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

Index

A

  • Abrams, Mark, 252
  • Ackermann, Rudolph, 105
  • aid-funded research, 149–54
  • Ainu people, 167, 168
  • Alcock, Rutherford, 41
  • Alexander, Robert Jackson, 16
  • anti-communism, 192
  • biography, 177
  • in Britain, 177–8
  • cathedrals, 183–4
  • class, 185
  • cosmopolitanism, 189
  • letter-writing, 179, 181
  • PhD, 191
  • political observation, 184, 186–91
  • reading, 178
  • social observation, 182–6
  • time in the army, 179–82
  • Alison, Archibald, 8
  • on aristocracy, 67–8
  • colonialism, 69–74
  • constitutional reform, 68–71, 72–4
  • enfranchisement, 69
  • ‘English revolution’, 61–2, 73–4, 75
  • European comparisons, 61–8, 65
  • ‘five pillars’ of European freedom, 66–7, 73–4
  • history of the French revolution, 8, 62–4, 65–6, 67, 74
  • metropolitan culture, 74
  • orientalism, 64–5, 67
  • racial ideology, 71
  • slavery, 69–74
  • Allen, Nathan, 49
  • amateur/professional interface, 103–4
  • Anglo-Chinese wars, 41–59
  • anthropology, 15, 155–75, 228, 229
  • Architectural Association (AA), 201–2, 205, 206
  • architecture, 17, 199–223
  • aristocracy, 67–8, 83, 102, 109–11, 123
  • Aristocratic Government in the Age of Reform (Mandler, 1990), 1, 63
  • art, 89–93, 95–120, 121–40
  • Art Fund. See National Art Collections Fund
  • Arts & Humanities Alliance (AHA), 144, 149
  • Asiatic civilisation, 64–7
  • autocracy, 64, 73, 74

B

  • Bailkin, Jordanna, 226, 227–9
  • Banton, Michael, 225, 228, 232
  • Baskerville, Olivia, 125
  • BBC, 14, 15, 128–9, 165, 185
  • Beetham, David, 232
  • Benedict, Ruth, 155, 156, 161, 162, 163, 166, 167
  • Bevan, Aneurin, 187, 191
  • Beveridge, William, 16, 186, 190
  • Bingham, John, 53
  • Black Britons, 1, 6, 18, 225–44
  • Black Education Movement, 18
  • Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, 61, 62, 64, 65, 72
  • Blower, B., 178
  • Boadu, KamKan, 188
  • Braunthal, Julius, 190
  • British empire, 8–11, 13, 16–17, 41, 43–4, 112. See also colonialism; imperialism
  • Brodie, Sir Benjamin, 49
  • Brooks, Val, 255
  • Burns, Arthur, 4, 246

C

  • Cambridge University, 36, 86
  • Carter, Laura, 255, 257, 260
  • Catholicism, 7, 12, 20
  • centralisation, 64–6
  • Charter Act, 1833 71
  • Chartism, 11
  • Chicago School, 228
  • China, 10, 15, 41–59, 158, 160, 162
  • Christianity, 7, 12, 20, 44, 49, 50, 53
  • Chrysanthemum and the Sword, The (Benedict, 1946), 155, 156, 161, 162, 163
  • Churchill, Winston, 85, 183, 191
  • Churchill Club, 186, 188, 189
  • citizenship, 9, 10, 12–13, 16–18
  • City of London Polytechnic, 3, 33–4
  • civilisation, 41–59, 159, 167
  • class, 11, 17, 19, 160, 163, 251. See also aristocracy; middle classes; working classes
  • Cleaver, Laura, 125
  • Coalition governments, 6, 142
  • collecting, 2, 89–93, 121–40
  • Collier, Sir Robert Porrett, 107
  • Colonial Bureau, 188
  • colonialism, 10–17, 52, 69–75, 166–7, 188–9
  • Communism, 42, 179–80, 186–8, 192, 204
  • comprehensive schools, 19, 252, 260, 264
  • Conservative government, 6, 16, 33, 90
  • Conservative Party, 14, 252
  • conference, 191
  • constitutional reform, 67–73
  • consumerism, 11–12
  • Cook, Lynn, 254
  • country houses, 101, 121–40
  • Cox, Anthony, 201, 202–3, 204
  • Cox, Oliver, 17
  • Architectural Association (AA), 201–2, 203
  • architectural training, 200–1
  • comics, 202
  • Communist Party, 204–5
  • ‘design as if the people mattered’, 17
  • Fulham surveys, 206–9, 210–13, 215, 216
  • Kenilworth Group, 200
  • left-wing politics, 204–5
  • Mass Observation, 205–16
  • modernism, 200, 201, 203–4, 209–10, 211, 214
  • new towns, 200, 202
  • and Peter Willmott, 200
  • radicalism, 203
  • Crossick, Geoffrey, 143
  • cultural democratisation, 15
  • cultural history, 89–93, 95–120, 121–40
  • ‘Culture and Personality’, 160–1
  • curriculum reform, 246–7

