Miniatures

A Reader in the History of Everyday Life
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-80413-001-8
Verlag: University of Exeter Press

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Exeter Histories of Everyday Life

This book is the first of its kind to present readers with the rich and innovative source base deployed by scholars studying everyday life in the modern era. Twenty-eight researchers from diverse intellectual and disciplinary standpoints each present a favourite primary source for studying the history of everyday life, accompanied by a reflective commentary on the benefits, challenges, and potential pitfalls of using their chosen material.

The sources included range from ego documents (diaries, memoirs, letters), oral testimonies, ethnographic fieldnotes, newspapers, magazines, and official documents to photographs, film, maps, floor plans, drawings, material objects, and instant messages. They cover topics and themes as varied as individual mentalities, emotions, identities, sense of place, sexuality, and agency; experiences of space, violence, war, childhood, humour, the body, and the senses; and the history of nationalism, diplomacy, political activism, youth culture, tourism, memory, dictatorship, colonialism, and race and racism.

This book demonstrates not only the texture and fascination of people’s everyday lives, but also what a critical reading of this microscale can reveal about the broader sweep of history. It will be an invaluable resource for researchers and students alike interested in everyday life, in micro- and local-scales of analysis, and in the study of history and society ‘from below’.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Halstead, Huw

Ferris, Kate

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtswissenschaft: Theorie und Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Totalitarismus & Diktaturen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Miniature Perspectives on Big Historical Pictures Huw Halstead and Kate Ferris

DOI: 10.47788/FJXP9208

1. Michel Gnimagnon’s Captivity Report: A Handwritten Account of a French Colonial POW, 1941 Sarah Frank

DOI: 10.47788/JWQN9945

2. Atmosphere, the City and Everyday Life in Barcelona, 1909: The Journal of the Widow of Trias Matthew Kerry

DOI: 10.47788/MJRZ9746

3. Sound and Experience: Mass-Observation and an Exploration of the Senses in Inter-War Britain Jen Purcell

DOI: 10.47788/YJFZ6040

4. Diary of a British Schoolboy in Nazi Germany Helen Roche

DOI: 10.47788/LYTQ5054

5. Wolfgang Jahn’s Handwritten Letter to the Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR): ‘Coming Out’ in 1970s West Germany Craig Griffiths

DOI: 10.47788/YIWB8860

6. The Emotional Lives of Letters: Soviet Sexual Morality and Archival Encounters Hannah Parker

DOI: 10.47788/QZPR5289

7. Writing Letters to the State: The Normalization of Salazar’s Political Police Duncan Simpson

DOI: 10.47788/PDSM5638

8. Reading Ways of Manoeuvring, Mediating and Evading Dictatorship in a Memoir of Everyday Life in Fascist Italy Kate Ferris

DOI: 10.47788/IUHD5017

9. Wife Notices, Oral Testimonies and Intimate Partner Violence in the Caribbean: Since the 1930s O’Neil Joseph

DOI: 10.47788/NBQD5734

10. Statesman at Home: The Space and Family of a Japanese Governing Elite in the 1960s Seen Through Floor Plans and Video Oral Testimonies Shin Sato

DOI: 10.47788/ZJYP8355

11. Ethnokafenology: Oral Testimony, Space and the Noise of the Everyday in Western Thrace, Greece (c.1939–2013) Huw Halstead

DOI: 10.47788/GCUM1547

12. Incanting Revolution: A Sonic History of a Six-Word Slogan in Istanbul since the 1970s Christopher Houston

DOI: 10.47788/YUCU5505

13. An Ethnographic Bricolage: Mapping Everyday Space on the Urban Periphery in Chongqing, China in the Twenty-First Century Asa Roast

DOI: 10.47788/OPCH7709

14. Layers of Knowledge Production and the Archives of Everyday Life in Apartheid South Africa Andile Magengelele and Franziska Rueedi

DOI: 10.47788/URRQ3075

15. The Fabric of Everyday Culture: The Lives of a Green Leather Jacket since the 1980s Helen Ahner and Karin Bürkert

DOI: 10.47788/NVOG7312

16. Material Culture, Seaside Souvenirs and French ‘Taste’: The Transnational Journey of a Seashell Box in Post-War France and the USA Ludivine Broch

DOI: 10.47788/KZMA8995

17. Cut-Throat: Italian Fascist Colonialism According to Razor Blades Diana Garvin

DOI: 10.47788/MQMX5814

18. A Photographic Snapshot of Balsall Heath: Race, Sex and Space in 1960s Birmingham Kieran Connell

DOI: 10.47788/HTBB7375

19. Docile Bodies? Reflections on a Recruitment Photograph from India during the Second World War Diya Gupta

DOI: 10.47788/ZPDY9911

20. Marginalization in Fragments: Photojournalistic Depictions of Loss, Destitution and (Imperial) Mobilities of Portuguese Ciganos under the Salazar Regime Yannick Lengkeek

DOI: 10.47788/PUSC5636

21. Everyday Life under the Greek Junta (1967–1974) Through Vassilis Maros’s Documentary Film To Bouzouki Eleni Kallimopoulou and Kostis Kornetis

DOI: 10.47788/EJVA9674

22. We Just Demolished Their Story: Using Drawing and Storytelling to Understand the Changing Post-Soviet City in Tajikistan Carl A. Smith

DOI: 10.47788/KOPM1040

23. Comprehensive School Magazines from Bristol and Cardiff, 1960s–1980s Laura Carter

DOI: 10.47788/QIIJ8488

24. The Children’s Section of the Finnish North American Socialist Women’s Newspaper Toveritar Samira Saramo

DOI: 10.47788/ULJR6027

25. Finding Meaning in ‘Peripheral’ Sources: Subscription Lists and ‘Everyday Anarchism’ in Late Nineteenth-Century Argentina Nathaniel Andrews

DOI: 10.47788/OBXB3980

26. A ‘Miniature’ Carnival in Franco’s Spain: Official Investigative Reports on the Celebration of the ‘Burial of the Sardine’ in Albanchez (Almería) in 1950 Gloria Román Ruiz

DOI: 10.47788/CARX7872

27. Playful Engagements on WhatsApp in Twenty-First-Century Zimbabwe Ushehwedu Kufakurinani

DOI: 10.47788/XXOA8526

28. Mapping Memory: Using Google Maps to Understand Lima’s Contemporary Memoryscape Daniel Willis

DOI: 10.47788/XEVZ4231

Über Autor(innen)

Halstead, Huw
Huw Halstead is Lecturer in Public History in the School of History, Classics, and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on memory, public history, and everyday life, with a particular interest in the contemporary Mediterranean world.

Ferris, Kate
Kate Ferris is Professor in Modern European History at the University of St Andrews. She researches modern Italy and Spain with an emphasis on everyday life history and questions of agency, practice, subjectivity, and space. She leads the ERC-funded project, ‘Dictatorship as experience: a comparative history of everyday life and the “lived experience” of dictatorship in Mediterranean Europe, 1922–1975’.

Kate Ferris is Professor in Modern European History at the University of St Andrews. She researches modern Italy and Spain with an emphasis on everyday life history and questions of agency, practice, subjectivity, and space. She leads the ERC-funded project, ‘Dictatorship as experience: a comparative history of everyday life and the “lived experience” of dictatorship in Mediterranean Europe, 1922–1975’.

Huw Halstead is Lecturer in Public History in the School of History, Classics, and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on memory, public history, and everyday life, with a particular interest in the contemporary Mediterranean world.