The Genesis of Modern British Town Planning: A Study in Economic and Social History of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. By William Ashworth. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1954. Pp. 259, 21s.

1956 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-271
Author(s):  
Eric E. Lampard
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Town Planning ◽  
History Of ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries

Heroes and Villains: Making Sense of the History of Psychiatry

2005 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 408-411 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Berks
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
History Of Psychiatry ◽  
Psychiatric History ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
History Of ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries

Objective: To review two seemingly contradictory accounts of the history of psychiatrists and psychiatry and outline some thoughts on integrating these differing views. Method: The context of these two accounts is given in a brief overview of the historiography of medicine and psychiatry in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with illustrative examples, in particular looking at the practically useful distinction between the traditional and social history of psychiatry. Conclusions: nderstanding how and why these two currents of psychiatric history differ allows one to derive and integrate useful insights from both.

What has happened to French social history?

1992 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 671-679 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antoine Prost
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries

This paper deals with the history of French social history. Social history was not created once and for all; it is an historical construction; it had a beginning and may come to an end. Hence, its history may be written. However, two preliminary qualifications are needed. I shall not comment on ancient or medieval social history, but on the only social history which I know a little, that of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Secondly, for the same reason, I shall only discuss French social history written by French historians.

scholarly journals Knocker Ups: A Social History of Waking Up in Victorian Britain’s Industrial Towns

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 331-348
Author(s):  
Arunima Datta
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Social History ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Primary Industry ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
History Of ◽  
Broad Variety ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
Waking Up

Abstract This paper examines the everyday history of one of the groups of auxiliary workers in industrial towns of Britain during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Drawing primarily from journal and newspaper records, this paper examines the work of knocker ups and the ways in which they became intimately tied to the lives of industries and primary industry workers. The paper then focuses on how knocker ups became highly influential in industrial towns through the multifarious jobs they performed – sometimes knowingly and sometimes less consciously. In so doing, this paper challenges the prevailing notion that auxiliaries merely served their primary clients by waking them up, and re-visualizes the position of knocker ups in industrial towns not as mere auxiliaries but as crucial contributors to social, political and economic life as well as partners in law enforcement in a broad variety of circumstances. The findings suggest a need to revise long-standing views of labour in industrial Britain.

Current trends in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish urban history

Urban History ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN K. WALTON
Keyword(s):  
Urban History ◽  
Town Planning ◽  
History Teaching ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
History Of ◽  
Urban Transformations ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
The City

It is now several years since José Luis Oyón presented an overview of recent trends in Spanish urban history, and this article seeks to communicate a sense of developments in the field since the mid-1990s, dealing with publications covering the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: ‘contemporary’ rather than ‘modern’ history, in Spanish terminology. The question of what constitutes ‘urban history’ in Spain remains problematic, in the absence of a ‘Dyos phenomenon’, a distinctive urban history teaching enterprise and a sustained and successful dedicated journal. Four annual issues of Historia Urbana, a ‘review of the history of ideas and of urban transformations’, appeared in the mid-1990s, but the final one dates from 1997, and most of the articles presented general theoretical perspectives or articles based on research in countries other than Spain. As Beascoechea and Novo have recently remarked, it seemed in the early 1990s that urban history (or, as they put it, ‘the history of the city’) was becoming established as a recognized discipline in Spain, but subsequent developments have failed to match the expectations that were aroused. Their themed urban history issue of Historia Contemporánea, produced in 2002, is aimed at regaining the lost momentum. Meanwhile, librarians still do not respond to ‘historia urbana’ as a category, seeking to redefine it as ‘urbanismo’, a narrower concept focused on town planning and urban design.

Early Cinema in Scotland

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Early Cinema ◽  
Popular Song ◽  
Feature Film ◽  
Local Newspapers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Production History ◽  
History Of ◽  
International Audience

This collection of essays, drawn from a three-year AHRC research project, provides a detailed context for the history of early cinema in Scotland from its inception in 1896 till the arrival of sound in the early 1930s. It details the movement from travelling fairground shows to the establishment of permanent cinemas, and from variety and live entertainment to the dominance of the feature film. It addresses the promotion of cinema as a socially ‘useful’ entertainment, and, distinctively, it considers the early development of cinema in small towns as well as in larger cities. Using local newspapers and other archive sources, it details the evolution and the diversity of the social experience of cinema, both for picture goers and for cinema staff. In production, it examines the early attempts to establish a feature film production sector, with a detailed production history of Rob Roy (United Films, 1911), and it records the importance, both for exhibition and for social history, of ‘local topicals’. It considers the popularity of Scotland as an imaginary location for European and American films, drawing their popularity from the international audience for writers such as Walter Scott and J.M. Barrie and the ubiquity of Scottish popular song. The book concludes with a consideration of the arrival of sound in Scittish cinemas. As an afterpiece, it offers an annotated filmography of Scottish-themed feature films from 1896 to 1927, drawing evidence from synopses and reviews in contemporary trade journals.

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