D

  • ‘dark side’ of democracy, 9–10
  • Dark Strangers (Patterson, 1963), 227, 228, 232, 234–8
  • Darling, Elizabeth, 210
  • De Morgan, William, 103, 104
  • De Quincey, Thomas, 45, 46, 51
  • decolonisation, 16–17, 20, 91, 226
  • definition of democracy, 1, 7
  • deindustrialisation, 20
  • Denby, Elizabeth, 206

E

  • East India Company, 42, 70, 71
  • Eastlake, Lady Elizabeth, 100
  • economics, 21
  • education, 8–10, 11, 13–17, 245–9, 251–71. See also History as secondary school subject
  • ‘English revolution’, 61–2, 66, 73–4
  • ‘Entangled Pasts’ exhibition, 91–2
  • Europe/EU, 20, 61–2, 64–9, 73, 152, 228
  • expertise, 17, 199–223

F

  • Fabians, 188
  • Fall and Rise of the Stately Home, The (Mandler, 1997), 89, 92, 121
  • Fawcett Library, 35
  • feminism, 11, 13, 255
  • Finch, Janet, 142
  • Finn, Margot, 95–6
  • First World War, 13–15
  • Firth, Raymond, 237
  • Fisher, Richard, 143
  • five pillars of European liberty, 66–7, 73
  • Flett, Hazel, 231
  • Focus, 203
  • Foks, Freddy, 228
  • Foot, Paul, 232
  • France, 52, 62–3, 151
  • franchise, 7–8, 9, 12, 13, 69–70, 251, 252
  • free trade, 11–12, 41–2, 43, 53, 54, 70, 74
  • Fremlin, Celia, 215
  • French Revolution, 62–3, 64–6, 67
  • Fulham Housing Survey, 1939 Report 206–15

G

  • Gage, John, 95
  • Gammans, David, 188–9
  • Gedye, George, 189
  • gender, 18, 141–2, 167–8, 253–60
  • geography, 230
  • Girls Public Day School Company, 11
  • Gladstone, William, 49
  • Glass, Ruth, 233, 234
  • Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), 5, 149–54
  • Gorer, Geoffrey, 178, 227
  • grammar schools, 17, 252, 254, 258
  • Great Reform Act, 70

H

  • ‘Haldane principle’, 6
  • Hall, Catherine, 71
  • Hall, Stuart, 19, 89–90, 92
  • Hamilton Kerr Institute, 95
  • Harrisson, Tom, 205–6
  • heritage, 5, 89–92, 95–120, 121–40, 122
  • Heritage Lottery, 35
  • Herringham, Christiana, 123
  • Hevia, James, 52, 53
  • Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University, 85
  • Hilliard, Christopher, 121
  • Hinton, James, 210
  • Historical Association (HA), 4, 245–9
  • History as higher education subject, 3–4, 5, 6, 33–8, 141–2, 245
  • History as secondary school subject, 4, 5, 245–9
  • Hobart, Louisa Charlotte, 105
  • Hobson, Benjamin, 48
  • Holland, Mildred, 105–7
  • Hubback, Judith, 255

I

  • impact, 2, 156, 167, 233
  • imperialism, 41–59, 61–2, 72, 73–5, 186, 189
  • India, 10, 13, 42, 45, 50, 74, 186
  • industrialisation, 9, 12
  • inequalities, 18–19
  • Inner Area Study for Lambeth, 200
  • ‘inside’ history of democratisation, 2, 6, 7
  • Institute of Community Studies, 200, 215, 229
  • Institute of Race Relations, 225, 227, 230, 232
  • International Development (Official Development Target) Act, 150–1
  • Ireland, 7, 9, 10, 12–13, 14, 21. See also Northern Ireland

J

  • Jacobs, Jane, 200
  • Japan, 15
  • Ainu people, 167
  • as appropriate subject for anthropological study, 166–7
  • civilisation, 159, 166–7
  • class, 162–3
  • cultural patterns, 160–1, 162
  • extraversion, 158, 159–60, 164
  • morality, 162
  • national identity, 157–63, 164, 165
  • rituals, 159–60
  • Seligmans’ anthropological study, 15, 155, 157–63, 166, 167–8
  • ‘types’, 160–1
  • and ‘World History’ studies, 164
  • Jeffreys, Julius, 47
  • Jephcott, Pearl, 237
  • Jordan, Caroline, 107
  • journalism, 225–44
  • Jung, Carl, 158, 160, 161

