The 2019 Social History Society Conference took place on June 10-12 and was the largest gathering of social and cultural historians in the UK. There were eight themes of the conference this year. We have compiled a collection of 20 articles from the Society title, Cultural and Social History, that fits with each theme. Please see the themes and articles below, and scroll down to read the full collection. All articles are free-access through December 31, 2019.
Deviance & Inclusion
‘Mothers Have Become Monsters’: Danger, Distress and Deviance in British Evangelical Depictions of Indian Motherhood, 1757–1857
Lacing Up the Gloves: Women, Boxing and Modernity
Diversity, Minority & “Others”
Sites of sickness, sites of rights? HIV/AIDS and the limits of human rights in British prisons
Locality, ethnicity, national and transnational influences on Afro-Caribbean consumer experiences – The case of post-war Northampton
Economies, Cultures & Consumption
Special Needs, Cheerful Habits: Smoking and the Great War in Britain, 1914–18
Radical Conservatism and International Nationalism: The Peasant Arts Movement and Its Search for the Country Heart of England
Socio-Economic Profile of Shopkeepers in Embedded Markets: Social and Cultural Perspectives From a Hundred Years of Bengali Literary Works
Life Cycles, Families & Communities
Great Expectations? Childhood, Family, and Middle-Class Social Mobility in Nineteenth-Century England
Being a Man, Being a Member: Masculinity and Community in Britain’s Working Men’s Clubs, 1945–1960
The Boy-Child in Australian Lesbian Feminist Discourse and Community
Politics, Policy & Citizenship
Educating the Secular Citizen in English Schools, 1897–1938
Animals, Governance and Ecology: Managing the Menace of Venomous Snakes in Colonial India
‘Experimental’ secondary modern education in Britain, 1948–1958
Self, Senses & Emotions
‘These Intimate Little Places’: Cinema-Going and Public Emotion in Bolton, 1930-1954
Love, Selfhood and Authenticity in Post-War Britain
Grease and Sweat: Race and Smell in Eighteenth-Century English Culture
Social Action, Social Justice & Humanitarianism
Whiteness, Masculinity and the Ambivalent Embodiment of ‘British Justice’ in Colonial Burma
Languages of Injustice: The Culture of ‘Prize-Giving’ and Information Gathering on Female Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century India
Spaces & Places
Movement, Space and Social Mobility in early and mid-Twentieth-Century Britain
Fashion, Heritance and Family New and Old in the Georgian Country House
