History for the Working Classes

Politics, Education and the Uses of the Industrial Past in Britain, 1884-1985
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-041-27567-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Modern British History

This book examines how working-class people studied, wrote, and engaged with social and economic history from the late nineteenth century through to the 1980s. This widespread and profound engagement with history was foundational to working-class conceptions of politics and society, and that the political culture of British left-wing politics and the trade union movement cannot be properly understood without addressing how significantly it drew upon history.

From the origins of the modern labour movement in the second half of the nineteenth century, history provided working-class political culture with a progressive rather than revolutionary historical narrative, in which the working classes grew in power over the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and, in the twentieth, assumed a powerful position in British politics and society. The book covers in detail over forty different groups and organizations that taught history for a wide variety of purposes across all parts of Britain and Ireland, arguing that the plurality of approaches and attention to historical accuracy were the greatest strengths of teaching.

History for the Working Classes: Politics, Education and the Uses of the Industrial Past in Britain, 1884-1985 reconstructs the similarities and approaches of these groups to teaching, as well as what drew their members to history, drawing on hundreds of personal accounts and archives to demonstrate how working class people understood history. This book will be beneficial to both academic and postgraduate audiences.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hutton, Alexander

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. An Unofficial National Historiography  Part One: The Uses of History, 1884-1926 1. History and the Labour Movement 2. Historical Visions of the Radical Left 3. Different Classes: Teaching History Beyond the Labour Movement  Part Two: The Great Tradition of Adult Education 4. History and the Adult Education Movement, 1900-1945 5. The Challenges of Postwar British Adult Education, 1945-1980  Part Three. British Socialism and its Pasts, 1920-1985 6. From the Classroom to the Streets: History and the Communist Party, 1920-1945 7. The Postwar Communist Party and the Problems of History 8. Making and Unmaking History Across a Changing Left, 1956-1985  Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Alexander Hutton completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge. He has worked as a Research Associate on the AHRC project Redress of the Past: Historical Pageants in Britain and was a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at King’s College London.