K

  • Karn, Valerie, 231
  • Karolyi, Michael, 190

L

  • Labour Party, 14, 16, 187, 190, 191, 252
  • Lawrence, Jon, 208, 237
  • Le Corbusier, 203, 204, 205
  • Left Book Club, 184, 190, 204
  • Levine, Philippa, 42
  • Lewis, Sarah, 105
  • liberalism, 11, 19, 43, 74, 238
  • Liberal Party, 14, 191, 201
  • Little, Kenneth, 228, 234
  • Liverpool, 184, 215, 229, 251–71
  • Llewellyn Davis, Richard, 204
  • London Guildhall University, 34, 36
  • London Metropolitan University, 35–6
  • Lovell, Julia, 46, 52

M

  • MacDonald, Malcolm, 126
  • MacGregor, Neil, 90
  • Mackenzie, K.J., 51
  • Malaya, 10
  • Mandler, Peter
  • Aristocratic Government in the Age of Reform (Mandler, 1990), 1, 63
  • Arts & Humanities Alliance, 144, 149
  • Cambridge University, 36, 86
  • cultural history, 95, 97
  • culture change, 84
  • democratic education, 251, 258
  • Fall and Rise of the Stately Home, The (Mandler, 1997), 89, 92, 121
  • on Gorer’s research, 227
  • ‘inside’ history of democratisation, 2
  • ‘New Towns for Old’ (Mandler, 1999), 199
  • ‘Problem with Cultural History, The’ (Mandler, 2004), 84
  • on racism, 44, 235
  • Return from the Natives (Mandler, 2013), 83
  • Royal Academy of Arts, London (RA), 246
  • Royal Historical Society, 84, 141–6
  • secondary education, 4, 245
  • transatlantic bridge-building, 6, 83–6
  • university education, 5, 33–4
  • Mann, Michael, 9
  • Mass Observation, 177–98, 200, 205–7, 214–15
  • Matera, Marc, 226
  • Matheson, Donald, 53
  • McCulloch, Gary, 254
  • McIntyre, Robert, 187
  • McPherson, Dr Duncan, 46–7
  • Mead, Margaret, 83, 161, 178, 181
  • Michie, Michael, 62
  • middle classes
  • architecture, 210
  • art, 11, 96, 99–100, 105
  • education, 11, 14, 255
  • Mass Observation, 185, 190
  • revolution, 63, 69
  • ‘middle out’ forces, 7–12, 14, 16, 17, 19, 20
  • Milne, Maurice, 61
  • Minihan, Janet, 124
  • modernism, 121, 124, 199–216
  • Moore, Robert, 225, 233
  • Morrison, Herbert, 182, 187
  • Munro, Neil Gordon, 168
  • Murray, Hugh, 48
  • museums, 89–93, 127–40

N

  • National Art Collections Fund, 15
  • advertising and word of mouth, 129–32
  • rise of small collectors, 124–6
  • Sir Robert Witt as co-founder, 15, 126–9, 132
  • National Curriculum for History, 246–7
  • national identity, 18, 20, 21, 155, 156, 160–61, 163, 178, 187
  • National Portrait Gallery, 126
  • National Trust, 90, 122
  • nationalisation, 16
  • nationalism, 13, 20, 187
  • ‘natural order’, 12
  • Neff, Wanda, 105
  • Nelson, Dame Jinty, 141
  • neoliberalism, 20–1
  • ‘New Diplomacy’, 164
  • New Historical Perspectives, 144
  • ‘New Towns for Old’ (Mandler, 1999), 199
  • ‘new’ universities, 33–8
  • New York–Cambridge Training Collaboration in Modern British History (NYCTC), 85–6
  • North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS), 84
  • Northern Ireland, 14, 17, 19–20, 21. See also Ireland

O

  • open access publishing, 5, 142–4
  • opium, 41–59
  • orientalism, 62, 64–5, 66, 67
  • ‘outside’ history of democratisation, 2–6

P

  • Padmore, George, 189
  • parenting, 260–4
  • parliamentary sovereignty, 72
  • participant observation, 83, 168, 191, 232
  • Patterson, Sheila, 225, 227, 228, 232, 234–8
  • Peach, Ceri, 230
  • photography, 103
  • political consensus, 19
  • Pollak, Oscar, 189
  • Pollitt, Harry, 187, 188
  • Poole, Andrea Geddes, 123
  • Poor Laws, 12
  • Power, Eileen, 164
  • privatisation, 19
  • ‘Problem with Cultural History, The’ (Mandler, 2004), 84
  • progress, 63, 67, 74, 214
  • protectionism, 70, 72
  • psychology, 158, 159, 160, 161, 164

