Old Age in English History: Past Experiences, Present Issues. By Pat Thane. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. x, 536. £42.00.

2002 ◽  
Vol 62 (03) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Thomson
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
English History ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Past Experiences ◽  
Oxford University Press

HISTORY AND HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY: DIVERGENT PATHS IN THE STUDY OF AGEING

2001 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 507-522 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Phillipson
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Historical Sociology ◽  
English History ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
History Of ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
History Of Old Age ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Past Experiences

Pat Thane. Old Age in English History: Past Experiences, Present Issues. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000. 536 pp. £25.00 ISBN 0-19-820382-9.John Macnicol. The Politics of Retirement in Britain, 1878-1948. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998. 425 pp, £47.50, ISBN 0-52162273- 5.Research on the history of old age has been an important area of scholarship in gerontology over the past two decades. From the impetus provided by Laslett's work in the 1960s and 1970s, historical research had opened out by the 1980s into what Stearns and Van Tassel viewed as a ‘promising and provocative subfield of social history’ (1986: ix).

Old Age in English History: Past Experiences, Present Issues

2001 ◽  
Vol 106 (3) ◽  
pp. 1041
Author(s):  
Peter N. Stearns ◽  
Pat Thane
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
English History ◽  
Past Experiences
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