Twentieth-century British History Research Articles

The Cinema and the Home Fron

Journal Article The Cinema and the Home Fron: Yanks, Hope and Glory and Chicago Joe and the Showgirl Get access JONATHAN HACKER JONATHAN HACKER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Twentieth Century British History, Volume 2, Issue 2, 1991, Pages 175–187, https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/2.2.175 Published: 01 January 1991

Public Records and the Modern Historian

Public Records and the Modern Historian ANDREW McDONALD ANDREW McDONALD Public Record Office Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar * The author works for the PRO, but this article is written in a private capacity and the views expressed are his own. He is grateful to Nicholas Cox, Louise London, and David Thomas for their comments on earlier drafts All documents cited here are held at the Kew repository of the PRO. They are referred to by their class and, if appropriate, their piece (i. e. item) codes. Author Notes Twentieth Century British History, Volume 1, Issue 3, 1990, Pages 341–352, https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/1.3.341 Published: 01 January 1990

Reflections on Economic Ideas and Government Policy: 1939 and After

Reflections on Economic Ideas and Government Policy: 1939 and After Get access Alec Cairncross, Sir Alec Cairncross, Sir Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Twentieth Century British History, Volume 1, Issue 3, 1990, Pages 318–340, https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/1.3.318 Published: 01 January 1990

Ladies Elect: Women in English Local Government, 1865-1914

Fifty years before the suffragettes fought to have the parliamentary vote, women in England were able to elect and be elected to local district councils, school boards, and poor law boards. This study explores the world of those who held elected office on behalf of other women and children, the old, and the sick in mind and body. They faced widespread hostility, but such was their success that in many cities and counties they were a stronger presence in 1900 than in 1975. Local government offered that conjunction of compulsory philanthropy, municipal housekeeping, and local responsibility which made it a sphere suitable for women. Based on the records of some twenty town and ten rural districts, Ladies Elect describes and assesses their work in local government before 1914, and places it in the context of the general movement towards women's emancipation. This study will be of interest to students of nineteenth and early twentieth century British social, political, and educational history, of women's history, and the history of local government; local historians and sociologists.

Knights and Retainers: The Earliest Version of Daden-Powell's Boy Scout Scheme

While historians have recently begun to find in the ideology and workings of the Boy Scout movement in England a rich source of material for early twentieth-century British social history, our detailed knowledge of the origins of Scouting has come totally from the ranks of the Scout Association itself. Without exception, the authorized version of the evolution of the Scouting idea, which has by now more or less hardened into sacred dogma, has been written by those intimately connected with the movement.' Although affiliation with an organization does not necessarily distort any attempt to produce an account of its development, in this case all the established sources omit a vital piece of evidence which sheds new light, not only on Baden-Powell's own view of the meaning and importance of the Scouts, but also the way his vision of Scouting progressed from rough impulse to finished form. The licensed accounts of the immediate beginnings of Scouting, accepted without reservation as complete, generally start with the date of 30 April 1904, when Baden-Powell attended, as inspecting officer, the Annual Drill Inspection and Review of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow. It was here, amidst the legions of welldisciplined marching boys, that the classical moment of inspiration occurred. As Baden-Powell notes in his diary, William A. Smith, founder of the Brigade, told him with pleasure of the Brigade's healthy membership, over

VIII. The East Fulham By-Election, 25 October 1933

Only at four by-elections in twentieth-century British history has there been a turnover of more than 18,000 votes: at Dudley in 1968, at Orpington in 1962, at East Fulham in 1933 and at Dartford in 1920. Dartford and Orpington have been commented upon as landmarks in the histories of the Labour and Liberal Parties respectively, and Dudley is likely to be seen as the outstanding manifestation of discontent with the economic policies of the Labour Government in the 1960s. East Fulham, however, is the most notorious of all the “boilover’ by-elections. Taking place in a decade troubled by depression and fear of war, it resulted in a National Government majority of 14,521 votes being transformed into a Labour Party majority of 4,840, on a massive swing of 26–5 per cent.

A Rare Theatrical Journal: The Arthurian Theatre Magazine

The Arthurian Theatre Magazine is apparently one of the rarest items of early twentieth-century British theater history. Volume I, number 1, appeared in February 1905. Several years ago in collecting material for a projected edition of the plays of Charles Rogers, late Victorian provincial playwright, I obtained a Camden (London) Theatre program carrying a full page advertisement of The Arthurian Theatre Magazine: "bright illustrations, interesting features, attractive articles ... admittedly the. most attractive penny theatrical paper." Even allowing for editorial self-esteem it sounded like something the student of fin de siecle theater ought to examine at least casually.