R

  • race and ethnicity, 6, 11, 18, 91, 162, 180, 188–9
  • ‘race relations research’, 225–44
  • racism/racist prejudice, 18, 44, 71, 181–2, 188, 235–7
  • Reith, Sir John, 15
  • Representation of the People Acts, 7–8, 13
  • Research Excellence Framework (REF), 35, 143, 152
  • research funding, 2, 5, 141, 143, 149–54
  • Return from the Natives (Mandler, 2013), 83
  • Rex, John, 225, 233
  • Richmond, Anthony, 229–30, 232
  • Rivers, W.H.R., 165–6
  • Robbins Report, 6, 33
  • Roberson, Charles, 95–120
  • Royal Academy of Arts, London (RA), 5, 89–92, 99, 100, 104, 111, 127, 131
  • Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI), 157, 158, 166, 168
  • Royal Commission on National Museums and Galleries (1927–30), 128
  • Royal Historical Society (RHS), 4, 6, 84, 141–6, 246

S

  • Satia, Priya, 43
  • Schama, Simon, 4
  • Scheu, Friedrich, 189
  • schools. See education; History as secondary school subject
  • Scotland, 17, 20, 131, 187
  • Second World War, 210–11, 261
  • secondary education, 3, 13, 16, 17, 245–9, 251–71. See also education
  • sectarianism, 21
  • Seligman, Brenda, 15, 166, 167–8
  • Seligman, Charles, 15
  • anthropological studies of Japan, 15, 155, 157–63, 167–8
  • ‘Applied Anthropology’, 166
  • biography, 157
  • biological determinism, 162
  • death, 163
  • field work, 165
  • missed opportunities to share knowledge, 163–8
  • obscurity, 156
  • radio broadcasting, 165
  • and the RAI, 158, 167
  • self-reflexivity, 162
  • Torres Strait Expedition, 165
  • Shah, Samir, 230
  • Sharpe, L.J., 232
  • Simmons, Clare, 62
  • slavery, 5, 49, 64, 66, 71–2
  • social citizenship, 17
  • social science, 2, 141, 144, 179, 225–44
  • Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, 122
  • sociology, 199–223, 228–9, 233, 253
  • stately homes. See country houses
  • Strachey, John, 187–8
  • Studies in History (SiH), 143–4
  • Subrahmanyam, Sanjay, 65
  • suffrage, 11, 12, 251. See also franchise
  • Summerson, John, 201

T

  • Taunton Commission, 1864–8, 11
  • Taylor, Michael, 71
  • Taylor, Miles, 69
  • Thatcher, Margaret, 20
  • Thelwall, Rev. Algernon, 47
  • ‘Three Modest Proposals’ (Mandler, 2004), 95, 97
  • ‘throw’, 19, 84–5, 97, 156
  • Tilly, Charles, 1, 7, 13, 14
  • Todd, Thomas, 108
  • ‘top down’ forces, 7, 8
  • Tory Party, 7–8, 61, 62, 63
  • Torres Strait Expedition, 157, 165
  • Toynbee, Arnold J., 164
  • trade unions, 12–13, 190, 192
  • transatlantic bridge-building, 6, 83–6
  • travelogues, 164, 181

U

  • unintended outcomes, 63–4
  • universities. See History as higher education subject; ‘new’ universities; research funding
  • University of Edinburgh, 228, 229, 234
  • urbanisation, 8, 12

V

  • Vernon, James, 237

W

  • Wales, 20, 131
  • Wanklyn, Edith Emily, 111
  • Warren, Samuel, 46
  • Waterfield, Giles, 127
  • Waters, Chris, 226, 234, 235, 237
  • Waters, Rob, 226
  • ‘welfare state’, 16, 17, 226
  • Wells, H.G., 164–5
  • West Indies, 71–2, 73
  • Whigs, 7, 63
  • Wilkinson, Ellen, 190
  • Willetts, David, 142
  • Willmott, Peter, 199–200, 206, 225
  • Winsor & Newton, 100, 102, 112
  • Witt, Sir Robert, 15, 124, 126–9
  • Wolseley, Garnet, 52
  • women
  • art, 98, 100, 104–13, 125
  • education, 8
  • electoral franchise, 12
  • Fawcett Library, 35
  • Mass Observation, 190
  • National Art Collections Fund, 123–4
  • working classes
  • architecture, 199, 200–201, 205–15
  • art, 96, 108, 129
  • education, 8, 251–71
  • politics, 12
  • privacy and autonomy, 237
  • race relations, 235–7
  • secondary education, 252, 253, 255, 257–8, 263

Y

  • Young, Michael, 199–200, 225, 229

Z

  • Zubrzycki, Jerzy, 228, 238

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