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Contents
- List of figures
- Notes on contributors
- Introduction: democratising history inside and out
- Laura Carter and Freddy Foks
- The outside: grungy business
- The inside: democracy under construction
- 1832–1914
- 1914–39
- 1939–99
- Notes
- References
- Interlude A. New challenges: teaching Modern History in a ‘new university’
- Iwan Morgan
- Notes
- References
- Part I Victorian Britain, progress and the wider world
- 1. Opium, ‘civilisation’ and the Anglo-Chinese Wars, 1839–60
- Philip Harling
- Notes
- References
- 2. Archibald Alison’s revolution
- Ben Weinstein
- Notes
- References
- Interlude B. Peter and the special relationship
- Deborah Cohen, Guy Ortolano and Susan Pedersen
- Part II Culture, consumption and democratisation in Britain since the nineteenth century
- Interlude C. Olden times and changing times: museum interpretation and display in twenty-first-century Britain
- Rebecca Lyons
- Notes
- References
- 3. Painting for pleasure: the rise and decline of the amateur artist in Victorian Britain
- Sally Woodcock
- The colourman and his amateur customers
- The undulating amateur art market
- The amateur/professional interface
- Women, men, aristocrats, exhibitors
- Conclusion: accommodating the amateur market
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- References
- 4. Collecting for the nation: the National Art Collections Fund and the gallery-visiting public in interwar Britain
- Heidi Egginton
- The rise of the small collector
- ‘The ambassador of the public’: Sir Robert Witt
- ‘All Art-Lovers Should Join’
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Interlude D. Professionalisation, publishing and policy: Peter Mandler and the Royal Historical Society
- Margot Finn and Richard Fisher
- Notes
- References
- Part III ‘Experts’ and their publics in twentieth-century Britain
- Interlude E. Accountability and double counting in research funding for UK higher education: the case of the Global Challenges Research Fund
- Ambreena Manji
- Notes
- References
- 5. Reluctant pioneers: British anthropologists among the natives of modern Japan, circa 1929–30
- Chika Tonooka
- The Seligmans’ significance
- The Seligmans’ insignificance
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- 6. An American Mass Observer among the natives: Robert Jackson Alexander in Second World War Britain
- Lawrence Black
- Alexander’s army
- Social observer
- Political observer
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Primary sources
- Secondary sources
- 7. Architecture and sociology: Oliver Cox and Mass Observation
- Otto Saumarez Smith
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- 8. Re-reading ‘race relations research’: journalism, social science and separateness
- Christopher Hilliard
- Race relations research as social science
- Race relations research as journalism
- Dark Strangers revisited
- Notes
- References
- Interlude F. The Historical Association, schools and the History curriculum
- Andrew Stacey-Chapman and Rebecca Sullivan
- Notes
- References
- 9. ‘Democracy’ and ‘expertise’ in two secondary modern schools in Liverpool, 1930–67
- Rosie Germain
- Creating gender difference in the secondary modern school
- Teacher expertise on ‘parenting’
- Inequality, inclusion and state intervention in early years parenting in English education today
- Notes
- References
- Unpublished primary sources
- Secondary sources
- Index