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Democratising History: Part I. Victorian Britain, progress and the wider world

Democratising History
Part I. Victorian Britain, progress and the wider world
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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

Part I VICTORIAN BRITAIN, PROGRESS AND THE WIDER WORLD

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