Robert Peel - Terry Wyke
4. Fifty years ahead of its time? The provident dispensaries movement in Manchester, 1871-85 - Martin Hewitt
5. Daddy, what did you find to laugh about in the Great War? The cotton cartoons of Sam Fitton - Alan Fowler
6. Voluntary action in the 'welfare state': the National Council for the Unmarried Mother and Her Child - Pat Thane
7. The continuing tradition of civic pride: municipal culture in post-war Manchester - Peter Shapely
8. From 'marriage bureau' to 'points of view': changing patterns of advice in teenage magazines: Mirabelle, 1956-77 - Melanie Tebbutt
9. 'Hoping you'll give me some guidance about this thing called money': the Daily Mirror and personal finance, c. 1960-81 - Dilwyn Porter
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